MISCELLANEOUS.

Inangahua Times, Volume II, Issue II, 17 December 1880, Page 2

MISCELLANEOUS.

■- ■ — "• -~ A very interesting, and at the same time very important discovery has been made in the cathedral church of Kossano. in Calabria— a Greek Uncial Codek of the first Iwo Gospels which by aatbontrn has been declared to be of the highest value for the test of the New Testament, as well as the historical development of book«writing and painting of rery early times. * The French re*enu^ of £100 000,000 is asserted to be tlia largest ever received fi'ora a p tpulitton of thirty»six millions A Philadelphia clerk, who is somewhat smarter thau his empioyer, wa* heard to remark the other day : " Thank fortune the ! O3s has stopoed advertising for the season ! No*" w.e will have a res';. Ned Kelly -was the one : hundred and ibirtv»first criminal executed in the colony of Victoria. The first persons turned off were two Tasmaiiian oboriainals known as'B>b Bob * and ' Jack,' for murder, ever, so long ago* Only one woman baa undergone capital punishment in the- pprson .of Elizabeth Scott, in November, 1833, for the slaying of her husband. The ffamilton Spectator has the follow.* ing : — Mr Soudry was at one of the theatres the other evening, and that if (hen allT nin sayfsJVeis a?fonisHioß re> sem'olanee to the porfcra ts of her iifen i\ (he illustrated papers.. Upon mentioning tho circumstance to some friends the sns» eestion was made that probably Mrs Greer had jpot out of the ship at Ader laide. A lady lost recently at the Melbourne Exhibition, GVe £20 notes the T^-ghsh. Scottish, and Australian Cimrterei Bank, wh : l« sitting down near one of the refreshment bars. A gentleman in Melbourne, whosg wife and little daughter are now in Enijhn : recently received p<»r phonnsrraph from London, a verse of' rforae Sweet Home,' sung by b >th of them, an J followed by : several kindly nSessa^es and kisses. The Sydney Scb> writes : — * The best a'msed man there has been in Sytfisey for many a = long day was EdwarJ Trickett j on Tuesday,. Of .course if he had won the bo;it race he would not only hare b?en the hero of the hour, but a hero amongst heroes. The prescience of so many excellent peo.fe would hate he>'n justfied. The city would have been as gay with bunting' as if a second Waterloo bad been scored ; an 1 every banntid in the place would have been as bedecked with blue rifcbo.ns as if her favourite iia<i won the Derby. As the case stands tiir.tmnds of persons wailed, unable to i sleep, until some uDse*"on:ibb hours o» . Tuesday » and ' thnn t in soitw ins anccs were unable to s'cs'p after the teieursm w.-is rpfpjved. Aad then ffi3 ri'port pas rnsgnified. It was rumored that Hanlan had sot out of his lr>nt anJ had. a drink. whil>t Trickett was panting ani puffirg after him. Another veisiun wb< that the Canadian sat d >wn in hi? boit'anrf read a newspaper. Crowds now Geelare him a j sell. C'n-iideniijj the large nmonnt of money stukeJ on !ii3 ninni.K? the race, it is not, to he wondered at that nrortifieatinn overpowers just JB-lgmpnts. Even the past victories o: tins renorwned athlere are S|)O!f«>n of *s ( 'i« trmmali of brute strvnglh »»rpr Gni^h^d skill. He is also accused nf eyinein^ a conceded s«»lf confiilenoe id the certainty of winning, that prevented him taking th^ pains to secure a conquest. But the climax w*s reached when a larrikin, not much higher than a walking stick, snore by all his gods that if Trickett came to Sydney again he 1 would challenge him and row him him* self."