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Manawatu Standard, Volume IX, Issue 126, 2 May 1885, Page 4

At a late race meeting a labouring man who, was. much the worse for liquor, staggered up to the totalisa- : i;to,r ( and, pulling out ,^Q,s called -; on • the perspn u who.,raji the machine ''to come here aria stick this on something for us.". The totalisatorjman, '< probably to give him a show of . ,wirming,a lot of. money, .placed thel whole sum on a rank outsider. ; lhe unexpected happened, and t^eiii-'' ebriated speculator was shortly afterwards told that he was wanted to take j his winnings:' 1 Hardly knowing: wn'at : it all meant he again staggered^ to 1 the totalisator lind. stuffed 'biinHie after bundle of notes into his pocket? till, when lie-' had Ireceivedj considerably overi?3oo, he was informed;' that was^allH'Thet police, whb had watched the affair all the tirae,.:at .(ftrico arrested- thei man on a change, of being .drunk! and disorderly. \ Next J mining; * when he had recovered! from the effects of his intemperance^ \he j -was u brought up at the Magts trate's Court and fined ss, and had all his money restored to him.; The police said 1 it was the first .tim'6 they liadt been., thanked by a main for 'runnin^ninT-m^^ '- ■ rp;r; He came into a newspaper pfiYce, in v; a T very pompous manner, I^ded the document; with the remaVljN — ' jV'fy fri ehds^toi whom I h ave| freael v this poem, praise it very highly so ; -^llW® f onclodedr to*^l|qw| you ; to ■'publish it for fe^easonab'lerlfrauneration.' \ I can't publish your |pipejni: "but *l bdir give'-you^a-fiiht-how you can make money on it, 1 repliqd the ediltiirMafisiiT Irel jfla^ read pvpr the verses. 'Should be much obliged to you.';.,, ' Those friends of I yours who admire your' poem' so Imuch ,ha^e got mofley. , noti\ 'Oh yes, some* of 1 * tnem are'l quite' wealthy.' 'Then you bet one to, ten; 1 rioi^aS^pa^er^ in^the;country that will publish the- poem withbift^befn^f aiPfor it, and i you - will scoop them, for all they ;i are worth. , Good morniiig.' \ ; ; 'fi The Supreme Court of the Dluclry { of Brunswick has just givetf judgment m suit of pJeilVfips'" unprecedented duration. " It was ah' ejectment suit by Court Stolberg, against the Brunswick GovernmentJ for possession of the county of I Blaij.kenburg and its domains, the" market value of which was estimated; at many hundred of thousands of pounds. Thfr. original suit; was com mencgcTilp the year 1 604? m the : rmperjkl{Chamber of Wetzla, whicli was\ tlflfsupreine* court for settling' distil te§ between sovereign princesof the Ger^'ar Empire. It dragged on tljroii^E. various stages till 1649, whenl^udge^njfnt was giveh and tlieii^-it^lll into abeyanc SubseicjTfently 'the country; its appenages, came into , • th^ possession of the Dukes of Brunswick The object of thelate proceedings was tt> revive this suit, for the purpose of declaring Count Stolberg entitled- to; the title and domains. The (i!durt : decided finally against his clairij; 'd