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Colonist, Volume XXX, Issue 5016, 27 September 1887, Page 4

A survivor of George lll.'s Jubilee is still living in Chipping Sodbury, Gloucestershire—Mrs. Jane Woodward, a hale old lady of 95. SLe remembers perfectly the rejoicings in the neighborhood when she was a girl of 17; and at the Victorian celebration in the town she donned the identical bonnet she wore for the Georgian Jubilee. She has kept the bonnet— an ancient Leghorn of Coal-scuttle shape—in lavender ever since. Describing & visit to the capital of the JRiverina, a special correspondent of the 'Argus' says:—One tall figure in grey, walking silently along, must needs arrest attention. More than 6ft in height, thin, stopped somewhat, hair and beard fast changing through grey to white, clad in loosely fitting grey clothes, a great silk handkerchief twisted about his neck in the place of the usual linen collar. It is Mr James Tyson, whoso possessions are estimated to be worth £5,000,000, who never married, and his whole life long has not been known to drink a glass of intoxicating liquor or smoke a pipe of tobacco, or enjoy a merry moment, or waste a shilling or a farthing. He has done liberal things of late years. It is said that he gives largely to charities and churches. One of his latest gifts was of £200 to the Brisbane Cathedral Fund. It is rumoured, indeed it is true, that the bishop wrote back remonstrating. The gift was too small and inadequate to the donor's wealth. The donor replied, " Send back the cheque, and I will consider the matter." A peculiar accident with a carbine is thus reported by the Hawke's Bay • Herald': —" Mr John Sidey, a visitoir to this district, from Dunedin, had a very narrow escape from a shattered leg recently. In • company with some other gentlemen he went pig shooting on Anderson's run ' at Kerern. Seeing a pig at about 100 yards distant, Mr Sidey laid on his back to take accurate aim, as he was using a very short carbice. When he fired, the bullet struck his left leg just below the knee, passing through a leather gaiter and other apparel beneath it, and glancing on the shin bone, ploughed a furrow all down it to within an inch or two of the ankle, when the ball again glanced off, passed out through the clothing and lower end of the gaiter, and penetrating the boot took ft email slice off the side: of the foot within it. It seems a miracle that the leg was not scattered, but Mr Sidey will carry an eight inch scar as a memento, in addition to beiog minus apiecaofhisfoot,