MISCELLANEOUS.

Tuapeka Times, Volume VI, Issue 292, 4 September 1873, Page 7

MISCELLANEOUS.

The death is announced of one of the gallant six hundred who took part in the memorable charge of light cavalry at Balaklava. Captain D. T. Chainberlayne entered the army as cornet in the 13th Light Dragoons. He embarked with his regiment for the Crimea on the breaking out of the war with Eussia, and greatly distinguished himself hy his courage and coolness in the fatal charge at\Balaklava. He rode up to the enemy's guns on the right hand of Lord Cardigan in the front of his regiment, and on fighting his way out with the few of his gallant comrades who remained, his favourite charger, "Pimento," was shot three times through the body before he fell, and then bis gallant rider was seen standing within range of the Russian batteries, the ground around him being ploughed up by round shot and shell coolly taking off the saddle and holsters, and, with them on his arm, he quietly walked up to the rising ground, where what remained of the gallant six hundred had halted and formed up ; and there he was received with a burst of hearty cheering. .Dividing the attention of loungers and sightseers with the gallery of " the i House " has been during the week the bazaar in aid of the funds of the Wesleyan chnrch, held in the Oddfellows' Hall, This amusement however is much more expensive than the other, though one has the satisfaction of feeling that the money which it costs is doubtless contributed to ..a worthy object It may interest some of your readers to hear that for variety of attraction, and the extent and value of the contributions, this bazaar is supposed to excel anything of the kind ever attempted before in the Colony, while the financial success of the undertaking may be judged from the fact that the receipts, which have not been officially disclosed, are rumored to have amounted to about £500, in three days — a result which I think must be regarded by those more particularly interested as highly satisfactory. — "Southland Times" Wellington Letter. The race in the Boi3 de Boulogne for the Grand Prix of Paris— loo,ooo francs — resembled very much its predecessors, save that the crowd was greater and the weather splendid. One journal suggests that had M. Thiers been in office, Boiard. tha French favorite, would not have won. MacI mahon then deserved the warm welcome that he received on the racecourse ; and its fragility, when the acclamations bestowed in the same. pta***, on the ex. Ellipsis and ex-President, are remembered, must have recurred to his mind. Possession of office has much to do in eliciting approbation. It has been calculated that five millions of francs were expended by strangers, pending their visit to view the race. As for betting, the French are going mad on the pomt ', like the gaming tables, they are the offices that are sure to win. Worse s) mptom still, youths stake their ' pocket money, and ladies are not above trying their luck. For eight months in the year there are horse races three times a week in the vicinity of Paris, and many, without being downright betting men, follow up the business as a sensible profession, like petty stockbroking. — " Bendigo Advertiser" Paris Letter June 14. A fashionable wedding in England is announced in the following simple and unostentatious manner: — "April 24, at St. Pauls Church, Avenue Eoad, Regent's Park, London, by the Rev. T. Hutton, Rector of Stilton, brother-in-law of the bridegroom, assisted by the Rev. H. W. Webb-Peploe, Vicar of King's Pyon and Birley, cousin of the bride, and the Rev. R. B Stoney, Rector of St. John's, Wednesbury, brother-in-law of the bridegroom, and the Rev. Walter Peile, Vicar of the Parish, John Harrison, Esq., M.A., J.P., D.L. , Lieutenant-Colonel Commandins: the sth Battalion Staffordshire Rifle Volunteers, of Norton Hall Stafford, eldest son of Wm. Harrison, Esq. , J.P. , of Enstland house, Leamington, and Hagely Park, Rugely, to Elizabeth Jane, eldest daughter of Charles Bannister, Esq., Capt. 3rd City of London Rifles, Avenue-road, Regent's Park, and niece of the Hon. Sir Robert Lusb, Justice of the Queen's Bench. An American Adventuress, giving her name as Maria Graindorge, has been arrested in Paris on the following charge of impudent and ingenious swindling — She appears well dressed, and with a handsome baby in her arms, at the houses of wealthy Parisians, asking to see the proprietor. As soon as she was admitted to his presence, she would rush at him, exclaiming " Traitor ! wretch ! villian ! have I found you at last?" At the same time, the handsome baby, having been trained for that purpose, would extend its little arms towards the astonished rentleman, and cry, " Papa, dear papa !" It may be imagined that " papa " preferred to give the swindler some money in order to make her leave the house. When she was arrested ajjhpr residence in the Rue Duvivier, no *fewer than seven trained babies were found in the house, also nine or ten thousand francs in money. Mile. Graindorge, upon being closely pressed by the examining^ magistrate, confessed that her real name was Oiks ; that she was a native of New Yo^k ; and that she had been before at the Saint Luzare prison. The Paris Assize found her guilty, and she was sent for seven years to New Ciledoniu.