MISCELANEOUS.

Inangahua Times, Volume IX, Issue 1350, 18 January 1884, Page 2

MISCELANE OUS.

Articles were signed on the 4th inst. for a match at hammer-throwing, between Donald Dinnie and Williau* Matheson for £100 a side. The contest will take place under the rules of the Otago Caledonian Society for that feat,. The conditions are that two hammers (one 161 b and one 221 b) shall be used, and the length of handle is not to. exceed 4ft 4m ; the best throw with each hammer to be added together, and the highest aggregate to win. Mr W. 0. Kirkcaldy was appointed stakebolder, and all the money is to be lodged a week before the match,, the iate, for which is not definitely fixed, 3Ut it will come off within a day or ;wo of the. races. Probably, also, a natch will be arranged between Dinnie >nd Httdsoaat'Wtestlin^i • •'.■'"*

In thejCity of London Court recently^ , •„ before Mr Commissioner Keer, Mr J, Tolley, jun., 66 Cannon street, sne& the South-Eastern Railway Cormmnj * to recover the sum of one guin«a^'|^^ i damage done to a hat while trayejiinef" ion -the defendants' line./ r*^Pt« : »;. plantiff stated that on August J^S,? be was a passenger on the line, Vitsd..oD ... arriving at London: Bridge station he . rose to get out of the oarria^e. ladoing so his hat, a new white one, »me-' vinto contiact with .the lamp. The* • '. outside was very . greasy, and consequently made a mark on the top of thY hat, whicij could not be removed. Th&\ \ ; solicitor ior the Company said, the, plaintiff should have exenriged inor* . care, and could not recover for his own negligence! His- Honor: Are you bound by statute to carer lamps ? The Solicitor : Yes ; I thiojfc we are. His Honor: Then you must mak* . your carriages higher. I must find 1 for the plaintiff,' with cost* r ■ During the passage of the Tarawerafrom Hpbart to . the Bluffy wherev she arrived ou Tuesday, says &*»• Southland Times, an incident took place of a most peculiar and melancholy nature. One of the passengers named , John Henry Dallmeyer— • ■■■■. i gentleman of means, who was accom- j"- - pained by a valet and a special medical attendant, was lost during the voyage. It seems that the vajet, Walter Pratt,. V missed his master about 2 p.m. on. the- . '. 80th ult., and that a search was 1 ioaaaev diately instituted but without avail. He was last seen by the stewardess sittting on the rail with his legs over ' the side. She warned him 1 that he might fall overboard, and went away, she returned he was gone, but she did not imagine anything serious had happened. An enquiry into the occurrence was held at the Bluff, on Tuesday before the Collector of Customs, at which Captain Sineiar, Dr Howard (who had attended the missing man from England). Waller Pratt (the valet), the stewardess, anil the purser gave evidence. Theoaptqia said his impression was that DtUmeyer was of uusoud mind, but $b$ doctor refused to answer any question? *9 to his condition. The general opinfwte seems to have been that the defeated, was recovering from whatever ailment . he had and that on tho^orning of the occurence he was much better than usual. There can be little doubt but the man committed suicide by throwing himself overbord. «•; Messrs Cregan and White, the proprietors of thier " Victory Sweep," who; ; Were going to appeal to the highest Court in the land against the decision . •of the magistrates, have oeeiv j&ftttght at last to their bearings, and' last Week*"* 4 . they paid their fines of £100 each with, costs;, and made tracks'to^fireflh fields and • pastures new. Thejae two«mej*.. should have received six month's mv prisonment, for it waa clearly proved! " that it was the most unmitigated swiodlj,., th%t had been perpetrated. Only 1 fancy •"these- thieves receivingmoney torn, unfortunate fools, for .0,, tickets in the ''Victory Sweep" 'and placing it in their pocket* and nothing more being heard of it. The police are not finished with the bogus sweep promoters yet, for on Saturday evening last Detective Nixon arrested another - : vagabond named Adolphus fiehrens, who advertised throughout Australia ■ and New Zealand under the name ot "Progress," care of G. L. King, Melbourne, ia which he promises to give : 60 prizes away, of the value of £6000 . : at 6000 subscribers at £l.eaon. HeS was lodged in the city lock-up 6n a charge similar to Oregon and White's. iiis-case- will come, off Friday next. On the 30th ol last March Adolphut Behren's aha* Progress was fined 430, with £10 10s cost, for the same offence. Samuel Nathan, who for some years past has been Very fortunate «&»$£ Melbourne Cup time, in drawing>tbJe winner in a £1000 sweep or backing: tiie same, received a WeH-ej^ejdi ••""' Christmas box and New Year's gi&>t ■'. the South Melbourne Police Coipt on, . Tuesday week. Nathan is the ;pro- ■ , prietor of one of the most exiennve time-pay tnent furniture shops in the Colonies, and not being satisfied with making 100 per cent out of his gobdv he starts another little game, for aiding certain women in keeping a disorderly house. It appears Nathan was iB the. habit of selecting houses in respectable localities, and renting them for 1°; months at £1 and £2 a week; after which he would stock them with furniture, and relet them to gay girls for .. £8 and £10 a week The case was proved, aud he was sentenced tA«4£ months' hard labour in her Maje&fa. ' GaoL Serve him right, as it dironV Collins Itreet money-lender, for trying to bribe a jury. The man who possesses the most coin don't aWayp -.if^ ■■ cape justice. .•. •-■-..<: .-.•■ A rumor is published in a Hotae paper that on the Claimant's release from Dartmoor on a. tioketrpf-loaVft next year, it is proposed. to start hini in a public-house, where he is sure to> •* draw." It is proposed to have in th» public-house a sort of museum of Tichborne relics, and the house is to be called the Tichborne Arms. Catarrh of the bladder. -Stinging irritation, inflamation, all Kidney and similar Complaints, oured by " Buchupaiba." Moses, Moss & Co., Sydney,. General 1 Agents. • •,...,- ..