MISCELLANEOUS.

Inangahua Times, Volume II, 26 September 1881, Page 2

MISCELLANEOUS.

Tbe sham fight at Alderuhot before the Prince and Princess of Wales, on July 4th, turned oat very seriously for quite a nvmber. The heat on the hills and field was greater than had been known for a long time past, the thermometer registered 110 degrees. Quite a number of the non-commissioned officers of the regular and militia regiments are likely to die, besides six already dead, from sunstroke. The Qaeen expressed deep regret on hearing the sad results of tho review, and the War Department will inquire wby tbe review took place under circumstances which were sure to be pro* duct ire of great harm. In a recent copy of the British Work* man appeared a copy of the letter supposed to have been written by Tui, the Opunake murderer, in which he attributed his position to drink. According to the Workman, the better was addressed to ' His Exoellency tho Governor of the Wellington Gaol.' Sir George Grey's Debtor's Protection Bill, the second reading of which was | rejected ty 19 to 18, proposed to protect from seizure for debt or destraint for rent, the property of any person, up to £50. The proper title of tbe measure would have been ' A bill to swindle Creditors and Landlords.' Germany has ODe million surplus women. The poet Saxe is a confirmed bypocondriac. Professor Robertson Smith could read Hebrew at tbe age of six. King Hurbert has offered Garibaldi a yearly pprsion of £12,000. Queen Victoria has receive! a gold axe as a present from the Asbantees, Dean Lake of Durban has married Kiss Katerine Gladstone, niece of the Premier. Five-sevenths of all Europern Jews lies in Russia: A healthy one pound baby is repor* ted from Peosia, 111. A human skeleton with a 20* inch tail has been excavated in Brazil. Watches are smuggled into Italy from Switzerland through carrier pigeons. Female coachmen is the last novelty in Paris, contemplated by a new cab company. A witness in an Ottawa court refused to be sworn except on the veviyed New Testament. The ransiom paid for Mr Sutler to the Gre-k brands, £15.000 was, it is Paid, just Mr SutLi'd weight in gold,

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Father Giboey, whose bravery at Glenrowan will be remembered, has gone home by the Malwa from Me* bourne, A wish has been expressed that the Boers would send a team to see what they can do in competition at Wimble* All the newspaper* in Prague have been impressed and the University closed by the Government, Interesting old documents throwing more light on Sbakesweare's life have been discovered in "Warwickshire. Two bags with 150 pounds of dynamite were found under the bridge over the Cathering canal, St. Petersburgh. The German Government is anxio usly endeavoring to dev ; se measure* t o arrest the enormous flow of emi w grants, Pennsylvania is the first American State to pass a law forbidding the separation of white and black children in school. For forcibly kissing an English governeßs, a workman named Pafroux, in Paris, was condemned to eight days' | imprisonment. Many Canadian farmers were bo fully convinced that the world was to come to an end on June 15 that they have put in no crops this year. The London 868 son has thus far been unusually quiet. Kalakfua, King of! Sandwich Islands, is the fashionable lion and goes everywhere. He ad* mires the English ladies, and is greatly taken with her style of eyening dress, He behaves himself very well, except at dinner when he drinks more than is good for him. Vanity Fair says that England is being rapidly reduced to a fortress in the ocean, without self-supporting food powers. The dome of St. Peter's at Rome is illuminated inside and outside by the Piemen's electric light, and the effect is described as brilliant and charming. At Adelaide, the Hon. J. Colron lias presented £1000 towards additions, estimtes to cost; £6000, to the Prince Alfred Wesleyan College. The latest ' new departure ' in news" paper, enterprise is reported from New Orleans. The * Democrat ' of that city has fitted up a branch office on a barge, which, having been towed up the Mississippi river to Memphis, is now floatiug down to New Orleans again stopping at points of interests on the way to gather information concering the country along the river and for some distance back into the interior. The barge is sixty feet long,, with twelve feet width of beam. Its interior accommodation comprises business, editorial and job offices, composing and press rooms, sleeping apartments, <liningroom, kitchen, and stables for the horses used in making land trips back from the river. It is practically a fully-equipped newspaper establish" ment afloat. A friend who happened to findfaittself Bitting next to the Baroness Burdett-Coutts at a Society gathering the other night, tells me (says a correspondent) that the change in the Baroness's appearance is wonderful. It is a change wholly for the better. The Baroness looks ten years younger than she did, and instead of the plain drab dresses she used to wear, she now affects gay, girlish .costumes which, if they do not exactly correspond with her face, suit at least her slim and not i nelegant figure. The young husband has probably a great many more years' conjugal felicity before him than some people bargained for. A small dilapidated box marked ' No value.' adre?sed to a jewellry firm in 13 )BtoD, and received in a recent German mail, was found to contain 'three cards, on one of which was fastened diamonds, and on the other several rubies and emeralds, the lot being worth £300 to £400. "