MISCELLANEOUS.

Inangahua Times, Issue 02, 7 October 1878, Page 2

MISCELLANEOUS.

Tho European Mail snys :—' Amongst tlio ' promotions ' which have recentl y been announced us litivi tit? tnken place at tbo Phoenix depot of theltoyal Irish Con-* stabulnry, wo roiul • Acting Constable Sir Thomas Kehlin, Bnrl,' This mouns ii> plain words that, Sir Thomas Kchlin, Hurt is now enlisted mid serving ns a common policcm-m, and surely it is a s trim go instance of tho vicissitudes of families, Tim Echlins have boon amongst tho English* in Ireland, nnd amongst tho nristo erutem English-in-Irolnixl I'm* moro than two nnd a hnlf centuries, ns Sir B, Burklo re minds us. One of tho fanrly rr tlio found* eroftho family went to Ireland, liko numbers of his oountrymcr, to be n Protestant bidiop nt tho \\mi when •tamo.* I. wns enriching Protest! nf, bishoprics, collogos. nnd schools out nf Cnlhnlo conliscitions. Tho Bishop* grandson boenmo a B«ron of tlio Kx< chequer, nnd tho first baronet of tho family, in 1821. From that timo down wards tho scions of tho houses was froqnontly intcrnvirrietl into tho hii»h families of their circle, nnd tho blood < f tho Kchlins, with its heraldries nnd blnsmu ii»s, stood high in tho gcnonlojical birdi rolls. Tho case is another instance, tho Freeman's Jonir.nl observe*, of thocollnpuo and descent which are overtaking mo many of tho IDngiish families which James T. planted horo and enriched out of Irish theft; and up dilation. It'itlinngnn, County Kidnre, mod to l»o tho family residence oMCchlinsy The policeman is the seventh bnronef. Chief Baron O'Grndy was n mun of groat with. His jokes nro current in legal circles to this day. He whs pas* sing sentence on a very troublesome virago, charged with robbery. ' Tho sentence of the court is, that you, H-'Ster Carroll, shall no transported for aeveu years to nueh penal settlement ns his Majesty inny direct, nnd tuny Go 1 liuv.j tnoro? on those wlio shall hnvo to manago you there. Tho pre«rnt Czar, who omplotod hi* sixtieth y»vir on April 29' last is tho only Hussiau Si V 'feign, during ovor two centuries and a half who attained the ngo said to be so fatal to Ins nee. Of 1(5 llussian Sovereign*, from ?<U3 to 187$, only one, tho present Cffir, miv bo said to have renchod tho ago of(> ). Cvtherino oPHn."si", who lived seven years longer w«s n Germnn, without, ono droj.v cf Hnsni.in bloodjnhor veins. f^^n>(jflljMjM|i days (^' m^l^A This nf ilio ho hi q o.iths to ot Koligioit Cmitrol no less of missjonrry an i £1000 enoh, tho ha pel which ATr the socictiety v liko .sum. between them ; if either of tlieso minister of tho or n person holding iinuiio^ioii in Her her intorcst in such and to go nmnng tho or oospibita oinnnorthe tesMitor directs that buried in unconsecratcd ha^ nt length m in wh> w is tnlshould bo asylum where ho by curative, means. the easo of nn brain was so (hut alter de«th it, ][<* also re> lMn examiintion of Perkins' draymen, ili^tcndod wifelt rirhi»i^^^^^^^ |lh < ('auscd by drink, and nti^H^PTfim (Mill nn,l his Assistant; princtuiTmTif '" HtV-n places nnd apply* MM! a li«hi, jetsof flimo iNsued from Ilio eoriiso until tho CiH wa* Mjrnt out. If the next, lime a similar post mort«n tckca place a hundred or two of tipplers could he induced to to attend, tho speetnelo Would doubtless exercise a wonderful moral influence over thorn,