MISCELLANEOUS.

Inangahua Times, Volume II, Issue II, 27 July 1881, Page 2

MISCELLANEOUS.

"Writing of the habits of the Pope, the Koman correspondent of the Cologne Gazette says : — * The most striking fact about him appears to be the slight extent to which his character is known either by the faithful at large or by the inmates of the Vatican. Everyone knew how Pius IX lived ; his hours were all allotted beforehand, and the same dnties always performed at the same moment. There is a total want of this regularity in his sueeesor.

[Te keeps late hours, and has sometimes been found by his servants in the early morning half dnzed after writing through the night. lie has all his meals served to him in th« greatest privacy, is much more sparing of audiences than was Pius, and even his ft »te secretary and the cardinals can only see him at irregular interval?, lie has set on foot a chancellory of Lis own consisting of three private secretaries, and conducts his affairs with their aid and qui'e, independantly of the stale secretary, and often over his head.' There will be a World's Fair at Rome in 1885*86, under the honorary presidency of the Prince Amadeus, This is definitely decided on. The ex-* position at Moscow has been postponed till 1882. Five penny weights of gold have been obtained by crushing five hundred weight of quartz from the seaward face of the Kaikouras, eight miles from the wharf. The Arrow Observer remarks thnt the past sesson has been unfavorable to quart z reefing owing to the deficiency of a water supply Nevertheless it says that some 3,1000z of gold have been extracted during that term from the Macetom stone. On Wednesday Mr M l Donald, manager for the Aurum Company, Upper Shotover, brought down a small cake of 60oz, the result of a crushing of miscellaneous stone. A cake of about 80. iz also came down from the Pbceaix claim, Skippers, the greater portion of which the manager, Mr F. E\an?, estimates was obtained from ten tons of stone, running about soz, to the ton. An accident which has created unusal excitement in the minds of the Sydney people, happened early this month. Mrs Triton, well known in the best circles there, was taking an evening stroll, when a handsom came being driven at a furious pace and before she could get out of the way she was knocked down and literally smashed to pieces. Several gentlemen who were passing nt the time, seeing that the bansom went on its ways as madly as ever, the driver not stopping to see the damage he had done, jumped into other vehicles and pursued the * murderer,' but with no success. The hansonvdriver, having good horse* flesh in bis cab dashed first up one street and then down another until ?>ll trace of him was lost. The matter had been in the bands of the detectives for some days, put up to date they have been unsuccessful in bringing the man to justice. £50 reward is now offered. The second volume of Duffy's work on • Young Ireland ' will be ready for publication in November. It is stated that a leg has bees recently amputated at the hip, by means of electricity heating a platinum wire to white heat. Toronto, in Canada, gets the credit of this new surgical operation. The largest telescope in the world — that of Mr Grubb, of Dublin— 27 inches aperture, will be outdone by the instrument which has been ordered for the Lick Trustees, San Francisco, with an aperture of 36 inches. The cost is to ba £10,000. The Board of Conservators of the Clutha river have decided to order a steamer from Eng'and for dredging purpose at a cost of £1800. In commenting upon the burial of a man named Gray, drowned in the Otamete river some time since, the Invercargill correspondent of the West* em Star makes the astounding state* ment that his widow was not informed of the sad event, nor did she know that her bairns were fatherless, till a bill was handed to her for the expenses incurred in giving her deceased husband burial. The extent to which the process of meat refrigeration on board of the Orient line of steamers to and from Australia is enjoyed by passengers and crew is shown (says 'he Evening News) by the enormous supply now being placed in the preserving-rooms of the Lusitinia, chiefly for consumption dur* ing her homeward journey. The meat (in all 40.000 ib), consisting of beef, mutton, pork, calves, lamb?, snusnges, sheep's heads, &c, ij being supplied by Mr Playfair, the well-known alderman shipping butcher, who supplied the steamship Orient on the first occasion that the consumption of fresh meat throughout the homeward voyage waa a distinguishing feature. The carcasses are thoroughly stiffened be» fore they are hung in the preserving compartment. The meat is slaughtered at the abbattoirs, and hung in the ship under the supervision of Air Wyburn, the chief steward. During the recent severe winter in the North of Scotland f^ays a contemporary)^ flock of sheep, belonging to Mr Aderson, Cu!*s near Aberdeen, were encwed up. In the course of a day or so all but one were recovered and as the shephered was not quite sure weather that one had not gone astray previously it was given up for lost. On March 14tb, however, a ploughman, in * feenng ' the field in which the sheep had been, observed something moving amongst a quantity of snow lyini; in the sheltered piace at one end of ir. This turned out to be the missing sheep, which, although in the last stages of emaciation, was still

alivp, I fc waß lakea to the farm stead, aud under careful and tender nursing toon b«gan to show stronger BigQ9B ig Q 9 of animitioa, It was soon in a fair way of recovery, bein^ able to nbble a little grass and turnips. From the time tbe animal wag snowed up on January 13th till it waa found on March 14b, a period of nine weeks less one day elapsed, during ™hich it must have been absolutely wi.hout food. Instance? bave we believe been known of sheep living as long as six weeks in the same predicament, but this example of tenacity of life is probably altogether unprecedented. ENERGETIC QUARTZ MINING COMPANY. REGISTEUED. mENDEIfS will be RECEIVED up 1 to 4 p.m. on SATURDAY, JULY 30 h, 1881, for SINKING 100 FEET, more or less, of WINZE. A Deposit of £5 to accompany each tender. I specifications to be seen on the Mine. The lowest or any tender not necessarily accepted. J. McCALLUM, Mine Manager. Reefton, 25th July, 1881. SOUTHERN CROSS HOTEL BROADWAY, REEFTOS. ALL ALES, WINES, SPIRIT 3, and COEDIALS, kept and SOLD in the above Hotel, are GUARAN. TEED to be of tbe best QUALITY procurable in tbe Market. ANGUS CAMPBELL, Proprietor. REEFTON ATHENJIUM. A MEETING of SUBSCRIBERS to •*■•*• tbe Reefton Athensoum will be held in the READING ROOM, THIS EVENING, 27th Instant, at 8 p.m. Business : To form a New Committee, Appoint Officers, and adopt rales for its future management. G. W. SAMPSON, Acting Secretary. IN THE DISTRICT COURT OP WESTLAND HOLDEN AT REEFTON. In tbe Matter of "The Mining Companies' Act, 1872 " ; and In tbe Matter of The Union Quabti Mining Company, Limited. ■VT OTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that -^- ' pursuant to an Obdeb of tbe said Court, dated tbe 23rd day of May last, CREDITORS of the above - named Company must come in and PROVE their DEBTS before the said Court at Reefton on MONDAY, the 22nd day of AUGUST, 1881, and that any Creditor not so coming in shall be excluded from the benefit of any distribution made before the debt of any such creditor shall be proved. Dated this 19th day of July, 1881. G. C. BOWMAN, Liquidator of the Union Quartz Mining Company, Limited. CAUTION TO SPORTSMEN. "VTOTICE is hereby given that on and -L after this date sny Person or Persons fround Entering on, SHOOTING UPON, or otherwise TRESPASSING on MY LAND, situate at the LEFT* HAND BRANCH, will be PROSECU* TED ACCORDING to LAW. M. G. GREEN, Eeefton, 4th July, 1881. Farmer. Alexander Colquhoun, GARDENER, Reefton. GARDENS LAID OUT and kept in Order at per* day or per agree ment. Fruit Trees and Bushes for Sale ; also, a Prime Sample of Bone Dust at £15 per ton. INANGAHUA LOW LEVEL TUN. NEL GOLD MINING COMPANY, LIMITED. TSNDERS will be RECEIVED by tbe Undersigned up to 7 p.m ., on THURSDAY, JULY 28ch, 1881, for EXTENDING MAIN TUNNEL 200fr. Specifications to be seen at the Office. GEORGE WISE, Manager.