MISCELLANEOUS.

Inangahua Times, Volume II, 21 January 1881, Page 2

MISCELLANEOUS.

Glids'on 1 will prohab'y propose I grant of £23.00f> to General Roberts. A dpw' Antarctic E^p^dition will b« undertaken by Dr. Allen and sfr Young, Toy cot! ins ' is inflexibly imposed in diS'ifFectel districts, and driving many well meaning people and mnnv Protestants info affiliation wilh the Leaguers. Numerous instances are given where even with police protection proscribed in* dividuals conld obtain nothing in the way of labor, food, or lodgings from the in* habitants. Dublin merchants and other citizens declare they wi'l not serve ou juries in the State trials for fear of injury to thcii business or murder. Local attorneys refuse to serve eviction papers, and in one instance where one did serve sncli paper he narrowly escaped with his life, although he apologised and promised not to repeat the offence. Lay cock is jubilant at his prospects in the sculling match, to be rowed on the 22ad instant. The Daily Telpgraph states that it is the intention of the Government to re* enact the Irish Peaoe Preservation Act, to which will ba added powers authorising authorities to search for and seize arms. The Teke Turkomans, who gained a grand victory over the Russians under General Tomakioe in 1878, have inflicted a crushing defeat on General SkobeloflTa expedition, which was directed against the A thai Btronghold atGeok Tepe. They offered a stubborn resistance to the Rus* sian advance, and after a desperate conflict defeated the invaders with the loss ol 3000 men. The Pullygrain, a new colliery in Rhoud da Valley, where the explosion took place on the tooth December, and 100 persons weret killed, is a>>out a mile from the place where the great explosion happened in the Dmas colliery on Jan* vary 13, 1878, wban some 60 persons perished. The French steamer "sunk by the Oretega, near Spezzia, on November 21 was the Uncle Joseph. The persons lost, about 250 souls, were mostly poor cmi« grants for South America. Miss Neillson was idolised in America and it is said the photographers art soiling her photographs literally bj thousands, so general is the desire o playgoers to possess a souvenir of thi popular actress now lost to the stage. Sarah Berriti«rdt, having procured th< recall of the German Minister at Copen hagen, is now at loggerheads with th Customs authorities of the United Spates F«>rty«seven dresses of hers, for which shi claimed free eutmcce at New York a an actress, b its been impounded at tb< Customs as exceeding a reasonable pririleue end liable to duty. She has pro tested. A good " fail " is a very essential ac complkshment for an emo'ioraal actress Miss Ada Cavendish would have beer flattered had she heard the criticism of i Canadian backwoodsman who witnessed her performance of • The New Magdalen at Toronto last winter. Describing hei fall, he said, * She don't sit herself down easy, as if she Was afraid of soiling hei gown, but drop 3 lika a corn out of a pine tree.' A case ha 9 just been brought to light in Chicago," which. h>d its progress been known, ond noted from day to day, would have created a far mure widespread in* terest than that evinced by the public in the diurnal doing* of the great starver. This is nothing less than that ofa woman, who ha» not spoken for thirty-one days As Boon as she beard of Dr Tanner, she said, with a resolution most comnaenda* hie ; " If there is amm on the face of the earth who thinks he can hold out forty days and forty nights without a chance tc grumble at his coffee or beefsteak. I i prove that there is a woman who can dc what all mmkiud has held that a womat can't do—l'll hold my tan^ue for fortj days." Whereupon she proceeded to hole it. and she hasn't said a syllable since. Her husband is a well known salesman in one of our largest dry goods places, and her father not unknown among Cbicago lawyers. Through the exertions ol thsse gentlemen, Mrs -singular resolution has been kept a secret as far n; practicable, only a few of the immediate family friends knowing what was going on Mrs has performed her accustomed daily duties with unfailing regularity, and her husband acknowledges that never during the seven years of his married life has bis home been so free from a -shadow of discord; for no matter how quarrelsome bis mood may have been his better half had met him with imperturable countenance and sileat tongae. She is rather a small woman, with grey eyes and dark hair, a trifle inclined to be stout, though her plumpness has decree ased about thirteeu pounds during the last thirty one days. She was dressed yery neatly in some dark goods, aud looked altogether quite like dozens of women one meets. There is nothing in hor personal appearance to indicate resolution; but there it is, an adamantine rock which neither time nor tide can crumble ; nor is it now likely that she will speak before the appointed forty days are goa

> The Rev. Father Pezint, who died re- , cently at 51 r C. Redwood's residence, k liiverlands, Marl borough, was one of the pioneer missionaries of thj colony, having 1 een in New Zealand upwards of forty years. From the Marlborougfh Express we ioarn thit on the 11th July. 181"). he Imded at Eirorarefca, in the North Is« , land, from the French worship L'Aube,. and since that date many are the places , where he has carried the good teachingsand consolations of religion, and rainy ara (lie friends he has won to himself by his cheerful and kind disposition. Shortly afrer his arrival in the colony, he apcora* panied Bishop Pompallierto Akaroa, then a French settlement. Afterwards ho atfended the districts of Taurmgi snl Ro« torua for four mouths, and spent threeyears amongst the Natives of W.-iikato-It may be mentioned that in the ooioion of the most competent judges Father Pc» zant was deemed to bs one of t'ue best Maori scholars in New Zeiland. Th* reverend gentlemen performed his mis* sionary duiies for some time in AnckUnd ' and Wellington. He had th? ch-ir^e of Taranaki for cine months, and afterwards of Otaki for about six months, but the jhee of his predilection, where he spent seventeen of th* happiest yt»>rs» >f his liffr : was Wanganui. During that time, or at * least for nine years, he bad to visit New Plymouth several times a jparoufcnt. ; His last eleven years were passtvl in the Provincial Dist rict of Marlborou^b. where be died. Professor J: S. Newburry read before/ the National Academy of Science of New York a lengthy account of enormously extensive mines of iron and coal veins in Utah. He said that the iron ore of Utah is without a rival, and the .territory > possesses not far from these ferruginous beds, 403 square miles of coal veins. Copper, sulphur, salt, nitrate, asphalt, mercury, and antimony are plentilul. The autimony mines, some 20 J miles south, : from Salt Lake City on the line through which the railroad is about to pass, are i the most remarkable of their kind in the > world, and could surely be worked to good I advantage.