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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XIV, Issue 7, 8 January 1881, Page 2

I ; The champion pigeon race, Dauedin to Christchurch, was won by JTonUci'i, pairBlue Villain and Blair Athol— in Bhours 35 J minutes.: !&. Bryeptoo'* Postboy wm second, and took t hours SO minutes. Ths birds were started in a heavy downpour of rain, I which account! foi? tbe long time taken. A gentlemen travelling in a railway|Jcarj riage. was endeavoring*, with considerable, earnestness, to impress some argument upon | a fellow-passenger who was seated opposite to him, and who appeared rather dull of I comprehension. At length, being slightly irritated, he exclaimed, in a louder tone. " Why, sir, it's as plain as A B C !'— " That may be." quietly replied the other, " but I am DBF!" The musical festival to be held in New York in May, 1881, will be the greatest musical event ever held in America. There are 1400 choristers already in training ia New York and adjacent cities. The estimated expense is not less than 20,000 dollars, half of which has already been subscribed. Preaching at Melbourne the other day, the Rev. Rabbi Davis, of Sydney, expressed a firm belief that Queen Victoria was a descendant of a noble Jewish family of antiquity, and he supported the theory of the Anglo-Israelites, wbo believe that tbe English people are of Jewish descent. •**■** ' ' i ■■•WWWWBBBW—