VARIETIES.

South Canterbury Times, Issue 2314, 17 August 1880, Page 3

VARIETIES.

A gentleman would insist on standing in the stalls, much to the annoyance of (1i .: pit Lies. Various were the calls of Sit down !” Get out!” “ Sit down in front.!” all of which were unattended to by the offending gentleman, when a single voice calling from the back of the pit caused him to flop into his scat electrically. It warbled, “ Leayo him alone, he’s only a tailor a-rcsting himself !”

They bus-ed it together. And during the ride sweet seventeen archly remarked, apropos of good tempered people. “Oh! I can’t imagine how it is anyone can be so silly as to get angry, I’m sui’e I could agree with anyone.” “ I’m sure you would agree splendidly with me,” he rubicundly retorted—“ in fact, the very thing the doctor ordered.” They have been divorced now some weeks. She couldn’t agree with him because he wasn’t anyone, she says, Power, the ex-bushranger and former associate of Ned Kelly, is now ina declining state of health at Pentridgo, Speaking of Kelly he says that he always prevented him from shedding blood, as he would otherwise have done on one or two occasions. Power admits that Kelly possesses considerable personal courage . but he was always of opinion that in extreme danger Kelly would be wanting in judgment and discretion sufficient to carry him out of his difficulties. On one occasion, when they were surrounded by the police, close to the late Dr Bow’s station, Mount Battery, near Mansfield, and there appeared but little hope of escaping, Kelly proposed to surrender, when Power told him if he did he would shoot him on the spot. In attempting to escape, Power’s horse was hit in the flank by a spent hall from the police but he end Kelly succeeded in escaping to the ranges.