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Hawke's Bay Times, Volume 19, Issue 1442, 30 September 1872, Page 2

A late English paper says :—A few days since Mr Cripps, jun., left Liverpool on a bicycle for the metropolis. He reached Coventry on the afternoon of the day on which be started, and having rested in that town for the night, Mr Cripps resumed his journey early on the following morning for Loudon, where he arrived in the evening, having performed the journey from Liverpool to London, over 200 miles, in two day. 14 . An old lady at the West went to hear Emerson lecture, and liked hi'«« The only drawback was that the subject announced in the papers was 'Destiny, which she took for dentist! y, and never discovered her error until too late to consider the production from that altered standpoint.

Ko littfe'scandal has been caused in London in ci\ il sei vice circles, by the discovery that some of the successful candidates at recent examinations were not piesent at all, but sent substitutes just as young Parisians of fashion .send substitutes to the confessional when they are about to be married. One <f coach" is said to have gone up no less than three times, and, being afraid of doing too well, purposely bungled some of his answers, and did it too well, for he was " plucked," to the intense disgust of both himself and his employer. The discovery is said to have come about this way. One of the examiners, wishing to see a candidate whom he had examined, was told in reply to his enquiry thai yonder gentleman was the Mr whom he sought. " Oh, no ! that is nob he," t-aid the examiner. The rest of the scene can be better imagined than described.