MISCELLANEOUS.

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

MISCELLANEOUS.

, M » His Worship the Mayor of Hokitiaka 4\as received a telegram from the Premier stating that this Excellency regrets public business will necessitate his return to Wellington within too ahort a time, to premit of his Bihgß of theUmee: the Wellington : JeWoi&nfc Society bas spent up i i^ffids of^B33ooin relief during tbe) HBP year 1 and . the committee .expect eomibg winter will be worse flu the last. "' ' 'M^MsJSi m the -United Kingdom is f^il,b00;900; United States. £84, 4)00,000; France, £68,000,000; and .Germany, £48,000,000. Stone-breaking does not appear to be Appreciated by inmates -of the Wellington Benevolent Institutions. Some -few weeks ago it Was resolved by the authorities to majro such men as were able to do so, work out the cost of the rations supplied to them by* doing this kind of work. When the innovation was first introduced there .were twenty-four men on the ' roll, presumably unable to find work. Now , there are only four, and the authorities Ate beginning to think that stonebreaidag is unexampled as an antidote to poverty. The, funds of some rich men in London are sometimes mysterious in their origin, whatever, publicity may subsequently ,be given to their dts* tribution. One of the most problematic of all was lately submitted to arbitration in the Courts of law, and excited the greatest interest among the lawyers. . The fortune is in consols po investments whatever haying been made by the teator. The money which has been accumulating until the last legatee should come of age, now yields 440,000 per annum. It emanates from the Golden Dustman immor* talised by Dickens in 'Our Mutual Friend.' The wealth has already passed two generations ; and this third consists of three girls and a boy among whom the income will be equally divided* Punch's Hotel Sydney was sold for £24,000 to Frank Punch. Socialistic principle* are rapidly spreading in Germany. The 3few Zealand Protestant— an Orange periodical— made its first appearance on the lat • The Warden at Temorahaa issued nearly 3600 miner's rights, and 410 business rights) Defective drainage was the cause of 70 per cent of the recent deaths from diphtheria in Chicago, The London Truth desirea that

England should have a few thousa»d Chimamen as domestic servants, A report from Coen lliver (Queens* land; diggings states that there are now 800 Chinese there, getting 10s to 20s per day, . The correspondent of the Sydney Daily Telegraph at Temora reports that Temora. is inundated with Victorian capitalists investing in reefs and alluvial. Probably the largest army ever assembled for battle was that of Xerxes at Thermool® in 412 B.C. Herodotus wHnwt<»> ■ the number of combatants at 25,000,000. A doctor went out for a day's hunting, and on coming home, complained that he had'nfe killed anyt bins;. * That's because you did'nt attend to your legitmate business,' said his wife* j Sir Alexander T. Gait is now hard ! at work to nßsist emigration from Ireland to Canada. A syndic* te has been formed to carry out .th's object, and preparations to develop the emigration to Canada on a great scale are going on favorably. The whole cost of the Sydney Ex- j hibition building; was £329,000. Allowing for receipts and sale of annexes, tbe deficiency will be about £83,000. Mr Parnell has just made a tri- j nmpnant tour through Ireland, and everywhere met Vith an enthusiastic reception, comprising triumphal arches ifla/W, and demonstrative welcome. The King of Dahomey recently summoned the European residents in Iffhydab to attend him at Dahomey, there to witness »^he annual ' custom' ifl honour of his faW father. , As this j 4 custom' involves the pitiless massacre of hundreds of captives, the British refused to attend. The -21.it- December last was the 75th anniversary of the birth of tbe Bight Hon Earl of Beaconsfield, E.G., who has born in London on 21s December, 1305, through some accounts made 1804 the year of his birth A passenger engine, built chiefly for speed, has just been finished at the Baldwin Locomtive Works, for Use m &« Bound Brook route he* tween New York and Philadelphia. It » intended to make the distance— 90 miles— in 90 minutes. I An hotel that makes up three! thousand beds has been bu It in San Francisco. .There are arcades lined witlMfcopa^o^b^ grouwULpvtwo. or three wwtaurants, a theatre, and other place of am asement within its outer walls. The United States Government have /decided to strictly enforce the Federal laws, against illegal practices which are maintained by the Mormons in Ufob* Proceedings have tiken against the son of Brighman Young, the deceased prophet, and he has been indicted at Salt Lake for bigamy. The firm pf the Rbtbsehilds in Paris, of which the partnership expired on September 30fch last, has been renewed for a period of twenty-five years. The capital .is 50 000,000 francs— that U, 10,000,000 dollars— furnished in equal, parts by the three brothers— Barons Alphose, Gustave, and Edmood. When the photograph of Mrs Langtry is surrounded by the portraits of a dozen America beauties, the spectator always points to the Englishwoman and asks, 'Who's that homely per* lon f— ['Nprristown Herald.] Mr Cornelius Hartely Christmas, of Great Yarmouth, bis vested in wujtee the Bjum of £16,000, the interest whereof is to be devoted in prepetuity to tbe purchase of coal and bread for annual distribution with small gifts of money, among the poor Yarmouth. The revisers of the autlvorised version of the New Testaments met for tbe,ir hundred, and third and last fteitidh on 'November 6th, in the Jerusalem Chamber, and concluded their work. The sittings lasted 407 days and the average attendance has been sixteen on each day meeting. The Cleveland, Herald hating published some verses entitled, Whv Bo I Sing ?' and Written by a young woman, the Chicago ' Tribune' rejoins that it is probably because'her father paid five hundred dollars to a music teacher for spoling a good stocking darner, t