Notes and Events.

Manawatu Herald, 1 March 1892, Page 3

Notes and Events.

That which does not astonish the native, but does the visitor in the neighbourhood of the Hot Lakes, is to see boiling water running down the side of the road. It is reported thai an unfortunate, dog met with his death from this cause, and of which he was ignorant. He was very thirst?-, and having smelt water rrin into ii with open mouth and tongue out, and almost directly he was dead.

Many sporting men who "totallsate" considerably have ft Wer account with the pi'Q^rieiftvs" of the different machines, with whom they settle up at the end of the meeting •says the Herald. One of these backers of his fancy hold up his fingers to the man in charge of the machine at a late race meeting, indU eating he wanted 20 tickets on say No. 3. His credit, however, was doubtful, for the totalisator man snook his head and would not ring an the wished for tickets. What anade the refusal more galling than anything else was the victory of No mv h °, a " divy y "°f *8 °<W. The look of disgust on tile face of the disappointed sport may be imagined, as also his feelings, especially i v view of the fact that the bulk of his patrimony had, gone through the hands of the. totalisator man, who U tick " him when he had a good tlnng on, and a chance to get some of. his money back. Such is life, especially when the moneys all spent, and tiling looking blue all rourja. The Moral of all this may »c discovered by anyone interested ; l \ don't "matter to those who are not.

Bishop Julius, does n6t mince his "words in dealing with hypocrisy. In the course of his sermon at St Peter's, Wellington, on Sunday evening, he said that if many of those who pretended to do a great deal for Christianity worked no harder for themselves they would be in the workhouse in a week. In withering tones of scorn the Bishop -yaid : "We do not wish you to be a mean pitiful sneak of a saint, crawling into Heaven by the back door, fvom whence you ought to be kiclced out again,"

A curious instance is reported from Inaha, near Manaia, of the reproduction of a hoof on a sheep which had lost one hindfoot and fetlock joint, as well as an inch or more of the shankbone above. The sheep in question is a wether hogget. Its leg was badly broken some six months ago, and, after three or four months 1 time the hoof and lower half of the leg dropped off. Since then a small, solid hoof has formed, which the shoep uses when walking, and which ! P'Voves an efficient protection of the '.snd- of the shankbone. The only similar instance which we ever heard of is the case of a Maori, the first joints of whose fingers had dropped off from leprosy, but new I nails had. grown on the second joints. This case was cited in an official report to the Kew Zealand Government, published about 18 months ago.^-Hawera Star. g I