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Hawke's Bay Times, Volume 16, Issue 857, 3 November 1870, Page 2

The total number pf entries for the forthcoming Volunteer Hide Association's Meeting ja Melbourne are 1,002. In the small bore rifle match at Sydney, recently, at the 900 yards distances, Mr Slade made nine bulls'-eyes. The following marriage advertisement ap pears in a Tuapeka paper:—"On the 26th Sept., at Waipori, by Mr Baker, Begistrar, Sing Kum Chung, to Elizabeth Nispett.— Chinese papers please copy." " Magnanimous dogmatism " is an expression no doubt new to most of our readers, and, its meaning must be admitted to he a little obscure. We have, however, ippt wjth, it in a Westland contemporary. W. «J. Moore, a member of the fire brigade, was summoned a{ the Resident Magistrate's Court by his captain, for non-attendance at practice. In cross»examinatiqn by the plajntiff, he said " I did not say that jour action was an act of * magnani motfs malignity.' The expressipn I used, and which I wjll refteratp a, thousand times was, that it was an act of 'magnanimous dog? matjsm.' That is pnjy expreesive of what I