MISCELLANEOUS.

Inangahua Times, Volume II, Issue II, 25 June 1880, Page 2

MISCELLANEOUS.

A Utter- from Ug ?m*\ *a. the reraits of the English elections outlinea'the policy of that section of the Home Briers to- wbfeh he/belongs. He says »*- --' Oat party will.searoely e.oas to tie M inista|ial nMjt- the House pf Com moot,' eten though that tide ahiH be <mssteJ^s9&W&& of Cower. Natives." Oar presence in the Opposition will be understood s* a constant reminder fti&tV *ie>&er h'aturt 'of J thrf (eflrfre^r , utttodtsefed eiid passed immediately. We £lw anticipate the *estly, , .pawing «pf * local government measure, as well at a household, franchise BUI. The latter would enab'lefng to carry eVery Irish tea* Hi Patfiameaf, wttHfery few insignificant 'exceptions. Should the Libera.li refuse & feted* ta oar jiftt demands, they can be very promptly reduced to order by a determined stand on the part of oar membert. The present Irish party Uan immense advance in* every respect upon the' previous representations, and aaftf> ejent men have been returnedrMjf a elasa that know what they want and are deters mined to have it~to; render it practically impossible 4hat the 'moat powerful Minis* > : Mu<^ basbeeo earned through? out, AwtJ^lia bj ih« sarikee of theN>w castle colliers, snd many faetertet had to stffltfM' ! «ro>t; lor ft time owingto want olr fuel. *000 miners are on strike in Ka#cattle. ' ' * " ' Th* negotiations opened np by the i British Oof ernment.tbi ough' their Minf>» tent, between, Peru and Chili, ' with tha view *f >fnji>atit}g the • war between those (wo countries, hire resulted in a failure. , v . ' -''.'■' It ia somewhst eariouifnys' Troth*) that' the Zulus at theUquarfom/atthough rthey have now been many months on still continue to attract sight « J seera A vtk nndininiahed^ numbers* TW \ other day a jonng girl arrived from I Sootland. She was aged about seventeen, and she was, according to her own aeodoct, the daughter of a Presbyterian minister. She had opme,^ she , said to marry a Zalu/and,jceomjMnie&bf one. of the oldest and most ill-favored of these ichwfcy strangers, she presented herself to the . manager ' of' the Aquarium,' and rei : quested him- to aid her in her object. In fain he remonstrated with heron her foil/* She replied that her heart was fgifptj, A I*l4 M {sug«est4»lko her jjha|; j he -would only neiojn^of -man^ wives |»h«n> her ?pn>#mpla<ed haabani fetarned: to Zululajd. She- that the -Iwelftli^part .of the affectrons of the ob. t |e»t^ her adoration-wkrpreferable- to^no ,part stall. »?.flndtV^tba^it%a»rf«eie*"tehnon with he/she wasV^ ti»t :be conld lot marry without the assent of her parents, and was sent back to Sept* Ittdto tfbtain t't. , , \" > A female >joarn*Hst on the Chicago Tntc**oeean 'wdrSed nighta as, we'll as days, and' she ieila i . a ,'feporter that she wai/oat ;»H hporj, of the night, went straight alorig and wajruever meddled with, 8be f carried « piatot for a tim», and "learned now to. n»a it, hut finally /btelr^ it > aside,, (jinking the mtn ;of dbicagp^yrtre-sSQ tame and they htA. not. need >to * have it drawnion them. 'Presence of mind, she iayt, ja Inore p A>tebtlob than a pistol, anyway. , >, TJje'St. Nathans' oorreapondent of theI4a, phroniisl^ writes t— Eumenr lias it that Messrs Learmont and partyl of Vinegar Hill, am going to have a return equally as good aa their first washifag, ihueJ&ajßeanure proving the adage'trne < Qod helps those who help themselves/ for four moire eapabje an 4 persevering miners it would be a hard matter to.fiad. A* start has been made by Mr John Tburbw, contractor for the formation of *&toe five miles of Mesarf Thomas and part^l iiew race from Donstan Greek to |V%ejjgrlFlaf, where the party hold a claim said to be of exceptional riehneji* V Mr Ji W. Baymond writes to the JSon^Wlwd Titnet t — •As many seem poiioned grain being a. in the Winter season, I will give. my»e*^*^Mbe eootrary. ' In >fo* . F JJigrj|wfelr ( W mj »* n » a 4 Wing tjie oats in.jiou of wheat, dis« pfi^in^wMrraoiltunti which was simply one. day's hot tun, wind, or rain ' the scent, t laid i poisoped oatt roani the borfer of grass :»* oat s .paddoeks, also aboufcail the warrens and rabbit tracks i jo<pu<!el in an^area^.of SQOaeres river P|lain,^bad|^ honey.oonibijQed by rabbit», Ha^'.a^fnnjjtp^temp^^^ ! >*&m me j m < p|t | laWP^ili;^^ week the ! 8 exteWinated. j ly. cleaped,ui. about three dajs. Through* ; d"ut tb'e |ti'mmer seaso^i jt was oocwfenally i '^M^ii^iM f^^^ : fitfakS^ it | bad it wi eaten m<Jte greedily it have jieadted abre whotesate deitruction of the i'V<dnnin» .■ -•'■.■ At the DuMeldorf Exhibition, 'which ;#R*?. °? »i a »etnber of the Kwnish and; Wesiphalian Stenographic fidciety, exhibited a German post-card, couWtting Vow's translation of the first three books of ,Hsm*r*s * Odyssey,* and part of a very loog debate which re. owtlj took plaeo ,in the German Inji

perial 'Parliament. The namber of words in the extract of the * Odyssey * is 11.000, while in the Parliamentary debate the number i« 22,000. The whole of the** 33,000 words have b*n written in the Gabelaberg STsten^of shoHhand and with Ac naW;;eye. The quantity of 3natieV oontawed in this German shorthand manttseript would be eqnal to what is* contained in about fear p «geB of , «ny "newspaper. ,