MISCELLANEOUS.

Inangahua Times, Volume II, Issue II, 7 March 1881, Page 2

MISCELLANEOUS.

In no oilier feountry in the World are so many wheat bags used as in California. Last year on less than 21, 000,000 were required. A number of Irishmen in Victoria have sent congratulatory telegrams to Mr Parnell. Mr Walker has definitely decided to contest Maldon on Mr Service's retire* ment. The Chinese are still flocking to Port Darwin (so the correspondent of the Melbourne Age reports), in hundreds, and they now number 4000 to about 5000 Europeans, while wo may soon expect another 1000. The examiners for scholarships in Danedin were severe on the candidate! for their errors in grammar and composition The Dunedin Herald showd that the examiners have made grosser errors in their reports. Judges Hargreaves and Fawcets. of ftew South Wales are entitled to pensions of £1,400 a year, having completed their fifteen years' service. The latter has just obtained two years' 1 leaye. Beferring to the large number of gentlemen who have been appointed Justices of the Peace, Mr Haggitfc remarked in the Dunedin District Court, that ' every other man you meet is a Justice of the Peace,' ' Charon, writing two years ago in a Sydney paper, predicted that so soon as Trickett lost a great race many of hit so-called friends would turn round and accuse him of swindling. A Toronto alderman of the tpyical ample dimensions, wandered round for awhile on the first dav of April with a placard across Lis back, inscribed* , ' Widened at the expense of the cor* poration. The daughter of the ex« Khedive was recently married to Daoub Pasha, a brave but savage soldier who paid off debts to the amount of half a million dollars before his wedding, which he could afford, as the bride brought him, besides ready money, seven, palaces and over forty thousand acres of land. H. R- H. the Princess of Wales ia 1 remarkably popular among the working classes, so much so that when she goes out shopping however quiet and unassuming her equipage may be, she is almost certain to be surrounded by such a crowd that the police are oftaa obliged to interfere before the ro^-p.l

lady can reach her carnage on coming out of the shops Fifty* two persons died in England in the year 1880 leaving fourtunes of d6i00,000 and upwards. Three of * them left more than a million— the Duke of Portland, £1,50,0000: Mr John Williams, of Carhayex Castle. Cornwall, £1,600,000 and Mr'Tbomu Wrigley, of Timberhursfc, Lancashire. £1,300,000.' The manufacture of condensed milk Jn New South "Wales has proved a sucpess. The ' Sydney Telegraph r of a recent date saysi— The first consignment of condensed milk from the work* of the Kiatha and Gerringong Con«*. densed Milk Company has been tested fit the Sydney Coffee Palace. It is in lib tins, which are stated to represent five pints of rich country milk and about one. 'third of a pound of best loaf sugar. The milk is condensed by a thorottghly experienced manager, and tbe test made at the coffee palace shows that the country is not only sttite4 Jto the production of a Article bdfc iU cftnptisf bay& been succestful in putting the l right men in tbe right place, , tbe,^ milk' on being dissolved in W^teV giyes; it a rich white color. and, can scarcely be detected from pure fresh milk. v hTe taste is toft and pleasant, ani in every waf it appears to answer as well as fresh milk. The cost is about 9d per tin, or less than bne*tfaird the orice of fresh milk. '