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MISCELLANEOUS.

— , ♦ ' ■ . y* At Tarn Creek, Western Australia, a* ~ern«hing of IS ton* of quartz yielded 180. oudcps of gold. The owners of the, cl^K »r9 Chinese. g,*; An inquiry into the late election of a Mayor for the. Borough of Hokitika will be, held by Dr. Giles, the tffMdent Magis' trate of that town, on the 17 th inst. We regret to learn of the dea»h of Mr M. H. EUlson— nrnre usually known by nearly every old West Coaster as " Mick > Kittson— which took place at the Hokitikn Hospital on Tuesday last. . ' Berdine and part jr. who havi? been jinking a shaft about IQO yards fjomtlie prospectors' claim at the new rnsh (nenr Kughea's farm, on the Teremakau) struck some wash at 40 feet, which yielded one ; grain to the dish. SabSSqoently, during the day, a rumor was circulated in town that his mates , who had followed him on his shift, had obtained over a pennyweight to the. dish ; but at the time of onr going to press this rumor required confirmation. There is no doubt that $»old exist* in the flat, and as 'there' is an uninterrupted line of country without a break from the Berdme's shaft to the Kapitea 'Creek the discovery may be looked on as a most important ono to the district at large.— Grey hirer Argus. The members for the Arahura Hiding in the County Council Oays the West \ i Coalt Times) have no cauiie to gronible. { They have all got their fingers in the pie • at present. sMr Seddon is County ,Chaiman ; Mr M'Whirter [Chairman of the Public Works Committee, and Mr Sandle I is Chairman of the Finance Committee. The Geelong Times, referring to the Gaunson* Kelly demonstration, says :— " Such an event reads like gastly page from the Newgate Calendar, Indeed, I it is a pity, perhaps, seeing that it was the sth November, tlmt Mr Gaunson ■ eoiild not have borrowed the condemned criminal for tlmt occasion, and ex hi hi ed 1 him to the multitude to excite their i sympathy. Jack fheppard'a gaoloi'3, it I is on record, did this, charging a shilling > to the public, an I a crown to the nobility. , and realised L2OO by the venture. Dr | Dodd, the forner, made money for his ex« bibitors after the same fashion." Mes»ers Longmans aud Co.. hwe pai ! L12.0C0 for " Endymion," by Lord ■ :- Beacon^field. ' The Tniies stales that General Nicolsi n has been appointed' Governor of Tas* mania. Tlnre is ioTjeihing amusing in the fol ; lowing paragraph which appeared in the I H >kuik'i morning paper of NovemWer , 33th :— Mi F. Killer, authorised surveyor and brother of the late District Surveyor , at Westport, started by this morning's 1 coach for Invercargill, where be enters into partnership with G. T. Stevens, Esq., a geutleman who has been over 20 years ; In the Government Service, and who 13 a i great .favor with all the leading men aud I citizens there. Mr F. Hitler expressed to us his i»reat regret, -at having been un« able, on account of his outdoor profession to go i;ito society here. He is better known Jo his comoatriois as a fellow warrior in tiie b'gut .against Austria hi ibQQ, when he was a very young cornet or ensiojn of the time. Further particulars respecting the fire at ProuJiout's shed, in Duoediu, disclose suspicious uit'cumstaoces which point to incendiarism. The cud of the shed, whore the fltraes broke out, was accexgable to the public and the two men at work heard •a noise jist before the fire broke out. The £oßt sts/.es tlia,t (be Eo« '

press Eagenre ha^ j tst too^ht the Faftt" borous;h-nU.^ estate, in Hampshire, close to tbe borderkof the coanty of Batrey, for £50,000. The estate was the property of "the late Mr Longman, the well-known publisher, and* consists of about 257 acres with a picturesque mansion erected by thelate owner about eighteen years ago. Tbe Empress will not go into possession until January, as Mrs Longman the widow, is very anxious to spend another Christmas at Farnboroagh»hill. The Empress intends to build on the property 'a chapel to receive the bodies of the Emperor and .the Prince Imperial. Her lease of Camden Place expires in March next. . M. Gam and has conducted r series of observations, daring the past 19 years, upon the solid contents of snaoal growth in a forest among tbe Jara mountains. He finds that : 1. Light, when it strikes the ground without baring been sifted by foliage, stimulates the production of carbonic acid in the decompositions which are engendered br the humus, together with a decomposition of the same gas by the chlorophyll. 2. The growth of wood diminishes when the underbrush inter* cepts, to any great extent, and the access of light to the soil and diminishes its reflex action on the branches of the trees. 3. This interruption of reflex action is due mainly to the spread of rhe underbrush, for when it is kept trimmed the vertical shoots which are retained interpose no obstacle. 4. The mold, under too great a lbickness r lo?es apart of its virtue, and, like barnyard manure which is too deeply buried, remains inert for many years. ■■— Compttis Hendus. The Wairompa ?tand»rd speaks tm follows of Mr, late District Judge Weston :-<-" Mr Justice Weston, who was lately one of our Judges, but was dismissed through the alleged exigencies of our financial position, was lately pre* rented with an illuminated address, containing kindly and generous sentiments by tbe people of Hokitilca. Of course we nil know the value of these protestations of economy when we sea the extravagant expenditure undiminishe.) on the West. JCioaat, (North Island.) But to return to Mr Weston. He has often given, cause for many newspaper comments, and many | arnu^ioir anecdotes have been told of his i manners and mode of speech. But in the \ reply he mada to the presenters of tbe j address we seem to coma nearer to the man than we hare c. er done before. He comes otifc in a new light. He towers far over tbe head;} of most of us when be says . t- m Blessed with one of the best of women as a mother and a father of un« d'tibted honor, and having practised betite, and be might say having studied, under a gentleman who graced the Bench of New Zealand, the late Chief Justice Sir George Amey, it would be indeed a disgrace if he had failed to realise the respf.nsibilities of his po-ition and the obliga'ions imposed- on him." There is the ring of the mettle or true manhood to be beard in they sentence, and 'ail men who reed it will feel that " an upright Judge ' has been taken away.

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Inangahua Times, Volume II, Issue II, 15 December 1880, Page 2

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MISCELLANEOUS. Inangahua Times, Volume II, Issue II, 15 December 1880, Page 2

MISCELLANEOUS. Inangahua Times, Volume II, Issue II, 15 December 1880, Page 2

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