MISCELLANEOUS.

Inangahua Times, Issue II, 7 October 1881, Page 2

MISCELLANEOUS.

A movement is on foot in the "West of England to mark the tercentnary of the defeat of the Spanish Armada by the erection of a monument to Sip Francis Drake and his comrades in ths defence of England. The site fixed upon is tha Hoe, at Plymouth, in full view of the Sound, where the English fl et assembled before issuing forth to give battlo to the Spaniards. A considerable fund which has received the support of the Prince of Wales and other distinguished persons, has been raissed in Devon and Cornwall, and, with the object of giving the movement a national turn, a deputa* tion from the original Committee i we understand, about to visit London and the large towns through" out the country. At the Erfeliade Police Ojurt re* cently a hairdresser, named Daley was charged with trading on Sunday. His counsel argued that sh&ving was an act of cleanliness, and not trading in the ordinory acceptation of the ierm. The Magistrate feeling a doubt as to whether . the case came under the the byelaws, dismissed the information. 1 The storm tint raged during the early days of last week/ Bays the Illawnrra Me r cury, ' has left its mark in several places along the coast. The sand-drift occasioned by it from BaU more Basin will on towards Tom Thumb Lagoon has been very heavy and extensive in some parts AU though the wind s?as nearly southerly, the whole of the green at the east end of Crowa-street became actuillv covered witb 6and, and to a considerable depth in some parts. The drift also made its way to the Roman Catholic church and ether buildings in that part of the town, and Harbor-street eyea now is white with sand in that, locality. The tramway at Belmore Basin suffered from the full force of the gale in regard to the sand-drift, also did the pilot residence. The sand blew in that quarter like as snowstorm, covering a pertiou of the tramway line fully six feet deep. It also extended into the basin, which must have received many tons of sand in th it way. As a matter of fact, no such drift of the sand has been experienced here before. As usual on such occasions, even with less force of win I, coffins and human bones to a considerable extent have been exposed in the site of the old Uoman Oitholic burialground east of the green, which is now almost, as white as if coyered by a Erood depth of snow.