MISCELLANEOUS.

Inangahua Times, Volume 10, 25 October 1878, Page 2

MISCELLANEOUS.

Tho healthy climate of Ta«imnia conduces to longevity. It is ne/er nafo t-» call any one old aoross tbo straits, although thero ure a ereat many who, anywhere else, tnigiit be considered ot" advanced ago, Quite recently a Tas. m-inian resident, aged 75. was about contracting v matrimonial alliance with .t Biddy young thing so no ion years hi* junior, llio event, was imiiinent, when a difficulty arose whicb stooped iho nup* tials. S'te was a B mum Catholic and ho | was a ProM'stont, und the hi. eh was v failure to njjree kn to the retain in which tho childt't'ii of tbo luurridgo siiould be brought up.— JEflca. Tho fresh holds and pastures new of that rising city of tho Plains, Ashburton, must appear very verdant to the men tui eye of the legal fraternity in Duuedin. Already within a short time, no less than five Dunediu lawyers bavo taken up their abode there, and bkt llio break in an I'Xctiing story, it is rumoured that the incursion is ' to be continued,' The Arrowtown corresp indent of iho Cromwell Argus : — Tho remains of tlio * gigantio animal ' recently discovered by somo of ibe miners ou the bills near Bracken's Gully have had a thorough overhauling by somo of tt scientific turn of in no, and they pronounce the rem i * to be seiiii>l'os»iliaed and ot a so havi.ig n l^! strong odour of de.rd pork. Tho o .rer* ing to ihe b.,dy ol this mysterious mum tl ' mttidiU res ."initios what our chlilmm'* term ' iti-iiih's.' T h'iv is a story evuint th-it one of our pioneer storekeeper.* many pit's since lost an < no 1 in ms bour some whero on tneso ranges and it lins nnr, since that nine been m'cj alive. I do not wish to hurt, tlio feelings of our local hhv mis by hinting that tho 'gigantio remains ' aro tho-<o of th.s long lost hog, but I still say tbey hivo a powerful scout of petrified pork.