MISCELLANEOUS.

Inangahua Times, Volume II, Issue II, 28 April 1880, Page 2

MISCELLANEOUS.

The population of Victoria at the end of iast year numbered 899.420. North Carolina has six newspapers edited by negroes, Louisana three, Tennessee and Texas two eaeb, and Yirginis,. Alabama, and Mississippi one eaob. Three Chinese baye been made mem bers of the Oakland (F.S.) Presbyterian Chnreh. At the Christchurch Supreme Court on the sth instant, and old man named John Walsh, 71 years of age, was sen* teneed to five years' imprisonment for feloniously receiving a cheque, knowing it to be stolen. In a recent case in the Court of Appeal, Lord Justice Bretf, in his judgment said : — " In the conduct of legal proceed* ings solicitors and counsel are bound to act, not merely in gt>od faith and honesty, tut with scrupulous nicety." John Bright, speaking at Birmingham, contrasted the eight generations educated in accordance with Puritan traditions in America with the same generations in England, where (hey hare been seandsU ously neglected* and allowed to grow op without State help towards knowltedge. Serenity of mind is nothing worth nn« less it has been earned ; a man should- be at once susceptible of passions, and able fo subdue them. Honest industry is man's only sure dependence for the double b'essing of a contented mind and comfortable livelihood. The smallest living in the Church of England, is that of Shipton, near Lud* : low, in the diocese of Hereford, which is valued at £3 per annum. The present incumbent is the Rev. B. Moore who has been the church incumbent for more than half a century. Dr Crow has calculated tb.3 time during which the sun has been at work upon the earth's surface, slowly transformingits physical features, at not less than 1,000,000,009 years. The following is a- comparative return of the quantity and valu« of gold entered for duty for exportation from New Zealand for the quarter ended March 31, 1880 :— J onnces yalue^jgfl West Coast ... 33.613 £134^M Otago 32.589 13^^H Auckland ... 11,787 Nelson LCd i^^^^^^| Marlborough ... Totals ... *79~!3^^^^^H For the corresponding jj^^^^^^^^^M the totals were 74,70(^^^^^^^^fl £297,493; At Dunkirk, in France Jl^^^^^^^H whi'-e the sexton was- diggrffi^^^^^^H skull rose from that which a'jorefl^H and which was also open, and, as the ter-'T rifled man started back, advanced toward* him. He fled on to the road, crying aloud for mercy. Another man, hearing 'he alarm, and being told the cause of it, had sufficient courage to go to the spot, and there saw the head still moving. Undaunted, he took it up, and, on ex* amination, found within it two moles, ' which had made it their retreat, and had given it motion. Tbe Morning Herald is backsliding. It used to be a churchy-orthodox.goody-goody paper, but this week — oni Easter Monday, too— it has violently, if not virulently, attacked the New Zealand Christian Eecord. The ifecord, with the usual Christian charity, suggested tbat the Herald published a letter for a consideration, and the Herald replies in the same style. When certain people fall oat the community is benefitted, a proverb says— and w-hen the papers— supposed to be the manifested of the beautiful truths preached by Jesus — so attack each other people must see that their Christianity is but skin deep. If we want to peruse a paper th >t attributes evil motives, we always go to an orthodox print. Tbe elhics of Christian warfare may be ' learned from the Record, the Tablet, and the Herald.— Echo. Of the 4,433 Chinese in the Colony when the last census was taken 3,397 were engaged in goldining, 83 as farmers and market gardners, 172 as gardner*, 94 as farm labourers, 32 as station servants, 24 ' others connected with agrieul. ture,' 16 as domesiic servants, 47 as inn

and club hou^e servants, 89 as shopkeepers, 4 as merchants, 8 as commercial clerks. The rest of the occupstions range from a schoolmaster to a hawker, and include some rather carioas example*. For instance there are 8 ' irregular medi- ' cal men — whether irregular in their habits or the practice of their profession is not state — a ' jossshoase keeper ' * 1 gambling-bouse keeper," 1 ' opium house* keeper ' and 2 opiam sellers ; while 9 describe themselves with pleasing brevity and plainness as * gambler.*.' Only 9 Chinese were in oar gaols, and 9 inmates f of our charitable institutions, when the census was taken— facts which speak for themselves. By the last mail Messrs Boyle tnd! Scott received & letter stating thai matches with the following comities and towns had been arranged on Behalf of the Australian Eleven *— E'even a««id» ( matches : Leicester, Sussex, Lancashire* Derbyshire, Gloucestershire, Notts and Yorkshire. Matches again t odds' s— Newcastle, Buxton, Birmingham, (two)f, Spalding, M alton, Northampton, Keenly. Crewe, Hastings, Longsignt. BroughtoiV Burnley, Oldham, Leeds, and Stoeftport. ** With the exception of Derbyshire, Speld** ing, Maltor, Northampton and Bt ought ton, the first Australian team played ! against every county and town in the ; foregoing list. It is anticipated tnat the Australian Eleven will" play All England 1 * at Canterßury, on August the gad". This will probably be Lord Harris' team, as he has written to persons here to the c ffett that he will get the best term he can to meet the visitors. If this match should; cora^ f ff, the Gloucester match, will take place on August S. The Eleven are alsolikely to play al Dublin-, Belfast, Gias* gow, Edinburgh and Aberdeen, The If n *th to which" some people* go iff depending upon the Government of the* day to do everything is well illustrated? * by the following story, which comes from Tictoria. A lecturer on surgery at the Melbourne University,, while lately summing up the results of the season's lectures, is- said to Have deplored the scarcity of dead bodies. " But now,' he added, " as there has 5 been a change of x Ministry, we may hope for better things? A poor compliment indeed to Mr Service. In an article on Government by Boyat Commission, and more particularly deal* ing with the composition of the Colonial* industries Commission,, the Dunedia Star f* ' says ;— Mr A. J. Burss is a household* '.^ name in Otago. The very best thai can be said of this gentleman- is that he had; a father, and is related to the great poet of his country. Unlike fits colleague, Mr Bain r Mr Farns has been Before the publie for years, and in every position he has been pitchforked into by the accident of his birtb and belongings, has- displayed 8* conspicuous- absence of any brilliancy ior success. We really were in hopes when he went 'down in the coal mine*' that we had got rid of him for good as a politician, but like the old man of the ' sea here he is again on tbe shoulders of the Colony ! It would be rude in this case to discuss intellectual qualification*