MISCELLANEOUS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1504, 26 October 1886, Page 4

MISCELLANEOUS.

A gift is to be presented to Prince Albert Victor by “ the. ladies of Edinburgh,” who describe, themselves as “ matrons apd maidens, to commemorate bia visifc ,f i6 ilie 1 city last May. It is a very artistic 'liver model of the itbcient Market Cross with'eighr uiedallibn portraits of theVKings apd Queens of Scotland on the pedestal in u to-relief. The 1 present is really a very handsome one, and it was milch'adidired by the Queen when she noticed it in her reception-room i.i it the Exhibition.: . # > ; An advei tisement ( in the,Morning Post state* ;t.hat. a My> well-borti and welleducated, an Orphan, encumbrances or dv;btp,. wishes, ip, meet with some one above the ajT'of fifty to,take a 'real interest in lier, and to provide her with a home. The■ some one, besides be'lfg. fjfiy, tnuft he: a. Conservative, a member of the (/hutch of ; England, and a communicant without Hgh C. urch views. "“Here is a golden nliai.ee lost to Liberals ; but what an opening to middle-aged Tories 1

It is a rarei if, not 1 an unprecedented feat for r n lady lo’nhoot a stag dead, after a *t»|k t «t=,h fijaj. attempt, but it was a^ftiftVwdfW?B^7-.i W. ‘ the Dowager field’? - nverueußhirp, wliipii, by Mr Bradley Mantop, of ( .Nvyr, York, the, Diana being tn,American lady , from New York—Miss Oe|richß—nrho ; proved her,nerve apd her accuracy of aim by shooting, tbe beast riglrt through tbp heart; The European Mail thinks it certainly speaßß somewhat in favor of the reasonable idea that New Zealand is not in no Depressed a state as is represented in some quaiters—possibly for financial purposes—to know that tbe Canterbury Club at Cliriatc'-urt h baa sent lo England foi a cook, offering wages at £75 for the first year, and £IOO. fu’t ihe second and following years.

The county court fudge in an English boroughi h'aaumade an “order” which may become historical. It seems tiiat a young woman in the district of Haslingdpn recently obtained at the assizes a verdict for £4o' in an action for breach of promise,, The defendant is a bookkeeper at a pound 1 a week,: 'and bo the other day judge to relax the severity of an order which had been made upon him for payment. ’ His Honor, having regard to the defendant’s means, decided that the justice of the case would be met by an order for the payment of 4s per month. The sum owing is about £BO, with co u,c , nnd readers with a talent for arithmetical' calculations will be pleasantly exercised iU ■ ascertaining the exact number of yeais which will pass before the defendant, should he survive, will hare paid the last instalment. As’spming that he is twenty-five or thirty years of age now—that being the period at which men mostly commit the offence of ; whfch he wag found guilty—the defendant will be a white-headed old man when he finally shakes the incubus from hia shoulders. An inquest has been hold at Salisbury cn the body of a little boy of eight yearns, who had bepn killed by the horse which he, was breaking in throwing him, and afterwards trampling upon him. Fancy a, bgby of eight “ breaking in ” a horse 1 Instead, of,/ accidental deatn, which wits the verdict found by the jury, who also added a rider against such small boys being allowed to have have charge pL horses, it strikes me (says Mr Labouchere in Truth) that it should have baen mahslaughter against the person who set the poor little fellow such a'dangerous task. It is not often that such a curious case of recovery'of lost property occurs as that reported from the East of England during the past week. It that some twenty years ago Mr J. Pitt, a New Zealand Colonist, on a visit to his brother-in-law, Mr H. Knight, of Broomfield, Essex, lost a. massive gold r ' n ß while gathering some fruit'for the children in his host’s, garden, and returned to the Antipodes without any expectations of ever seeing the ring again. The other day, while digging potatoes on the same piece of ground, a lad named Sydney Csss, nephew of Mr Knight, saw something glistening on the ground, whichproved to be the long lost ring, none the worse for its long burial. There is only one thi ig lacking to make this story complete, and that is that the ring ought to have’ been discovered embodied in a baked potato and unwittingly placed on Mr Pitt’s table while on a second visit to the Old Country.