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Inangahua Times, Volume II, Issue II, 3 November 1880, Page 2

San Franciaco journalism ia not high ■ toned as may be gathered from the following sample taken from the Srn Francisco Chronicle :— ' Aoson G. Killocfc: a nephew of the Mayor and cousin of the skunk who assassinated Charley de Young, is in gaol on a ' charge of stealing money from Keane Bros., Sun Francisco. That Kalloch crowd must have been conceived in inlquitv and borne ia sin. May the devil take them — without delay.' A telegram informs us that the pros* pectus of a company to work the marble quarries of Caswell Sound ha 3 been issued atWellinton. | A Hungaran olfiuer named Szerk- ! remesky has just succeeded ia swim- | mm" across the Piatten See, from ' 1 Eeured to Siofck. The distance actually traversed was twenty English miles and the tima occupied in the task was seventeen hours. During the *ho e f of the time the swimmer did not appear ;o suffer from exhaustion or fatigue, ', and frequently conversed with the occuptnts of a boat which accompanied , him. The only refreshment taken by II- Szerkremesky was a little wine. Large sums wera betted, both in Yieuua aud Berlin, on the success of the affair.

A great Queensland squatter returned after a visit to England. Hia friends asked him what he thought o! it. Reply: , It's a Dice little country but it's all taken up.' When King Cetywayo put on Ins first pair of pantaloons, kindly presented him by the British Government, he murmured softly '- f Charity covereth. a multitude of shina. ' The last religious census in France ebows that there are 35,387,703 Roman Catholics, 497,531 Calyinists, 80.117 LutheraDS, aod 33;113 of other Protestant denominations. The Jews uumber about 50,000, and 90,009 are attached to no Church. Iceland has five newspapers, whose editors read English, German, and French. No country, ifc is said read 3 so many books in proportion to its population. Mr, W. Maycock, printer of the I Londou Times, died at Kennington, onj for the last 25 years had been thai practical working printer. I Owing to the alteration in the Dis-1 «rict Courts, consequent upon the re* tirement of several Judges it has been found necessary to alter the date of sittings. On the West Coast the timo has been regulated, as follows: — At the Courtshoase, Greymoutb, on the 6th of December; at Hokitika on the 9th December ; at Reefton on.the 2od December; and at Wesport on November 29ih. A strange effect of lightning h vouched or by a French provincial journal. A young man was walking a few day since, along the country road to Kichelandiere duriug a violent thunderstorm. In his hand he carried an unlit carringe^lamp. Suddenly be felt what seems to him be a violent blow on his right arm. Ho supposed that the thunder had either stuck him or something very near him. What was hi* wonderment and surprise to fiud the lamp lit by the electric fluid The News of the W"orld had novel vny of announcing to the public that its price would be reduced to one penny. Prior to the day of reduction a number of sandwich men paraded the Strand and other large thoughfares o( London wearing a huge bead«gear shaped like the globe, . with all the countries mapped out and coloured.