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Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume III, Issue 169, 31 May 1872, Page 5

An item of news as to the now collapsed Tichborne trial is furnished by the " Hay (N.8.W.) Standard," which states :—" Mr. David Murray, the tailor in this town (Hay) used, with his father, to lead a company of theatricals over the colonies. He tells us that before the long-lost baronet was talked of, they had a musician in their troupe called Paddy Byrnes, who, when they were in Wagga Wagga, recognised Torn Castro as an officer in the regiment to which Paddy had been field-bugler and clarionet-player in the band. Paddy had his own knapsack with him, on which was painted " 6th Carabineers." Castro also recognised Paddy, and the two hobnobbed together for a day or two. The.old bugler often afterwards reverted to the circumstance remarking that he could not lieved that an officer such as Cagtro." had been could have fallen so low." Those accustomed to the use of oatmeal diet will be pleased to learn that it has found a champion in the editor of at least one newspaper. The Dunedin "Echo" asserts that "oatmeal imparts brains—a commodity scarcely to be found in these beef-eating eolonies." We observe by intelligence received in Sydney, via California, it is stated that the Queen had presented her groom, John Brown, with a gold medal and granted him an annuity of £2OOO, for his promptness in arresting O'Connor when he assualted Her Majesty. By the more sober news via Suez, we learn the amount of the annuity is exactly £25 while the medal becomes a watch ! It is currently stated in the clubs that a band of M. P.'s has been organised to howl down Sir C. Dilke on every occasion he attempt* to speak iu the House of Commons during the coming session. It is also stated that a vote of censure on his .Newcastle speech will be moved by kSir John Pakington. An American paper informs us of the following case of absence of mind, which took place in the person of an old lady, who after stirring the fire with her knitting needle proceeded to knit with the poker, and did not discover her error till she commenced scratching her head with it. The Oddfellows of Eoss have raised £l5O for the benefit of the son of the late Bro. David Lyall, and they purpose sending him to a first class school in Auckland, where he will receive a liberal education. This is merely one of the many proofs of the usefulness as well as the charitableness of Friendly Societies.. New Zealand has 825 Justices of the Peace, or as near as may be (says the Greyniouth Star) one magistrate for every 275 men, women and children in the colony. According to a statement made by Mr. Eeid in the . Provincial Council the daily cost of the patients in the Switzers Hospital in £2 lis lO^deach/