MISCELLANEOUS.

Inangahua Times, Volume II, Issue II, 8 July 1881, Page 2

MISCELLANEOUS.

+ The Ass : z3 Court at Hailbron, in Wurteraburg, had lately before it a case which is probably un'qne in criminal annals A day labourer, who .was laid up with a broken leg, was charged with embezzlement, and was summoned to appear before the jude d'instraction. Overwhelmed with disgrace, perhaps unable to exculpate himsell, he ordered his son to hang him The son, who was also a day laborer, acting up to the irjuction, 'Obey your parents,' carried him to the house loft, were he hung him effectively from one of the beams. The Court sentenced the son to imprisonment for three yean and nine months. The three bells ordered from the Mence^ay Frundry, New York, for the Roman Catholic Church. Temuka, have safely arrived, and are now in the porch of the church awaiting the necessary erection of the staging prior to being placed in the belfry. The earthquake wave was felt as far south on the East Const as Akaroa and Ashburton, although large chimney stacks did not appear in the least degree to have been affected. But at Foxton, 71 miles north of Wellington, all the chimneys were either thrown down or cracked, and the shock caused , the new reclamation to sink, in some , places two feet. The railway line i was damaged, and prevents the ! train running at fast speed. Small fis- * sures occured in many places. In Wellington two slight shocks were experienced on Sunday evening, one shortly after 7 o'clock, and the other about eight o'clock. J Under the heading of • Friends ' * the Wanganui Herald has the following — A correspondent sends us a list l of the friends of the present Ministry who have been pitchforked into positions in Taranaki. First of all there i is Mr Paris with £600 a«year. Then j comes Mr Hursthouse at £400 Mr Skeet at £400, Mr Pennington at a * good screw,' Mr Decimus Atkinson ditto, two of Colonel Trimble's sons ditto, and over a dozen of smaller fry, whose names n ed not here be par* ticukrly mentioned. A whole host of J.P.s have been made, most of them unfitted for the office, but all of J them friends of Msjor Atkinson.' The Press says :--' Two lucky diggers from the Cape diamond fields are

now ia Chris tchurch, waiting for a vessel to convey them to the old country. One of then is an old West Coast miner, and they have both of them in their possessions a number of diamonds of gee.it v.ilue, a few of the gems are of the first quality. One of the stones is about the size of a small walnut, but the fhws in it render it of less value than some of the smaller ones,' £o;ne thousands of journeymen butchers recently bad 'a knife and fork tea' at the Metropolitan, Tabernale by Mr Spurgeon's invitation, and Mr Varley who was in the chair, recommended tho men to knock dow.i 1 the sulking lazy thieves, called bookmakers, who, by mea'is of gambling at the Meat Market, extracted their hard-earned money from them,' If they did co, Mr Varley promised that; he would gladly pay the fines. ' The Post has the following :— A. young lady has received the foHowiuir epistle, bearing the signature of a mormon elder. The letter runs thus : — ' Dear Sister — T have been informed by a brother aad and Mormon elder, who works in the Wellington Post Office, that you are willing to join the Mormon Church of LafterDay Saints, and to proceed to Salt Lake City. I shall be happy to enter your nam? on our list as one of our fold. By the outgoing next San Francisco mail there will be a number of our brethen and sinters belonging to the Church of Latter Day S.iinta proceeding to the tabernacle at Utah. If you will therefore hold yourself in repress to proceed there with them, I will make arrangements with you to settle any little debt you may owe in Wellington, and likewise to make you any advance in money for whatever you may require; so if you will please communicate with me at your earliest convenience, I shall be please to bear from you. I therefore dear sister subscribe myself, in the bonds of spiritual ani brobherly love, your loving brother, George P. Soren* son, Chief of the Council and Chief Elder of the Brigham Toung Taber nacle, Salt Lake City Utah, Amarica and may the blessing of the departed Joespb Smith be with you forever and ever P.S. — My present address is Grey-street, Wellington.' The dear sister declines with thanks, and tails of tar and feathers. The terms offered by the departed Joseph's disciple are considered exceedingly liberal, but somehow they do not seem to attract many young damsels. Probably the prospects of making a good match in' Utah are * too thin ' to be attractive. In respect to matrimony, girls don't generally accept the proverb as to half a loaf being better than no bread. The elder, however appears to be making an effort to decide the vexed question, * What shall we do with our girls ?' whose fate be would desire to ' seal ' according to the doctrine of followers of the saintly Joseph of immortal memory. Many persons, when they find them* selves in danger of shipwreck in tho voyage of life throw their darling vices overboard as other mariners do. only fo fish them up again after the storm is* over. \YLile a body of police were protecting some process-servers in the County Clare, they were attacked by large mobs. The poice were compelled to fire on the riots ers, and killed six of them. A Singer Tambourini, who combines lecturing with legerdemain, told a Melton' audience the other night that bats which Co >t ten shillings here are made in Italy for two francs or eighteenpence. Hence (be exportation of rabbit-skins to Ttaly. Tlie fine estate of Scotston South Canterbury, has jast been purchased from Mr John Stace Fmith by Mr Earquharson of Worth-east valley, for the sum of £8472, which is at the rate of £14 per acre.