MISCELLANEOUS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1995, 16 January 1890, Page 3

MISCELLANEOUS.

At Wanganui on Monday, at ahorse fair, 83 horses realised £826, 183 lots were sold altogether. According to the Melbourne Herald, one of the new Victorian up-country justices of the peace has “ put his foot in it.” At the local police court the other day the clerk called out “Regina versus Thompson.” “ Where’s Regina ? ” said his Worship, A startling pause ensued. “No appearance of the plaintiff. Case dismissed.”

A Pan Francisco lawyer has had a man arrested for throwing a 50 cent piece at him. The man must have been a particularly dollarous individual to do such a thing. The lawyer had him bound over to keep the piece.

An individual who was a clerk in the India house with Chas. Lamb and John Stuart Mill, has just died at Yentnor, England, after having enjoyed a handsome pension for fiftyfour years. He had been allowed to retire, “in consequence of broken health,” in 1835,

We are m a position to state, says the Rock, with reference to the reports that have lately appeared as to certain amenities extended by the Archbishop of Canterbury to Mr Spurgeon, what are the exact facts. Mr Spurgeon had the entree to Addington Park at his pleasure, and the Archbishop has recently had the pleasure of receiving him for a long and interesting conversation. In order to detect deserters, the American War Office proposes to keep an impress of every man’s hand, as the most characteristic and permanent of the body marks are the small furrows with intervening ridges that are disposed in a singularly complex, yet regular, order on the under surface of the hands ; a record is obtained by application of the band or foot to a piece of glass covered with a paste of India ink, and then lightly pressing the inked member on smooth and slightly dampened paper.

Some curious details are to band regarding the royal wedding ceremony in Athens. It was do rigueur for the bride to kiss all her relations as soon as the service had concluded; Three kisses each had to be bestowed upon the parents ot her husband, the hang and Queen of Greece; her mother, the Empress Frederick; the King and Queen of Denmark, the Emperor and Empress of Germany, and her sisters and brothers. Then one kiss each had to he bestowed on the other Princes and Princesses present. Altogether the fair Princess had to give about one hundred and fifty kisses!

The following New Year’s greeting has been issued by the railway employees : —“ New Zealand Railways, Ist Jan., 1890. The officers of the Wellington Railway Station wish you a first-class journey over the lines of the coming year. With zeal as driver, integrity as guard , goodfeilowsbip to ease the friction of the reverse curves and with the caution signal displayed, may you safely travel along the narroiv gauge track to fortune, the head light of which station we all make special efforts to attain, as being the point to where wo bad taken a single ticket, when we may switch off our carriage from the train, and retire as respectable ' old buffers.'' And with line clear, may you, without being derailed or shunted into the siding for cripples to undergo repairs, finally arrive in good order and condition at the Great Terminus "

'lhe Evening Post, writing in regard to the Wellington Baby Show, and the sudden disappearance of the promoter, Mr R. H. Donnolly, states that it was known that he had promoted a similar show in Christchurch, and rumors of trouble about the payment of some of the prizes began to go round. Mr Donnolly’s virtuous indignation in repudiating these rumors was very edifying. He had been basely maligned, he declared in injured tones, and to prove the emptiness of the charges against him he showed the reporter what purported to be the receipts for about a dozen prizes paid in Christchurch on 28fch ult. The exhibition of these at his office in Manners street to a certain extent restored public confidence. Referring to the interview of the bailiff with Donnolly on the H.M.S, Arawa, the Post says that Mr Donnolly had got scent of the hunt, and was not at once to be found. Captain Stuart being applied to readily placed a number of the crew at the disposal of the bailiff, and eventually Mr Sayers unearthed the fugitive in one of the closets. He at first sturdily maintained that he had no money. He admitted that he had worked a swindle, but he had made nothing out of it. On a pair of handcuffs being produced by one of the ship’s officers, with the suggestion that they should be placed upon him, he altered his tone, and produced the necessary amount (£6) to discharge the warrant and costs. He then made a pitiable story that he was left to land in Rio with four shillings.