MISCELLANEOUS.

Inangahua Times, Volume II, Issue II, 10 June 1881, Page 2

MISCELLANEOUS.

Laycock is now champion sculler of Australia, winning after a splendid tussle wi;h Eush by half-a-lengtb. Messenger was third. Another cou« test is expected soon. , Edward Triokett, the well-known 1 Sydney oarsman, will not return to Australia. He has decided to remain in England, having become landlord of a sporting tavern in the village of Barness on the Thames. It is probablo that Hanlan, the champion oarsman will visit Australia. Overtures have been made to him by a cricketting team, which will start for Australia shortly, to induce him to accompany them on their tour, and negotiations aro now in progress with that object. The old Luna, which hos seen so many changes in her days, and Uittely kept as a coil hulf. is likely to be again brought into service. Slw has been purchased by an Auckland gentleman, who is going to put her on the Slip, and if her hull is found in anything like good order she will bo converted into three-masted schooner. From what we can bear the bottom is as sound as ever it was, so tint before yery long we may expect to see her to the fore ngun. New York contain? moro Irishmen than cily of Dublin. Mr Oscar Jonnin^, a physician of standing in P;iri«, writes to the London Lmcet th.it in treatment of mental dewnsr he has constantly used music; whijh calms nnil soothes the mind, and cVvlarcs i ( to he too precious an agent lo be neglecJed. The Swiss military authorities havo determined to fortify not, the who'o extent os th-.?ir western frontier. :is was prop-jsoil, but o:i'y i\\c princv-if

roads leading from tbe west to the northmea. Id olber words Ibey do not deem it neccessary to guard agaiust attack but content themselves wi^b preventing the passage of their territory by hostile armies. "Writing upon the Tunis question tbe Pull Mall- Budget says :— The complica* tions which would ensue if France were to yield to tbe temptation to reduco tbe Bey to a condition of vassalage would not be fully revealed until tbe Prencb bad irretrievably committed themselves to the assertion of their domination. It is admitted on all bands that such a step would excite a very bitter feeling in Italy, But as Italy would not riok a conflict with France just now, Frenchmen are apt to talk as if it does not matter bow severely they wound Italian susceptibilities. Piince Bismarck, they say, has sanctioned their action in Tunis, and what does it matter what Italy thinks P Possibly it is just because it dees matter a very great deal to France what Italy thinks tLat the German Chancellor ostentatiously favors a French advance on Tunis. Germany has everything to gain, although Frenchmen may think they have nothing to lose, by a p I icy which makes France almost as un* popular with Italians as with Germans Tuat tbe enemies of the same Power are the natural allies of each other is a truth which hardly seems to be as clearly ap* predated at Paris as it undoubtedly is at Berlin. Says the Auckland Herald : — There hive recently been made at the laboratory of the Technological Museum at Melbourne, a series of analysis of teas, Obtained from all manner of sources in that city, including all the kinds in common use in New Zealand, and the results are rather startling. Out of thirty samples purchased out of bulk from importers, and varying in price from lOd to 3s 3d per lb in bond, not a single one would pass the standard even for a low class genuine tea. The Wellington Post of a recent date gives tbe following account of a marriage in high life in the Empire Oity :— ' A marriage, the celebration of which had been anticipated with considerable inter* est, was performed at St. Paul's Thorn* don, recently', between Mr Samuel Thomas Fifzherbert, nephew of Sir William Fifzherbert, and Miss Kliza Waterbouse, the second daughter of the Hon. G. M. Waterhouse, M.L.Cj The cere* mony was. conducted by the Bight Rev. tbe Bishop of Wellington, assisted by the Rev. B. W. Harvey. The bridesmaids were four in number— viz., the Misses Hadfield. Johnson, Turnbuil, and Pearce. Mrs Waterbouse, Lady Fitzberbert, Mrs W. A. FjJz'ierbert (sister of the bride), and Mrs P. A. Buckley (cousin of tbe bridegroom)! were among those present; Manfred Goodall, barmen at tbe Waverley Hotel, received a letter from a Mrs Maher with whom be had formed an acquaintance, that her husband left for Te Aroba this morning, and asking him to come up to-night to her residence, a two storied balconied bouse in Upper Queen-street. He did so, and after conn versa t ion in the sitting room Goodall entered the bedroom which was unligbted, when the husband sprang out of a recess and commenced a murderous assault on Goodall with tbe leg of a chair. A desperate struggle ensued, both men falling through a glass door, and Maher endeavoring to throw Goodall over the bal« cony into the street, Goodall's cries of murder brought help, and he was rescued. His nose was bitten through, his bands and face were cut with glass, and ho was otherwise injured.