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South Canterbury Times, Issue 2830, 20 April 1882, Page 3

At Washdyke an Assessment Court was held to-day before J. Beswick, Esq., Judge of Assessment, but only a few persons appeared. One lucky individual had his assessment reduced from £5 to £l,

Late yesterday afternoon a snake charmer at the Exhibition was bitten by a carpet snake. A gentlemen out out the bitten part with a razor and a doctor was sent for.

One Ministerialist organ finds a new argument in favor of the change of venue of the trial of Te Whiti and Tohu. By being brought to Christchurch they will be enabled to see the Exhibition.

A man named Bibby advertises a curious challenge in the Sydney papers. He says that he is prepared “ to eat any man living at oatmeal porridge for the sum of ten pounds or upwards.” The poor little waifs of the Lyttelton orphanage had a glorious jollification yesterday. They were taken in a body on board H.M.S. Miranda, and regaled with all sorts of good things.

About four o’clock this afternoon a good deal of excitement was caused by a runaway. A dray and three horses started up Sfratballan street across the Main road and managed to get through between the telegraph pole and the Clarendon Hotel without doing more damage than carrying away a horse post. It passed along the cab stand and made the jehus and expressmen fly in all directions to keep out of the way. It then proceeded up Church street and down Bank street, with a large crowd of people and a policeman in full chase.

The appointment of Prince Leopold to a colonelship in the British army, which gave rise to much sneering at Home, was due, according to a society paper, to the necessity of his being married in a becoming uniform. The Peers, robes or the Trinity House uniform, it seems, are hardly suitable for the occasion, and for a Prince to be married in plain clothes would be an innovation which would horrify the rigid purists of the English Court.

A celebrated lawyer once said that the three most troublesome clients ho over had were a young lady who wanted to be married, a married woman who wanted to be divorced, and an old maid who didn’t know what she wanted.