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Patea Mail, 4 August 1882, Page 3

“ Touchstone” says the Canterbury Rugby Union footballers have agreed to give the Sydney team two-thirds of the proceeds of any match played at Christchurch. With fine weather this ought to be a good round, sum. I hope the Australians will be satisfied with the offers from the various parts of New Zealand, and come over and let us see what we can do against them.

“ Peter Pindar ” in the Australasian states that he has received a communication from Nottingham requesting cooperation in getting an Australian football team together to visit England under Rugby rules, and expresses an opinion that it will be many years before the project will succeed, owing to the Rugby game having made little headway in the colonies.

It is rumored that Mrs Langtry wiU visit the colonies after her tour in America, where she is to play nest season.

Persons who indulge in the flowing bowl should keep away from the state of lowa, for the inhabitants of that state have passed a resolution by 60,000 majority, that no intoxicating liquor shall be sold.

Destitute Jews are crowding New York. They are coining from Europe. The Duke of Devonshire had a scare a short time ago on receiving a pakage which was thought to contain explosives. Every precaution was taken in the handling, but for curiosity it was thrown against a wall, when it was found to contain nothing more formidable than some specimens of stones, that had been forwarded to the family.

Sometimes thoughtless people have a “ lark ” by drawing a chair away when another person is in the act of sitting down. The following cases which occurred in Paris recently should be taken as warnings : Colonel Aden, a distinguished man, sat down, thinking there was a chair behind him, and fell heavily on the floor. He lived only a short time. In another case of the same kind M. Pirson, Governor of the Banque Nationals, injured his spine, and only lived a few days.