MISCELLANEOUS.

Inangahua Times, Volume VII, Issue 1034, 11 January 1882, Page 2

MISCELLANEOUS.

— ■ ♦ : — A gentleman named White, residing at Princegatc, has proceeded against a jeweller in Oxford street, to compel him to take back a diamond tiara and bracelet, which were bought for £4700, on the understanding that they would, if the plaintiff desired, be repurchased for £200 less than that amount at anytime within two years. Mrs White gave evidence as to the persuasion she brought to bear on her husband to buy the jewels. Finding, however, they were too heavy for her, the lady re quested the jeweller to take them back. It was stated that the value of the jewels had depreciated. The jury found for the plaintiff, and the defendant was ordered to pay £4500 on restoration of the jewels, or £1800 to damages if the plaintiff should have I keep the jewels. — London Weekly Times. There is a good story afloat in town which is worthy of mention. An as- ! sistant in a clothing establishment obtained leave to go to the agricultural Show. On returning to his business the boss remarked. Veil, Shorge v-efo half you peen 1 The reply ~as lf To the Show to see the prize sheep" "Vas dey young sheepsT' 'Yes.' • S'help mo Sliorge you are vera foolish, and dats vat you do ; if you'd only looked in the looking glass you'd luif seen a lanu>, try p* y, ;i xl shaved your

monish. What George said in reply to this I don't know : probably he felt inclined to " wool " the old gentleman. — Taranaki News. ' As evidence of the strong sympathy entertained for Mr Parnell, now confined in Kilmainham Gaol, a large number of tenant farmers and laborers assembled at his estate at Wicklow, and performed the necessary operation of ploughing. Over 3000 assembled to undertake the work, which was done gratuitously. The action has occasioned considerable comment. The robbers who carried off £40,000 worth of jewellery from Brynkinalt, the seat of Lord Hill Trevor, at Chirk, in Denbihgsbire, have not been discovered. Two servants who were arrested on suspicion of being concerned in the robbery have been discharged. The tale about the cargo of human bones brought from Plevila .to Bristol, is, the " Levant Herald " says, incorrect. It would not pay to bring human bone, at a cost of. at least £8 a ton, over the Balkans, and 2j)o miles to Rodostb, on the Sea of Marmora, the port of shipment Rodosto is, however, a bone collecting place, and since the war great quantities have been gathered along the route of the disastrous retreat . trom Adrianople, where the country was covered with thousands of dead cattle. There was terrible mortality, too, in many places close to Rodosto ; the deep gullies which had been cut by the floods were filled with the carcasses of cattle and the bodies of men, and it is from this source, it would appear, that the cargo -came.