Again my suggestions remained uncontradicted.
"It is truly marvellous," I remarked; "truly marvellous! And you have commenced? You have been able to float through the air for a dozen, a hundred feet?" There was a smile once again.
"And yet, perhaps, as railways and steamships are still 'firm' on the Stock Exchange, it may be just as well to allow our holdings in those securities to remain undisturbed? What do you think? It is scarcely time to speculate for a fall?" Once more he smiled, and as smiling is infectious, I joined him in his merriment.
[At Clifton, on Aug. 9, in Gloucestershire _v._ Middlesex, Dr. W. G. GRACE completed his 1000 runs in first-class matches this summer. The other players who share this distinction are ABEL, ALBERT WARD, and BROCKWELL.]
Well hit! _Mr. Punch_ chalks it up once more-- Your ten-hundredth run between the "creases"! Why, this (at twenty-two yards apiece) is Twelve-miles-and-a half for this season's score!
But stay! we've no business to "notch" each mile! With your cuts and draws, and your drives and trick hits, You've only to stand still before the wickets, And straight to the boundary "fours" compile!
With ABEL, WARD, BROCKWELL, you hold your own, As '94 cricket now nears its finish; We'll hope your four figures will ne'er diminish-- As "Grand Old Bat" you shall e'er be known!
QUEER QUERIES.--THE LAW AND THE LADY.--Can it really be true that at a place called Onehunga, in New Zealand, they have a lady as Mayor? Surely this is altogether "_ultra vires_," as well as being ultra-virile! My legal knowledge--which is considerable--convinces me that there is a fatal flaw in the so-called election of a woman to the chief post in a municipality, even in New Sheland--I mean New Zealand. It's quite settled law that a _femme sole_ cannot be a Corporation; then how, I should like to know, can she preside over a Corporation? Possibly some legal readers will say if their opinion coincides with mine.
_House of Lords, Monday Night, August 6._--MARKISS expected to continue to-night that speech around the Budget he didn't commence on second reading of the Bill. Sat mysteriously quiet on that occasion. Unexpectedly broke out at following sitting, wanting to know what HERSCHELL meant by saying Judicial Committee of Privy Council had arrived at conclusion that Lords had no power to amend a money bill. "Where's your report?" he asked. "Produce it."