MISCELLANEOUS NEWS.

Inangahua Times, Volume III, Issue 99, 6 April 1877, Page 2

MISCELLANEOUS NEWS.

A correspondent of the Melbourne Arens says :— There seems to be a fair prosnect of testing the merits of the two rival oarsmen of New South Wales, Rash, of Clarence River, who aboat two years ago vanquished Trickett, the Champion of the World, has challenged the-latter to snpport his claim by rowing on the Paramatta "River ; and if Trickett can obtain a suitable boat— the only preaent difficult vin the way— the race will come off in about ten weeks. Rash ha9 repeatedly invited the champion to pull him on the Ihrence, but the latter has persistently refused to change the venue from the Panmat'a, and so, up to the present Hme, the matter has stood. Bash now concedes the locality question, and the acquatic world looks forward to a brilliant trial of skill. Trickett's testimonial resnited in the collection of cl >se unon £1000, of which he received about £850 in cash, which he has invested in a public honse in Pitt-street, where he now discharges the genial responsibilities of Boniface. There has been a somewhat querulous newspaper altercation between the relative friends of the champion and his backer, Mr Punch, from which t e public learns that the best of *[•»*■«* sometimes disagree, and that Mr Punch received £200 to take the fwon home, and some £300 won in stakes, besides the proceeds of steamboat excursions and Trickett handerchieft at a guinea a piece ! There can be very little doubt that within theText six months a Thames champion will be on New South Wales ground with t!e Mention of taking Trickett's wellearned honor back to the river whence it 08 Teorrespocdent of the Christian Union writes as follows concerning the New Y»rk Cookery School:— Down stairs in an ordinary kitchen I found a group of Indies in street costume sitting arouod a common kitchen table. At one end stood a pleasant looking young man m a cap and jacket with wristbands of the whitest linen. The lesson for the day had already commenced, and savoury odors, a* well as the saucepans and bowls in which were a variety of ingredients in different stages of combination. testiß^ &•« *»• *«« was reilly ftoing on. The chef, whi.o using knires and spoons wilh • marvellous, deftness itoi giving clear aad explicit ex-

-1 planattont which th* lad»ea «wi taking down with pencil and paper. A fowl wan dressed, eggs were beaten, fat wm heeled and fish were fried, end not a spot nor e spatter touched the efxwn or the jacket | uo, not even the wfitth*nde. There wm no "mats" on tbe table or floor, aad evervthmg about the phe# nod the P*m was appetiaing'y oeefc- It would be well if every housekeeper eooM » present at one such kitehen % nieetiwt to eee how cook ins? can be done tidily, end «t would be worth * greet many more dollars to at than the course of cooking lesson** OOfltt if sending our cooks there would inspire in them any appreciation of the positivelydelightful way in which a kitchen might be managed. Wilson, of the circus, does not seem to have been very favorably impressed by the elimate of Victoria, while he is of opinion th»t the citizens of Melbourne believe tbat place, and not Boston, to be the " bub of the universe." In a letter to the Alta California, he says:—-" If yoa do not begin by making up your mind that Melbourne is the finest city in creation, and the only place in the world worth living in, you are not likely to understand its inhabitants or to enter into the spirit of their doinga. It is a good place enough — well hid out in broad, straight streets upon the Amerie-n plan, with fine public buildings, five or six roangnifieent, well-cultivated, open parks, and a busy, bustling, energetic population. It ia all this, and more ; bat at its beat it never ie or can be to a traveller what it ia to a d seller within its bounds. To tho natives it is paradise, perfect and unalloyed, without flaw, fault, or blemish, and after a few weeks spent in the eity, yon begin to wonder whether your eyes, or those of your host, are out of gear. It never freezes here, consequently the climate is, yoa are calmly assured, the finest in the world. It is true that when the wind blows, which is nearly all day long, foar days oat of five, yoa cannot tee across the street for the dost storms, and when the wind does not blow, the snn poors down it* pitiless rays until yoa wish that you could sit op to your neck in an tee tub. Tt is also true that when it is not scorching the clothes on yonr back into tinder, and baking the brains on yonr skull, it rains in torrents or bails in ton*:. But it is the finest in the world, the people say that live all tbeir lives in it, and after all who should know if they do not?" These remarks grated rather harshly on the patriotic feelings of the editor of the Melbourne Argus, and caused him to remark:*— "lt is comforting to reflect that the foolish self-complacency thus attributed to us is peculiar to Australia, and is ever to be met with in any part of the United States— not even in San Francisco ! " Mr Mnnro, a Victorian M.P.. spiced one of his election speeches with an extract frona a volume, showing tba&Bfr Patrick Sellar, father of Sir James M'Culloch's partner, had been tried in 1816 for culpable homicide and on^resiion in -Sutherlandshire. Up >o this 2EUtes,in the Au-»tralasia«, remirked that with characteristic genero«by and candour Mr M ixnro did not go on to say that .\f r Sellar wa« honorabfy ai-qiiitte', anff lhat the. presiding ju tee complimented hiju up^'i the humanity and consideration, he di**pl-»yed in carrying out a difficult, task. j Mr Mnnro HiJ not tell bis audience bow J Mr Patrick Se'lar took proceedings | againt the s'leriff for his share in the. ! prosecution ; how that functionary | implored Mr Sellar to withold them, acknowledging that he had been grossly misinformed, enclosing £200. and leaving it to Mr Sellar, upon an examination, of Irs (th? sheriff's) affairs, to say how much more he should adjudge himself entitled to. It is cartons to find in a pamphlet written in vindication by Mr Sellar that be indicates the sheriff by an initial only, assigning as a reason that tht» wrong perpetrated by him (the sheriff) might at some future day be east in the teeth of his unoffending offspring ! Mr Sellar did not conceive it to be within the bounds of oossibility tbat the injustice he endeavoured to prevent oat of consideration for others should actually occur in the case of hie own son i It is very seldom that in England elephant tabor is ntil-e>d, but an instance occurred recently which is worthy of record. The road at the junction of Waterloo and York road*» h*s been latelv broken u,», and the other evening an omnihus proceeding from StamfonNtreet towards the Wandsworth road wan so heavily laden that the horses were unable to drag the load, Several of the passengers alighted, and while the horses were endeavouring in vain to. get over the piece ot ground, one of Sanger's elephants* under the charge of a keeper, passed along the road. Seeing the belpletsness of the horses, the keeper gaveinstruetions to the elephant, who lowered his head, nnd placing his forehead at the rear of tb* 'bus, pushed horses, vehicle, sod passengers beyond the obstacle which impede* their progress. This was ™ta«ssed by a large number of persons, who loudly cheesed the actors in the ineideat. - -r*f- - -* Ta Pour Liquid Fire down anVs throat . in the shape of fiery, adnlteratto, namedieated spirits, is to commit slow suicide. When your fitgging energies require to be reinforced, use that safest, purest, and mpsiinvigoratingof stimulants; indorsed by the most distinguished chemists, physicians and elergymen— Udolpho Woifi'aScaißiuii AtoKAttc Schnapps. It is the only •P^'***? invigorant and corrective which does not overexcite the brain. .-. . -.