MR. JAMES MACE.

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume X, Issue 1040, 23 February 1882, Page 3

MR. JAMES MACE.

“Meddler” in the Sydney Mail says:—The ex-champion of the! English Prize King, .’dr. James Mnre, | is indulging at a game too many at this : bide of the line. Not b disfled i with a lucrative business iu the public house way, and the profits which a “ leetle ” race book provides,! he permits the bones io be rallied in I his back parlors, and on the Sabbath • too. Tin’s is rather naughty on the part • of the quondam gipsy, hut blood, as ' the old saying is, will toll. Now 1 , consider the raid of the police to he I one of the happiest eft'oris of the not very vigorous force. 3 hey have: brought to light the fact that this hazard playing is not at all times a fair game. Ihnmg men should know. : “ Five out of nine dice were false I”, Those who under.-*.;:id lie game <f hazard, wdl comprehend thor.mglily : what is the effect of using the; e L.1.-c ' dice. The game needs only two dice, but when there is a chance, (me of the I gamblers docs what is commonly known as “ringing in.” He subsli-I tutes for the fair dice one by w Inch a 1 high number cannot be thrown, or! vice versa. AV hat chance can a poor i pigeon have in such a nest as that . made at Mace’s ? “ I thought yon took an inion st in my welfare,” said an unsuccessful lover. ‘‘ No sir,” I she replied, “only in vour farewell.” Several members of the lockout; committee wailed on 1 he maimqer of I the Union Sash ami Door Company to see if there was any possibility e.f an agreement being come to. They asked Mr Herbert if he was willing to take back all the lockouts. Air Herberl said he would take back as many as lie could find work for. lie would not ask them to work overtime. The deputation asked him whether, if they were asked to work.over o'me, time and it a quarter would b-? allowed, to which Mr Herbert replied that il would not. The deputation, hopeless of coming to terms, then withdrew.—Auckland Si ar. In reference to the unfortunate dispute between the Union Sash and Door Company and their workmen, we (*V.Z. Herald) are requested b-.- the directors to stale that they never entertained the slightest idea of infringing upon the eight hours system which prevails throughout the colour, am] that the accusations which have been made against them on this ground are entirely without foundation. They were quite open from the first to hear any reasonable request from the men. or to give any explanation which might have been asked for, but the men never stated any grievance they had, or asked, for any explanation, but simply walked out of the factory. WASTE D—FURNISHED APARTMENTS, t’w too::;?) with use <-f Kitchen. Apply J.U.D. 30 ■ STAND ARD OFFICE.

The New’ Zealand Times oi the 20rh has the following: —“There are some smart —very smart—mining promoters in this city. A suggestive tale comes from Tcrawhiti. Some Auckland visitors, well skilled in the district, and one of them knocked out a few pounds of stuff in one of the claims, so that he might test it at his leisure. I’ravelling along, the way became rough, and he entrusted the parcel to the care of one among eertian persons who hr.d promiscuously accompanied him. By-ar.d by, on getting to a creek the stuff was panned off, and yielded nearly a quarter-ounce of good sbotiy gold I The Auckland birds wore too wary to be caught with ‘salt’ on the tail, and, as the intended victim remarked, ‘ a grain might have done the trick, for it would have been a capital prosdcct, but a quarter-ounce to a hatful of stuff was a little to rich.’ Tricks of this kind should lie avoided ; the lona fide prospects of the 'Tcrawhiti districts will not be improved, thereby." At Sheffield recently, Mr Bossy Weightman, Coroner, held an inquiry into the death of Amelia Turner, who died under very painful circumstances on her wedding day. Ju Ihe morning she was married to Joseph Turner, an iron plater, and went home with her husband to one or the surburbs. The man was not sober, and went to bed leaving lilts wife downstairs apparently in good health. Awaking in the evening lie found his bride lying on the floor downstairs, to all appearances “ nicely asleep.” A friend believing she was unwell, bathed her forehead with vinegar, and the husband covered her with wrappers, alter which he went to the Huntsman’s where lie stayed until a quarter to 11 o’clock at night. When he got home his bride was still lying on the floor, and her mouth was covered wi:h froth. Finding she was dying he went for assistance, but on bis return she was dead. The woman bad a stroke, and was subject to giddiness, and the medical evidence was she had fallen downstairs and died from an effusion of blood on the brain. It was elicited at the inquiry that the husband was tipsy when he got home, and did not know bow’ long he had been away. The verdict was that (lie woman had died from effusion of the brain, caused by a fractured skull.