MISCELLANEOUS.

Inangahua Times, Volume II, Issue II, 25 March 1881, Page 3

MISCELLANEOUS.

♦—- — — fbe statement that the Great Eastern has beeti chartered for 10 years to carry dead meat to Great Britian from the Amercian seaboard on the Biver Plate is startling enough (remarks the tiverpobl Mercury)/ The scheme is a bold one, a* will be upen when we mention .Ibrtthe pro* moterß calculated that beef of prime quality can be laid down in the United Kingdom from the Argentine Province *t 3d pWlb»atid't}i§Vthey, propose to slaughter the c*fflf *» twrrd from day to day MWf^ meat in >efQj^frA^prt6vjt|d; v extent of voyage, *H, %sm*^i%m$ m 3000 to 4000 a m*t &?&**** Great Easter* -fr 700 *%*;|6bg, And 24,000 tout burdeii. ' , 'It i 4 eaid thai the lews of London' have teeogafoed the s-rvioea of the late George Eliot to the Hebrew race by offering prayers for the repose of W-sonl, One hundred and fifty toni of •quarlz, from the Crown Claim, Gympie, yielded 21910s of gold At the Presbyterian Church at West Harbor^ near Dunedin, do Sunday evening the $th instant, the Ra*. Mr NiVen Made the following remark* concerßk« TRcingt— 'l can scarcely ffestnaa «yself f/-om referrmg to the fo^l Wot dn our isiVilitatioa that the paet^eek preseots. That such an iMtl'tttiort as racing should be patron tffled to tie extent it is, with all its ?illanous and attendant blackguardism, if fereatiy.td 1 bej deprecated and is frtmvft afl a disgrace i(o, Christianity. The age of horned eittle may gener* -alljr be;lrflowtt>y f i'.ings pn the horns till their tenth year ; after that time they give oo indication of age fa rth*r ibftfltfcat the animal has passed two for*^ojlMopiv afters as a general rule, through sometime* before that age. DaHbgtbe'tbird yenr the ring gradually iueresiW, and al three years of age it is completely formed. The second ribg appMrtdurm^ the fourth year, and at the fifth year it i« complete. After ibat period in additional ring is formed «ftcb f e*r. Thin rule i& suftcjeatly plain; aod even a young farmer needs' bat little practice to enable him to read a cow's age on her horns. A cow with three rings is six years old 4 with foar she is seven years old, Ne new rings we farmed after .the tenth .year; the deeper rings, 'however, and the worn appearance of ethe horns ff«e prettf sure indications of old age.— Exchange. "The mining town of Alta, Utah, ftas been nearly destroyed by avalanches Ten persons ate reported to have perished. News has been reeejved from Cairo . that two pyramids built to a king of the Sixth Dynast* have been discovered to .the . north of Memphis. They were buried beneath the sand. The vault* nnd chambers are, it is stated, covered with inscriptions. A step towards the abolition of betting on Mcecourses in Prussia has •been taken by the Public, Prosecutor informing <the proprietors of the grounds used for horse-racing that the presence of bookmakers and betting men is illegal. v A mysterious robbery of jewellery, .amounting in value to several tbonsand pounds, took place in one of the leading Glfl^ow hotels the other night. owner,of the' properly (eft it in "*4is ' bedroom while be went down to dinner, and on returning he found his cases had been forced and the jewellery abstracted. The jewellery stolen is valued at £9000, tad it ' belongs to Messrs Henry Green and Co., wholesale jewellers, It consists of 400 gem. diamond and signet ring?, 100 brooches, 100 bracelets; 260 chains, and 150 earrings, A reward of £500 has been /offered, It is bejieved that the travels ling partner was dogged by the thieves from London, , The Melbourne Daily Telegraph of a recent date records the following f—' A sudden and singular death occurred oerfi yesterday to a book-binder and paper-ruler named William Saltmarsh. On Thursday last decease felt the bite of a fly* or Qther insect near hia lip, which caused irritation, and he picked the spot with hia finger, which action is supposed to have aided the ioflam* mation which set in his lip and face. The blood became affected, and his lip and face swelled to an inordinate sige, On Sunday he got worse, and

in themorriing Dr Crossen put the patient under the Halford treatment for poisoning. At two o'clock he injected ammonia info the deceased's arms, which had a decided effect on the system, but the patient could not rally, In about half an hour >be brentedbis last. Great surprise was felt that such a trivial thing should have had such a tragic end, Iq regard to the paragraph quoted relative to the Tararua gold robbery, it may be said that the facts stated are, to a certain .exfeht, correct, through not the inferences oVawn therefrom. On the detectives becoming apprired of the fact that a stranger had an unusually heavy carpet bag in hiV potwession in a certain hotel in Mel* bourne, inquiry was made, but no trace of tbe r rowing property was found. Sinee < thea smilar reports have been brought to the detectives, but they have proved to be without foundation, Th#. beß^is tb*t-tbe 'gold WM^stofen ifaip£So^^|^n^n%r^o^ fpiidttTinißf tfie^ar- 1880 was^no h**) than £69,327,000, ineludini? BrttioW property, £47.495 000. Tie grand toral number of wrecks reported was 1680, which compared with the total at tbe end of 1879 shows a decrease of eight. British-owoe^ sMps number 913, and those of all flags wrecked on the eoatt.pf tie British Isles were 480 The registered tonnage nggre^ gated upwards of 900.000 tons, joclttstve of 150 steam vessel*, mostly evned in t he : United Kingdom, Aboat 4000 livep w«re lost, and about 200 veweN were lost through collision. o^^ thi lam #^ek of ; the year'34i British aod foreign wrecks, of which 41 were Britihs, were reported, the estimated talttV feeing MMo>* including Britiiih £i;MO,000. v ; •''