Untitled

South Canterbury Times, Issue 2976, 9 October 1882, Page 3

Professor Leo Medo announces that he will remain in Timam a few days longer. Ada Mantua advertises in another column a consultation on the Dunedin Places in November next. ■

A prisoner named John Walsh, who was undergoing a sentence of five years penal servitude, died in Lyttelton gaol on Sunday night. He was 72 years of age. The necessary depositions have been taken* in the case of Patrick Ryan, an absconding debtor, now under arrest in Melbourne under the “ Fugitive Offenders Act,” and Detective Kirby will start on Wednesday next for Victoria, to apprehend the prisoner. A Christchurch contemporary asks the question “ Twins or Not ?” and proceeds to fay:--“A most extraordinary freak of Nature occurred on a farm at Wooderid a' few days ago. On September 28, a cow, the property of Mr J. Stanton, gave birth, to a bull calf, which was fully matured and healthy ; and the cow, which was not in her ordinary condition on such occasion's, erased along contentedly till Tuesday, Oct.' 2, when she was delivered of ,another bull calf equally healthy, and of as good quality. Both calves and the cow are now doing well, and Mr Stanton is at a‘ loss' to know if he sh all hall those calves twins, i

A. school in the north of England once, made the following announcement: “ Lamin’ taught her,; three , pence a week—and them as larns manners two pence more.” Mr Samuel Morley, M.P., speaking at the Stbckwell Orphanage the other day, related this anecdote, and added that he sincerely wished . a score of members of the House of Commons could be sent to that school.

Calpraft clung, to the dismal occupation of hangman as; long as he could, because, as he said, he one day hoped'to’ hang a reporter. The cheerful wish* was doomed, to remain ungratified, Ci»h it have’been because reporters as a class, are exempt from human failings ? That seems to be the inference that one must deduce from an Incident at a, meeting of the Salvation Army, One of the “ Hallelujah lasses, anxious about souls, bent over a young man .whose attitude tokened penitence. “Areyou saved,my bother? ’’: she inquired, ’ “ Why,” was the hurried reply, “I’m ‘a reporter.” The ,clergyman who was asked for the manuscript of his prayer certainly had the best of it with another gentleman of the same profession. “ f never write rny prayers,” ho said;! “But I never heard a word of what yon said, sir.” “ iVIy friend, I wasn’t praying to-you.”