MISCELLANEOUS.

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

MISCELLANEOUS.

Corporal punishment is not allowed in Chieauo schools. Tlie Sydney Mail says that wheat flour is the best thing to throw on a fire caused by the ignition of kerosene. Mr Hislop, Under Secretary for Education, has gone to Auckland to reoraan» ise the Koliimaranja Naval Training School. It is said that the British losses in the Afghan war ate less io number than the Afghans hanged by Ihe English. Intelligence has been received that the ' dragoman or interpreter attached to the Austrian Consulate at Prisrend, in A* banin, has been assassinated. i According to a writer in the Contemporary, the United Stales Government pays to every soldier who ha? been in* jured in its service £175 a year. ' A youngster picked up a rifle the other day in Walker's cariosity shop and rifl' gallery, in Wellington, and safely lodged a bullet in the arm of a woman. A most destructive fire broke oat a 1 Wagga Wag^a New south Wales, at midnight on Friday iast (Oct 18), and completely destroyed the Masonic Hall and several adjoining baiUings. The damage is estimated at £10,000, which is fully -covered by insurance. The fire raged for five hours. Blum Pasha, one of the Prussian officers in the employ of the Porte, has stated officially " that even in their present condition the Dardflnelles and Bosphorous could not be forced by any number of ironclads without the raost terrible loss."