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South Canterbury Times, Issue 2762, 17 April 1900, Page 3

At Court this morning before Mr J. Jackson J.P., a drunk was convicted and discharged. Messrs T. and J. Thomson are landing 27 cases of Home goods, per the Whakatanc. The Secretary to the Hospital acknowledges receipt of linen from Mrs Bowker, books from Mr A. B. Miles, fruit from Mesdames Hinsen, Gabites, and Pigeon. At the North Otago Tennis Tournament, on Saturday, Lynch beat B, Sumpter 6—4, 6—4, in the champion singles, and Pitcaithley beat Mayne 9—4 in the handicap singles. In the handicap doubles Pitcaithley and Laing beat Lynch and Mayne 9- 4. Yesterday Lynch (Timaru) won the singles championship, beating F, Newton in the semi-final and Glen in the final 7—5, 6 —l. Mr Lynch now retains the Hibernian Silver Cup, having won it three times. In the men’s doubles championship J.ynch and Mayne were beaten by McDonald and Glen (Hill Club) 8 6, 6-4. An old Maori chief named Rangi Tahou, who figured in New Zealand history as the lieutenant of Te Kooti in his exploits at Poverty Bay and elsewhere, died suddenly while on, a visit to Rotorua, last week. The old man was a noted tohunga, and possessed special faculties for the ancient incantations of the natives. He exercised a good deal of influence amongst his people, and was credited with the power of makulu. Of late years he has lived very peacefully and amicably at Rotogaio and Opepe, and during the last 12 months has been the recipient of the old age pension. Wade’s Worm Figs are most effective and not unpleasant; children thrive after taking them. Price, Is. [Advt.] A youth home from school, wishing to inspire his little sister with awe for his learning, pointed to a star, and said—- “ Sis, do you see that bright little luminary ? It’s bigger than this whole world.” “No, 'ta'nt, ” said Sis. “ Yes, it is,” declared the youth. “ Then why don’t it not keep off the rain ? ” was the triumphant rejoinder. Saving him money.—Mr Whealplt—“My failure is the talk of the street! At the meeting of my creditors to-day I arranged to pay ten cents on the dollar.” Mrs Wheatpit (after a moment’s figuring)—“Oh, Henry, isn’t that lovely ?. Then the fifty dollar hat I had sent home to-day will only cost you five dollars !” The historic undergraduate who wrote out a list of the minor prophets as a substitute for the Kings of Israel ho had forgotten, has been surpassed in the art of evasion by a young lady teacher in a London Church school. Invited. in a geography paper at the monthly examination to “ describe a voyage from London to Plymouth, naming all places of interest you pass,” she wrote as her answer, “ When we got to the mouth of the Thames I felt so dreadfully ill that I had to go below, and saw nothing more for the rest of the journey.” I A deserter from the Foreign Legion has just been arrested in Paris (telegraphs a a Home Paper correspondent) in curious circumstances.. Fifteen yearg ago M. Orika, son of a wealthy Viennese, led so fast a life in the Austrian capital that his family stopped all supplies. In anger he came to France and joined the Foreign Legion. Soon afterwards he deserted, returned home, and took up mechanical engineering. M. Orika invented a new pneumatic brake for railway carriages, and entered into negotiations with the French Government for the sale thereof. He had to come to Paris, where he has been recognised as a deserter and arrested.

Many Thanks.—“l wish to express my thanks to the manufacturers of Chamberlain’s Colic, Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy, for having put on the market such a wonderful medicine,” says W. w, Massingill, of Beaumont, Texas. There are many thousands of mothers whose children have been saved from attacks of dysentery and cholera infantum who must also feel thankful. It is for sale by Canterbury Farmers Co-operative Association (Ld.) In Japan there is an electoral qualification consisting of the payment of a fairly largo sum in direct taxation, and it often happens that candidates with more ambition than money are obliged, in order to qualify themselves, to obtain adoption by parents of sufficient wealth. This adoption is done with Japanese thoroughness, and the new member of a family entirely abandons his old tics of blood and takes ovor the ancestors and the domestic worship of his new parents. An amusing story is related of a distinguished Japanese economist who had arranged a suitable adoption, and the affair was about to be concluded when it was discovered that his prospective father was ten years younger than himself. The matter was referred to the Ministry of the Interior and the Ministry of Justice, and tho answer was that such an anomaly could on no account be permitted ; so that the unfortunate economist had to continue his search for a parent of sulli-; cieut years as well as sufficient wealth. !