MISCELLANEOUS.

Dunstan Times, Issue 635, 19 June 1874, Page 3

MISCELLANEOUS.

—o— An aequa’ntance of mine had occasion lately to visit* large station, ca the Murrurabidgeo, totak# dilivery cf *nm® sheep, As a p-elimioary, the proprietor, who arras obviously “three sheets in the wind,” liefore II o'clock in the morning, insisted on his visitor coming in to have a drink. Without any great reluctance, bo consente 1 ; an 1, instoa I of one, bad two. “ Do you,” at length said the hilarious host, “believe in miracles?” “Can’t say that 1 do,” was the reply—it was before the outbreak of the Fcstrr mania. “ Well I’ll shew you amiraclo. I’m dunk, my w ft’s drunk, the overseer's drunk, the l ands are drunk , woke all drunk, aid always drunk, Anl, mark >ou, here’s tho miracle—tho station pays JSgla*. The Ha Telegraph says:— “ The follow

ing extraordinary story has been re-pub-hshed by tho Hawke’s Bay Times “‘A formal effer of marriage was made in the Resident Magistrate s Dunedin, by a lawyer, on behalf of bis client, who was summoned to contiilmte to the support of his illegitimate child, a girl only seventeen years old, and the Magistrate considered had shown a wise discretion’” “We want to know who was the party who showed a wise discretion—the illegitimate child of seventeen years old, or the lawyer who made the offer of marriage cn behalf of his client, who appears to be of tbe female sex? How if the lawyer bad been the father of the illegitimate child, and had offered to marry her on behalf of his client ; or if the child had been at the age of seventeen years ; or Lad the Magistrate shown a wise discretion, and had or cred the lawyer to marry his client, and liad himself supported the illegitimate child ; or had the lawyer been a girl only sevenycarsold, wo could have understood the story. As it is published, however, we cannot make head or tail of it.”