MISCELLANEOUS.

Inangahua Times, Volume II, Issue II, 15 August 1881, Page 2

MISCELLANEOUS.

A correspondent writes to the I Riponshire Advocate as follows : — ' If I any more larrikins areftimported from _ Ballarat as minera in the local claims,-* hotelkeepers of Beaufort aril! be com- *^ pelled to provide themselves with revolvers in order to protect themselves.' The Cape Time* of June 7 reports that Bishop Kiccards has receive;! intelligence of the death of Father F-aw formerly a professor of St. Aaiden's, Grahatnstown, who pined ths Romm Catholic Zimbeai Mission a year or two ago. The revenend father is s>\i«l to have been killed by Natives in the interior. Charles Dillon, tJie well-kuown actor, is dead. A short t : m 9 ago a paper by Dr Thurefield appeared in the Sanitary Kecord, in it he pointed out a mode by which infectious diseases might be spread through the agency of the ordinary milkman, owing to the absence of any eanitaty control over the health of the inhabitants of the dairy nun's house. We have not bad to wait lons for a proof that our fesrs where by no means chimerical. In a receut number of the Globe we read that 'a serious on*break of scarlatina at Halifax, has been traced to the dairy. Of eighty-two families supplied by a particular milkman, forty-five were attracted by the epidemic. The milk" man had five children ill of scarlatina at the time he was supplying these families, and thus spreading disease and death among his customers. On M*»y 21 the Company had completed the first revision of all the books of the Old Tesbamenfc. The second revision of the historical books and of the Psalms having been already finished, tbe Company have still to reyise a second time the prophetical books and the remaining protions of the poetical books. The second re** vision of Isaiah was carried 88 far as chapter Hi., 11. lhe Taranaki Herald sayg there is not a spot on the face of the earth that can excel for its climate the district of Taranaki. The following is given as a proof: — ' Mr Hulke's garden is a pretty sight ; and he has four camelia trees which he says he will defy anyone to beat for siz<\ One ia 9ft 6ins higi) by 34't in circumference ; another 12ft high by 40ft in cir* cumference, a third 14 f t high by 45ft in circumference, and a fourth 18ft high by 60ft in rrcumfe-ence, besides over a dozen others from 6ft to lOi't in height, the circumference being in proportion. Mr Ilulke his ju^t finished gathering his first crop of guaves ; and the second crop from tbe same tree will be ripe in a^out a month's time. His 6r«t crop of citrons is now ready for gathering, and it is quit*? a curiosity to see the large swollen green fruit and the bloom of a second crop on the same tree, A lemon tree is now covered with blooro, the ripe fruit having been just plucked.