MISCELLANEOUS NEWS.

Inangahua Times, Volume IV, Issue 33, 25 June 1877, Page 2

MISCELLANEOUS NEWS.

Mr F. A. WelJ, in bis rapacity of *5o« yernor of Tasmania, seems to hare got into hot water with at any rate a portion of the Tasmaoian Press. For having granted a defeated Ministry a dissolution be is acting not as the representative of the Queen bat 39 the advocate *n& warn partisan of Ministers. The Hobartown* Mercury concludes an article on bis Excellency with the following sentence :— "We could hare wished we bad been spared the unpleasant necessity of auinw adverting on one whom we have de-* sired to hold in the highest reaped. Bat we owe a loyalty to the colony and to responsible government m well as to the Gove-nor; and while respect for him has withheld much that we might, and perhaps ought to hare said, we would bare failed in our doty to the public had we in performing the task imposed on us, shrank from what we have said, becanse we feel the task to be 8 painfully unsuccessful one " The Prince of Wales, when he goes hunting, likes to enjoy himself unostentatiously, and doesn't want a fast , made about bin. But when he went to> , Gloucestershire lately, a member of P«rJ linment, and a newlyrich person, Mr Powell, appeared to thiuk this all nonsense*. and when the meeting was appoint on I his estate, made a verj great fills indeed. , He set up a marque on the lawn for the , Prince's luncheon ; he prepared his recep- , tion rooms for the entertainment of his* f hunting friends and acquaintances; he r laid in bread and cheese by the ton weight* \ and strong beer by the hogshead for the , consumption of the country bide. Coß* | sequences: The mob of mechanics and , laborers broke in, devoured the rojal , luncheon, and made the day hideous [ generally ; and after a long day's, hunt-* ing, the Prince refreshed himself with tea r and poached eggs at the nearest clergy* I man's residence, not having been seen at [ all by bis ambitiras would-be host, Mr t Powell. r Modern English geology holds that all . geological changes have been effected by I agents now in operation, and that those , agents have beea working silently at thej same rate in all past time ; that the great changes of the earth's crust were proj duced, not by convolsions and catalyum* f of Nature, but by the ordinarf agencies. of rain, snow, frost ice, and chemical 5 pclion. It teaches that ihe rocky face of our globe has been carved into hill and dale, and ultimately worn down to the--3 sea-level, not only once or twice, but many » times over, during passives; that the- {. principal strata of the rocks— bun ireds, 5 and thousands of feet thick— have beenr formed on ocean-floor-bfld by the slow t decay of marine creatures and matter i held in solution by the waves ; that every pari of the earth has lieen many time* submerged, nnd has asjain been lifted into* ', the air. Tins slov rising and sinking of ' tbo ground fe nn axiom of the geological creed. Wo are told that it is now going r on. ami that there are large areas of i subsidence nnd of elevation on the surface 1 of the globe. Tint when tre consider theI slow rate at which that oscillation is now r prodeedinsr, and argue back from thekno^n to the unknown, we are landed in* . conclusions as to the length of time , required for geological changes which the' [ opponents of the theory declare to bealnontely inadiaissible.— Popular Science Monthly. The Wellington correspondent of the TTawke's Bay Herald says :— •' Sir Julia* Voijel, no longer worked almost to death, and freed from the fierce, and nnwarrantable attacks of an onscrnputons Opposition, nnd the rt^sar scurrility of a section of the press, Ims almost entirely regained his health. He is reported to enjoy better henltli and «pirits than he has done- for years past. Ho looks younger and more vieorons." The :N"api«r Telegraph savsr- Dr Sehn -.trshach exflimn*'*! the stsjht of the Nelson College pupils recently with thefollowing result. Out of 98 boys esamined 88 had normal rightr 12 wereshort tighted, but only one to any extent,, and 1 was far sighted. Upon this the ex* aminer remarks :— The Nelson College' being visited by boys from all parts of theColony the average percentage- of • (mostly moderate) fanlty refraction of theNew Zealand boy», between «»e ag» of 9> and 18 years, may be said to he 16. I* England it is about 20 per cent, and ia Germany reaches the high average of 35 io the hundred. The Thames Star says r— workmen of the Queen of Beanty mine have struck for an extra sixpence a *bift» They h«re been getting seven and sixpence a shift, and now they demand eight shillings,, which rate is paid in a number of the mines. This is the first ease of strike we remember to have occurred on the Thames, and it shows conclusively!! that therecannot be mnch surplus labor in the shape* of miners in the district, or men would not " turn oat" for the sake of sixpence » day.