MISCELLANEOUS.

Inangahua Times, Volume II, Issue II, 2 March 1881, Page 2

MISCELLANEOUS.

An exchange says t— ' There will no longer be any need of sending to Eng>» land for church bells. The Langlands Foundry Company, at Melbourne* have recently turned out the great bell of the Emerald Hill Town Hall clock, the largest yet cast in Australia, weighing 1 ton 9cwt 3qrs, and stuck with a hammer 95 lbs in weight on the outside. The note is cF ' sharp, and the bell waß found to hare the note correct when cast, without bein» re* duced or altered. Most bells have to be tuned on the 'sound' blow until the proper note is produced. It was made from Australian copper and Tasmanian tin, so that in every respect it is a colonial production There are considerable heartburnings among the Australians in London. Alderman M'Arthur who made all his

woney is Australia, washed to the the chief cty of the world. The Australians were in ecatoeie S ,and more than one pointed out to the city magnate what a grrnd chance of cemeatiogl the union between tbe Colouieß and Kogiand. tbe Eight Worsbipful gave a grand opening 8 banquet , hundreds were invited-but not a nagl* Australian Agent-Generals- was 88K0U Aastralia is the land of contrariety fo regard to animal and vegetable life It ban black swans, tbe duck* . mole fish which climbs trees, cherrfes with the stone outside, veritable wooden pears, and a fly which catches spiders. - ■ Only six candidatet^ottt .of, 771 passed the Melbourne .matriculation with credit, *fid of these itfactly one balf were *omefr; * A nugget weigbrttgt 201 oz 16dwt, worth over £&00, bus been found taken the B*y View Double The revolver tnania hUh^rtb^ con* | nidered a peculiarity of America, is fast ' spreading in Victoria. The Daily Telegraph,, cdmmenting on the case of Debenham and Freebody v. Mellon, settled recently by the House of Lords, says :^ The Lord Chancellor's dictum that • even when a wife lives with and is ttfeintaihed by her husband she has no authority in Jaw to pfedge his , credit ' is trne aa a broad principle, but it is modified by tbe presumption that a wife living with her husband is his agent so far as ibe ordering of necessaries i« concerned which we have state,?. Yet such a presumption may .fee rebutted j in other words, directly the husband "steps forward md says, 4 1 have given a tufficient allowance, and forbidden her to go beyond it.* the presumption of agency ceases, The wholes hardship is in tlfe possible secrecy of the transaction/ That there is nothing new under the sum is freshly exemplified by an old painting, of Albert Duress. in which, among the articles surrounding' a female figure, are the numerals 1 to 16 so arranged that tbe lines, in whatever direction added, made the number 34 and so anticipate the 15 puzzel. Of tbe panel Of forthright from wfiich ajaty was selected for the trial of the leading Land Leagures, thirtynine were tradesmen, two agents, four gentlemen, one secretary of a railway company, one a hotelkeeper, aud one 4 lieutenant colonel. Jf be pute his arm round her like a bear, and stops her breath when he kisses her they are not married, but are likely to be, If he puts his hands on her shoulder's, leans forward a little, snatches tbe kiss and falls back, they have been married two weeks, If he corned with hjs hands in his pockets' looks out of the window, says 4 "Well, goo^-bye,' gives her a tasteless «mack, and rushes off they have been two years married The smallest paper in the world is tbe Madoc Star, published in Canada ; tbe size of it is 3in, by 3£in. and it is publish weekly. The annual subscription is 2s. The first page contains foreign news tha second mining, and the third and fourth local news.