MISCELLANEOUS.

Inangahua Times, Volume V, Issue 39, 10 May 1878, Page 2

MISCELLANEOUS.

Club ffnssip (says ft London papor) is busy, of course, with tho namos of tbo General!? who may bo oxpeQtod, to como to the front if wo oro drawn into vt&v. For n long timo Lord Napior of M^dala, stood bifib in, tl\o betting ; U«t ft stronger fnvori^p. now, % tbo chief command is Sir Linlon Bimmonß. Sir Oharlos Ellico, under him, rui^bt get nn army corps, so tnißli- Sir John Garvooh, but bo is uufop tunntcly senior to Simmons, and his chances aro th.v,3 redded to a minimum* even, it ho waived bis rank. Another probablo corps commander is Sir Thomas Stecle. Sir Garnet Wolseloy can hardly o^pect moro thnu a division ; lie is still only a major-general although high up on tbo list. Perhaps bo would prefer tho oporons and deeply iro,portnn^ yole of Chiof of tbo Staff, ' "Tho Vagabond" writes in tbo Sydn.oy Echo ._« Thoro'a, nothing liko jerking a, lot of law a,t tbo Bonoh;if it has not any cfloct there, it itnprcssos tho public. 1 1 roniombor bow my frio)\d and dolivorer Sergeant SJeigh oycrcamo tho. Beach a,t Brunswick, thattimo I w,as oharßod with giving tobacco to tho prisonprs nt Pent* ridgo. I was of courso -guilty, of this horrid crime, and would havo paid a sn\all fino or taken a fow days imprisonment liko n man. But I board that I wns to bo persecuted for my articlos on Pentridgo prison, and that tho oflicors were jubilant and there were other roascn3 which lmpolled mo to Q^ht tho. case, do Sorgcmt Sleigh was instructed. Escorted by a tow chosen Irionds, wo drove to Brunswick, nftor a prand breukfast at tbo Birdcage. It mi.'*Ut havo boon my last for three months, s^ I mado Mia most of it. My trust, in the learned Sorgcanfc was not misplaced. That onso was nevor oponod. Ife !.<n)lc tho summons and turned it insido out ; ho proved that tho Crown Solicitor;! who d»w it know no law— that . thoivwa^ no puch ofioneo as that, with which I was elmrßod— that I was a ivroMijtul and an injured man. It was beautiful to liHleii to fiim. Ho brought in printed autbciritics by the sooro, and (•oni.iioiic'd to q-ioio them. Uo seven mai'istratcson tbo Ben<:b had no kcii ibfiro v:is so mu.:h law in the world. oie turm'il sick and wont home. Two. moro slipp-d out and had several drinks. V\o iv^t wilful. T'.«nrds the third hour Suriuwiit Sloiu'h snid ••.Gontlomon before rondinfi to you extrarts from tbco • noiutitm tn nnothrr oirtload of hooks just brmiKMin. *T may say thnt, if yoM "hear this 'caso, I shnll apply fora nianrliiftuit mr.iin«it you.' 'Hood heayein r 1 Wlml.'s thiit ?" ssiid o'in of tlio J. 1 s to nnollio-. Th-- Honch throw up •tlio spoiv:o, nnl I I«?rttriuinph.ini.ly'. f don t understand Uii* nl, nil,' aaid tbo vuribmt oiuVr wbo.lmd chnv.?« of tho mm,' sure he's no mr.ro limn T. nm. H«! s only a sarjint liko tnvsolt. and vot they wouldu t let mo noon my mouth." A rolliokiiw' widow lady was porsuulod a abort time sinco to accept tho hand of her dear departed husbands brother. The portrait of her first was left hanuin«. in its old place in th« dinin«-TO ira :< One day a visitor, remarking tho paintinc. asked, • Is that a member of your family c. • Ob, that's my brother-in-law, 1 was tbo inconious ronly. .A most daring robbery look placo tn. Dunedin last wcok at Mr Black s bakery niul flwollini? hou'C Ondrossin« himself Mr Black, to bis astonuhra/mt, missed from bis trou*ors pookot his door koyH, Mioso of his safo, and 18s m mlvor. He imracdiatelv oxamincd thosafo, wlnah U^d been oponod. nnd found that caMi to tbo amount of £100 and papers o tho value of £200 woro missins?. tfotwiths andm« a most oomploto soarob in tbo whole of the premises, nothing but ilio cish b.»x, with a fow mei.'S* papers left in tlio yard, nt tho roar of tbo bakeu^could bo found. Tbo bedroom in wbipiTßlaok Rleops is abovo tho kitchen adjoining tho shop, nnd it is supposed that tho robber orawlod throu'jh tbo window, and afior possossing himself of tho keys, procoodod to tho shop and bolpod himself to what was in the safe. Tho Wellington Po?t soys that Messrs Maco nnd J.F.K Wright havo hut returned from a visit to tho Goldon Point mino nt Picton. Whon there, thoy oxaminod tho two now loaders wbiob hove rocontly boon uneoverod, and found them from lft. to 2.ft. thick. As a rough tost, thoy washed some small stone without crushing, usinff a lonjjf-haudlcd shovel as a pan and very Rood prospects woro obtainod. Thoy also brought away with thorn about COlbs. of. atono-30lbs, from onob leader— which will bo crushod at Mr Mills-f oundry. , A correspondent wriloi that speculation in land in Wellington is voryrilb. Any* ono who owns proporty is dihgontly cutting it up into small scot'p'is. and tho district round Wollington has many imaginary townships— Wallacevillo, JJar« tonvillo, Vo«olton, Kilbirnio, konsington and others. Speculation in land is lookod on na tho litrli road to, fortune At ovory salo land fetches fabulous prices. Mi in cortaia streets fetohos over £LU'J a foot. Iv Wanganui, too, overyouo is talking of tho fortunes to bo mado in land people talk of little el so, and arc ovor talking of how A mado i>s an aero profit or how 3 mude £2500 out of his last tram uaclion. , 11.Tho Conslantinopl) corronpondent ot tho S.A. Uo«istor writes:— Ualtor Paslpi, 1 may innntion in passinß, has fully borne out tiio reputation lor firoat nbiliiy whioli 1)0 possoiwod in iMi.jlan.l, It micjht havo boon an nnl'orlnnato thincj for tho misaiana had tlw i-'uvkfi jyi'on him a oinnuiul in tho ondior tttagos of the war, Forlunatply only on ono occasion has ho liarl llu> ehatieoof distiu^uisliin^ himnolf, and thnt-. has l)L'on during tho but month. When I luml wroto ho was with Sulioman Pasha, the C'oiumandorwn-«Chiof of{ fho OUoman army. Sulioman from a military point of view bun done moro to briuft about the j«euoral colbmse of Turkey thuu'uuy otUcv uouorul. Wiioa ho was

nt tfojiliiii. lUkor hu I iv twirnntvl undor, him nt .(Cum ink. mi I \rn surrmndol Uy n bulil ni.-UKjßuvfc on liiu i.wt of tlio Kus» MJnnx. By a still bol.li'r, Baker *u<*i!.vtaii in tn ikmn his cuii.'ipo, tuui with tlio ktio<v« IpiJuo ili-it ho whs jv><"»U'?'l hy ft y.iutnrintift uriny bol.lly ontcrotl tlio liUodonc Mdiui* lin.s, tviHi ;lii> cortnimy tlmt )\o wonM loflo his otunon nml v oonsidor.vblo number of miMi, li\»r uvuiv nights i\ll l\ml to onoQU\p oi\ tlio ii\nin!ains, nri'l in ttiu mow without any shaltor v^haio»«»r; Military n\on of vnrion,9 tuitions 9 poult it^ tlio lunhcst terms of the utterly rotro.-it which hooffuctod— \ rchvat. us croilitubhx to, him a^t tl\o |\ns9aic(? o.f th<x IV»l k:\ns is ta Gonornl Skoboloff. W-oro Ikkor placed in commund of Oonstnntinoplo, — ns from, liis position at tlio l\oad of tlio o.ndarmorio ho ouotlit to bo— wo flhoi^lil, h'nw little four of disturbanooi. it is, w,o aro now loft, as l^israarok said, to, Varis, Vto slo.w ii^ ot^r awn i lioo," an I wo ixavo apparently moro of tho ingroiU jonts for a nasty m,c.ss than ovou t*.irU hnd.