THE Inangahua Times. PUBLISHED TRI-WEEKLY FRIDAY, JUNE 4, 1880.

Inangahua Times, Volume II, Issue II, 4 June 1880, Page 2

THE Inangahua Times. PUBLISHED TRI-WEEKLY FRIDAY, JUNE 4, 1880.

Hews of the present whereabout of thtf magnificent diamond necklace which was nresentel hy the Khedive of Kgvpt to Mrs Fitch, daughter of General Stomnan, seems to have been obtained from a diamond merchant by the ©inciooaMi Enquirer. It will bo remembered that this necklace wai deemed worth 200,000d0l and Congress remitted the duties, 20.000d01, for the nonpayment of whioh it was long detained in the Sew York Custanrhouoe. " After this,** gays the informant, •• the necklace was sent to Washington, and with General Sherman** swordt deposited in the United States Treasury for *afe keeping. Upon further enquiry Lieutenant Fitch ascertained that the yearly taxes on the d'amord* in St. Louis county, trhere ha then resided, would be much more than his iuUny, and he once more found t'em an elephant on his hands. His f *ther-in-law, General Sherman, took pity on the boy, and returned the necklace, with thanks, to the donor in Egypt. "Upon receiving them, the Khedive wrote to the General, saving that it was not hi* desire that the diamonds should fee given to any one member Of hi? family, and having learn«d that he had /our daughter', it was his wish then that the {foiiim** should be mounted in sets, and divideß^|ijally among them. These diuehter* are Mrs Fitch, nee Minnie flhann >n Ella Sherman, Lizzie Sherman and Bacbel Sherman. The necklace was then returned to the Sherman fsmilj. The Empress of Austria (remarks the World) has a beautiful seat on horseback, 1 wears a habit which fl's to perfection, and an unexceptionable hat. The tout ensemble, however, is not exactly like oar type of the English horsewoman. A certain foreign dash pervades the whole. Perhaps one little incident which tends to this un-Ensli*h effect is the fan, whioh hangs as an appendage to Her "Majesty's saddle-tre/». TMa black $nd yellow fan Is not used as a remedy for excessive beat, but as a shade against the sun's rays. The Empress ; it is said, suffers from weak eyes, and cannot stand the rays of a bright spring sun, even in the Emerald Isle What .queer fancies fashion ? (exclaims an English paper). It has been the fashion for three or four years pant to engrave the word "Mizpnh" upon lockets for presentation hy*' young gentleman to their sweethearts. Some of these innocents have been asking the meaning of the mystical word. ' And well they might. The answer usually given to the inquiry is that; the word means, '• The Lord watch over thee when we are absent from another." This jr certainly^ a liberal amount of English translation for one Hebrew word. If jou look it out in a Hebrew dictionary you will find its meaning given as *impjv a watch tower, and nothing* more, and if you look into the Book of genesis you willßnd no very happy or affectionate associations attaching to the use of the word as a proper name, in the 31st chapter, After Laban „ and Jacob bad cheated each other, and could trust each other no longpr, they made covenant, in token of which Jacob get up a heap of stones, which was called Micpah*,, because. Laban said, " The loud watch between me and thee when we are absent from; one another. The Lord jadge hetwixt ,uiirJu Absence was not to make the heart growfonder, but more suspicious ; and the watchfulness of Heaven was invoked against som^ dishonest trickery which each feared that the oth'r would be guilty of. The Auckland Star, speaking of a large defalcation by the teller of the Bank of New South Wales, amounting to between £300 and £400, says that fresh attention has been drawn to tho refulal of one or two banks in the city to allow the teller to inital deposit slips. But in that practice is the great difficulty in sheeting home the effbnee. Assuming that a merchant send* his clerk to pay £100 into the bank till ; no receipt is issued, and the merchant, finding the money has not gone to his credit, seeks trn explanation. The teller thereupon denies all knowledge of the deposit, and declares that if it was sent at all the clerk must have stuck to ft. Who then is to determine betwe n them ? W« have the word of the clerk against the system of the teller. The objection raised to those banks whioh refuse to recognise this mode of acknowledgement has never been clearly stated. A correspondent at Mysla of the Bendigo Independent, writing on the 10th inst, gives the following particular ef a typhoon occurred nnrth-west of Boort last week, and whioh had been related to him by an eye* witnes* :— " About noon on Wpdnesdav last a vast bank of clouds, extending along the western horizon, and moving rapid'y to the sonth, was observed from the residence of Meefrs M'Lenn Brothers, Woolehed Lake. The weather at the time was flue and the air perfectly calm. Shortly however, a westerly Bet j n> when ft Btora) Poaching at a fearful rate was noticed. The wind increased in violence, and blew from every point of tha compass. « Suddenly,' et T » my ii.ftwmslit, 'we heard a loud roaring sound in the we»t, and immediately afterwards noticed several large trees falling within a hundred yards of our residence. We hastened to the kitehen (a detached building) for shelter, the door of which we closed. Everything got quite dark, and the roaring sound was now fright'ul, the st rm being at its height. We heard loud cimehirg nois s all round the house, n< d we were in fiar evsry moment of being crushed to death. The extreme violencp of tbe wind co>.ti»ned pgjy abogt % *PJ #e, «w4 th.en we veflturud

to ©pen the 4oor. The whole space between the JriJjchen and dwelling-house was thickly strewn with large limbs of trees and timber which had heen blown there from a distance of 50ft. A large limb from a tree 50 yards ! distant was carried on to the roof, fortunately without doing much damage except bending it in. A tree standing 20 yards from the - 1 -*<iUBe was entirely stripped of its brandies, anoth^Nbging quite rooted out of the ground leaving a larj^esfcgvation.