MISCELLANEOUS.

Inangahua Times, Volume II, Issue II, 28 September 1881, Page 2

MISCELLANEOUS.

«, A short time ago a young man iv Loudon wbo was about to enrol himself in the noble army of benedicts, missed his watch, and notified that theft to the. po'ice. giving them a full dieeription of if. An astute detective soon discovered i f « iv a pawn-hop.

where it had been pledged by a pretty Crerman maiden. The maiden was traced aud arrested in a very brief space. What was the young man's horror when eon fronted with the prisoner in the dock, to find that she was hia affianced bride ! The poor girl, with many tears in her eyes, stated that being too poor to purchase a weddteg-dresH, and too proud to confossher property to her lover, she had purloined his watch with a view to raising sufficient money to buy a decent fit-out for tbe ' the hapiest occasion of her life,* The young man was truly magnanimous • he declared that * the prisoner was and ever would be his only love, and that he would .marry ber out of hand if the judge would consent to set her at liberty.' Without a minute's delay the tribunal annulled the arraignment, and the generous lover carried off his liberated Wceniest in triumph. Here is something like successful goldmining :— 95 tons of quartz from the South New Zealand claim,* at •Crympie (Queensland), have yielded £16oz. gold, as the result of a fortnight's crushing. The No. 1 Phoenix Company hare 52000?. of amalgam, which is expected to yield 27006z. of gold. A patch of dOOoz, of gold lias been s* rack since the washing* up. With regard to. the proposal of the Government to ' give Canterbury and' Otago 45 members ia the House, to only 49 for all tbe rest of the ProA vincial district, tlte Auckland StuM says :— ' With the fact staring us in tbe face that Southern influence has already secured the expenditure or £6,479,877 on railways out of colonial loans, against £2,932,81^ spent in the North Island, it most be confess* _ tout a feeling of alarm at the prospect of a large increase in tbe voting power of the South Island is not unwarranted.' Recently a libel case was heard be* f orb his Honour Judge Cope, in tbe County Court Melbourne, in which Francis Brown the keeper of a coal and ' wood yard in Carlton, sought to r&eover damages from the proprietor pf the Herttld newspaper, on the ground that the proceeding against the n ranti-? In a cas ein which be had been fined for using illegal weights, bad been improperly commented npon by the defendants, His Honor gave judgmen in favour of tbe defen: dants, costs to be taved, be considering the report to be a fair and honest one. Is there say precise age at which muste^f itudy becomes an impossibility, , tab a Dunedin paper. Jn ibe. Police prove her ownership' of a piano by asserting (bat tbe purchase money bad beeu 1 taken, out' by ber aunt io music lessons. It is the daily habit of the Emperor of Japan to rise at 5 o'clock; worship before the shrine of the stored insignia at 5.30; breakfast at 6 ; stndy from 7to 9 o'clock : at 10 attend the Privy Council's meeting until 2 p.m. ; and engage iv various military studies from 3 till 5 o'clock. This is a very different programme from tbat pursued before the Reformation, when the chief part of -lis Majesty's time was devoted to the performance of religions ceremonies.