Miscellaneous Items

Feilding Star, Volume XIII, Issue 117, 31 March 1892, Page 4

Miscellaneous Items

♦ Those who are in the habit of sending money to Australia for tickets in sweeps should take warning by the following : — "On Saturday night, March sth, at the General Post Office, Sydney, the detectives arrested a stylish dressed jouDg man in the act of posting a large number of circulars to Queensland* He gaTe the name of William Smith, and was charged at the Central Police Court on Monday under the.aliases of Isaac Isaacson, Geo. Adams, and J. Brown with having committed a breach of the Printers and Publi shers Act. He was a coused of offering to deliver twenty- five printed circulars relating to the Sydney Gold Cup. without having the printer's name and address thereon. There was a similar charge in connection with the Birthday Cup. The detectives state that the accused has been carrying on a bogus sweep under the style of "Tattersall, care of G. Adams, box 591, G.P.O " The circulars upon which the prosecution are founded invited 100,000 subscribers at 10s for the Birthday Cup, and 50,000 subscribers at £1 each for the Sydney Gold Cup, the first prize in each case being £25,000. Some j of the genuine Tattersall's circulars were found in prisoner's house: also a quantity of letters from Victoria, each containing £1 vi orth of stamps, and a cheque for £12 10s from New Zealand. A remand was granted on heavy bail." ! In the current number of the Edinburgh Review a writer furnishes some interesting particulars with respect to the introduction of the horse into Australia, which ' occurred in 1788. The earliest record of the importation of a thoroughbred mare is in 1825; but in 1820 an Arab horse was brought into Sydney from Persia, and three years later Sir Thomas Brisbane introduced an Arab stallion from Bombay. Up to the present time New Zealand has imported forty-sis thoroughbred sires from England. In the opinion of the reviewer, this colony and Tasmania are the true breeding places of the Australasian horse, for climatic reasons. The "New York Tribune " quotes a Kansas man on one result of prohibition in his State as follows :— " The fact that many people in prohibition Stales are using antipyrine as a substitute for alcohol shows how hard it is to make people sober by Act of Legislature. Kansas druggists sell an immense quantity of quinine, as well as bottles of bitters and tonics by the thousand, and prohibition seems only to succeed in compelling people to change their favourite drink. It is difficult to imagine anyone eating quinine or drinking it in solution for enjoyment or from taste, but the habit is a very common one m almost every large city ; and now antipyrine is being taken to in the same way, No one can take large doses of quinine with impunity very often, and anyone who indulges in the antipyrine habit is laying up for himself a stock of suffering and debility which will make life a burden to him."