MISCELLANEOUS.

Inangahua Times, Volume VII, Issue 1202, 1 December 1882, Page 2

MISCELLANEOUS.

A man in England had a rich aunt, who he expected would lpave him all her money. - 1 last she died, and he was bequeathed £100. In disgust, he determined to " blue " it on th« turf, so he wrote to a bookmaker, and comniissoned him to put the money on the. horse that stood at the longest odds for the Cambridge Stakes. The lx>okmaker took £10,000 to £100 about See >aw. As the world is aware -cc Saw won. The duke of x utheiland is setting an excellent example in dividing some of his immense sheep walks or farms in Scotland into smaller farms. One farm of 44,000 acres is to be divided itito nine smaller holdings, and the Duke finds capital to the new tenants, leaving them to employ the whole of their own capital in purchasing live stock to graze over the firm. >■ grossly cruel practice on the part of Belfast cattle dealers has twice recently been the subject of legal investigation, The defendant in the case, a man named M aguire, sold a cow, representing that it was a good milker, but on the purchaser taking it home it was found that the animal would not give milk and that the passage of the treats had been stooped by the injection of caustic, for the purpose of enlarging the uiWer. he Magistrate denounced the act as a diabolical one, and sent the defendant to jail for a month without the option of a 6 tie. twas stated that there Tern other rases of the same kind to come on for hearing.