MISCELLANEOUS.

Inangahua Times, Issue 77, 2 September 1878, Page 2

MISCELLANEOUS.

Sir Dillon Bell is acute in finding out faults in tho drafting of Bills. Soveral times this session ho has made complaints of slovonliaoss in this mottor. Ho yesterday pouitod out that tho porson who had drawn tho Dog Registration Bill must bo a man of very destructivo tendencies* Ho hod thrown in tho words • kitted/ •destroyed,' 'hanged,' &c, very thickly. Ho was not oven satisfied with killing an animal onoo, for ho found in tho Bill tho phraso 'tho animal must bo killed and dostroyod ; and then, as if not satis* fiod with that, ho provided that after tho dog had boon killed and destroyod it was furthor, to bo huug or otherwise deprivod of life, Another pliraso ro« minded him of an answer mndo by his own gardener, who, whon his potatoes wco destroyed, told him tho strou«th of tho barometer had caused tho bad weather. Tho hon gentleman bepan to read another phraso but aftor a few words exclaimed, ' Good gracious 1 I can't understand it/ throw a pon on tho table, and foil bnck in his scat. Colonel Whitmoro BRrced tliak tho phraseology was not very clear, but raanv of those Bills bad been gono over by Oommittcas, who woro supposed to straighten up loose points. His rcspoct for Committees was now grontly mo.lifled, ond he would uo lonßcr acoept their imprimatur as the stamp of perfection. — New jZenlandor. The Now Zealand Herald gives the foN lowing under the heading of " A Demand for Investigation :"— Ono of tho pnsscn* rcm of tho City of Now York (Mr B. B. Turner, a son of tho lato Mr B. Tumor, Epsom) called at the oflico yostorday with a document signed by himself aud teyoral

passongors by tho vessel, stating nn not which, if trxio, itrmnnds invostii'ition. Ouo of llic coalprtsscrs nnmcd Mncqn-dns i'i^.l during tho voyaao, n\\<\ tho doniu^ 1 -. xo hnvo received alleges tlmt ho W'is rvnrlly use*?, ninl forced to work when ho was unahlc. It is stated tlmfc lio was carried on tho evening of tho Hlh ult. out of his room in nn insensiblo condition through iho effects of boiitg overrented, nnd that nftcr boing brought round ho was forced to go to work again next morning, Although ho said it would kill him, nnd tlmt ho was afterwords cruelly mod. Somo of tho passengers who signed Iho statement ro* main nt Auckland ; others Imvo gono to Sydney, nnd others proceed south. They cmi all bo ro:nlily got nt fo e>ar -ip tho facts. From 'ho statement!* undo by tho passengers wo learn that it was understood by them that nn investigation should t,iko ))lnee nt Sydney, to which place, tho body would ho taken, having been embalmed. On Wednesday niglil. however, tho body was put on shoro on tho wharf m n shell. nnd left thcro amongst the lusu'.ig* Some persons nt length remonstrated , and n tnrpniilin wps thrown over it. Ihe body wns buried yesterday, but nl wl ose inBlanco we hnvo not: a-certum-cd. Iho cnuso of death wns officially stated to bo Prnsculco Hie eliief toreador of Madrid. is worth £80,000, and wears CtO;)O worth of diamond* on his (igMiiu; <ms nm<\ X" is much courted by the luj/hc-l; nvmMv in tnndrid, ntnl is n inombrr of the c!i;et nristocrntio club ; yet his wife is a fish" mongoi's danger, nnd still helps her mother in t'io nvirkef. Baroness Burdett-Coutls is presiding t)ror oxpnnimi'nts in tho art of sUu;:hter* ing cnttio instanUnoou-ly by tho uso of dynnmito. Hero is tho motive of Nobolins s ermvi in his oVvn words :— ' Germany is nothiiur tlio Kmpcror is nothing ; mankind an 1 progress nro everythiui: : wo havo nbolished God, nnd iho people want no more kings.' Our Mnori members (says tho Posl) possess n keen vein of humor nnd satire, nnd they hit homo sometimes. Mr Taiaron afforded nn instanco of this last night, Tho estimates wore under discussion, when severnl hon. member; l,oo!c excop* tion to tho £'100 down ns the snl.irv of tbo Sergennt»at « Arms. Mr Tni-inn (hereupon delivered \ short bn s nriicticu sermon. Ho said :— ' Mr O'Horko, T think wo should be«iu at home. Wlmt; is gooil for iho Serneanlv»tn lrnn is ao\\ for us. I move that tho £21,575 set down for expenses of members ho cxpungtd Thero nro roads needed in the colony. This money would nuko nnhy roads.' This prnctieal yiew of the. q i.Mlivi rather notonished tho House, and t'ley Voted Mnjor Paul's mbirv in n hurry. They nleo voied tho £21,575. Tho Otngo Daily Trines slates '.ttaii weil«!<nown citizens nro' faking nieps to raiso n fund for (ho purpose nfen.iMii ;J Miss Hosl'ord, the young Indy who sustained the part of Mnritnnn sn sueeessfully nt Iho recent opornlio p ••i'loin.. > inoes to complete her »i(i«ic<il fdinali'i). Tlii-'r efforts hnvc met with a m^st eneourayinr^ responso, nud it is lilu'ly ih;it n considerable sum of money will 1>» ni-'-'d. The noljle Fnvige h:is ,i lerdly c<n>!onr.il; for bum * bailifl's, pro-'ess-servrrs, 0r.. 1 others of that ilk. 'I In Wawir •»■; djvi Stnndard tells the story that- on M. ; !■>• last n bnilifl' was phi-od on <!>" ) ■;•>'!. : ; ■ i of tho well-known l'lp^wai n i, , \i in«, heri nt the injii/nsci: <>\' .>ih< ni his r.,',ii* lors. At the time r-.e i'-'I-k'mio wns fro.n home; ll c l«»!l'i\nni: "Vrnint: io returned nnd caused th myrmitii ,'i of t ! o "Inw to 1)0 flung out of iho house. It ro<« mains to bo, seen whether tho Inw or Munihcrn is supreme in the Wnirir.ipa. Mrs lil ton cuts overyboly dead who bcliovos her innocent of tho {treat tn\t>>gression! At tho recent fishmonger's banquet in London, Mr Gladstone declared tho French nnd Italian cooks to bo tbo host, in tbo world, nnd hoped that tho K'ngbsh would learn to imitalo them, nnd stand out against Iho traditional bloody roast; beef. Tho Manawntu Times of Thusday hist; BaVB :— •' A native woman nnmod Thoros;i died last night in t'io train nftor it had left Palmers'on. With rigid iulliorcn.ee i<> rules nnd regulation!", the jjuard was of opinion that for iho remainder of tho journey the faro for n corpse should bo charged.' Thcro died in Berlin last April, n gentleman named Bcrsig, tho greatest, mnnufneturer of locomotives in liurope. His father begnn with n capital of £1500, lent him by n Berlin trndesmnn. nnd tho son let £3^000.000. Since 1837, tho firm has turned out over W3OO locomotives. They employ over 10,000 men.