MISCELLANEOUS.

Inangahua Times, Volume II, Issue II, 30 June 1880, Page 2

MISCELLANEOUS.

The Nowoski, a Rus*i«n journal, describes a nnrrow eocupe Lady Dufferin recently had from a bear. Lord Dufferin had invited the Diplomatic Corps ond a lirge party to a bear hunt. Lndy Dufferin ancl severnl ladies were present, and wbi'e the sportsmen were trying to find t he b?nr- it suddenly appeared, nnd made a dash at Lady DufTerin's carriage. Hap* pily, one of the embassy hastened up and riddled it with balls, until it fell dead at Lady Dufferin's feet. A bi-weekly newspaper will shortly be started in the Ellesmere district by Joseph Iress. Much dissatisfaction has been expressed amongst the Radical party in London at the announcement that the Government purpose continuing Sir Bar* tie Frere as Governor of Capo C >lony. A protest was entered by a number of lending politicians, on the ground that Sir Bartle Frere was mainly responsible for the Zulu war, and that his conduct had been severely condemned by some of the members of the present Government when Opposition. Mr Gladstone pointed out that Sir Bartle Frere having inaugurated the policy of confederation in the South African Colonies, it would be highly inexpedient to make a change at a time when there wss. great likelihood of this important step being successfully carried through. Hedley, the Australian pedestrian, has been beaten in a raco by Davis, of San Francisco; A Chinese Masonic Sociely has been organised in New York. The new British Arctic expedition sails in May next. Bismarck bas ordei ed the collection of diplomatic documents attesting the hostile intentions of llussia towards Germany. The United States warship Co.'istella* iion has been despatched with suj-plies to

Ireland. There was quite a demon tr a tion on her departure. The Government of Germany will give £15 000 as a subsidy to German participators in the forthcoming exhibition at Melbourne. Tbe Globe asserts tbat France has ens fered into Herniations with England and the United Slates to terminate tho war. bei ween Chili and Pesu. Mr Chen cry has resigned the editors ship of The Times, Mr Edward Arnold quits the Daily Telegraph. Mr Lowell, the United States Minister at St. James', has been recived most cordially by the Queen. A Prussian officer has been arrested while sketching a redoubt near Paris, and conveyed to Rbeims: An apiary is to be established ly Americans on the Island of Cyprus, in the Mediterranean, to raise queen bees for American bee-keepers. Tho work of piercing Mount St, Gothird wns satisfactorily completed at 9 o'clock on February 29, A revolution bas been attempted in San Domingo, but the Government quickly became masters of the situation, Sixteen leading insurgents were arrested, and will be executed. The village of Bergen, Genessee ' County. N.Y., was recently deliberated fired and destroyed by incendiaries, lt | «as a place of 700 inhabitant i. j Thirty villages have been flooded on the Ausfro«Russian frontier, near Dzihow. Thousands of people are without shelter or food, and many cattle are lost. An epidemic is prevalent among the ostriches at the Cape, and a new disease among the grape vines, in the form of a small tick, bas appeared in the vineyards. Russia in'ends proposing to the Euro* pean Powers an international agreement securing to each signatory Power the right of demanding the extradition of regiViries. Pierre Lorillard, the New York racing man, has planned in Paris an expedition fr-r the exploration of the antiquities of Mexico. It will be despatched early in April, A de'patcb from Paris says: Prince Orloff stated in thf Russian Church yess terday that he had received a letter from a Nihilist Committee threatening him with assassination. Important changes are about to take place in the Japanese Cabinet, which L'Echo dv Japan reports will occasion the dismissal of about 5000 functionaries. The Common Council of London re fused, by a vote of 72 to 45, a motion for an address of congratulation to the Czir on liis e>c pc from assassination. Bitter epithets were applied to the Em* peror during the debateBismnrck is again sick, and complains of overwork. He threatens to retire altogether, if not al'owed a colleague. It ii said Count von. Sbdberg Wernigorode wiil be appointed assistant Premier. In regard to the nllccafion of Ihe sis vacant seals in tbe Hou.se of Commons, it is stated that Dublin, Cork County. Bristol, Sheffield, and metropolitan cons j stiluencies will each receive an additional ! member. Father Reek. General of the Jesuits, arrived in Paris on Miirch 13. The French Jesuits have intimated to the Primate of Spain tbat *bey intend to seek refuge in that country if expelled from Fr;!tice. Jhe German Government is aboot to revive its scheme for cutting a canal, navigable for war vessels, between tbe Baltic Sen. and tbe German Ocean. The scheme is warmly supported in military circles, The semi- official Provincial Corres* ponder.ee of Berlin declares that while the Nihilists are gratifying their thirst for destruction and confusion by ruthless attempts on Ihe Czir's life, the Pans slavists are seeking to inflime Jhe minds of tbe people for the conflict abroad. At a meeting of the Axminster Board of Guardians, held in January, the Rev. R. Mason, late curate of Membury, Devon, applied for an order fo enter the workhonaa as a pauper. He had been curate for thirty years, had never been offered a living, and had now nothing to depend on. The guardians thought it a very bird case, and, as there was no al« ternatiye, granted tbe order. The immense coalfields of tbe Chinese Empiro are slowly bring developed, the superstitions of this strange ppople being overcome. In a district near Tchanc, on the Upper Yang-tsi-Kiing, a coalfield* extending over seyenty five square miles has been tapped. At Wo-tze»kow ten beds of coal bave been discovered ; one of them, lying only 100 feet below the surface, is being worked, and at least 1,200,000 tons of Anthracite have been eKposed. The Gemeinde Zeitung of Strasburg publishes a list of 6SO places to which their original German names have now been officially restored. Under French rule the names of many of tbese places had been Gallicised by translating them from German into French, while others bad been changed in various ways, either by entirely altering the spelling, by soften. ng the terminations, or by some o'lter modificntion. Tho official names will henceforth le the unlive ones of

German origin, wbu-h have still survived 'mono the mass of ihe population. De Lassepq hp.s arrived in New York. President Hayes empirically as-ured bim that the Amorican people believe that th»y must have a preponderating influence on any h:hnibin can.il. De Lrsseps denie.l ih« presence of politics in liis scheme, nnd said he only visited the Uui»e«l State* „_ a , irrip!c Pn^ ineor> In regard to the • preponderating influence* claimed by Iho U u i, Cll Sfoe M he London Standard r, marks :-.« This pretension ihe Bnttsli C.„vori,me-it is hound to watch, am*, if necessary, to resis f . No m ire at Panama thin nt Sn-z can the preponderating '" flience of another Power l>e alWed to lay hands on the trade of 1 njand ' 'Jhe Wellington Post ca'ls Mr S-ddon "a sort of legi-slatiye pcrpetualwnotioi bellows." Tliere h a s'rifce on at the Springfi.-U Collier?, Malvern. The Wellington Chronicle was " had " last vreek, anil the correspondent of the Ologo Times tells the story under date Wellington, June 23:— 'The no confidence deba'e this eyening dragged ter* I ribly. Mr Macandrew did not sjeak this, afternoon as expected, but the Chronicle, I: king it for grunted lie would, came out, 'this evening with a glaring acoonnt f his imaginary speech. Ifc is stated that although not brilliant, it ' bristled with hard facts ar.d figures most damaging to the Government, and so forth,' and this caused a good deal of merriment. Toniaht Mr Macandrcw was much chaffed a'v'Ut bis gi eat speech.' Commenting on the sigui of the times. the Chris* churrh Press says :— - ' It i« n s--i'jn ; fic-mt fact that afl our charitable in* st it u i 'tis have their full complement of i 'mates ; tbe Ashburton Home shelters forty-five unfortunate relies of hammif" , and the Dnnedin Industrial School, a receptacle for juvenile waifs of the South Island, is crowded to its utmost at the present time.' Atlas in the World say 3 : — At forty-one years of age fh" member for Drogheda died literally a martyr to Irish Pu«iiiun*jntary work. 11l already, ho travelled on the Sunday night before his death from Dublin to Lon ton, and a^ he entered his lodgings in Jermyri-strcet, fainted from exhaustion. Yet he went down to the Rouse of Commons, appearing like an apparition, so pale and weak and faltering. He was remarkable for his*vivaoity ; but whqn he last appeared in the legislative hall oa Thursday evening he had to be conveyed home at once. The life had almost left him. and he died on Sunday, after three days' illness. Tliey said had he not come over to London he would have h • | denounced by his const'tuents. He came I over to p'case thera and died a martyr to duty. ' The smallest man in the TTousa of Commons ' liad one of the biggest hearts in that ieseinj^Ly; and when it ceased to beat ou Sunday in bk London lodgings many a poor ponl in Dublin was left poor indeed, and many a medical student ambitious of success in his profession must have felt tb'it he had lost his guide, philosopher ond friend. To the reputation of the cleverest sureeou in Dublin, Dr O'Leary added tbat of the kindest Mentor to the younger men of his pro« feasion. His kindness was not merely a mat* ier of work. A friend of mine who knew h ; m could count a dozen sueeessful practitioners some of them in Londoa, who would never have known success but for the friendship and the purse of William Henry O'Leary.' The Supreme Court of Victoria has decided that a racing cummiitee caunot interfere with a race unless appea'el to by protest or in some way. A steeplechase of two miles took twenty minutes to run at Wyndham, and though the judge placed the fir*t borse. the committee refused to pay over the stakes, but ordered the race to be run over again. This the ownes, Mr Coles, refused to do, but sued the president of tha club. Judge Cope held that the committee had power to declare the race informal, but the Judges of the higher court held that the committee were not appealed to, and if tbere had been any breach of their rules or unfairness they had their remedy at law. Investment hi bind 13 not always whst it is tracked up to be. The hon. W. J. Clarke has bought a site for a town mansion in Melbourne — a piece of ground purchased for £3,000 in 1853. He gave £4250 for it, therefore if tlie speculator hnd put his money out at compound interest be would havr g t six times that amount. A fortnight's crushing from the Day Dawn claim, Charters Towers, yielded H32oz, an 1 the stme claim bad 400 tons crushed la*t month for 2000oz. Wriling on the unemployed diffianlty in Victoria, the Sydney Morning Herald makes the following remarks, which will be f< 'iiud equally applicable to this Colony — " It is not the business of ihe Government to find for every man wbo demands it the kind of employment he prefers, and the moms of earning the wages he considers sufficient for his necessities. This is not a question of interest in Victoria only ; all tbese Colonies are liable to the misfortune of haying to deal with it. In young countries much of the work tbat moro properly belongs to private enterprise ia undertaken by tbe State, And with advantage ; but wben the State doea so mucb for tbo people us it does hero there is this heavy attendant disadvantage that a tendency is developed to look to the Stat.*' for every thi ig. The State employea labour largely for public purposes, but it does not follow that the State is under any obligation to make work in the interest of private individuals and in proportion as the State steps out of its way to do thi?, iv virtue of its command of public funds, the healthy growth of private enterprise will be checked, and tho wago-eaming classes wid be thrown back to an increasing extent upon the State for employment, reman tis of this kind ought to

be steadily discouraged, or the? HHy lead td - serious embarrassment." It is stated that the population of the Australian northern territory white and vein low slike. is fast deoreanng. Orer 100 Chinese die there annually of f ver. The Melbourne correspondent of the Warmambool Examiner writes.— "An ex* citing scene took place in East Melbourne the other night. Between ten and twelve, a gay yonns bankers's clerk paid a v'mt to his chiefs bouse, while tbe latter wns playing cards at tbe Melbourne Club. The banker's wifj was the attraction. The cird circl© broke up earlier tban usual, and the coaster* nation at Villa may be imagined, The young Lothario fled, minus various articles of apparel. Fortnnatelv, however, the frail fady was cunning enough to conceal tbe debris, which wp?s afterwards sent to the ownershabitation by a trusty servant." ■mi i ii i i v i