MISCELLANEOUS.

Inangahua Times, Volume II, Issue II, 23 February 1881, Page 2

MISCELLANEOUS.

A farmer down South, who has pat id an experimental crop of eHcory this year expects to realise £45 per acre ! from bis venture, though the hares hare played sad havoc with it. The crop has been bespoken at £5 per ton. There is a large colonial maket for this product Messrs Beetham finished shearing: operation at Brancepeth last week, 49, 400 old sheep, and 14,500 lamps in round numbers having passed through the shearers' bands since the com* mencement of the month of November last, when work commenced in earnest, There was & remarkable scene in Paris a few weeks ago on the arrival from New Caledonia of the Communist female leader, Louise Mitche), with the lust batch of the amnestied M. Rochefort and M. Clemeneeau kissed her, women threw themselves on her n^ck, and there was altogether a gushing scene, till M. Rochefort gut her into a cab. Many of the people had red ribands in their buttonholes or dresses. A deputation consisting of tbe Irish Eight waited npon the Lord Mayor and Dublin Town Council for the purpope of delivering into the custody of the Lord Mayor the Elcho Schield recently won by the Irish riflemen. Coptain Maxwell, who, in the absence of the Duke of Abercorn, headed the deputation, said this was the fifth tine the Irish team had carried off tbe sheild. A resolution of congratulation was passed, the deputa* tion, on leaving the council chamber, was warmly cheered. The Bill introduced into tho Honse of Commons to suppress bribery at elections provides that an end shall be | put to lavish expenditure at elections by filing schednle, limiting what shall be the legitimate expenses of an election, the amount being regulated according to tbe size of constituency ; and varions punishments, including hard labor are provided for corruption. Says a London newspaper, The Universe, Nov. 20—* England is threatened by a very serious and ft very dangerous nuisance. The advent is announced of Mormon missionaries ' headed by an English elder. 1 They sailed some time ago in tbe steamer Wiscnosin, which is expected to arrive shortly, if she has not already arrived. Tbe mormons make it a boast that they carried away 8,000 persons last spring, and they no doubt eipepfc to be equally successful this year. Judge Hilton and Mrs Stewart, in admimistering the estate of the late Alexander T. Stewart have appropriated sums which will probably amouut in tbe aggregate to 3,000,000 dollars, to the establishment at Garden City Long Island, of a college for the education of young persons of bo?h sexes at a charge ' of less than 100

dollars a year, including travelling ixpenses from New Xork or Brooklyn. The small-pox is iweeping off, by hundreds, the Canadian Indians on the north ahore of the Gulf of St. Lawrence and mich is the panic that those not afflicted flee from the dead and tbe dying. The accounts that continu3 to reach this country regarding the gold»mining fields of Southern India are still of the most gratifying character. On the property of one of the latest of the new companies in the field, a reef has been struck, from which gold to iho enormous amount of 15 to 16 01 per ton of quartz is said to have been ex« Iracted. The quarte of Colar goHfields is reported to yield an average of am ounce per ton ; and it is said that (ha means of extracting the gold that nro employed there are still comparatively rough. If these statement* represent anything like the truth, tbe problem of the profitable Working of the fcouth Indian gold mines may be said to be solved ; for tbe mines can be worked so average of Bdvrtfl, ~per~ toa* or» obtained. Home News. The Christchurch Grobe* a Ministerial paper— the evening edition of the Press— lately told its readers, •The colony has at the present moment, on its bands a number of hoes that do not, by a very long way, pay working expenses. Take, for instance, the line from Wellington to Feather-* ston over tbe raoges. Every year tie loss to the Colonial Exchequer in connection with this undertaking is something very considerable.' A great amount of interest is being taken in tbe Mount Arthur reefs, and on every side we (Nelson Colonist) bear tbe opinion expressed that ere long an extensive auriferous country will be opened up. Mr Outness, the "Warden for the diitrct, lira visited tbe locality of the reefs for the purpose of reporting to tLe Government, and he Bays that the reefs as now been exposed, and the one which has now been driven on for 25ft presents all tbe appearance of being well defined and higbly payable. A lady preteber, Mrs Hampton Wang* cnist, is creating crest excitement at the Thames, Auckland. An open air service was atlenJed by 3000 persons. She has a wonderful flow of language, and great influence over women, maay of whom throw themselves at her feet. Sir Fitzroy Kelly, tb« late Chief Baron of England enjoyed for fifteen years an average iceome of £50,000 being tho largest income over made by any English lawyer, except Lord Selbourne. Mr R. E. Murray brought an action in the Resident Magistrate's Court, Danedin, to recover from tbe Caledonian Society of Otago the sum of £33, being damages, for an alleged breach of agreement in allowing persons other than the plaintiff, to sell fruit at the recent annnal gathering. His Worship Mr W. L. Simpson, gare judgment iv favor of | the plaintiff, with costs. ! Tbe Taranaki Herald says:— « sonio days ago a party of six Natives came down to the Whit Cliffs from the King country, the object of their visit being (o secure a trophy which was buried nuder a rock near the camp. Fire of tbe Natives went to the camp, but tbe sixtfi, a young man who wa» tabooed, went to the rock and found the concealed tmsnre, where it had been buried during the war in 1861. It appears the king ; desired to possess himself of the buried hatchet, or mere, bat for what purpose it is not easy to imagine. After having been buried so many years, surely the digging up of tbe mere portend* some* thine.'