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Inangahua Times, Volume II, Issue II, 13 October 1880, Page 2

Miirsbal Brziine, they say, is dyiog. and haspeHtfsnei fhe French Qroverntnentto be allowed to expire on FreDch ground. This n que^t will not be granted for fear he may pecorer and use tb« opportuniir of iatr ; gu'ag in tiveinfcirest of tha Booipirtes. For many years a teak beam — one o' Ihe relics of the ill-fateJ Danbnr— has junmed between tlie rojks » Narra!)een. It was recently extricated, and will be kept as r rel'c. Sir Ciiarles Clifford, iv a few clrsioe remarks at the conclusion of Mr JJDilcomb'e's recent lecture at the Colon'al Institute, mentioned that whpn he rent to-New Z-j-il'i'n-ilie look with him two sei vinfp, who had not the prover~ bial half crown. In thirl pen years' timp they^ere worth £±O,#Oo. Another gentlemau wlio went out at the same time with £150,000 died a pauper. Now they mi^ht ring the ehanses on that and say that. if anyone had brains and uioaey tltey wood do better in Yew Zealand thaa in Kngland, bat if they had neither brains nor money they had better stay at home, were they would have tlje workhouse to fill oa: i? upon. : The G-auli'nV hiis t!>e fitilowins artic!« on the di-asfer in Afghanistan : ; 4 Tnily Kna} .ind is an admirab eeountry, which every <\ny gives new proofs of its Mils' froid uuder all circUmstancps Ttie national amour propre is the first ftflinj. A very natural emotion se zed the nation on the in'elligenee of the blow M-.at had siuek it, hut phlegmatic J ihnßull soon recovered self pos*esi»n. In ati\r other country such a diaas'er would have cnu^ei a fearful panic and a din' urban', c in the nation il equilibrium. Hut in Knsr'anil there was notliiu? of the kind. Etch made it a point of honour to keep his feel'ngs to himself. Official circles h^ray tt <> disquietude, and even the Gnanri.il world rem 'ns> culm and show its c nOdence in allowing no at t»ck to be made. on Engianii's ( r. j .d : fc An Act of P.vrli nr.ent passed rrore | than.*sso venr-i ngo has been a m-pns of I granting lh« Crow«i n trou'ileswoe prt:» j rogrativp. The 17 h Ei!w:»rd If. chanter j 11., remain? u'irrpf-n'H, anH 8« ia those days Statutes were drawn with cnv\mendable brevity, the wlnde of 'he -Vtxfc may hi 1 here given • — " '! he Kirm shall have the wrerk of the sea throu^hi out thfc realm, whales and great sturqrnns tnkeo in the sp;i or elsewere wit'iia the renlm PSc p pt in certain places privileged by the King.* 1 A cu'ious cu-tom was su^s^qu^ntly grafted upon this enactment. When a sturgeon was captured it w.ss sent lo the 'ioyal Palace f(»r the Kino's ose ; ■the food wis .pa\atabl>*. and the fl ■■?«]» pecul'ar. The other fish granted by the Act of Edward*.-* reign fo the K ; ne and his snecpssor down to the present was not a fi:-h. being the whalt, but a custom was allmv^d to creep in an' resfnVr rta!"^ which Edward It. en«---j iy< j d infaet, Wlien a w ! :ale was falcon on the "English roast the sea monster wa* divided ; was jyiven io the* Kino: and life tail to the Queen. Black-ttone mention* this as an undou')ted prerogative of the Queen Consort, and fire's n Q^gh { ' ie act i>ut tlie renpon, TliMßtl^e assigned by ancient records for^iis wlr'm^icial division, he says was to furnish the Queeii'a w-'rdrobo with whalebone, ay) m m.irp reopnt commpnta'or has lU-.obs rv<-d that. t!ip reason in ii'O'e Hyhimsicial than the division, as the whalebone of commerce --lies in the dead, aivl not in th«» tail of the animal. Prrioit'caily the 17. h Edsvard IT, chapter 11. reuiiins a dead letter. Very few wiialets ft re now caught iti Biitbh^ waters, and the small sturgeon ar^ plentiful, and yet such 'a fi^h as that receyj^y «enfc to \Vmdsor Castle, weigh'ii'.ii over 3 cwt., in'ghl be cnlltd a Uiiyil fi-'h from its s'zj as well as WaSM ITNfrKO ALITNK QTAWTZ * COM Pa: V, LliiiiKD. A T a Muctiiij: of L ret-tors, heldlhU .^ flay, n PIV[DEND (the 5rK) ~~o* ir ONE SKILLI\» pei Share (32,000.1 ) was (U'v\ ■•!!•«•.!, P.'iYvDLR at ilie Com .}>any's Cl2i.-e, I.tell. on TUESDAY, ' the 5 U ot (XC'iOJiEl . ISaO. . . * JAMES I^GLIS. i| Maua n cr. Lycll, 2a4 Oe'ober, 1880. > ■