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Otago Daily Times, Issue 216, 29 August 1862, Page 5

AnviN-TLMiB op A Bath CiiAin. Very conMderable amusement was created at tiie Dovcr'Policeoo'irt, the other day, by the application of John Coilver, to be a^tod in obtaining re-jios^xsion of hi* bath chair. He stated that at three o'clock on the previous afternoon be got an order to take a gentleman up from a Ktr.-et at the back of St. Mary's Ciiurcb; l.c took tbe chair round, and found l)r Standen upon the door steps waiting for him. Not knowing that the people of the house had shut him out, to get rid of a troublesome lodger, be assisted him into tbe chair and bad been driving him about ever since. Tbe magistrate a-ked if the gentleman had not bad any refreshment all tbe time, to whicli the applicant replied: " L-r bits* ye! Why I've druv him to nearly every public-hou-* in town—special]? lo Pier-end ; lie call-, for something to drink and th^n givw tbe nest p.-.rt of it away,—(Laughter,)— Vent what be puts in a little square bottle be cani-s with him. —(Loud Laughter.)— After driving bim to all these places, I was tired, so I said to bim, '* When do you mean fo iro b nne again -ir?" "Thai's my businew," said be, " you mind yours, and drive me back to tbe Pier- -nd."—(Laughter.) And there, sir, we went irom one liou*e to tii.: other until it was twelve o'clock, and lie couldn't get anything else served I heu I druv him about t' c town.—(Laughter.) Superintendent Coram raise ! a new roar of laughter hy adding that, at one o'clock in the morning he saw the chair pulled up close to o -.t ofthe public lamps, hy the light of which the doe.or wan reading? Ma^is♦rate : How long did be *>ep reading ? Applicant • ftot long, sir. .S<*>.i afterwards lie lit his pipe.-(Laughter.) I w,u wery cold, ani h«> said I might keep bim " moving" so I pu u ( . ( i the clm ; r until between two aud t:-ioe, and we'd been all over theb'wn; and then I say» to him, quite worn out. Where are you coing now J- " Where are you gong to?" says h«—(Loud laughter.) "Home," itaya I. Then iio to!' me Ji,; hadn't any home to go to, and lie asked me v . b.:rc I was going to put the < bair. I told hii.i in the co ich liouse, where I keDi it. "Ah." say he, 'that'll do very well—put mc with it. 1 shal: b-j ust as well in the clnir as in bed !'* and so y< v kn ,w he would, hir.—(Loud laughter.) I lelt him 'lit.! about three, and looked in ab-ut live to see whether he was all light, and then ho toll me be had li-.-y. i slept more comfortably in all hi* life.—i Laughter.> At half-past s-ix I took bim a cup of coffee, pnrt *.i which he drank, and told me be was quite reauv t< ;egin bis morning- visits when I was: but I ain't agoing to draw him iboutthe town all day to-day.-(A iatigh.)—Magistrate : Well, he can't make you draw him about; that's optional.— Sergeant Bailey was directed to accompany applicant to the chair, and try tbe effect of his uniform and authority upon its occupant. A *mall crowd accompanied them and in due time tbe chair w:is found where Collyer had left it. He received orders from the doctor to call at the Druid's Head, and after a craftily qualified cup at this hostelrie, the doctor was '•caught napping." Collyer then procured the service of a sturdy butcher, and the key of an empty room, attached to the Temperance-hall," having been obtained, Dr. S.anden was lifted off the seat he had stuck to for tweuty-two hours out of twenty-four and deposited on the floor.— Liverpool Albion. '

A novel mode of smuggling: was adopted by a wild Ixast showman o!' Frauee. Thinking to make a bargain of some Swiss watches, lie hid them under the htter of the lion's cage. It is hardly necessary to state the} werojsecure from th« search of the cuatomko«Moft««r