MISCELLANEOUS.

Timaru Herald, Volume IX, Issue 340, 29 August 1868, Page 3

MISCELLANEOUS.

The Aboriginal Cricketers m Encland.— j The Australian aboriginal cricketers played their first match on the 25th of May. 7,000 persona were present. Play commenced at noon. The blacks' best man was absent through : illness. As the Surrey batsmen approached the • wickets the blacks cheered vociferously. The \ match was concluded at half-past six, when ; Surrey was declared the winner by one innings and seven runs. Score— Surrey, first, 222. Australians — first, 83 , second, 132. On the 28th of May a large gathering assembled to witness their athletic sports. The spear and boomerang throwing attracted much notice. At one time there were nearly 4,000 spectators on the ground. An old woman who went into the poultry business some time since has quitted it m disgust, because as she says, " the hens never'll lay when eggs are dear ; but always begin as soon as they get cheap." A well-known judge, when he first went to the bar was a very blundering speaker. On one occason, when he was trying a case involving a right of property to a lot of pigs, he said, "Gentlemen of the jury, .there were just twenty-four pigs m that drove ; just twenty-four gentlemen —exactly twice as many as there are m that jury-box." A man recently broke off a marriage because she did not possess good conversational powers. He should have married her and then refused her a new bonnet, to develop her powers of talk. March or Refinement.— A cobbler living m Baltimore thus announce* hia oalling: — "Surgery performed .here on old boots and ' shoes, by adding of the feet, making good the legs, binding the broken, healing the wounded, mending the constitution, and supporting the body with new soles. Advice gratis."' ; ' ' ' ,