Untitled

Patea Mail, Volume II, Issue 178, 23 December 1876, Page 2

The following letter from a pugilist to his lady love will be found interesting by all who have a knowledge of the meaning of the pet words of the fancy : —“ Dearest Emma,—Your last reached me the day after mill. Blessings on the darling bunch of lives that scribbled it. 1. kissed the ■signature for the sake of the dear little daddle that will one day make me the happiest buifer going. I can’t begin to describe my feelings on reading it. If f. had been auctioneered on my knowledgebox, I couldn’t have been more completely grassed. Any boy might have floored me by a lap on my snuifer trap. And the sight of the photograph of your lovely mug almost knocked me out of time. How I recall those features! Those ogles, blue as the sky ; that conk, with its aquiline curve ; (hat rosy-lipped tater-trap ; those ivories ; that fair skin, where the claret blushes. Oh! would that the original were present, her nut reclining on my breadbasket, her oration trap murmuring in my lugs, and her mauley clasped in the flipper of her adorer. Ah 1 love has got my pimple in chancery, and is fibbing away. 1 can’t counter on his nob, and care not bow soon the sponge is thrown up. A few days ago a woman named Afacfarlane took a steerage passage by the steamer Hawea from Alamikau to Nelson. On arriving at the latter place she left the boat, which continued its journey to Picton. About an hour after the boat had left Nelson, Airs Macfarlane discovered that she had left £ls in notes Bed in a hankerchief in her bunk. She informed Inspector Keilly of the- fact*, and be immediately telegraphed to Sergeant Scaulan, who boarded the steamer on her ai rival at Picton and found the money in the bunk. He .. forwarded it back to Nelson. A man in Cincinnati recently cut bis throat because bo' lived next door to an amateur trombone player. The coroner held an inquest and returned a verdict of ! ‘Justifiable homicide.”

The following particulars relative to> the parentage of Sims Reeves are said to be authentic Corporal John Reeves, the son of a coach-builder, in Sheffield, joined the band of the Ro} - al Horse Artillery in. 1806, having previously served in the Marines. His son, the present Mr Sims Reeves, was born im 1821. Corporal John Reeves was a splendid singer and a good instrumentalist, while the quantity of old. music lying in. the library of the Royal Artillery band boars witness to Ins remarkable superiority as a lie was discharged in 1343. and died at Root »■ Cray, in Kent, in 18G1. When Sims Reeves reached the ago of nine or ten years lie was attached to the band as a treble singer, and being rather promising, application was made for him and another boy to be enlisted. But there happened to be a number or orphans whose fathers were killed in the Peninsula, and whoso mothers were anxious to have them enrolled ; and when the permission came, a year or two later, Corpor.il J. Reeves informed Mr MTvenzie, the bandmaster, that a clergyman of Foot’s Cray having taken notice of his son he thought ho would be able to do better for him. A melancholy accident occurred at a Friendly Societies fete held at Goodna, near Brisbane, on the Prince of Wales’s Birthday, in consequence of the careless throwing away of a match. It appears (says tiie Brisbane Courier') that Miss Meredith, a young lady engaged in school teaching at Ipswich, was sitting near a party of smokers when one of them, after lighting bis pipe, threw away the match, which fell on Miss Meredith’s dross. The light material instantly took fire, and, wrapped the unfortunate girl in flames. Several gentlemen rushed to her assistance,, and succeeded in extinguishing the flames,, but not before she was severely burned. She died next day. A telegram in the Argus from Sale,. Victoria, says: —“Mrs McLeod, wife of Alexander McLeod, draper, of Bale, was committed for trial at the next assizes for maliciously libelling Mr Patten, solicitor* The libel was contained in an anonymous letter sent through the post to Mrs Robinson, wife of complainant’s managing clerk. The statements in the letter were exceedingly gross, imputing to the plaintiff, illicit intei course with a woman of ill-fame, and swindling. Experts were called to. prove the identity of’ Mrs McLeod’s handwriting with that of the letter, and the Police-Magistrate and Mayor concurred in sending the case for trial. Defendant was admitted to bail.