MISCELLANEOUS.

Inangahua Times, Volume II, Issue II, 8 November 1880, Page 2

MISCELLANEOUS.

A lady, not unfamiliar witb ibe precincts of the Auckland Pol'ce Court, eii'eted '.be pol'ce guard room in tbat C'iy :• few days ago, with her two little barefooted chi'(!<eo. When the station keeper, who bad been busy, turned i onnd to iuqub'e bee. business he found ib.it tbe mother bad left her lii tie ones in bi^ charge. It was sur-* mbied that the step ws taken a* 3 preliminary to bringing ber mirtiil difficulties before the flench

Mr?, B''ittn'a. iv closing her remark 3 ou magnetism at oue of har lectures, alluded to Dr Tauner, and assarted that ihe aroma of food enabled him, witb a strong will, to perform in a city tbe remarkable feat tbat could not possibly have bepn succesofully under* taken in the couu'ry To the so-*pi"'se of the audieuce, Dr Tv-uuar made bis cppeaiauce ou the sta^e and said : "If I had continaetl my fast in the Clarendon Ball without the aid of tbe air iv the park, I cou'd no&'haye lived tweaty days. . . . Therefore my experience is uot iv accordauce witb your theory of m igoetic forces. Mrs D'ittaio collapsed.

The turbine wheel of a foundry at New Edinburgh (Ontario) was lately -tipped tt-.tee times by the enormoua number of eels migrating down the

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It is thought that tbe Marquis of Lome will resign in consequence of the severity of ilia CV.uai'iuu climate, which is unsuited to bis wife's health.

Tbe Dominion of Canada has granted ! (jOO 000 net es of hod loan English company, wb'di has guaranteed to complete iho Pac flo railway. Seveutv-one ocfi-jei's of the Victorian I Land Dep-rt'ineot bava rece-vad notice of dismissal, Tbey. ars to receive one ! monfc'n's ful I pay and enperanuuation. Nearly -S2OCO worth of nuggets were found iv two .claims at tbe Temora during the week euded 6th | Septemper. Tbe Glasgow Her.ihl says:— There is a prospect of optr.itions being resume lar tne Kddouan gold diggings, Sutbei'hmdshire. A German gentleman is at present testing tbe goldprodueing properties of quartz taken from several points in the strath. 'J be results nre reported to be very promising. Tiie process to be adopted ior separating the gold from quartz is said to ba quite uew, ch-3mii:als being the i-rir.cipat n:*;r-ut3 pm»'l.\Vi:--.i. Persons i-mg resident in Au.si.-ia.iia. statt. 1 lhat:

the geological features of Kddc-ian stratb to those of tbe Australian goldfield.

Tbe San Francisco correspondent •*- --tbe Daily Times write?: — If New 7, ; n " land cannot comoe ! "c with tha Unl f >*C

States in many of its product?. tbi;v, nre some thiug* in which it cancn.-l should compete. Tbe following est raj-"; from the San Francisco C**__i3rci ; ;J News is to the point. It tell-? its off". tale. Why not «o in for an export of preserved potatoes >o England as Call** foruiu has done ? Your labour is qulw as cheap, and you can grow equally good potatoes. Let some of jom enterprising capitalists try. Tho machinery may be bought I have no doubt, 'i he'Corcmercial News say : — ' Reeenllv nn inv*orrnnfc industry his sprung up in this Slate in the way to preserving potatoes for a foreign market. A arch 'tie lias been invented for preying and preserving potatoes io s-ueb r« mainart bat tbey miy b? dried and kept for a number of years ia any climate. No oxidisation or fermeu'alion lakes Wace in tbe process, an I after the potatoes go through the enlire process tbey retain to a great ex* tent their natural taste anl origuai freshness- Shipments undo to En * land, during the past yeir by Falfcn_r Cell nid Co. have alivcted attention, and the demad for California preserved potatoes in that country already exceeds Ihe supply. Tbe first shipment to Liverpool brought the sum of IGO dol. per ton over all expense of shipment. La-ifc yea?' about twenty ton* were shipped f"om Sin Francisco, which brought 43 English shillings per hundred weight;, or at tbe rat.; of 3101. per s-ick for _■ reea potatoes At Areata LTumboidt Comity, a strong company lias been organised to preserve potatoes by ibis new process. Ventura has an app;>r.i'us in working order, and will haa l«e a large quantity of potatoes tbis li,l». San Francisco merchants and capitalists evince a lively interest in tbe enterprise, and are watching ie-* subs closely. The tbe testimony of. English merchant** ia to the effect that I lie proilncla are superior, and in active demand."