MISCELLANEOUS.

Inangahua Times, 30 July 1880, Page 2

MISCELLANEOUS.

♦ "We clip the following from the Sydney Bulletin : — *' Miss Cissia Archer, whose, Vocalisation wss so ranch admired in Tasmania, has joined Lysfrer's Opera Company, and appeared afc the Opern House in " Girofle Gir<fl'." This young lady has been regarded as the best singer the island has produced. Her voice is a pare m rzisoprano of fall tone, and quite fee from throaty efforts, while her register ranges from E below the stave to Ein alt. She has a good physfqae, and if her performances in operas are up to the standard of those on the concert stage, she wil] be a big success. Miss Archer is a native of Launces* ton, where she was trained by Mr John Wallace." Batavia, Illinois, has just voted no licence for the sixth time in as many successive annual elections. The Elgin City Council have placed the price of a license to make paupers and criminals at 500 dollars a year, which the saloon keepers say will ruin the business, and it will not pay them to , keep the gaol running at that rate. "Rockford gives 552 majority for prohn Htion ; they have concluded to save their boys from destruction and let the gin mills go. At the recent election at "Wnxahachie, Texas, only three persons voted against prob'bit'on. Tn"* Wharton county, out of a vote of 1050, ~ senly five vofes were against prohi* bition. MePherson county, in the temperance State of Kansas, has a population of about 15.000, and has but three paupers, not a single prisoner iv saol, ar..l bufe one under bond ; The following is the new scale of -J fees which will come into operation in the Kesident Magistrate's Courts on and after August 1st :— TJader £5 4s and hearing fee, ss ; under £20, 11s, and bearing fee 8s ; under £SSt0 t 13s and 12. hearing fee ; under £IQQ3 17s, and 20i hearing fee.