MISCELLANEOUS.

Inangahua Times, Volume V, Issue 5, 24 May 1878, Page 2

MISCELLANEOUS.

i A writer in the Christohuroh Pross ' says — " Some curious Maori burial oaves | ha,vo. recently boon discovered near Kaii paro t| and a correspondent of a North , Tal nud" conjtomporary says that tho most , curious thing yet found there is a skull . with a portion of something like a horn ■ attached on, ono side. It has been pnrt |and paoelof tho skull, is about 2in. long and rises from tho side just abovo tho oar. 'Is there any historv of tho M-ioris, ' says tho writer, • that would throw any light on tho, subject, and whero could I obtain, the samo?' T should say that a perusal of tho doings of Tito BJowaro, Te Kjooti and C0.,. with the merest smattering of Darwin, would as easily throw as muoh 1 light on tho hqrned Maori as any one oould desire. It is noed"loss to add that r gentloman who. is mnoh rospcoted by many of your rondors w always dopiotod with horns,''' Writing in tho Bruco Herald the " In tolligont Vagrant "snya : Until tho Hon. tho Attornoy Gonoral mado his appearance. | at tho last sittings of tho District Court in Milton, quill pens hadi nevor boon used in, tbu,t building. But Mr Stout doolaring that h,o could writo only with quill pons, ' ho was,aupp!iodwith oommondable.promp- i titudo. It ist a base inainuation though to. say that ono ofrour local lawyers hold a gooso, bolonginp. to a noighbour, whilst the othor pullod, feathers out of it. Law" ycrs proverbially do tho plucking, caeh one for himself, Tho advantages ol crying and groaning iU. paiu, OW Wt fortb by a, French phpeian

who holds that thes>* modos of expression are Nature's own methods of sub luin^ the keenness of phynioul suffering. l{o would havo men frooly avail thomsolve.i of this meant of numbing thoir sensibility dnring snrgioal operation- Crying in ohihi ron ahonld not be repressed, for according to this authority, suoh repression may result in ▼ery serious o.nsc* qiionoos, aa St Vitus'* danoo, epiloptio (its, #o Tho Amerioan correspondent of tho Molbourno Ago vrnUs ; The Communistic agitation, whioh loss than • year ago whs nt fever heat, has nearly died out, its docoaso boing accelerated by tbo womo than uaoloss labour riots of last July, Labour and oapital will move along ■,ido hy aido in tho near future in this country, whenever tho ring system shall bp destroyed, or oven discredited, by an onlightcnod publio opinion. Working men oan seo very cloarly that tho idea of improving thoir condition by tho ballot is an absurdity, whon tho ballot is in thoir hands : and thoy propone to out loose from Republic caps and Democrats alike.'* *■" Outis," in tho Molbourno Leader savs— -Notwithstanding tho publio am ovor boiiin informed by certain prints, that American industries are at their last gasp, strangled by protection. lam m*t with the eUN"U"» foot >u Hourko-streot ot a leading drapery establishment (Uing it» windows with American cotton goods. Thirty thousand y«rda c*in Iv&rdly bo regarded as a small shipment for a single retail houso to oiler i and if the statement that those goods are twenty per cent cheaper and twenty per cent _ bettor in quality provo correct, Victoria's trado. in Alanolvoster's free trado mildowos is likely to decline.