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Temuka Leader, Issue 2054, 3 June 1890, Page 4

; The ; sum of : £7O baa been given ; to Mr Varley, as the net results o£ his missions in Auckland, An old ship's caunon, dated 1810, . has, been .found on the beach at Waiheke, near Bussell, embedded iin the sand. A peculiar incident took place at a meeting of creditors at Oamaru on JTriday. At a .previous meeting the sum of £250 -, was conditionally accepted 1 fop the estate, but since then an offer of £3OO had been reqeived. The .creditors, were considering this when the party who made the first offeryoffered £305. By offers,of £5 and. then £l the r amount was raised to £320, when the Deputy Assignee stopped the bids by adjourning the meeting in order to take the Judge's ruling on a point that had cropped up. I'lie Npw Y-»r!c World mentions a rather cutio,u,sf,ractice rpsortej to,' it appears, by footbaUers and other atliSftrs who require more than the 'normal amount of oxygen to bo received into their lungs: A dose observer, says ill* New York paper, may notice in the nostrils of some of v lhe athlet< s of (he present* cJny a curious wir. l frame, the effect of which is »o expand these important parts of the breathing apparatus, so that much more of the usual percentage of oxygen finds its way into the Not long ago, previous to an important boat-race, a report was circulated that several of the men who were 5o take part in it had gone to special practitioners in oHer'to haveaddilional '• breathing boles " bored through the cartilages of their noses. The truth wa6 that they i came to have wire " spreads " inserted, says the World, to secure a greater "wind" supply; for more oxygen means, of course, more sirength and endurance. The wire frames or epreada as they are called, are, we read, about a third of an inch in diameter, shaped like b parallelogram with a rounded head, and about an inch long. According to all accounts, those who make use of them are surprised at the beneficial results of eo doing, J