MISCELLANEOUS.

Inangahua Times, Volume V, Issue 31, 4 March 1878, Page 2

MISCELLANEOUS.

Ri'murkinc; on (ho advantages of street railroads tho Audi land ifuraM s »j s r- — The street, rnilroiuls in Sin Frnnfliseo <wo paying concerns, but, ns yet nono of these conveniences h/tvo boon stipptintl to llie peoplo of Auckland. From- papers rocontly to hand wo lenrn t at tin; Cbiy street Hill Railroad cost, for ilio budding and full rq;uipment of tlio road only £12,1)00, they received a gift or sub-oily fronv tin? property-owners along the I " n • some- £7,000, ond tho wh- do cost of tho lino wui not q-uito £20,.'M)'. The road earned before its Into extension) to Van Nosh avenue, £L sto £'4G< por dny, and its expenses were £25 a d'iy, leaving a not daily profit of £20— (300 a month, which pays 5 per cent, interest a month on tho net cost of £12,000; 'I heso earnnings were obtained 5 cent fares. Such a moans of conveyance in Auckland and the suburbs w-»it!d no doubt pay w.»il. Thoso wh > take nn intornjtt in tho fate of tho four castaways ivootitly v* the Itydo Park Barracks will bo glad to Irtvrn that they have boon token bnuk to their hoirw. TUo Colonial Secretary nt K<<mjkoug,. writing to the C'oloniul N eoretary (U Sydney, says:: " Hi* Kxoalleney tho Governor ban !<*arncJ> with imtisfactioii tJint, owing |o (be aoiion of the Novr South Wales Government, the* four women who wore pioked up at sen in April last have been safely returned' lo tho Mariana Islands. — Syduoy Morning Herald. Ill' tho English Court of Chancery thero aro noino ci.'ht or nino opiates which have b«»M bequeathed by various testators to vniious branches of tho Cnr» pouter In mi I ii'H in the United States, and to those of tho Abel it who intermarried will) tliein. These urwluhncd entitles sfill looking for Auiociam ■ lu'ir:t> range in value from £8000* sterling to several millions of pounds sterling, the oldest" iind largest being that of William- Carpenter, who died ■ ii> liiiglnnd aboui. ilio ye«r L 700; at nearly 100' years of am). H s esiivo in said to lio ot the vuluo of JCSO,OfW,OOO ster-ling. A. correspondent of tho Aucklnid 1 Herald, in hi.* description of tltv nUlilsand curiosities of the 'ft-o Natiro meet/ing says ;.— "1 saw one Maori ouviosity lea ■have «een» nnmol*, mi Albino,.or,. ns- t c Mnnri.i call them, Konvko.. Tho effort, was n«t pleasing. Tho young: woman's paints- wore both full ALuni, and' she was a full Maori in every feature, only she had'a complexion liloca- fresli colored European w-iman. ITer hair was while, with at ingo of yellow,, hue it was M'aoii hair, Her eyes were 1 good, and' she seemed perfect in all her faculties. She (Mine from Taranaki. Tho MHori »'»y iltw inhabitants which were in New Zl-ulund before thfey came were all Albinos." Wo learn from a privato lottor which has been'' lately received by a gentleman in Napier, from an eminent solicitor' in Engluud; that vigorous oliorts ore again about to bo made for tho putpns<? o*' elenrinur up the mystery thnt has a > lone boeiviittficliod to lho<ee)cbntod riohborne caso. It in now posiiivoly assorted thnt ah individual, now in> Melbourne fally answer* to tho description of Orton or Castro, and that steps- liarcboon taken for his convcya"co to Englund, so tlmfr we shall shortly, no doubt, hear further of this romnrUablo'caso. The oorrespon.. dent wo havo alluded to further romarks that, from' circumalniiees- whioh linvo reoontly occurred, the fcelini? is Rrowini; nmoniist a larijo- sediotv of tho Kn^ish people, t,h«t tho convict at present c»u« fiiioi in Dlirt'noor prison is no other ih;in Sir Hoper Tichbot'iie. Tho following cuviour- oxtraft is fro.n tho French lOnevel-ipoiin published l in 18531 oditcd by M. L. Abbo Glaire, Dean of the Faonltv of Thouli?y of Paris, It is a quarto work of twenty volumes. The article is- from the pon •■• of M\ Hai^ca*, Tho outciomo of tlio prcsont Kumpoan complication will, it is to bo hoped, bo a refutation of the assertions it contains. ■••Nevertheless, nil her foresight will not save England from n dcolinoi- Thoro is working amonjf nil nations a movement 'which' nets in a direction contrary to English interests. The queen of industry has givoiv profitable lessons W6 havo no neod to sot forth tho industrial progross of the Continont, nor tho general perfoctioninc; of its marine ; theso things are notorious: By this single ciroumstanco aloro, England will, yoar by yoar, soo her exportations diminish. Among notion?,. Franco excites her jtialously. Frnnoo, whoso coasts faeo America nnd Africa,, wbioh slio inhabits, and tho East, whose frontiers* aro in contact with tlio nctivo .nopulationa of Gorm«ny,. whoso soil ofßsrs by its nature, its- position, its* latitude, ■th« elements of inoxhaustiblo riches. .Already doos England begin to entertain doubts concerning her future, herattcntioti is directed with inquiotudo towards tho eastorn part of tho Moditorranean, what &<■ frightful spectnolo for 1 lior POn ono sido the colossal Russia dosoonds littlo by littlo towards Coustantinoploc A3sby a gravitating force, on > theothor sido Eg.ypt, onarvatod, is menaced with an approaching dissolution ;: an i to crown the- misfortune the French possess a very marked influonce. 13y and by, England will recognise tho possibility of tho interdiction of the Mediterranean to her fliets, by tho prenondot'ance of the nations to which seems (o belong the i partition of tl'at soa,"

|i Tho SevoitiHt, Punwhmcnt ought to hr, visited upon rogues who make or import .counterfoils and imitations of popular medicinal beverage*, or libel n» nttioln ot irenuine merit while vauniing tho inorif« ot .■their own ftVry. unmctlicfttodi drams. Thu h-is boon ftnS ia «lill done in regnr.l lo nn urtielrt of sturlinß morit, viK, UoolpitoWot.pks* Srß«n*>r. Aromatic Scii.vapm. It is w.'llto put tho public on it« guard.