NISCEĹANEOUS.

Dunstan Times, Issue 961, 17 September 1880, Page 3

NISCEĹANEOUS.

The following novel response to a demand for the payment of a debt was receized the other day hy a firm in Dunedin :—“ Am in receipt of notice from tho wise men skilled in law, called commanding me immediately to pay up the just debt incurred hy me, while trading in the goods ami merchandise tarnished to the small dealers by your firm, or otherwise bo proceeded against according to law for the recovery of the same. Now, as tho scarcity of the gold, and of the silver, and of the copper, and the brass hath been a bye-word and a reproach in these parts, for some time, I was mightily exercised in spirit wherewith to find the wherewithal! to satisfy the said claim. Moreover, as I have never as yet interviewed tho wise men, and the rulers and the judges of the people for any cause during my sojourn of four years and one month and twenty and seven days among the people, I was mightily cast down at the prospect thereof However, in my confusion and tribulation I consulted with the wise men around the corner, who gave me counsel, as follows Young man, if this he a just debt it ulust ho paid. Go thou, therefore, to tho dwellers in this part of the country who are tardy in paying their debts to you, and threaten them with tho majesty of tho law-givers. It may be they will pay thee enough to satisfy the claim, and thou mayest again hold up thy head among tho people.’ So, seeing the counsel was good, I girded up my loins, and avent among the people, ami threatened, even as thou hast done, and made them oat a large portion cf that savoury dish known as humble pic, (even as f had eaten) and lo ! ! ! I have suceedod. Now, therefore, if thou preseutest the enclosed order at tho office of the money changers of this town, called Bank of Now Zealand, kept by one named man withall, thy just claim shall be paid in coins of gold, silver, brass, &e , yea, even unto the last fathing, and the trouh'e between us ended.” A cheque was enclosed.

Westgarth’s Circular says “It is very desirable for the various municipal interests of Ncw Z inland, seeing so many of them are ever coming into this market, that some consolidating system could he devised so as to issue one uniform stock, with, if possible, a joint liability, under superintendence of the Colonial Government. By this plan money might be borrowed at five per cent., instead of six and seven per cent; and at the same time there might lie some check upon the smaller tortus rushing into loan operations so soon as a few streets of houses lias been run up.” Sweeps on horse races are unanimously popular in India as well as Australia, and I find from an Indian paper that the Urnballa (a town near Simla) English Derby sweep this year was the largest ever known, except in 1877, when the first horse took a lac and a half of rupees (between LI-1,000 and L15,0u0). This year 27,062 tickets were sold at ten rupees (about £1) each. The first horse received 111,530 rupees, the second 55,765 rupees, the third 27,832, and over 11,600 rupees were divided among the starters and nonstarters. Bend Or was drawn by a clerk at Simla, was sold to Lord Bcrcsford for 20, 000 rupees cash and 20,000 more if the horse won.

A Chicago agricultural journal gives an account of the largest plough ever known to bn made, which has recently turned out by an Illinois llrm of agricultural ma-' chincry makers for use on the St, Louis, Iron Mountain, and Southern Railway. It is attached to a platform car of a construction train in such a way as to cut its ditch a sufficient distance from the railway line. It will make one mile of ditch. 2ft deep and 3ft wide, every four hours,- thus doing the work of about 1000 men. The beam is made of swamp oak, and is Sin by 14in, the laud side being made of bar iron Sin wide and Ijin thick, which had tube forged expressly for the purpose. Its total weight;.) 17001b.

Regarded from a gastronomic point of view (says a writer in an exchange) it appears that there is nothing particularly desirable in dining with tire Queen, although it is a privilege much coveted by' ambitious men. A distinguished divine who occasionally preaches at Windsor, and dines and sleeps there afterwards, said the other day that the dinner wa3 a remarkably unsatisfactory affair to a hungry man. It is not considered etiquette to continue eating of any particular coarse after the Q teen has partaken of it to her satisfaction, and as Her Majesty eats very little the courses are hurried over. After dinner there is hardly time to drink cine glass of wine before coffee is brought in. The Queen does not pul her cup on tiro table, but sips a little as the servant holds it on the salvor. Then Her Majesty rises, and, of course, the guests all rise and stand back from the table. The Queen then makes the round of the room, stopping to talk for a few minutes to anyone of the guests whom she may delight to honor, and tlien goes out, leaving the guests to amuse themselves as they like for the evening.

From the United States there are received tolerably regularly into British ports every week 2000 carcases of beef averaging 7001bs, and about the same weight of carefullycanned meat, chiefly prepared at the great establishments of Chicago, St Louis, and New York. Of tdicese and butter the annual exports from the groat Republic now reach a value of L 2,500,000 sterling.

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