PROPOSED ATHLETIC CLUB. TO THE EDITOR.
Slit, — I notice in one of your late issues a correspondent advocates the formation of an Amateur Athletic Club in the Waikato. I hope the idea will be brought to a successful issue, and with that view I would recommend that the various cricket clubs nominate each a member to form a committee to meet at some central spot and settle the preliminaries. Perhaps the captain of the Hamilton club would kindly take it in hand and call a meeting for an early date. — I am, &c, High Jump. Ngamawahia, 6th October, 1880.
By means of two telephonic transmitters under the pulpit, and connected with the central office of the Bell Telephonio Company, Mr Beecher lately delivered a sermon thkt was heard in about 50 difI ferent places. I A French nobleman recently died, through the bite of a stallion troubled wi^h glanders. A Scotch boy had delivered a. message to a lady, but did not seem in a hurry to go. Being asked if there was anything else that his mother had bid him say, Jock whimpered out, "She said I wasn't to seek onything for cotnin,' but if ye giecl me'tl was to talc' it." We need scarcely add that the hint was taken, and Jock's services were amply rewarded.
A Modern Miraclemonger.— Mr. Milner Stephen is becoming almost as great a celebrity in -ydney as Dr. Tanner, the fasting man, is in New York. The extraordinary curative power attributed to him seems to increase by its exercise. His receptions at the National Hall are crowded with spectators and patients. The Sydney Daily Telegraph gravely asserts that he frequently commands the diseases to leave the patients, who thereupon turn round, and, amidst the applause of the spectators, confess their pains have vanished. Lumbago, sciatica, rheumatism and rheumatic gout, deafness, and even blindnes3, have all in turn been oured almost instantaneously, and the papers are full of certificates purporting to substantiate the genuineness of the wonderful acts of this modern miracleI worker,
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Waikato Times, Volume XV, Issue 1291, 7 October 1880, Page 3
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339PROPOSED ATHLETIC CLUB. TO THE EDITOR. Waikato Times, Volume XV, Issue 1291, 7 October 1880, Page 3
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