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South Canterbury Times, Issue 2357, 6 October 1880, Page 4

Who can it be? Hie ‘ Otago Times ’ tells of a chiropodist -with a passion for indiscriminate ogling and for following every lady he meets to her home, who encountered in Thames street the other day a spirited daughter of Eve whom he had similarly insulted. She raised her parasol and struck his hat to the dust. Our contemporary says the reproof has not had the desired effect, and cautions the offender that " should he not pause while there is yet time the untimely spilling of his blood may serve as the subject of a thrilling • local. We hear on apparent!} l - good authority (says the “ Mount Ida Chronicle’’) that the Chinese have subscribed £IOOO for the defence of Ah Lee and Lee Guy. Collectors have been appointed iu every part of Otago. The Chinese say that if the accused men are hanged Europeans will not in future employ a Chinaman, and therefore they combine to get their countrymen off. We fancy that they would be consulting their own interests better if they, while subscribing to the defence fund, assisted to bring the guilty men to justice. So far they have put every possible obstacle in the way of the police. In fact one is led to the belief that they are determined to shield the guilty from justice. The modesty of cricketers is proverbial (says a contributor to a Victorian paper). They have no opinion of themselves. They nobly like to sec their opponents win. (If you doubt (hispisK M el bourne or East Melbourne.) They never boast. They are overflow’ing with the milk of human kindness. In the English counties they love SpolTorth with an affection only exceeded by that entertained in Australia for that generous-spirited nobleman, Lord Harris. A. Eiveriua cricket club, with a bashful sense of its demerits thus answered a challenge “Wo can beat Wilcannia ; Wilcannia can beat 22 of Erowarrina ; Erewarrina can beat Louth at odds ; Louth can boat you. Take our advice*, and tackle your public school. ” A full-sized bat w'ould swing the biggest of these schoolboys clean off his legs into the following week. LEDGERS, CASH HOOKS. SALK HOOKS, ETC. ( g Ruled & Round to Order.