MISCELLANEOUS.

Inangahua Times, Volume II, Issue II, 11 February 1881, Page 3

MISCELLANEOUS.

• ■— — ■ — ♦- — , The export of coal from Newcastle, for the week ending January 22nd was 20,000 tons. Mr Frank J« £owes formerly senior partner in Howes and Cushings circus, Las died in Texas. According to American papers Cole'B circus is to return to the States in June next. Mr Tennyson's new play is a tragedy in two acts, of which Mr Irving assumes the heroic role, aril Miss Ellen Terry that of the heroine. One of the largest theatres in the world will be that of Le Theatre de Comtanzi, now on the eve of completion at Rome. The auditorium will hold four thousand spectators. Fewsdale, in York, is sinking, through an unexplained subsidence in the soil. The inhabitants are alarmed, for many of the houses are now cracked to their foundations. Mother Shipton prophisied and Fewsdale would go' down to "Washburg, and appearance points to a fulfilment of the pre* diction. A volume containing description* of all the presents ever given to a queen is certainly an oddity, but it is said that Queen Victoria proposes to issue such a book It is to be illustrated by photographs, and to include not merely costly gifts, but simple tokens of affection which had been given by her poor subjects at Balmoral. Last year 720 children under twelve years of age were sent to gaol in England. The offences were principally pulling a flower or stealing a few apples, or turnips or ears of corn, or the criminal has broken a window, or trampled on somebody's grass or dene something for which a gentle thrashing would be an adequate punishment. It would appear by the following paragraph from the Daily Telegraph that persons visiting the Hot Springs would do well to exercise a little more than ordinary caution as to where they place their feet. Our contemporary says that Richard "Wood, son of a resident at Hastings, who is on a visit to Taupo, accompanied by Mr M'Leod of the same place, while visiting the springs in the vicinity of the Crow's Nest sank through a tbin crust of earth into boiling water, scalding him* self above the knees. Had it not been for his companion beipg near more