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Observer, Volume 3, Issue 73, 4 February 1882, Page 324

It is said that a member of the Melbourne ring made repeated attempts to "square" the late Intercolonial Cricket Match there for the bookmakers. The figure offered to the Englishmen was £3000, and it was principally owing- to the intervention of Con way that the attempt was nipped in the bud, and the conspirators were not allowed to pursue their nefarious game. Two young ladies who visited the museum the other day left their parasols at the door, at the request of the janitor. When the ladies came out, one of the parasols had mysteriously disappeared. Ifc is supposed that some enthusiastic savant had, in a fit of scientific abstraction, mistaken it for his walking stick, just as Dr Porsou one day astonished the guests at a fashionable gathering- by walking in with a circular piece of wood from a retiree! arbor in the garden, where he had left his book. Considerable amusement was recently created in a Kaipara township by one of those periodical upsets 'to which country butchers' and bakers' carts are doomed. On this occasion, the vehicle was the property of a Knight of the Oven, and in addition to a large quantity of the staff of life, was the receptacle of a magnificent wedding cake. By some mishap the trap got upset, and in the twinkling of an eye some dozens of two-pounders were chasing each other along the road, while the illfated wedding cako was distributed in a manner never intended by the purchaser. We have often heard of a man being put to bed with a shovel, but if that wedding cake was not " recovered" with, the Bame instrument, then the driver was not pressed for time.