CLIPPINGS.

Waikato Times, Volume XXIII, Issue 1913, 9 October 1884, Page 4

CLIPPINGS.

Home letters state the fact that Sir Chaa. Gavan Duffy's younc wife has given birth to the second child of the present marriage, Sir Charles is 70 years of age. A well-knows Billarat clergyman wis horrified a day or two since at the depravity of a good looking girl, 15 years of age, who, accompanied by a yellow-skinned opium-smoking Coles tial, waited upon him and asked him to unite her in the holy bonds ot matri mony with tlie sun-worshipper, over whose liead some GO summers had passed. In answer to the clergyman the bold minx said that she had got no patents' consent to the union, and hence the parson refused to do her behest. At this the girl became \ciy demonstrative, and it was some time ere the minister could persuade her to quit the place with her almond-eyed lover. Rh(J uuiiNO the steamer Great Eastern the Pall Mail Gazette says : — The hopes of the unfortunate holders of shares in that most unlucky speculation, the "jrieat Eastern steamship, have oncu moie been falsified, and their white elephant is still upon their hands. Not only has the reported sale of the vessel to a company, by which she was to be used as a coasting hulk, fallen thiough, but thepiesumptive pin chasers have, it. is slid, commenced an action at law against the present proprietors for breach ot contract. Wheiein the alleged breach exists is known only to the directors ot the ill-f.ited company ; and these gentlemen, so far from satisfying the curiosity of the shareholders, merely express themselves "at a loss to compiehend" the grounds of action. For the rest, the acconnts of the company for the past year are far fiom cheering. The total receipts amount to t 173 Is Id, including the sum of £'24 paid in fees Ly visitors to this colossial failure. The expenditure, on the other hand, reaches the total of t'ISU Gs 7d. The Home News has the following amusing paiagraph :— The shilling offered the other night to the Seige.int-at-Arms by a atianger anxious for admission to the g.illeiy of the_ House of Commons is the liist tians.iction of the kind at the rate of a shilling which has taken place. It has been done cheaper ; for instance, when Mr A. M. Sullivan was still a member ior Lonth he saw in the lobby a young man, evidently from the country, who desired to get into the gallery. Mr Sullivan, with his wellknown urbanity, showed him through the u»ual lound ot the libiary and the reading-room, finally landing him at the door of the Speiker's g.illoiy. Hereupon the young m.vi took out a leather purse, and carefully extracting sixpence, offered it to his guide. It was evident from lus look tti.it ho ic«.uded fins as an cxti.iviig.ince. Still he was up in London foi a few day.*., and must go to the pace. Mr Sullivan declined the money and the young m.in thinking moic of him than esei loturnud it to Ins puise. Sir John Uol!<er took a more practical view of a s-imilu case v> liich c.vuie under hU notice. Afuendasktd him to look after one of hi-j constituents, who had entered t!,e lobby and wanted .i place in thegalleiy. Sir John aftei having obtained admittance toi him, thostiunger pas&ed a tulle into In-, hand, which Sw John, xvi tli a " thank you," tiansfe>red to his pocket, and u ib fond of showing the sixpence a& the most easily earned fee he had reeeh ud tot many years. Mr Thomas D. .)lnmm"-s, foi whom it tt claimed that he is the biggest man in Australia, keeps the Harvest Home Inn on the New Town Uoad, about a mile and a half from the centie of Hobart. He is -3ft lOin hii^h, weighs 32 \ stone measures US inches round the chest, 82 inches around the waist, and 20 i inches round the calf He is petfectly healthy, and boasts that he has never taken a dose of physic m his life. Mr Jennings, v.as origin ill> a strong built man. and measured foity inches round the waist when he was 2\) yeais of age ; but he did not begin to put on much flesh till lie was about forty. We is now sixty, having been bom in Yorkshhe in 1824. For many years he kept the Derwent Inn, at Riadon Feuy, m Tasmania. Tlnec years ago he icmoved to his piesent place of location The oddcat tiling is, lie says, that he ne\er teahses the idea that he is unlike other people, aud when ehe aas them stating at him it makes him laugh. He does not walk much, though he can do so, he says " as well as any," so he usps a pony chaise, which is rather lough on the pony. Tne subject of this isxtuoidinary development isextiemely temperate, eats only two meals a day, and di inks very little. Di inking he .says, reduces his bulk, but he cannot stand it. At the Tlicatte Eoyal in Hobait they have to open both folding doois to let him into the stalls, and by the fact of fie dooia being opened, the public know ho is coming to the thcatie. Mr Thomas intends to get matried again, and is by no means woiried about his age, which he caines remarkably well, being indeed the only instance ot a fit man who has prc«cived his health and his bulk to »ether.

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