MISCELLANEOUS.

Inangahua Times, Volume II, Issue II, 22 March 1880, Page 2

MISCELLANEOUS.

♦ The Hokitika Evening Star looks for* ward to anything but a pleasant future for Westland. Thus does it moralise and prophesy :— * The selfishness, as displayed by the Christchurch Chamber of Commerce, and almost all tbe deputations, in Canterbury and Otago, who interviewed the Minister, is commendable. They have no hesitation in asking for the im* possible. Tbey know no one but themselves until the tax gatherer comes round. Then they recollect that there are neigh' bors. and at once endeavor to saddle them with the heavier burdens, whether having received any benefits or not. West* land I your prospects in the face of sleep* ing cars are very remote indeed. Yoa may pay, which is a privilege you are allowed to enjoy, but you are doomed, to tramp, and manuka scrub placed on mother earth is your sleeping car, Mackay, tbe Bonanza magnate, gives 10,000 dollars to the Irish relief fund. Mr Archibald Forbes attacks Lord Chelmsford in the Nineteenth Centary. It is semi-offieially asserted tbat Lord Lytton has not decided to leave India. Mr J. Bussell Lowell's appointment as American Minister in England gives general satisfaction. A. petroleum basin, said to be as ex« tensive and prolific as that of Pennsylvania, has been discovered in Hanover. One well yields about 400 cwt. of oil per day. The increase of the German army surpasses the Russian, and is unopposed by thaJtaMM^djuij^mej^ local elec* Edison rup« Pacific They to matches, has won the bicycle ra&^Hror a purse and the championship of America. He made fifty miles in three hours six minutes one and a half seconds. Mr Parneli addressed the United States Congress at an informal meeting on the present condition of Ireland. He stated that be believed that the force of American public opinion would bring about the desired results. At Ottawa, Canada, a smalUpox victim was rescued alive from a coffin after the gravedigger had partially covered it with earth. He heard a noise, and, enquiring into the cause, succeeded in saying the unfortunate. «p^ — — — —^— — — p—