MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

Dunstan Times, Issue 1123, 9 November 1883, Page 3

MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

There is a curious circumstance (says a London paper) in connection with the Que«n’-«.,ag^ : (»ud the years of her reign. Her Majesty has coirifndted'hv'r sixty fourth year of her age, and-will shortly conclude the forty sixth,- at her . jeign ; thus the figures corrisporta, if the, order of one of the numbers, is reversed. _This occurs every eleven'jrears, as appears b'y the fol-

.Some nine years ago (says the Taieri Akvocate) an accident happened in the vicinity of Saddle Hill by which a Chinaman was killed. The matter had been long forgotten, but interest in the case was revived lately by the appearance in Mosgiel of a Chinaman who made enquiries concerning the case and stated that he had come for the purpose of paying all expenses that had been inourre 1 in connection with the funeral, etc., of the deceased Chinaman. A countryman at St. Pancras station recently saw a member of the Blue Kibbon Army go up to the refreshment bar and ask for a glass of beer. He was reminds 1 of his bit of blue in his buttonhole. ‘ Ah ! ” said he, “ wait’ a little.” He got his beer',’ and then extracting a’ bit of ginger from bis pocket, dropped it into bis glass. “ You see," he said, as he stirred the ginger around, “it is now ginger beer." And he took it off at a gulp I” . _ A notable decision -under the Married Women’s Property Act, passed in England last session, has just been given by the Licensing Justices at the Guildhall. The Hope Public house was transferred to Mrs Helena Maude Meaden, notwithstanding the fact that she is and was at the time of the transfer a married woman. Mrs Meaden informed the Magistrates that she intended to carry on thi business quite apart from her husband, who is a traveller, although he was living with her, and would come to sleep on |the premises. The credentials being satisfactory, the Bench decided that under the new Act they could legally make the transfer; and therefore Mrs Meaden becomes landlady of the Hope in her own right, and Mr Meaden is—a bona fide traveller. ■ The Hobart Mercury' relats 'that Mr Alexander H. Biuce, who occupies a cottage near the Fire Brigade Station in-Bathurst street, on "returning home, about - balf-an-houf past midnight, heard his little boy calling for him He Complained that he was perspiring, and had hurt his head. Upon obtaining a light, he found an open wound on the child’s temple, and from which the blood was flowing freely. No explanation of the injury presented itself, and Mr Biuce concluded that the boy had taken part in some scrimmage during the day. After Mr Bruce had retired to rest, he was aroused by what he describes as resembling a blow on the forehead, and felt that his face was wet ; and upon striking a light, and looking into the glass, he found that he had deep punctures mi his forehead and about the head. Very little investigation showed that the rats had paid him a visit, and the mystery was solved, the neighbourhood being infested with these vermin.

lowing table. Year. AgeJ Reign. Year.' Age. Reign 1839 20 1883 64 46 1850 31 13 ’ 1894 75 57 1861 42 24 1905 86 68 1872 53 35