MISCELLANEOUS.

Inangahua Times, Volume 69, Issue 69, 14 August 1878, Page 2

MISCELLANEOUS.

I l < The Canterbury cricketers havo not yet got ovor thoir extravagant vanity on ac , count of having won a match from thu lustralian team now in Knglan.l, Wo haye heard muoh about their sonding a challenge Homo to tho samo team to com;? out via Christohurch and have another same. Now they arc agitating to got n team to go to Victoria. Wo prophocy that if they do, they will nt Inst becured of iho delirium thoy bavo sufforod so long. A gentleman was complaining of trades* men's accounts being sent in open envelopes, tbo contents being 'bus nooessiblo to inquisitive servants. 4 Why,' ho askod. • do they do a thing of lhat, sort to snro a ponnyP' 'Well,' said Verjuice, 'K. heard somo -hopkoopers talking on thai; subject tho other dny; Thoy said tho closed envelopes and tho twopenny stamps woro roservod for tho good marks. Tbo open onyclopo was a moro offieiont debt oollcctor.' In rclereneo to the probnblo opening up ofa profi'nblo trado between tho An** trslnsinn colonies and Chin** and Japan an exobnngo says :— ' In England, for some years past, several firms havo'been doin^ n largo business with Japan and Chin i in manufacturing maohines of various kinds. Largo factories havo been erected with European mnehinory for working up tho conrso cotton and other textile material of those oountries. Wo understand furthor that woollan machinery has been erected, but so coarse nro tho n.itivn \rooN their conversion into wcollen cloth is found to bo a difficult matter. Our boliof then is that the commission now in Australia has come at tho urgent solicitation of the Europeans in Japan, to see whether it be possiblo to introduce Australian sheep for improving the nativo animals, nnd Australian wool to k«op their factories going. A taste for woollen goods is bound to grow amongst a shrewd thinking peoplo such lis the Japanese, and as itgf.iws thoro then should bo nn enlarged domnad for wool from Australia nnd Now Zealand,' Peoplo in socioty nro loudly complaining of tho brevity of tho season. Tho Princo of Wnlos leaves London n^iin for Paris this week, and thoro is nobody t.A succeed him. Her Majesty has finislu d hor annual merry-making at Buckingham Palace. Even tho Crown Princo of Germany has had to leave England to return to his father, injured by an assassin's shots. Many of the grand peoplo who gavo dinners, balls, and evening parties are already out of town. Should foreign affairs suddenly bceomo peaceful thoro t will bo no political question to keep tho poors or even mombors of Parliament together, nnd this circumstance will further denudo town of ita aristocraoy. Wo mny expect, indoo.l, n vory quiot timo botweon tins and Christmas. For ono I nm not sorry at this early dispersion. If tho season has boon short, it has been tho moit scandalous that w* have known 'or many a long year. Gaming for high stakos as been going on at halfsa-duzJii oluba muoh to tho impoverishment of some old familios. Baoonrat has bocomo a fashionablo anmsomont for young bloods. Wo havo had young lords quarrelling in publio, and a marquis nnd a baronet calling oach othor dotnultor and liar. Tho morals of tho aristocr cy in othor mattors aeem to hnvo fallen. Elopements, dirorco notions, polico casos, law suits, nnd what not, soom to bo daily occurrences. The sooner our fast life gives way to a littlo continental nioditation tho hotter for all concerned. Tho burning of the ' Southland Times Oflioo nnd plant is likoly to hayo a most benofioial offeot on that spiritel journal. Tho cntorprising propriotor, undismayed by his sovoro los*, has oabiographed to Molbourno for tho bost plant procurablo. and in about a fortnight tho ' Timos ' will apnoar in n now form. In an article referring to tho 3aJ oalamitv, the editor who appoar* to be in high gloo, notwithstanding tho distressing oironmstanoea' says — ' Burnt feathers grow again' is nn ndago peculiarly a.plicablo in our nrcsent case, and wo think 'hat when our plumigo is rcnowod it will bo ndmittod that n ) comparison cnn bo drawn between tho old garb and tho now one.' ■jxt...ajLi-xuii.>-Kiaijij - !.i-iii..ng'i \.s ».-

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