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Auckland Star, Volume II, Issue 339, 9 February 1871, Page 2

The folio-wing additional names of ladies who have kindly volunteered to collect subscriptions for the Orphan Home, have been forwarded to the secretary of the Institution. St. Sepulchre's Parish—Mrs. Carte, Miss Connell, Misses Buttress, Butterfield, Ivers, and Tomes ; Drury—-Mrs. Blake ; Papakura—Mrs. Walters ; Waiuku—Mrs. Bates ; Tararu—Mrs. Lintott;. G-rahauistown — Mrs. Goodall • Para trai—Mrs. O'Halloran ; Shortland—Mrs. Kilgour.

A DETINKEN WAGEB. The following instance of frantic or drunken gambling appeared in the Times of April V 7 1812, and therefore it must be accented aa «„ established fact; but I think no novelist of the present day would dare to invent such a corresponding fiction, unless he were comrril ing the works of a Baron Munchausen :—" Q' Wednesday evening an extraordinary investi" gntion took place at Bow-street.. Croker th" officei-, was passing the Hampstead-road' l/ observed at a short distance before him two men on a wall, and directly after saw the tallest of them, a stout man about six feet high, haa». ing by his neck from a lamp-post attached to the wall, being that instant tied up and turned off by the short man. This unexpected and extraordinary sight astonished the officer H made up to the spot with all speed, and just after he arrived there, the tall man who had been hanged fell to the ground, the handkerchief with which he had been suspended had. given way. Croker prod uced his staff, said he was an officer, and demanded to know from other man the cause of such conduct. In the meantime the man who had been hauged recovered, got up, and on Croker interfering gave him a violent blow on the nose which nearly knocked him backward. The other man was endeavouring to make off. However the officer procured assistance, and both were brought to the office, when the account they gave was, that they worked on canals. They had been together on "Wednesday afternoon, tossed up for money, and afterwards for their clothes. The tall man who was hanged w«n the other's jacket, trousers, and shoes. They then tossed up which should hang the other, and the short one won the toss. They got upon the wall, the one to submit, and the other to hang him on the lamp-iron. They both agreed in this statement. They tall one who had been hanged said, if he won the toss he would have hanged the other. He said he then felt the effects on his neck at the time he was hanging, and his eyes were so much swelled that he saw double. The magistrates expressed their horror and disgust, and ordered the man who had been hanged to find bail for the violent and unjustifiable assault upon the officer, and the short one for hanging the other. Not having bail, they were committed to Bridewell for trial."