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Manawatu Times, Volume IV, Issue 49, 19 June 1880, Page 4

Legacy Duty. — The Chancellor of the Exchequer, in addition to the mafy other large sums which have come in to' aid his banking account in the sbase of legacj duty, will receive at least from three to four hunhundred thousands pounds from the new -j Duke of Portland. Something- Wrong Somewhere.— Pedostrian (who has dropped half-a-erown in front of " the Blind ") : ct \Yhr, you eonfounded hurnbtig, you're not blind !" Beg- j gar : "Not I,' sir! If the card says I am, the/ must have given me the wrong one. I'm deaf and dumb !'' ! GUARDIANS OF THE BANK OF ENGLAND. — It is a fact not generally known that the Bank of England supports a riila corps of its ovyn., which, in time, "it is intended shall i do away with the necessity of drafting a ! force every night from one of the household regiments to guard the national money client-. Murdered by a TCiyaii. — Peter Bain, of Bourgeval, of France, gained the consent I of hia sweet heart to marry, and started for homo, singing joyously as lie went. The gi.il listened to, his voice as he crossed a field, and noticed that it stopped suddenly in the middle of the song. This odd breaking off excited her wonder. She went to loarn the cause, and found her lover, murdered; A rival had overheard him, fol.iowed him, and struck him down from be-, hind. Lojstdon Mud. — A conteinporary,"allu.ding to the London mud, says, " We are reminded by it of a Lincelshire legend tb the effect that while tho. people of a Fenland town were picking their, vyay to chureh oi e Sunday morninn in the days prcyious to the ad vent of Macadam, a man's, hat was eejn lying in the middle of the highway. On being picked up with some difficulty, £ha head of the proprietor was discover* d beneath, and; the unfortunate man, while an attempt was made to rescue him, exclaimed, " Hold hard '! There is a cart and horse under me jet." A SnABBy Man. — A worshipper at the shrine of B,acehu,3 (s.aja a 'country paper) who had dissipated all his ready cash, recently resorted to a most unusual method of raising the wind. Haying exhausted every other dodge,- he wen,t to lira ampjoyei 05.11 Sabbath, and said he was desirous of borrowing a prayer-book, as he was going to church. Having obtained possession of the book, a petition for the loan of a sixpence to put in the plate quickly followed. The sixpence was forthcoming, but although - the man went to church, the coin found its way to the baiv It is to be noticed that Presbyterians do n,ot use prayer-books, and cannot therefore, be. imposed on in this manner. The Whebeabottts op The Ksi/ly G.A.X.Q.-r.A reliab.ie infor.man.t (well known in Benulla) furnishes the Standard with what appears to be undoubted proof that Ned Kelly is hot only in the district, but looated somewhere near G-lenrawan. "On Eriday las^,'-' says, ihe informant, " as I was waiting at the G-lanrowan station, I saw a young- woman whom 1 thought I recognised as one of the Harts, and, to bo. certain, I asked a little, girl, about six years of age, if she. knew the. yo.iing woman. 'Yes,' said the. girl, ' that's Miss Hart, Steve's, sister. Learning my informant was, a resident of the. neighborhood, I inquired if ever she saw Ned Kelly. 'Oh, yes,' she replied, 'often.; he is at our place sometimes twice a week. . He was. there last Monday for provisions,' 5 She, had no. sooner, uttered those -words than a girl about 17, who was'standing by, came forward and rudely took the litfcle girl by, the arm, and said,. 'Shut up. What are .you, talking about P>' and dragged her* away, Bco.jdin.g hex. in the meantime. I afterwards learnt the elder girl was a servant in the fauiilj (of which the little girl was a member), residing at GHenvo,wan, and keeping a provision store there,"-