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Poverty Bay Standard, Volume X, Issue 1248, 16 January 1883, Page 2

George, the English champion runner, was defeated in a ten mile race at New York, on December 12, by a young American, named Thomas Delaney. The latter had a start of 3min, and won by 3min; and 58sec. Delaney’s time beats the best previous American record, which was 57mi 20 I-sth sec. George’s best time is 52min 26 2-sth sec. In this race George was regarded as out of form. Myers, the American champion, won the half-mile race in 2inin 10 4-ssec.

A gentleman well-known in Gisborne is the proud possessor of a purely bred mongrel, which was presented to him for certain favors he had granted. This animal—we will not say dog because it would be an insult to the whole canine race—ownes a tail, which was like its paws and chest, partly white, whilst the body was black. A brilliant thought struck its master, and proceeding to Mr Ireland’s Dye Works he had all the white portions dyed magenta, and he now walks about the street with the proud consciousness that his pet is at last noticed. At the Guildhall Police Court, recently, Charles A. M. Jenkins, of no occupation, and giving no address, was charged with uttering two forged bills of exchange for £5O and £55 respectively, with intent to defr<»u<l Mr W. H. Roberts, solfcitor, of Coleman street, by whom they had been cashed for him. The bill purported to have been accepted by a firm in Monmouthshire, relatives of the prisoner, but they were returned from the bankers as forgeries, and that firm denied having accepted them or given the prisoner any authority to use their names. The prisoner was remanded.

Messrs Parnell and Boylan have just had landed a large assortment, of goods for their ironmongery and oil and color trade, which arrived by the Lady Jocelyn. As amongst these are all the latest improvements in house furnishing and builders’ ironmongery, tools, etc. An inspection of their stock will be well worth anyone’s while. Mr C. McDevitt, contractor and carter, begs to intimate that he has taken those stables and premises in Grey street, which Mr C. D. Berry formerly occupied. Orders for ploughing and carting left there, will be promptly attended to. Mr McDevitt has also a cottage with a lean-to, in Lowe street, which he is desirous of letting. After the conclusion of the Joyce trial, a juryman, who had been one of an armed mob that had attacked a house in County Clare, was sentenced to seven years penal servitude. This is certainly something after the principle of setting a rogue to catch a rogue. A shoal of fourteen whales entered the Ohiwa harbor recently (says the Bay of Plenty Times) and went up the river for some distance past the hotel. Mr Rushton, the ferryman, was the first person to see them, and being unable to get anyone to go with him to give chase, he put off by himself, and sailed after them in hot haste. The wind was blowing very hard at the time, and he could not tie the sail, but had to hold on to it with one hand, while he fired his rifle with the other, He fired twice at a distance of about 200 yards, and hit and wounded a whale with both the shots, but he was unsuccessful in capturing either. After sporting, themselves aboat the harbor for some time, they all cleared out over the bai, and off to sea again. The natives assert that whales have never been seen inside the bar at Ohiwa since Captain Cook visited New Zealand, and they regard the event as an omen of another season of great prosperity for the district.

A telegram was received this morning which states that young Ted Harries, son of Mr J. Harries, carpenter, whom we mentioned in yesterday’s issue as being seriously ill, in the Auckland Hospital, has much improved, and is now considered out of all danger. Mails for Napier and the South, per Southern Cross, will close this (Tuesday), evening at 7 o’clock.