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Oamaru Mail, Volume XIX, Issue 6127, 18 December 1894, Page 1

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The Bulletin gives the following copy of a letter received by a South Australian M.P. from one of his constituents Mr up here. I think the Bibel Christens aro trying to run a man against you next election. is the leading spirrit ho wants to got the nomination himself but ho was once a Wesleyan local preacher and I am circulating that against him with some success. lam owing the Government L 43 for rent and they are threatening to sue me. Will you see and do what you can if you can't get it stopped could you advance me L2OO for three months, as lam dead broke. lam fixing things right with the Wesleyans, and so far I think we are right. Of courso there's no election till ninety-six, but, "a stitch in time," etc. Don't forget about the rent.—Yours truly, . P.S.— There's a Bible Christian picnic on tho 12th. Can you come up 1 This would be a knock for , and I will introduce you all round. The London. Referee says: "Tho latest upheavel in other records is Corporal Clark's smin 4.6 l-sth sec for a milo at Adelaide, walking fair heel and too, 1 should very much indeed have liked to bo present on the pretty and very big ground at the South Australian capital when tho bold corporal fairly heeled and toed, also hopped, skipped and jumped, 1760 yards in that brief period, because I always have prophesied that someono would walk 12 miles an hour, and he has got nearest to proving the correctness of my prophecy. That any mortal man can get a milo in Smin 46 l-sth sec, or six minutes, or seven minutes, or a good bit move, walking fairly, I never did or will believe. But that, with a lenient judge, a strong wolltrained athlete ought to be able to pace a mile in about five minutes, going from one heel to another, and with a stiff knee as he begins each stride, I am fully porsuaded. Ido not expect that tho military Johnny who did smin 46 l-sth sec was more unfair than lots of other people who have been passed in defiance of all common-sense definitions of what walking is, and contented themselves with much more moderate times. As a rule, men who arc classed as quite exemplary illustrators of good style are to real walkers as pacers are to trotters, but stand out as exemplars of true going beeauso they are as tho one-eyed is among the blind, the borgne being proverbially king. A story is being told concerning a horse dealer at a recent up-country sale. At the close of business some rather queer-look-ing specimens of horses remained unsold. A buyer purchased one, for a few shillings less than Lll, and asked tho owner to return him half-a-crown "just for luck. The owner refused, but said, "Ere, I won't be 'ard ; take another 'oss instead,"