MISCELLANEOUS.

Inangahua Times, Issue 62, 29 July 1878, Page 2

MISCELLANEOUS.

Thero must havo been somo delicious and savory morcols prepared at tho great nativo mooting nt Waitarn, Tho Taranaki Nows givos us an insight into tho moral modo of tho cooking and eating of our dusky brethren ;—'Visitors wero considor*

ably astonished at tho vory crude notions ot cookery onleriuinod by tho Maoria, and the Vory oxpsditious mannor in which a live pig was turuod into cookod pork and transferred to the jaws of thb diners. Tho pig was thrown out of tho cart, received a blow on tho head with a tomahawk, and was at oneo, without any cleaning pro* ooss, cithor of^oxternals or internals, thrown on to a largo firo. In somo instances this was dono ovon boforo tho un** fortunato auimnls woro dond, and half roasted pigs might havo boen soon trying to csoapo from tho liros. Somo of tho pakoha Maoris who havo como dowu with tho Waikatos soem quito to hnvo sunk to tho level of thoir associates. Wo saw ono groodily doyouring tho ontrails of a pig proparod in tho mannor dosoribod abovo. Dy tho doath of Mr Ham Friswell, that popular journal, tho Family Herald, loses its oditor, a faot not generally known, and ono whioh has not appeared in tho obituary notioos of him, Mr Friswell worked that journal up to its prosont profitable position, and ho was also tho first oditor of anolbor wookly journnl, tho Pictorial World, Further than this, Mr Friswoll was consulting editor to ono of tho largest London publishing houses. Altogether, considering that ho has enjoyed vory shattered health for somo yoar s bnok, ho got through nn immonso. amount of litorary work. Tlio Bayurd sorios of works which ho oditod wns immonsoly popular, nnd, besides tho profit to tlio publishers, brought himsolf a small for« tune. An application against a civil ongtneor named Usill having boon mndo in tho Westminster Polico Court by thrco of his j staff, a roport of Iho prooeodings was published in tho papors, and Ihis Mr Usill said roficotcd on his oharnotor. Tho Lord Chief Justico said a roport, although not verbatim, was privileged if it was true and correct in substanco nnd fnct. Tho jury returned a verdiot for tho dofon-* dants. Mr Chatlorton, lessoo of tho Drury Lino Thoatro, was roccnlly feasted on tho occasion of tho termination of his soven yoars' louse. Lord Wm. Lennox, in pro* posing bis health, referred to his punctual payments; and stated that during the soven years of his leaso Mr Chnltorton had paid £'46,500 for rent, and his expenses altoßothor must havo amounted to about £247,000. Mr Chatlorton, iv reply, said Ihe sccrot of his suocoss wns that ho hail ondoavoved to produoo tho works of tho bost authors, nnd to hnvo them interpreted by tho best artistes, A Mr J. N. Tnttrnm, correspondent of tho Hawaiian Gnzolto, who lately visited this Colony* civc.s his impressions as follow.! :— ' Now Zealand linn tho most atli'iiolivo mountain scenery iuthoan* lipodos. Its fiords, inlets, sounds, nnd mountain-walled hikes nro picfuresqtte. It, has hicber mountain ranges than Victoria. Whilo ut Aunklnnd I went out to tho gold mines phis. a di -minus near there, but about dug out. I also visited thoir boi liner springs, nnd olimbod thoir lavacovoiod crater nnd threw a rock in Iho* litt... volonno. It sends up an occasional whif of bluo smoke larere enough for a lint band, nnd tho oldest inhabitants point to it ns ono of tho wonders of th* world, With tho rotuomhranoo of Holonkala lingering in my mind, it did impress mo vory forcibly. It theso colonials would sco Kilanp-a in her glory I think thoy would dio of palpitation of tho heart. The orator risos up in a cono (forestcrowned, its toy lava capped) to a height of GOOOft., and stands on the left of the bny ns you enter Auckland, as a prominent land mnrk. Mount Cook, 8000 ft high, snow oapped, their highest mount towers among tho bluo ranges nnd uplifted pouks further eastward. Tns« mania Ims somo attractive sconory. Thoro is groat jealousy and rivalry and bitter sectionnl feeling oxisling between tho different oolonies. Thoro is no colonial confederation ; each colony bus n distinot nnd sopnrnto government, ovorrnlod by tho British Lion nt random. If tho restrictions of tho Crown Government woro removed, tbo colonies wonld soon bo at war with each othor. Thoy have periodically threatened to break through the reins nnd fight nny-wny. In Sydnoy thoro is n Foundling _ Hospital, tho mnnngotnont of which is in tho hands of a committee of* ladios,' whoso chief dolight apponrs to bo lo cross-* question in tho oruollost mannor tho unfortunate girls who sootc for admission in thoir bour of trouble Tbo object of oourso is to olioil information as to tho paternity of tho coming stranger, whioh information thon furnishos food for son tidal in tho oxolusivo ex-oonviot oirotos ofthe metropolis of Now South Wulos. Tho praolico has, howovor, I fancy met with a temporary chook, At a rooont meeting of this Inquisition, a very pompous and correspondingly virtuous dnmo, whom for tho nonce I shall call M<*s Iciclo, put tho usual question to a trombling girl who for long hesitatod to toroply. At last drivon to it by hor shamoloss persecutors, sho blurted out 'Ploopo *m it's all Mr loiolo's fault.' That mooting broko up in oonfusion, and an hour or two lator thoro was troublo in tbo mansion of tho loiolos, At a mooting rcccully hold in London in connection with a movomont to provido ' Speech for tho dumb,' Professor Graham 8011, invontor of tho telephone, in tho courso of his speech said sTo lllustrato tho purely mcohanioal nature of spcoch ho spoko of having roccived from acrosi tho atlantio n fow days ago ono of M.r Edison's phonographs, nnd after placing tho machino on n tablo in his Liverpool hotoi, and turning his friouds' who had brought tho instrument, woro I addrosscd by namo, and woro thus grootod « Once for all, I wish you a pleasant voy-* ago and a happy timo in England., Thoso words, ho snid had boon spoken into the phonograph nt starling, aid rendered faithfully nttho other shore of the ooonn 8000 miles off. Tho following intensely American paragraph is from a New Yoik papor :— Julia Mooro, ' tho sweet singer of Michigan is 1 giving readings iv her native State'

Droa-.oJ prueisoly as slu appuai*_j in tin picture' on tho oovor of her book, with wildly Jlowiug hair an-l a past ..-board 1 crown, she comes on to tho stayo and i roads iv a dolorous whino hor own pro- , duotious, ' which spoak of being killed, dted or drowned.' At every placo .sho visit., tho halls aro crowded till thoro is not standing roou loft ; and by tho timo tho sweet singor has ooncluilf-h hor rccilulions, hor audionoo i.s in a wild uproar of laughter, A full brass bund usually adds to tho attraction of tl:o oven* ug nnd at tho oloso this band suddenly ctohos up with a tremendous snort or or toot, tho wholo scono being iudosorib' ably ludicrous. Iho Longwood Prospectors' Cluin (whioh for somo reason has boon olosod to strangers hithorto) was openod. lo tbo publio on Monday. Regarding it, a oor** respondent of tho Rivorton paper writes as follow? J—J I was allowed down Hayes* shaft, whioh is -10ft doop— -that is, to tho top of tho tunnol ns tho shaft hi oaks into it. Thoy havo driven about Cft to tho eastward from tho shaft which disclosed tho roof. At tho timo of my visit tho roof hnd only just boon broken into n distanoo of some 18in or 3ft of first-olass ferruginousilooking quarl a incased in blank bands , showing tho notion of liro, Tho roof is running ns nenrly ns possiblo N.N.W, by 5.8.X., in kind, easy country, with a slight underlie to tho onslwnrd. I saw a dish of quarta washed from somo that hnd flaked off tho roof whilo I wns tlio mino nnd tbo result is tint it was tho richest I hnvo evor seen washed from any one dish of qaarta in tho Middlo Island. Not only wns I horo the nsual (Ino gold found in quarlz toscing, but course gold nlmost thosiao of beans, and several pieces wero discernablo in tho dish ns largo ns pons. Nothing is^ now wnntinar but v tramway and mnchinory to placo Ihis com* pany seoond to nono in the Middlo Island, as tho richest alluvial gold -shed is still two or tlireo hundred feot ahead of tho pro-sent workings. Mr P.yko submitted Iho following artioles of belief to tho selectors ; Prov* ision for jur boys by settlomont, on tho and beforo survey, tho prico pnyns. blo by deferred psy ments ; *, for our girls by tho boys so sottlod mirry. ing thorn ; nbolition of Customs duties ; direct taxation, including a property tax ; residential suffrage ; no direct femalo suffrage, but petticoat government through husbnnds, lovors, brother (lie quoted his wife's statistics); rectification 0 f unequal representation ; modified donominationnlisin in education ; approval of County local government; carrying tho Strath Taiori railway to tho West Const. Wo shall Rivo our voto to tho member for Vincent whou ho noods it.'— . ' SaJUfdny Adrerfisor*' 'J'')-, labourer Mnrskoll, who boars nu WifiM'tunalo resemblance to Iho murderer Sullivan, has boon unnblo to lind employ.ment at Hawke's, Hay, and tho'Tclo-* gr.iph ' makes tho following appeal on bis beh ilf ;— ' Wo aro requested to mako another nppoal to Iho charity of Iho public. The un fortunato man William Mnr>kcll» who wns mistaken for tho mnrdcror Sullivan, is with Ins wifoatui two children, in. institute oireuinstnneos. Ho is unablo to nblain employment Aud it is thought) thnt if ho nnd hi* family oould bo nssisted to roach Australia ho would bo enabled to enro a living. Subscriptions for thi* obj.-ot will bo receivod at the oUioo of tU.s. papor. The following vivacious correspondence was published with muoh jjusi-i in tho" Dunedin pnpors :— ' Cromwell,, .lily IC, 187S— James H-ss'oit, Do edin.— Cilclouijh says that it i.s rop ••••ted in Cromwell tbat T voted for Clydoas County town becauso I was in dobt to ,y it, audi thnt you threatened jo mako mo an insoU ' vont if I voted for Cromwell. If this truo P Did I owe you nny tli in if F -Yin* okkt Pvke.' — — ' Viucont Pyk-v Cromwell. Roport utleWy without foil i lation, nud liko somo of C dclough's inm.riM.il ions."* I am prepared fco mako ■» doi.'-irnv-on^ that ynu did not owo mo a shiMintr- it llu> time. Even bnd such boen tlie- ens. • I: would not have insulted you by dimnlin . to you how you shoul I voto on ho ques* tioni— J-VMKI trA55.t,HTT^.* Tv his speech 'o hi* conslitii.Nits l ln othor dny Mr Viucont P/ke indulge,! in, strong denunciations of tho Pineal p .liny of tho colony, and amongst, oilier ihin ;s ho said— Gentlemen, custom, duiioi nn* a delusion nnd n snare. N.*ver shad I wo forgot tbo molo in which Customs duties woro first imposed upon tlio k'ng« lish peoplo: It was in tho bad old times of Charles 11., whon during tho reaction occasioned by the restoration of tho monarchy after tho revolutionary poriod, tho landholders of England mot in Parliament assembled, and this is what they did. All tho lands in Eng*. land woro granted by virious monurohs to oortniu favorite knights ond squires of hiizh nnd hnv decree, upon condition that tbey provided tho funds for maintaining tho \rtny, tho Navy the King's household, and nll tbo extraordinary expenses whioh now rest on tho people ; nnd in the timo of Charles 11. a Par* liamont of swindolers mot, nnd hy n mnjority of two relioved tho lands of England from theso duosi and gavo permission to Charlos to loyy duties upon his loving subjects instead ; nnd from that fiist stop grow up tho nccursod system now denominated Customs duties, 1 say nccursod, not without reason. Well, gontloinon, my proposition is that those things should bo as soon ns possiblo romovod. Thore is not ono word to bo said iv thoir favor except that it is expedient. Woll it is timo tho dootrino of expediency was somewhat modifiod, to spoak moiloratoly. I hold, and always hnvo held, that custom-homos nro tbo invention of tho Evil Ono. I boliovo that tho Almighty planted iv various parts of tbo world various natural products, in ordor that all peoplo should bo brought togolhor with thoso produots lili all mankind beoamo a universal brothrobood, and that tho Evil Ono oroj.t in aud instituted oustom«housos. This is uoitber ' froo trado uor promotion. If you put n tnx on boots, why tax tho raw loatucr ? You may say it is desirable to tnx cloth; ing, lo givo pooplo an opportunity lo make it ; thou why tax the doth of which clothing is mado ? Tho intention is simply to screw as muchotit of the peoplo as thoy know how by indirect means, so that tho pooplo may not know how thoy arc. scrowod,