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Colonist, Volume XXII, Issue 2550, 17 May 1879, Page 4

Geeat 'BiCYCi^E BA <CE.rr-Atl Lianelij on February 25th, '■.& k&tdli' took place for the bicycle; chata'pibn^ between! Mr Ge^%^Miw^B (the'iben L'hatttpi6n)a^d Mr Meifiijer,1 who has reUtifes residing 1; in Nelson. c '"'The latter gentleluaii bad Won two: matches (piie of 'six miles, aud one of ten mileß), and hia contest wtih'th'e'eEaDapipn df^South^ Wajei excited great/interest in, 'tlbe Sidifltnct;; 'anii "joa'nyj tliou^taM^:or:6pfic^t^w\witne»^dt. i it'. We,, i'opy-ivpvd a Jocal jbilirriaf 'the t ac.cpuni!of ,'tije,' fi;iish of the;&ice;Y—The, pistol was fired as a B; | gdal\to'tW!bicjrclwWthat- they' Were nqw ri'diug; their la'st1 lap. ll'ln every 'way,"the' eight was, v extremely pretty^.ana'als'o^iref'y' exciting; v J Eich'%an Beemjad tp. forth ; hia best powe'riy^Merce^r leading aiaS tEdm.unds I etni'ioiijg"eVerjr1 "nerre''to r .catcK $}* $**}■ ojipbiiiint/ b'iit* to hp purpoie/ai ''"iijp/ he ]ehdk ri. *wai ];tl% _^y._ ; Audi,lead .rhe:Jdici.' Wlieir t-he top; bf^he bill wasi'eached^ whait^ did:?tbe itfaiAeriße: crowd witneai but that Bdiinin'ds^wara gbbd 4 fifty yardai behjnd.' It wiia n^wiaU; over aa irdgfkrds who^wipuldT 'W, \he winner, yet'''tnj^^xci^men'i^did no't-aliate'.' in/the i'Jeaßt.i^'dn; they came";w,ibhL terrific inrcß^ yefc "iirJhV "efiine 'ppsitiqnß, 'When Merc^ gave* art 'extrarKrive tohliiis machine' and passed in as winner by, over fifty yards •iiatarfcei' fiat^a'ttd^a^a vren^ off aB if by iiislintJtj-arfa Iptj^ano^loud1 waithe| cheers irig. A;-crowd^at onde congregated^' around \he winner'; with ftne intention of paying'him, lrohor by .carrying! him 'high on ghpuldergV but: Mr' Mercer '.wwely. declined the proffered ho.no.rjand walked off the groundf inco^pany with hi« two brothers. A fairer and more ex> ciiing-r a'de it'was hardly possible to witness, ) «nd had'not Jbeen' feen at Xllanelly until Tuesday: ; ]tfr'Mercer npyr winlf a beautiful gold medat an^ !chami)ibnßDiji of' South' Wales';; 'a prize1 .'which; Hia friends bbpe' he will loiig keep;' ppjMmonof. ''", '';"'•.'' \ !..■•';.' Thb ''haroikßs^necessary cat* I —»Shiajke-; epearia|ri H defiiiitiohl wbiqli;' \ JWelliiigtoniana -, vvlm have had^heir nights made h'ldepus'by, itiline cateVWaulings will hardly be prepared, to accept—Bepmß.likeljr to advance jtP; a pretniuin ! in the ; Wairarapa.', A .cprresr pondent writes to the Daily i-^*' I poiseißsed a cat When I lived on the Opakiwhicbi on au average, brbiightf to my house from four to five '-half-grown rabbits dailyi :"6t t in round liumbers, 1500 in a year. Npw/Mr Edjtir,, twelve, luch cats; would, to »' : cbnsiderabie extent, keep the rabbits down'on a 150-icre farm; i WeaSels couldl not be imported at "k lfcB« cost1 than'£l per head, whereas if every Bottler, in1 Jila'ce of drowning or otherwise (leatroying3 theKittenß, >wbuld get more cats and let the kitfcens live, evil would be jemedied.;'A '-ida't^wHl go into a »«vb^ burrow the same as a weaael, and is easy to be produtied."'-^jpoiil.1 ;f' ""' " The Mio titalakd Tablet publiiließ the following in ita local columni:—-" We observe that niany^ namei of Oathoiics are objected hgaiiiat on the Dunedin electoral roll, on whit appears to ub to be frivolous grounds.1 All Catholics 'doubtful on the aubject wiUfiad'a list of natneg at the lallet 6&ti: ,. Thty ftr e invited,'to call here aud consult' as'to'the' ttops neceaswv for iheoitotak^t^;iaati«R;» r:.;: ', ;'

Penki Wis».—A will, which was brought before the notice of Mr Justice Johnston in Chambers, had 'been' drawn upon a printed form. His Honor made nu objections to it. l>ut remarked,'"! hardly, ever saw one of lit we printed foms that was quite correct." Thu heirs of those who endeavor to save expense by using printed forms will probably in many cases find'that they at least will not benefit by the testators' parsimony.— Lytteh ton Times. We clip this paragraph from the Christ' church Globe-.—" Now that His Excellency the Governor has taken his departure, all sorts of little incidents are related about him, among which is>the following: On his way along Victoria-street for Park-terrace he observed in the crowd the eyes of a laboring man fixed upon him with an intensity, that,at once attracted his Excellency's attention. Looking then more closely, he recognised in the laboring man a school mate of many many years' ago. The Governor at once whispered to the coachman, and intimation was conveyed to the" seedy one " that his presence was required at the residence of the Hon. W. Kobinson;' The meeting between the two old'schoolfellows was cordial in the extreme, and B n had refreshed the inner man,,he related his experiences, and traced ,hia downward career to a too strong indulgence in 'a drap o' the cratur.' He haß now rgone"to Wellington, where the Governor har'promised to look after him* and find him a billet, if he will qnlylkeepiihimself 'straight. We give-'this story as it was_toldtjo us, without exaggeration of any kind.". . \ Death rar the Mieepail.—-A short time; ago we urgediipon thepublic that though': bad drainage isa cause of typhoid fey^r;,.it is only One of the causes. Very poteritfal evidence of this view was recently brought before the Board of Health in Melbourne.; Dr Girdlestone, the health officer, reported! that the child of a dairyman named MAuley: had died oi typhoid fever; and that this deadly disease had made its appearance simultaneously in no less than twenty families, all of which were supplied with milk by M'Auley. Theße families jived in different parts of the city, some in Jolimont, some in ■Collins-Btreet East,- and some,: ,jn East Melbourne ,., These the most aristocratic parts of Melbourne, and the drainage in all of them is perfect. The contagion could not have been carried into families so widely separated by any other means than by the milk. It was moreover elicited that children who had used MAuleys milk after being boiled escaped, whilst others who used it in its natural state were smitten with the disease. It further came out that a gentleman residing at Sorrento, a pleasant watering place, containing only a few bouses, was supplied with milk by a dairyman who had typhoid fever in his family. Immediately on learning the fact the gentleman stopped the supply of milk:and left for Melbourne. The very next day two of his children showed pronounced symptoms of typhoid fever. Ihis evidence is so strong that it amounts to absolute demonstration. Iv has been determined to amend the Health Act in Victoria in Buch a way as to punish a milkman for spreading typhoid.— Wellington Chronicle. " The Old Man."—The following amusing story is told by the Melbourne correspondent of the Camperdown Chronicle : Some very smart criticisms, and very strange I stories, are afloat, as to the chief occupant of Government House. You know, just as well as I do, what an utter absence there is of ostentation of manner among the Eng- . lisfai nobility, except, perhaps, in a few instances. But the Marquis of Normanby icarries the severe simplicity of his style of {living to the greatest extent, and some of our !"stuck up" people hardly know what to ,make of it. He is, in, fact, >the plainest of ,plain men., His Excellency is provided with lan orderly, of course, but does not think it bis business to wait for his orderly', but his {orderly* business to wait ior him. .Rather than hare that state of things reversed, the iMarquis oi .Normanby would dispense with an orderly, .not thinking perhaps that he stands very, much in need of one. We'll, His Excellency,' who drives in a buggy as an ordinary farmer, and not in appearance very unlike .one, had occasion to drire into town one day laßt week, and left his orderly, who had not had time enough 'for his toilet, jbehind him. This might have escaped notice, had not his orderly been .observed coming (Bxasperated, and perspiring,oova high stepping horse, at a great speed after His Excellency, as he came along; asking,-." Did you see the Governor. ?" „TbVquestion was put td one of the, police on, Prince's Bridge lUid' theianswer was—" Kp, by gorar, but I fceed an old man dhrivin' by, who had just come ; from Government House." " That's Mm," said the orderly, and increased his fcpeVd. //;'' '\, "'■. -/ '.' :- /.■',; r: , v,r \ .... „; . ,: ! The young man was evidently honest in his intentions, but three years of constant courting had failed to overcome his excessive bashfuineßs 1. ; Th«y w^ere sitting in chairs at a respectful distance apart. Said.the young man, having spent five minutes, in search of a subject: "How dp you get along .with your crooking;?"'. "'.Nicely; I'm improving .wonderfullyi1 I' can make splendid cake { now." •t Can you ?" laid the young man in a pleased manfaer.^" What kind do you like "beat.?.",. *j I like one made with flour, and sugar, and citron, and raisine, and currants, and lots of t lose things, and beautiful frosting on top/ r sspohded miss. " Why, that's, a weddingcike," exclaimed the young man nervously. " I meant wedding," said miss shyly. They a:e published., _. .....•■;;>=....•■• ..;,..•■■.■.•; ■.■■•■•.-,.:,;. LATBfITrAi'BOciTT.r-riScene,--Eailway-arcb, Maxwell-street, Glasgow; two street Arabs are quarrelling over a game of pitch-and-toßs; and old gent interposes. Old Gent: '• |C6me, come, you shouldn't quarrel in that ivay ; it's verj wrong.! What nave you done, my lad, that he should strike you ?" "jPirst street Arib: " Naething, sir." Second «treeb 'Arab: " Yer a lie! Yer ca'ed me a bank director V—Bailie. An exchange says: You can't advertise enough ma week to last a whole year, any more than you can eat enough in seven days to last 365 ; and yet Borne bo called business men and hotel. and boarding-house keepers seem to think io» '' ' ; ;;:V :' ' ' ",'.-'.

A, ctiNIBiBFTOA to a Melbourne paper ■ays: —" One of the most Berious disasters •vhich can overtake a great charitable movenentihas occurred,;in Queensland. Some . Kind hearted persons in Brisbane agitated for, and successfully launched, a Children's Hos< pital. Funds were collected, a suitable house rented, officers appointed, and when everything was in going order, a grave want was suddenly discovered—a want of fiick children as patients ! The people, I shppoee, are so prosperous and the climate so salubrious that a child's refuge in sickness is found to be a superfluity." At Adelaide, recently, some gentlemen waited on the Commissioner of Works, and pointed out that a great deal of distress existed in the city amongst the respectable working-class, owing to want of employment. Many had been without work for weeks, and it was impossible to get ifc. The Commissioner said the Government would be prepared, when the necessity absolutely arose, to find employment for those who could not find ifc elsewhere. He believed, however, that as soon as rain fell tHe state of things would be materially- altered.' An English resident at St. Petersburg, whose testimony is unimpeachable, writes to us (Globe), under date of February 3rd, as follows: —" As the Russian journals are forbidden to publish intelligence of the repressive character of the authorities, I hasten to communicate to you what has just occurred under my own personal observation. On Wednesday last a strike took at the new liussian cotton-mill in the principal manufacturing district of the capital. A larpe number of strikes have occurred there of late years, and the police have sometimes sided with the weavers. On this occasion the workpeople Btruck for shorter hours at the'aame rate of pay, tbe existing period of labor—l3^ hours a day—being not unnaturally,regarded as excessive. In the morning the ,'weavers and spinners assembled in a crowd outside the mill, and the district policemaster hearing of the disturbance, sent some mounted police to reason with them. The gendarmes, however, produced no effect, and the strikers set off en masse from the JNew Canal to lay their case before the Czarcwitch. Intelligence of 'this was at \ once, sent on to the nearest "Tchaßt (the district building containing t,he police, military, and other barracks), and.as the mob -passed the place, they were surrounded by a number of Cossacks, who drove them into the Tchast yard, using their ■ sabres and whips freely among them. .Many.of the Btrikera were cut about dreadfully. Af^er the mob was locked up in tbe barracks' a police commission was in* sfcituted to try them, tho verdict being as follows : — AM the man above the age of 19 (/0 in number) are to be exiled to the province of Archangel,- after receiving 60 lashes apiece; all under that age are to be sent back to the village whence they came, and are to be kept there the remainder of their lives: all the women employed in the mill and the men who did not actively join in the demonstration, are to be discharged, and fined three roubles a head all round. In a word, the entire working, staff of the new cotton-mill—about 800 hands—ia cleared aviray at the stroke of a pea, and a fresh set of people, to work from 5 id the morning till 8 at night, is to be engaged to take their place." Spobting Ruse.—Lord George Bentinck was once trying his horses at Goodwood. ;He was particularly careful that there ;shbuld; be no touts present. Closely he I scanned the horizon with his glasses, and 'could-see 'no one except an old woman [gathering mushrooms. The trial was run, and immediately it was over, the old woman 'approached Lord George and 'sold him .the jmushroomashe had gathered. Wotwiihstandjing his secrecy^ the horse he: had tried| ; and ;which had won very easily, became a jfavorite without any of his money being, in the (market. He could not understand it. The jinext morning'a dish of mushrooms was •placed before him'at breakfast. Jumping up, she exclaimed, "I have it! Those mushrooms [have cost me £10,000,7 ,; And they had-^ 'fijpQrtiuy Times. :r \ Deant SiANiity,' in a recent lecture in Westminster Abbey, mentioned Sir Walter lUaleigh, General Wolfe, and: Major An,dre 'as haying a part in the associations of that ancient : pile. He declared that however Andre might be remembered in. England, his memory in America vyas as vivid as if the event of his capture and death had occurred but -yesterday.,.;,'• In noticing the spot where the, remains of .Mr George Peabody were interred before their removal to America, andthe stained glass window which, was put up by George W. Childs, JJean : Stanley remarked that there was a good deal in common between the, English and the Americans in their, aptitude for rising '/from the humblest, stations to wealth and position. Uut in Respect to the way in which they spent their1, money when made, he had noticed amongßt the Americans, much more than amongst | the English, a great inclination to devote ISarge fortunes to public purposes. That feeling was well expressed in a saying of the late George Peabody,-uttered during his old age, and which he (the Dean) had caused to be inscribed on Mr Peabody's gravestone. It was, " I have prayed my Heavenly Father day by day, that I mayi'be enabled before I die. to show my grafcil'ode for the blessings which he has bestowed upon me, by doing some great good to my fellow-men." • | SxMPibMS of SoBEiETT.—The total stirnatedexpenditure ou spirituous liquors in t(ie.United Kingdom in 1878 amounted to £144,961,912, compared with £149,772,610 in 1877 —thus a diminution of Supwards of lour and half 'million's."'.