MISCELLANEOUS.

Inangahua Times, Volume v, Issue 3, 15 May 1878, Page 2

MISCELLANEOUS.

" " in tho Australasian says ;— Thoy 'ell mo that tho culmination scene of" Willing Toll," as played by Mr Oreswick in Sydney, wag somewhat endangorod hy a gallery boy, As tho trembling youth with tho apple on Ids head, is awaiting tko qrrqw- of ..hiq parent, who attitude^ tho bi%|lo^^iet^mf th<J audic^co 'wos diil||ibos|f\y a fflttpft'UWti 0 Uwhiu;|rom ' R^]__W or _Ws 'W_Wr l^| y° u f|^' .*M# cjffon *$itr fat|dr, at|d ho will pull you through }'" Thoy havo soma clovor legislators in Victoria., Quo of them whilo on a visit to Ballapnt, noticed tho preyailiflg taelq for apAa. jptox 0$ limo»iiiici!s, a(ld thereupon ho B,ap,ionitV.ob3or]pd~"_\Vhjit a singuhtt thing vt 19 tlmT^o ono has been enterprising onough to start a limo-|uico manufactory nt Goolong, whora tboro nro so • many- litnesfano " qnarries." Liko, Dickons, editor, ho mmusst s liavo looked out ]imo, and quarry, in tho Dipliona,ry and 'combinod tlio information. An alleged caso of " lambing down "• was bpard a few duys ago at Ashburton. i-Two Jnbpring mon coming into town do- ' posited -£5,1 8s 4^ with n certain publi* I chnVbaVmagl o\\ plaintiffs' asking for | t^iejr,raonp« aftor. a jWook's. rosidenco in I iho ho^;tWy; WPW' to ¥ tfe oir bill had boob on nalate, 1 but had boon rubbed off. Thoy got 'ft 'lot of abuse and wore eventually tQld monoy was nW gone. Plainwore ,nQn«auitod, the njonoy not b/oing lodged witfydofondant Kimsolf. Mr Fpstei;, ono of tho. loading Liberals in England, in a sppech on tho Eastern Qupstipn'jcqcnUy. mado tho following rom,arks, which aro at tho prosont timo wor^h s\)<fc\fi\ attpp.tlon:.-— " $ con,*ydor thero is. do fyngor. of Uussia obtniuinu poss.ossipti of; Constantinople, and why?/Bcpauso not only England is <j<)posod, bu,t Eoippo. is. oppoapd > und 3j go, further nnd stiy it is not specially our.bu^ittcs^by KnglisJx troops or English, money, to keep llussia out of Constftninople. Itis an Kuroponn businoss. and it is siijl more Austri an. and atill moro. GotfUnn business (cheers,) Tho very existence of Ali'slria is at stoko and she knows il, ami ]{uisia knows that sho knows, il. If Constantinople, woro in danger, it. would ho moro tho duly of othei;,-! lo defend: it l)ii ; n it would bo the duly of the Bradford ttrlizon (cheers). Tho only dimmer we havo to four is tlint to our Indian Empire. Tbo 'danger that Germany lin,i to fear is one that concerns every homestead in Goi'innny. Tn the Crimen we fought Iho ba,ttlo of Prun.sin, and .we gavo her tbo •ifrcrijjth -md,' which shohns now become thp, niio'ous. of a givo I,' if nd United Germany ;.,but '.wc,..»KiV .U° fit"" l * to A '*'''■ ,lor bnttles ncnin, (^heor*). Her dnncor in an nlWfieo/.bilwc&i Franco mud Ku.vun. : ja 9 d ; j^W'K '« VJPF/ * cv >\ I " ell l if . Russia 'woro io|ojitoin Iho W ujd runjUip/yslviSof fmdi'W himKplf hcmmQd. V= b''twoea his recent enemy, Franco, n^d more powerful Ivussia."''Ttitf filestores that liavo been. m<h. ,p\\, . oup. or. two oecjisiona, .lately (say a, tho Pali Mall, Gnzolte) .< nt inquests, on tho •bodies of children whosd'li,ves hnvo been injured ko to justify tho. jpraloDt h»h* pipion ofa'oioso connec' ibn between infant mortality end lifo insurance. At nn inquest holdn few days ago na to the .death of two/chihlreii nt Low m.oor, 'iJuii/om, wiiioh was adjourned for ovidcncoftstotiierosultof nn nnulytical oxpiipntion, n ; siaijtliiig statement waa "made by Dr O'll'mlon, medical officer to tho local hoard, . "Tn thi»ln«t fow years," ho said, "onr since tboro has been wtioh an enormous canvassing going on amongst insumnco companies, tboro has been n woncr/ul increaso in tho mortality among children" Aa a. rule,, ho found that tho children woro always insured. Tho temptation to gol rid< of a, obild rather than .ipajntain it ia, to many paronfs vory «reat j at nil times ; and whon, in, addition to being rolievod of tho burdon, of ita maintenance, thoy pan' actually gain hard cash death, tho temptation, may beoomo irr.psJßtablo,: