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Poverty Bay Standard, Volume XI, Issue 1301, 27 March 1883, Page 2

- I At the time of the disruption of the ! Church of Scotland Dr Chalmers ventured i the prediction, regarded by some ok rash and I enthusiastic, that the annual income of the ‘ Free Church would reach 1'300,000. List | year the receipts of the Free Church for its | various objects were £607,608. I It will have been noticed by onr cable news that Oxford has won the Inter-University boat race this year, making the fourth time in oucccßsion. There have been 40 of these contests altogether since they were inaugurated in 1829, w hen the race was rowed at Henley, and Oxford won easily. Altogether, Oxford has won on 22 occasions, and Cambridge on 17. There has been one dead heat, namely in 1877. This was probably the most exciting race in the annals of aquatice. The Oxford boat was leading, when the bow man caught a “crab” and sprang his oar. In spite of this mishap, however, the Dark Blues landed their boat neck and neck with that of the opponents amid a scene of unparalleled enthusiasm. The Auckland “ Star ” says :—“Te Kooti is said to be alarmed because of the threats to murder him made by Poverty Bay settlers. He is evidently unacquainted with the true character of colonial “ blow.” A passenger by the City of New York on her last outward trip, in writing to an Auckland friend, says that a Honolulu the stew-arde-s were arrested on the charge of smugg. ling opium ashore. As she was merely un instrument in the hands of others, the saloon passengers endeavoured to obtain her release by offering to pay a find, but the authorities stated that the law demanded she should go to prison, and were inexorable. Greatly to the regret of the passengers, they were comcompelled to leave her behind. From the same source we learn that many of the “ saloon ists” indulged in a matutinal “sweep” on the number of miles run, the distance being posted by the capture at noon. Something like £2O was thus lost and win on each occasion. On the mileage being announced on .Sunday, 21st January—stakes being paid on the day previous, so as to relieve the conscience of the more scrnplous speculators—it was found that a Roman Catholic clergyman had sco >ped the pool” for the third time : — Auckland Herald. “ I hate to see a woman with rings in her ears.” exclai nod the good deacon ; “they ain’t nai.uial. If it was not intended for woman to wear them, or she would have been born with holes in her cars. The first woman didn’t wear earrings. 1.11 be bound I” “ No.’’ rem irked the quiet little m »n in tho corner. “ nor nothing else.” The discussion wsa brought to an abrupt close, and the ; house ad journed without delay.