MISCELLANEOUS.

Inangahua Times, Volume II, 10 August 1881, Page 2

MISCELLANEOUS.

t A remarkable ease is reported from Gieborne. A man has got four months' imprisonment for knowingly receiving £4 more lLan be was entitled to in the way of change. The lighthouse at Cape Egmont i very nearly finished, and will shortly be ready for the reception of the light. It is a conspicuous and important feature i& the landscape, visible for many miles. The programme of the Domocratii Federation, the new political party forming in England, and a leading member of which is Mr Joseph Cowen, M.P. for Newcastle, embraces manhood suffrage for all parliamentary and municipal elections ; triennial Parliaments : equal electoral district : payment of members ; election expenses to come out of the rate?. Tn addition to discussing this programme, a conference that was to meet in London on June Bth was to be asked to consider the following subject : — Aduli suff range; nationalisation of the land ; abolition of the House of Lords ; bribery at elections to be made an act of felony legislative independence for Ireland. On the journey of the Princes from South Australia to Hamilton the coach stjpped for a few minutes to change horses at a solitary stable between Penola and Casterton. The morning was chilly, and the youog | gentlemen availed themselves of the opportunity of promoting circulation by a run round. Presently the younger of the two descried the groom's wheelbarrow, in which he induced his elder and more sedate brother to enthrone himself, and wheeled him round the stables several times at a merry pace. Suddenly landing him at the groom's feet, he Baid, ' There, now, I supposj you'll

have that harrow carefully preserved fi a g'ass case.' An eye wi'nesa tells me that wbei the Princes arrived at Billarat, Jimmy a well-known blackfellow, and the las of his race in that district, had takei up a rather prominent position near th< i\»iiway«station entrance. A raountec trooper ordered him b.vk, and Jimms waj about retiring, nrhea my informant said to the official— 'Let bin have a front place; he has a bettei right here lh-»n any of us. H* n on his own ground— we are onlf usurpers.' The officers with cony meixlable sympathy, let Jimmy kee( his position inside the lines, and ther< was no heartier nor more eympathetu cheer than Jmniy's for the Queen' grandsons m I hey passed. There is, '. think something touching in this litth incident. During the passage of the N Z Co.'s ship Waipa, which arrived at Lyt telton from London one of the apprentices named Winchester, suffered fron an attack of smaiNpox. As he hac been convalescent for soms tv?( months previous to arrival, the health uflicer did Trot consider itni£eHsea*ry to place the Waipa in quarantine, especitilly as no other case occurre( ou board. All the boy's clothing an effect had been destroyed. Mr Bun* guard, the chief officer, reported that the master, Captain John Gorn, hac died on the 17. h June, from chronic lu*nbago aud sciatica. The Press re ports: — Thi death of the master was almost expectel, he having sufferec severely from the fatal complaint for some time before the ship left London It is reported that he hac written to his wife and family, wh< reside at Dunedin that he was afrau be would not survive another voyage a fear which unfortunately was sadlj realised, The the late Captain G-ora bad been formerly a pilot at Por Chalmers, and was afterwards in th< Union Company's serive, He ha( been in command of the Waipa foi some year, and had consequently s great many friends in the colony. Hit officers who have travelled with bin: speak in the most effectionate terms of his qualities, and the company ie whose services he spent the last ol his life highly esteemed him. He waa buried at sea on the evening of the date of his death.