"ODDS AND ENDS." FROM HOME.

Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume I, Issue 91, 1 June 1877, Page 2

"ODDS AND ENDS." FROM HOME.

(From our ' own .OiRfiEsPoNDENT. j' ■ \ + I shall be glad to invitation to become our the A-RAjtQJL MAiL,,and shall try.to qst. ft,fsjwfhly letter, which will contaui $sj and newß aj3l thjnk jarill iriteipgrtii; your community". "Of cbiafssi'y&tt nius&iKfii deratand.that I shftiriabauvat'lair ev&l&g for sometime, tages not feeling qujte Vujpp* of the- . of letter, or the character tiptoe iiews'thlijt'. would interest your reaHers.if^li-i^qjS easy to pick iip during , a : -j.*. " something to suit all t(tt«jj^- r '* • sentl-jjsima Fadiea' leti6r J -.TS^£ciß|l(fbij3d^^(!t\''" , ' aad ,i: »njj, '%&*- ---mauy in your &|l; Sk E ii6&B , f'€fe jE&i have' to: do j wits *W& ''f>§ 1, ."' the Eastern Qtteisj<s|> %'|&fi:)^wp^-" prospects of g% :|uiifl^^#p|||f MWes rather hopeful.' '■TpliQ tamed the .as expressed, dt^e^^^ll^^^p^English If nicities of Uiesjltisi'j , &c appearsrihe' tentionof been taught suu^^^V^'^^l^Vl^lb , to look forward W^^L^lff ''|lf if } JhJ beginning of a grep' )&ftownui\-jirßf.v— , iudeed", if We ar^tOf^m^ll^jl^i^fe. for the last 1 twenty" *hfty«s of the world , ' wa'a at f ally gave , was to take place, wltiefi dateߣ'%-4he"j|i| , 0 have long since been "passed sWittjodt ißw prophesied event having A ,_'H we are to believe & prophet ao often wrong, we uutet T66k, ut>on these Eastern compiicationtj as 6t the end—no. n>ietake-about However, time, that tries all;thinga,,\yUt solve the question. ~ r ,'. - ,, v ., There is another impending will add to Europeati difficulties, that la, the health of the Pope. liis Holineaa Xβ now in a most precarious state, and/his death', which', it is said, is likely..Bocm to occur, would Create the greatest confusion. From writing of the complications of Europe, it may be thought a sudden descent from great things to small, to notice next, the Oxford and Cambridge boat race; but if my readers could only see how half London goes mad over the race, they would be rather, inclined to think it the most important l event in the chronicles of the month, year after year the interest and excitement seems increasing, and there - ia very little doubt that the adulation heaped on the rowers, and the greatness that is thrust upon them has a most injurious effect upon the men themselves and their supporters. . This year the race was witnessed by an unusually large number of people, and it is thought that there was more betting than there has ever, been before, the result of the race being a dead heat, of course all the bets were oif. There was, I hear, one, and only one bet lost and Avon on the event. As the boats shot Hammersmith bridge, a rather celebrated boating man, Charlie Bush, called out, '■' h\\ take a 100 to 1 about a dead heat." Anoth er sporting celebrity at once said "I'll Jay itn The bet was accepted, and a dead heat was. Appropos of rowing, I heard on e . account of the origin of the sliding sea. Bob Chambers, of Newcastle, a . professional, always rowed in buckski n breeches, and well greased the thwart a tallow candle before pulling a match, an, having found the benefit of this origina sliding seat, the mechanical arrangetnen now used was designed at his suggestion

The articles in some of the Keyiews on : the present style of ladies' dress are very ♦ severe, but most certainly well deserved. One of the most piquant was in the Wotlch ■ " Naked but not ashamed." This called forth numerous letters. One corre-i- - herself- as a British mother said she was "ashamed but not naked." But really the way the sex do themselves up in these days is enough to make all pure minded and modest women blush with shame. Here are a few of the advertisements which daily appear in.the public papers:—A Mrs Talbot advertises that she is prepared to gives "lessons in getting up-the face and eyes." Add icy Bourne and Co. called attention to their " Swanbill Corset, warranted to keep the figure flat." But a Mrs. Birkett out Herods Herod,. for she has as her advertisement announces invented—" A compound under-garment, by the use of which, Laundry expenses and the size of waist are checked!" We may well ask ■what next"

One of the best friends, emmigrants to the Australian Colonies ever had, has gone to her rest, Mrs. Chisholm. She devoted her time, energies, and private means, to .the great work she had undertaken. No less than 11,000 persons are said to have been assisted by her. The influence of this pure and good woman, has been felt in hundreds of households. ** I have been at some pains to find out if there is the slightest truth in a statement made by the Whitehall Review, that an archbishop and two suffragan bishops were about to be consecrated by some one or other, on the high seas, that they have a new Prayer Book ready, and that in July next the whole body of what is called the Catholic party in the English Church will join this new communion en masse. From what I can learn, the whole story is a hoax, and there does not appear the slightest indication that any movement except an effort to get the Church dis-established is at present mooted by the Catholic party. The Bey. Mr. TooJl's imprisonment has done a great deal tb call public attention to what seems strange, that a man.who is admitted by everyone to be sincere and conscientious, although perhaps mistaken, should have a punishment awarded him which, had it been carried, out, would have involved imprisonment for life. The three - agrieved parishioners who had complained about Mr. Tepth, applied for his release, and their prayer was granted. But there is a rumour flying about, that a very exalted personage had a great deal to do ■'■with the " order of release. She did not at all like the imprisonment, and*€alked of sending a pardon, "but was urged "not do so. Then came Mr. Gladstone's article ra. the Church Quarterly on the late Prince, Consort, etating that many wished -the Prince's valuable Jif? fcatLbflea spared, *as, he would have .preven±efd , oie-iin:aKt^^| ? the Public Worship Act. informed by, of working- jhwv jLatfy put her " foot .dqwri," .iand -said, it this were nol done she wonld -exercise .herperogative, and.settle it lies-self. - EeneeJthe h&ste to get t<v -Horsemonger Lave. Saol with Lord Peuzance's release before Saturday evening. - " Fresh American meat, -by the ■■patent ficezing process, is becoming very popular. The largest* quantity that has yet an-vied in this single steamer reached Livcfpobilathe Qaion steamer }gyon[iwig t from New York. It consisted t>? 2,200 quarters of beef,and 500 whole sheep. As *.the steamer has madeaveryjapid ran; the ; meat was in excellent -condition .an Baaxol, and met a.ready sale. ' iH&imffiisiahlfl "to i detect. the lightest difference between .American'tueat--and that whididsiteßh; "■killed -fox tlie • home markets^..and jsb£he. price is .only_6.d and 7d berlb, the btitchers ' must make "redaction from the high rates they bave been charging, Is and Iβ 2d per lb. ■ London, April 5,1877.'