Bowling.

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume III, Issue 114, 28 February 1901, Page 3

Bowling.

Four rinks of the Timer a Bowling Club journey to Oamaru this morning to play a return match with the Phoenix Club, of that town. ' •

Aprivateina Scottish regiment was shot in the thigh, the bullet carrying with it into his body a sixpence from his pocket. In due course he was attended to by doctors of the Eoyal Army Medical dorps, who fished out -the sixpence and presented-it to him. “Gome on,.* now,”’ said’the private, indignantly, •“ with the other 9s 6d. I ken your ways." - According to Professor Mosso, the well-known Italian physiologist, physical education and gymnastics not only develop the muscles, but the brain.; ; Children, be says, should only begin to; read and write after they are mne years: old. The more mobile the extremities; of an animal the more intelligent he is,, other things bei'hg equal. ’ A -good story is going fhe rounds : : concerning a popular prima-donna* who: wrote for rooms at an America i hotel.: The manager refused to received her as a ; guest unless she gave her word of honor; that no burglars should break into her I rooms, and 4 lat her lady’s matf should ; not leap from 4he fifth floor with. £60,000; worth of jewels in 1 a handbag. The/e ; things, the manage* said, did harm to; : his hotel. But he had hot the ■ slightest i objection to the prima-donna meeting! with a carriage accident, if she -desired to ’ ; J Transvaal War has been full of i life’s little ironies. The Palace of. Justice in Pretoria is the latest example. ; . jbig Gorgeous monument to Boer - i duplicity,- built with Hitlander -gold, was just completed Jp time toh o used as, thechief BriiiSfr nhspital after Lord Bobert’s oooupatkm'ol tnq, town. ‘On the first of 1 i this a- whs/ - handed' oyer; tb r . QaneralßadSn-Powell as tbs fa&diaarterS-