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Manawatu Times, Volume X, Issue 135, 20 April 1881, Page 2

He Knew too Much.— The Sydney Netot tellf of a boy who, haying escap«d from a reformatory and been recap tared made a Mcond attempt to eicape from the trooper, who cautioned him, telling him that if he attempted to escape again he might find himielf corered by a revolver. The youngster replied, "Yon can't do that ; I'm not outlawed yet." Queer " Boot-y."— The magistrates at Nuueaton (England) recently found themselves m the strange position of having to decide whether a man can steal his own boots. An individual named Charles Toono took a pair of boots to a shoemaker to be repaired, for which the mm of Is. and 6d. sterling was charged. The wily Charles, however m order to evade payment entered the house during the shoemaker's absence, and took away the shoes, which he was, wearing when arrested. He was sentenced to 14 days' hard labor, and the boots were ordered to be told, a decision wkich led the culprit to ream

that m future he would take care to step into any person's shoes rather than his own. A Lord Lieutenants Perquititet. — A. curious custom is mentioned .m an English paper m connection with the appointment of the ; n«w Lord Lieutanant of IrelarittS"-" Towards the end of . the month Lord and Lady Oowpar. more into Dublin Castle,- the first levee and drawingroom of the season being announced for February 1 and 8. f Amongst the .other duties •ntailedfron a^hew Viceroy by his first drawingr&m is that*bf kissing the cheek, not only of each fair debutante, but of every lady present. The severity of this duty may m manyin*tances be tempered, yet tbe administering~by many hundreds of courtly kisses m one evening jmust snggeit the physiological "fact" 'tblit even the most exquisite pleasures tomato -pain. The Fenian Head Centre.— The Paris correspondent of the Standard has had an interview with James Stephens, the Fenian head-centre. Stephens stated there was not the slightest foundation for the report that he had come to Paris to join Mr. Parnell. "He has never seen the member i for Cork, and has never sought or been asked to see him. Moreover, he does not agree with the policy of the Home Rulers, •ie considers their Obstructionist manoeuvres m the House of Commons unworthy of an Irish party; it is neither dignified nor politic ; and, m addition is calculated to alienate rathtr than to attract the sympathies of the people. Stephens holds that no Eaglish Parliament is capable of dealing with it. Ireland, he believes, will never get anything worth having from the House of Commons. The question will have to be settled, to use his own words, Iby a stand-up fight.' He assured the correspondent that the Fenians never aseas- ! sinated any but traitors to the cause ;on the contrary, t>»e Fenians did not approve of acts of crime and vengeance." An Aristocratic Scandal— in the Chancery Division, Lincoln's Inn, recently! the romantic case of Carnegie v. Berenford Hope was mentioned before the Master of the Bolls. A petition has been filed to obtain payment of a sum of money which is m Court, and which is alleged to belong to Admiral Carnegie. The payment r i« opposed by Baron de Billings, who pats furward as entitled to the money a youth who is said to be a son. of th« Admiral by his late wife, formerly a Miss Hope.,, She bad been divorced from the Admiral, and at her death m 1880 was the wife of Baron d« Billing. On behalf of the Admiral, affidavits were filed alUging that the child was obtained from the Foundling Hospital at Paris by Mrs. Hope, mother of the Admiral's late wife, and had been adopted by her. If the youth turns out to be really the son of Admiral Carnegie and his former wif«, he would be the probable inheritor of the Northesk title. A Colonial Munehansen.— The following story, had it come from America, could easily have been branded on sight as a lie, and one of no mean magnitude either. A gentleman, whom we will call Captain Spanker Cram for the occasion, went down to Ne *> Zealand the other day, and when he came back said he — " < >h ! yes, I en« joyed my trip to New Zealand very much — very much- indeed.- New Zealand is a fine country, a fine country, Sir ; and the hot springs are immense— -immense >ir ; no other word describes it. Talk about cure for gout I why you, havejonly git to bathe m the hot springs a few times, and it'll draw every particle of gout, yon have, got m your body clean ort — won't leave a remnant. I was there, I»atw J it, and 1 teU you it was surprising. Round the sides of t ose pools were helped piles and piles [of gout — all the gout that has been taken from the suffering persons of alt the Euro p?.ans who have bathed there since New Zealand was colonised, i here it is m j manses like the rocks at Port Victor, and the Maoris saw it out m blocks and build | houses wit.hit." When next Baron Muncbausen thinks of publishing a book he should make ttrms with the gallant Capiain Cram. ■ ■ ..t Aristocratic Blackballing- — Something: like an epidemic <>f blackbal ing (says the Some News) nas come ov*r some of the most coveted and exclusive of Lon don clubs. Three weeks ago Lord Durham, proposed by Lord G-ranville and seconded by Lord Hartington, was rejected at Brooks' ; a little later Lord Rosebery was 'pilled" at \he Travellers'; and now the same malignant destiny at the same establishment has overtaken Lord Lytton, Thackeray said that a man must be very obscure or possessed of almost supernatural influence to get into any club after the age of thirty. There is much truth m the remark Ff a club candidate is known favorably to most people m the exercise of power, and the consciousness of dropping a black bean into the ballot box at a club c ection ! gratifies this feehnjj. In all clubs, too, there is a= certain number of gentlemen who resent ithe idea, of having any fresh members. There -may" also be some who think it desu;at>le : to' administer to the most highly placed of candidates a reminder that they are *hortal. Quite 'Parliamentary."— During a debate m the Legislative Council m bydnej the other evening, those two- slang champions, Messrs M'Elhone and Buchanan, came m c >ntact. Mr M' Klhone made some allusion of a very nasty: charaoter m reference to tbe b/m, member for Mudgee's past career, whereupon Mr Buchanan arose, and informed the House that there were two kinds of blackguard —one born into the world a blackguard, the other becoming one by force of circumstances; but before him stood the most perfect scoundrel he ever knew —('order," arid cries from the galleiy of "shut up, you are as bad." etc.) — «nd that the on'y way to rec«Ul him to his senses would be to penetrate his dirty skin with a charge, of slugs. This scene lasted for some time, until both members were called to order.