CUPPINGS.

Waikato Times, Volume XXII, Issue 1807, 5 February 1884, Page 4

CUPPINGS.

Sevkn- new hotels, fonv with 1000 rooms each, aio beinj: built in London. Tltr inaii w lio rannot write makes his mark in the world.

liit\/n. lias 1 „300,000 t>kve% aboutonefiftli i»f whom arc Indians. It is estimated that over 500,000 phcnsants are sold annually in the markets < f England.

Si'otlaad has this year cont United 3,570,t!(J0 pounds of s<ilmo.i to the fi^li of I o idon, fully a tlud more than suppled last season.

A numbkk of rich men of different nationalities, hn\e been interested in the project of building a huge casino at Naples, adapted alike to the lequirements of summer and winter. The piomotciN promise every conceivable form of amusement which money will procuieand law allow, including, lor sedate peisons. the i^e of n libraij of 30,000 \olumes. Thk sub lotting of London slums is a.

regular business. It blinds in about 15 per cent, ami for about 1 pet cent the rents aie guaranteed by public.ins, who insist upon their being p.ud in publicbouses, thus scouring to themselves customers.

Thk Aichbishop of C.uilcrbiuy ib at present engaged in searching the iccouls for the purpo.se of «u>eei taming whethei lie Ins any light 01 power to appoint a suoci-Sbor to ttishop Colenso m Nat.il Ir asmuch a-> Natal has an ect.lesi.islie.il community distinct fioin tlic English Chuioh it is consult led pioh.ible th it no Bishop cm be appointed by the head of the English Clinieh.

Mr A. M. SuM.n \n— .The liish Wotld, giving an account of Mt A. M Sullivan, : — On otiO occasion (. 4 1 ar I - stone met Mi T. I) KnHnan, Ml', foi Westmeath, and, nflci evpiesMiig legiet for his In othei's illness, sanl th.it lie was extteinelj sotiyMt A M Millnan found it necessary to leMgn his seat, for, though they opposed in politics, lie full} lecogmsed hib bteibng honesty The Land Act was then befoio the Housp, and Gladstone oilciod, tlnough Mr T. I). Sullivan, to place one of the commissioneiblnps at his brothel's dispob.il. The membei tor Westtneath, knowing that Mr A. M Sullivan had acquiicd no propei ty, and believing that the position •was one which Mould not compel the lenunciation of his e.ulv pnnciples, «ab anxious that the ofFei -hould he accepted ; but, befoie mo\inj: in the niattt-r, he thought it advisable to consult Mr Paniell. Thnt gentleman hcditily op proved of th" aiiiingtmont, 3i\mg us one i-e.isou that thcie would then bi 1 a eel - tainty of the tenants lecemng fan and goncious tuatiiipnt Up to tin-, the peison most deeply mteieste<l \\as entuely Ignoitiut of the m hole niattei, and, \\ hi-n at length his biothei inentioi^d it, he absolutely lefu-ed, undei any ciieuinstanee 5 ;, to accept a position fiom the (ioveinment. He said he had begun his political lite a> a poot man, and lie piesuinecl he would die one In no e\eut oi undei no conditions would ln^ tumly be beholden to the ]>ntish autlionties Joi a livelihood. And so the m.ittei ondtd.

Tin: Church in W\i i s — Th" fhst of a sorio of public meotinir-, m Wales to agitate foi the (lwstabl'slum nt and disendowment of theCnineh in Wales A\as bcld at Caul ill, undei the piesulency of Mr Rees Jones who g iv^ :"i: "i elalioi.ite addie-s in suppoit of the mo\ement and the objects of the Libeiation Souitj. Mi Fi->lioi, a deputy iiom the Liberation Society delneied an einpliatic piotc->t agam>t the (.ontinuaiKe of a State Chinch in Wales noi on the gi omul of iHiiiibi'isfeOuuitli asof pi maple. Mr .Alfied Ilhnuwoith, M I' followed, and alluding to the constant and coin. igeous conduct ot Mi l)ilh\\ n, M V , in ichuiico to disestablishment in Wales lie obs'jixed that in hi^> judgment theic u is no ipuslion impoitaiit to the welf.uo ot this conntiy as the settli ment of this Chinch question il( alluded paiticulail;, to the ca^e of Wales, and uith lcfcniKC to the Common Pi.ijer Ijook he pointed out that it was a loiiii Act ot Pciibanient fioni u Inch time could be no de\ l.ition. Jlc 1 idituled the attempt which was once nude to bunt,' in an Occasional Seimon Bill to rnahle Dissenting imin^Ui-, to occuiiy the chin en pulpits at tunes. Tlie n.eeting, "v\ lnoli was a veiv hum' one, sul ••equentiy lesohed: — "That as the Chinch of England in Wales has failed to fulfil its piopo^ed ob|cet a- a means of piomotmg the jeligious mtcie&ts ot the Welsh people, and nnnisteis to only a small minoiity of the population, its continuance as an Established (Jhinch in the I'iincipahty is an anomaly and an injustice w Inch ought no longci to c\i-t

Jt is over tliu ty nine jcih since Cieoige Sewaid, an Amu lean spnntei, was Hist ci edited by Bell's Life w ill) liav ing mil 100 yaids in [Ij-ec. The gieat feat »as aceoi(lin<,' to Hie authontv inentionLcl, accomplished Septeinbei .iO, 1811, on the turnpike road at lldinmei smith, England ; and tluce ytais latei, May ?>, 1547, at London. Sew aid is said toha\e inn 120 y.nds in lUsec. Since tlieu lioth performances haw occupied positions on all record liooks, but with one exception the atheletic anthonties on both of the Atlantic ha\i v not only icg.nded the 100 yud teenid as in linpiobabihty but an impossibility, ''lie ono exception is 2lr Montague Sheai man, the " Atalanta ' of Ashoiu oi Afloat, a splendid English week I v publication de\oted to the mteiests of gentl-'m.inl} "-poits .Mi Shcai man, attei admitting that ho too foi a loii'j; timr> di-bchi'ved in Sew aid 1 * wondeiful lecoid . «nts (lie following reasons for being the exception, and expleases Ihe 1 diet that Sew aid «»<> e\en a gic.itci wondei at 100 yaids than J fairy Jlulchens wlio in a- Sheilield handicap last yeai won fiom sciatth liinriinc l-il , jaids at the late of B', inside even time Heai " Atalanta"' :— lt, may not be L'eneiallv known that .some twent> fi\c jimi's back Mew aid and (laic, the wondeilul cndui.uice pedestnans. lmiight a l.u^e canvas booth, w Inch they tinned into a hippodionio, and tiaxelled thecountiv in paitneiship as ciicusproprietoi.s. Scward, being almost as good as an eciuestiian as he was as be was a pedesttinn, undeitook to do the lioiscjnanslnp, while <i,ile uvd to am we the company with some feat of walking. During then tia\ek the topic of con\eisition nt the inn w lieie they iiiod to make headijuai tei , fietjuently tinned upon running and dale, who always had an cyf 10 tin. main clnnuc, often made a match foi his paitnei to inn the local champions. Sew aid, who was ;> man of \ery k tiling disposition, and spent nuiiily all his ']),ue huie in leading, would somoliniLS dct line to mil, .aid even w lie ti he did < onsen I it was only by dint of .i coii'-idei able amount of pnsua•sion, although the business alw.i>s |jio\cd moie piofitdble than that of tlic circus. Of couitc, m these offhand juatches Sewaid i<in entirely untiained and gencially had to meet the fastest men in the distiict. In spite of this Cvle \ias told me he never lost, and frequently would let his opponent get sevei.nl jaulV stait bcfoie he would leave his mark, but would be at bib shoulder before running hfty yaids, and win as he liked. In one ot these aflans Sewaid met an opponent who was said to be a sound half-second man. The local champion was \ciy unsteady in toeing the murk, and fteijucntly got over befoie the pistol was hud. At length Sewaid, to the comtei nation of Gale, went down of his knees and told the staiter to fit e Away went the local celebrity, but tSeward was up like a cat, and ere sixty of the bundled yaids they weio limning had been coveicd was on level terms, and shooting out like a flash of lightning in the last thiily, won by fully four yards. The above are but a few of the many instances of Seward's remarkable .speed that Gale related to me, and if space permitted I could enumerate many others equally astonishing. Now, if .Seward could (and I have uot the slightest doubt lie did) peifoim like this out of condition, there is some reason to believe that when 43t he was even capable of having run as fast a« he was credited with in the records of Bell's Life,