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Taranaki Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 9292, 19 January 1892, Page 3

A short time ago a resident of Victoria rode from .tbo Gulf of Carpentaria to Brisbane, close on 1000 miles. Having no further use for his horse —a real plucky animal witn logs of steel—he entered the beast, with bridle and Baddle, at the sale yards. They were put up in lots. The saddle fetched 15s, the bridle 2s 6d, and the plucky steed, who did the 1000 miles without a flinch, was knocked down at Ib. . An unrehearsed scene once occurred in the Edinburgh Lyceum Theatre, while Miaa Mary Anderson (now Mrs de Navarro) jvas playing the part of Galatea in Gilbert's Well-known. play. In the last net of the Elay, when Galatea appeals to the gods to elp her in effecting a reconciliation between Pygmalion and Cynisca, she assumes a suppliant attitude, and, with upturned face and outstretched arms, exclaims :—": —" Th.c gods will help me I" whereapor/the, occupants of the gallery at once responded to the appeal with a vigorous and unanimous ?' We will 1" which brought down the house' and stopped the play for a time. ■ ; Although, it is the fashion to recommend the " unbmji'oyed" to go up tho country, it does not appear to be quite so easy to find a job; for them, on arrival. A surveyor,' who is marking a route for water supply to a mining centre in Australia, says he is rushed with men sent on to him from headquarters. Ho is already full handed and can't suffer his camp to bo demoralised by having a crowd of loafers hanging round. Tho other evening two miserable specimens put in an appearance with a memo. " Can you give bearer and mate a job? Anything will do." Having dismissed a 'dozen or so before, ho fed theso two wanderers and sent them on some 20 miles to tko next camp with the following addition to> tho memo :—": —" These men must have a job, if only to carry your lunch."