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Poverty Bay Standard, Volume XI, Issue 1302, 31 March 1883, Page 3

A writer in the Electric Magazine affirms >that mushrooms are highly poisonous unless they are well boiled. Experiments tried on a dog proved this. Now that the people of Gisborne are eager to get mushrooms they should bear this in mind. One gentleman who appeared before the Bench on the morning after the elections, charged with drunkeness (says the Melbourne correspondent of the Hawkes Bay Herald!, pleaded Not Guilty, He said he had Only walked down to the Age office to see the result of the cricket match, and was expressing his surprise at the heavy scoring— Smith, 2778 : Bell, 2566 ; Fincham, 1743 ; Jones, 1742; Salter, 1689—when the policeman arrested him. For the 7s 6d he added to the exchequer an explanation was given him that what he mistook for cricket scores Were the number of votes recorded for the Ballarat West Candidates, and that the only run was his own—into the police station. The Eagle River Shaft, published at Red Cliff, Summit County, Colorado, United (States, publishes a tale entitled, "Jack Fox, the Deserter; A True story of New Zealand.” According to the writer Jack FOx was a “Tiger,’, and deserted from the Albert Barracks one night before the Taranaki war, leaving his arms and accoutrements in the senery-box, and his shako sticking on the top hie bayonet. Jack gets into the King country, where his exploits are detailed by the hero himself twenty years afterwards to an officer of the colonial forces, at an outpost called Te Teka. A most extraordinary item of intelligence reaches us (N. Z. Times) from the Cape to the effect that our erstwhile most popular Governor, Sir Hercules Robinson, who now rules over the Cape Colony, is by no means appreciated by the inhabitants of South Africa. They complain that he devotes all his tune to horse racing and gambling, and entirely neglects the business of the country j — and it is further said that his present subjects Will be only too glad to see his back, while Sir Hercules only regrets that he ever left New Zealand. After this we shall not I be surprised to hear that Sir Arthur Gordon is most popular in Ceylon, A curiosity In cricket comes from Hot- ! hem (Victoria), in which at a match between South Melbourne and the local team, the F South Melbourne eleven were got out for 6 J runs. We append the scores ; —South Mel- 1 bourne—First innings. —G Palmer, b O’Brien 0; Freeman, b Munro, 1: Major b Munro, 1| I j. Minchin, b Munro, 0; W, Minchin, b ■ Munro, 0; W. H. Cooper, b Munro, 0; Sheppard, b O’Brien, 1; Crowl, b O’Brien, I 0; Mahoney, not out, 0; Beaumont, b O’Brien, 0; M'Kenzie, bO’ Brien 0 ; extras ' 8 | total 6. Hotham—O’Brien, b Palmer, 0 ■ i Fox, b Palmer, 10 ; Healey, b Palmer, 0 ; I Walshe, run out, 0; Griffiths, b Palmer, 10; Fulton, b Palmer, 0 ; King, b Major, 0 j 1 Munro, b Major, 0; M’Lean, c Major b Pal- i iner, 14 ; Gregory, b Palmer, 0; Goer, not extras, 2; total, 36. .South Mob ; rooume—Second innings,—-Freeman, lbw, b ■ ’ M’Lean, 45; Palmer, c Healey, b Munro, 0 ; ’Major, c and b O'Brien, 0; M. Minchin, not | out, 50 ; extras. 3 ; three wicketa for 98, ; The Sportsman states that no Australian ' team will visit England this year, but that j the Hon. Ivo Bligh’s team, which will return about May, has arranged to play several ; matches against crack English elevens. The Dunedin “Morning Herald” has rea- j -*on to believe that the stumping tour of the ; Hon. the Colonial Treasurer does not meet : With approval of the Cabinet. Referring to the Premier’s recent tour of . the South Island, and the little inierest it j evoked, a paper says “ The public do not | care twopence about him, and he does not ' care twopence about the public.” A new dip for sheep, Tomlinson’s and Hayward’s glycerine preparation, has been tried at Ashburton with marked success for lice ticks, each sheep remaining one minute in the bath. As showing how rapidly Steel scored in the final match againtt Victoria, it is sufficient to say that when 100 was hoisted he claimed exactly half the number, although he had not gone in until 40 appeared. f The Milwaukee fire brought out the energy of American firemen in a novel way. Milwaukee wanted a steam fire engine, and telegraphed to Chicago, 90 miles off. It was at work within two hours, the firemen having traversed the 90 miles in 80 minutes, a rate of going previously unreached on any American railroad. Sir Henry Parkes, at the anti-Redmond meeting in Sydney, said If the Irish Land League was palpably identified with one thing, its palpable identification was with Irish crime—(cheers) —and all the ingenuity and all the sophistry could not by any possibility free that organisation from complicity in the murder—the frightful murder—of Mr Burke and Lord Cavendish. (Applause), When Mrs Langtry first appeared as Rosalind in London, there was a tremendous crush of the fast young bloods, from the Prince of Wales down to that moral young man, the Marquis of Huntley ; for they all expected to see the Lily in tights. Not the •lightest attention was given to the play till the cue for her entry was heard, ana then a —almost a heart-groan of disappoint•nent—went through the house from pit to ce&ng. She wore a tunic from neck to ankle I The fact is, the public don’t understand how determined Mrs Langtry is to remain a lady, though she is an actress. A funny incident occurred, though, which made the people laugh, glum as they were. In the sentence, “ Were I a woman,” the beauty had only got as far as “ 1 would kiss as many of you when a stentor’s voice came from the back of the pit, “ Oh, take us all in ! ” r At Greenville, North Carolina, a coloured man was about to get married to a young woman, when two women turned up and claimed him as their husband, and each had a child in her arms, of which they said he was the father. In a fit of despair, the unfortunate man ran into a cotton ginhouse, and threw himself into one of the partiallyfilled presses, and was pressed to death, his body being subsequently discovered in a cotton bale when cut open for examination.

2 The Illustrfrte “Zeitung B publishes th t ' following complaint t--“ From Australia w 1 • receive complaints of the decrease of Get • ! man schools. In many places where thet j ’ were at one time German schools there ar • now English oneSj or none at all. The cant j of this fegretfttl citcumstaricc is ascribed t j a German want of feeling of nationality, r want of suitable teachers, and of unity am i public spirit among the Germans. So lonj • as the Germans do not stand together, afi< I found or support schools in Australia, Ger ; many has no future there.” The “ Nelson Colonist ” learns that fron one tree of King of the Pippins, in the orcharc of Mr W. Boddington, at Lower Wakefield no lesK than 53 bushels of sound apples wen ’ picked off at one gathering, whilst sevet bushels were blown off by the wind and thin rendered unmarketable. The tree in ques tion is 30 years old, and covers a space o 105 feet in circumference. Sixty Bushel: from one tree is the largest yield we havt heard of in Nelson. With such trees apph growing should be more Remunerative thar the culture of hops, A writer in the “ Hawke’s Bay Herald ’ has delighted the Christchurch people by hie praise of their Avon. He says In all nis travels the visitor will hardly have met with a stream more enchanting in the curves of its winding course, in the nlirity and gentle flow of its waters, and in the homage rendered, solemn and sweet, along all its banks by willow and poplar, and oak and sycamote, and lowlier growths with endless variety of character and bloom. I declare honestly that I have never seen a more beau, tiful river embracing in its folds a hive of human beings,than the Avon of Christchurch} and it says much for the feeling and taste of the people whose abede it brightens that they should have made of it a kind of pet, and adorned its banks for miles with foliage and flowers. Without its river, Christchurch would be, if not ‘remote anti unfriended,’ yet ‘ melancholy and slow. ’ Let us hope that the town as it grows will continue to respect its chief natural ornament, and at all cost preserve it from what seems possible—the foulness of a common drain.”