MISCELLANEOUS.

Inangahua Times, Volume VII, Issue 1190, 1 November 1882, Page 2

MISCELLANEOUS.

♦ I A controversy has l>een on for some time in iDunedin about the quality of the Colonial beer which is being brewed in that city. The Otago i ally Times has fallen foul of the Bunedin brewers, and has charged them with brewing a deleterious article, ; composed more of sugar than malt and hops. The Licensed Victullers Gazette J has talSn up the cudgels for the bre- \ wers, and other papers are now sharing in the dispute. For £5 7s a " Tourist Company " in Glasgow, offers to provide anyone purchasing a ticket with a trip to Paris and hack, including five days stay at a. hotel in the city, and a visit to Versailles!. 'ho Ota*e ! ai!y Tim^s suggests that the Union Steamship Company here <hou!d tike a hint. W» i (Mrtrii>oro;i*i! Impress) understand that Mr J. * Kv'.son, Clerk of the R.M. Court ut J3lniih«im, has been appointed Warr' • . n f N.-v.«by, in '' Utago, and will assuiv Ins duties th;Te I on the Ist of next month. •is place t will be taken by Captain Carey, of the Wellington R.M. Court. ° Some trouble is arising over the :.■:]■■ :-'W\ i i\t An- M.. .a , :,/. .j-. ; 1r ~< r»l •' -» •f ; ( ; -' " '-; -.' - i ■■• l (".pi .-, -.. „ , * yi itlil *\«- * v Li 1 ~-' ■'-i- -t . * •■ *• ■■ ■ - 2. *\' ' i )-i •,• \J I

of Barton, Blair, Browning, BuHciand. [ Dufaur, Gill, Linkham, O'Brien, I Mumford, Kobinson, Sestro, Wood, . j v ynyard, and Yates, have boen chosen . but some of those selected say there i* two much of the "family b'isinesV .wnnit the affair, and th«y will not g> unless the team is made more repn?»er> The Catholic Advocate states that while £9.1,009 was raised in New South 'A r ales in seventeen years for church purposes, £200,000 was raised in \ r i - toria, unassisted from without, in seven years, for the maintenan*e of schools One of the most exciting cricket mi itches ever know has just taken pi ice at the Oval. The hitherto triumphal progress of the Australian cricketers has long exercised the spirf, >f true lovers of the great natianal irinie, and it was resolved to pat against the colonists a really representative English team. The choice of tht leven was made with infinite pains from among a wide Held, and included n; very best of our gentleman and •ofessional players. An enormous cr »wd collected at Kensington to writ.ss the match, and the greatest •xcitement prevailed. In the commencement England had a decided i Wantage. The whole of the Austi mKau Kleveu were disposed of for sixtytiree runs, their best men made no s -ores, and their prospects were most gloomy. Moreover, Kngiaud went iv \nd scored 101, a small though superior - -ore. ; hen heavy rains sunprvened, \ud the second day's match bad to be piayi-d up-.j;i a soaking wet wtcket. Again the Australians made but a s show, and their score all told left ii lgiaud only eighty-five to win. But iosv the wonderful pluck and tenacity •vith which the Australians play a losing ga*no was extraoidinarily displayed. All through the match the ball had the better of the bat, but now in this lost innings the magnificent bowling completely carried the day. No one could stand before the " demon " pofforth, who has at last recovered his old form. Boyle ably seconded him. and before them out best players went down like ninepins. Messrs Hornby and Grace made a bold stand, but after them wicket followed wicket without a run. It was a case well known in cricket where the nervous tension is too high strung, and so much depends upon the tail of an leven that they can do nothing at aIL On the other hand desperation braced the Vustraiians to gigantic efforts, and they gained their reward. They literally pulled the match out of tho tire, and came oIF victorious by seven, runs. The largest cricket score on record ! was made on August 4th and sth, at Kiokling Green. The Orleans Clvi» made the enormous numlier of 62 1 runs, Mr Trevor making 33S and Mr Veruen 250 runs. Last season the Friars v. Gentlemen of Notts, Derby, scored 742 runs. The same week Nottingham v. Surrey, at the val, the former scored 591, hrewsbury aud Barnes putting on 216 runs. A New York Court has decided that a wife has a right to ask her husband for a kiss, and if he refuses, s.he can hit him in the face, and he can havo her fined for the blow, and pay thy fine himself.