MISCELLANEOUS.

Inangahua Times, Volume II, Issue II, 22 November 1880, Page 2

MISCELLANEOUS.

Orneave^c, says Mie T.Uler, fcha contents of about; ninety boxes— tha not°-3 paid by tha Bank of En^l *-d in Ihe corresponding week five years a?o —are emptied into a huge kik. Fira happ'ied. aod *n scon as iyfllen that the miss i< well alight, tjM&^ra ar-J clwed. By the uext ijPruin:; the mp^r, wbie'i reyr?B?n«-ed ia«uy ban-* ■ bed* of tbous nds of pounds, isi a ma<3 of allies :« nd dd'treiJv for thedustmaa f o cart away. Now :ind theD, however, .1 curiosity is eared from tbe flames. One puc'i «* shown in the shnpj of a note, da^el Ju'v. 1703, and predated oa March 9, IS47— eleam and in good preservation. Hid the owner. of this note, put his money to the pxclnia^ers* im^eAil of into a secret poekethis heirs would have ' received it with usury' to tho extent of a little over £0000. A Bitvk post bill for £25. and a note for £20, dated December, 1752, iverj pre* *ented en tbab day. Had these documnt3 been invested at compound interest llie.v.-ilns of t ho former would Lay* beeu £11,132 Ms 1 HI, and of tbe second £S9OS3*U f'be professioaal four • onred rrce which took pl»ce at L-ike Blancatta, Mame, on to 29ib u!t. three mile? witb a turn, was won by Unions, of Portland. Time, 19mins 40 sees. The professioual scullers race, over tbe same course, was mon !>y J. Gar Jour, of Toronto, in 22mi'«s303;c3 defeating P!aia:ed, Lee, ?nd Tonneyck. 'ibe professional double sculling race, over the came course, wjs vro\ byTenn^yek aadK^ooecly.defeatinsliiosa and Davis, aub Hiil an.l Gandour. Time of tbe winners, 20mias, the fastest time on record tor double sculling.