MISCELLANEOUS.

Inangahua Times, Volume II, Issue II, 21 October 1881, Page 2

MISCELLANEOUS.

— •*- The Sydney Bulletin on lhe 17th gives a, portrait ot" Sir George Grey and biographical sketch. Tt i 8 cctlouLited that sixty tons cf steel are annually consumed iv the manufactory of steel pen*. A maiden lady in Petnerania has left £70.000 to found as asylum for single women over -s,oyear_.

**"*".■ ' <>>* , *-'~'*---m-**—'~*m-m%mW*-* *~ — On:y one city in th» U-Vr^rl Staffs hiring n population «>f 15 000 i. with, out ii telephone eXt-hinge. Thf. pxppsne nt th- S >•--!, Auv trtlim Par!i**»*r.-n on sn avprnee, only amounts to £12,000 per annum. Sir StafTiid .VirUicote «ays thafc Lord Reae ttivQ Md',-' |. )ttt word*- were •Is there any b.id news ih the G-izetfct- ?' English i* now cultivating a new variety of potator*, aaid to be proof, against tbe rot and other fungoid dieeases, MrArchhahl Forbes the clehrsfe.i war correspondent, may be expected to vi-it Austral*., about April next. There nre 60 000 d-Dositors in the Victorian Saving B»nk, and they have a millii-n of money to tlieir - credit. Mrs J. W. Mackay'a latest purchaw in Pans Wis mirror with a gold frame, aaid to have been orgjnailv owned by the Empress J >Bephioe. Qieen Vic.oria recen lv violated h**r usual cuHtotn by attending a nonconformist church on th- occasion of the funeral of the Uovrl Gamekeeper; The banker and entomologist;, Sir J.ihn Lubbock, has some ante which he began to obssrvein 1874, and which are tbe oldest insects on record. Io addition to others Mr Moody h:*B B*rured lhe assistance of the Rev. ■>r Bonar for his f.,1l campiiign. Mr Sankey being aiill in charge of tho music. The Grandfather of President Garfield when ns a soldier to. the L-*vo!a, tionary war frmv We*-t,»-ni*-ter,M*_ia--.haaetta, and took part in the baide of Cambridge. The chief of the M.ickeorie clan, whose moiher was the Helen of Sir Walter Scot.--* 'Lady, of th*, Like' Mr Keith William .Stewart Mackenzie died lately. Mr G!:»d-tnne w.s ejected for \*>w*.rk in 1842 and will hive nerved hi-* 40 h year next. D-ce*n'>er twelve months, when it i- propped to celebrate his pari arnenfary jubilee. In China there is a fi*h that crosses the meadows at ita pleasure from one creek to another, sometimes a mile apart. When Mr- Gladstone's physician order** rest, the statesman .takes it by • collating the reyised New Testament wi'h thf Greek * The Ausiralian Medical Journal coa** demms football. It points oat that owing to the youth of these,* colonies being' fed on meat, without farinaceous diet, the bones are very brittle, which ia not the cas? with English you*h*, con****q'i-*ntly we cnnnot nl*y football with such immu- : nity. The absence of bone- forming; material in our foods is a great deterioration of the race as ie evidencod by the bid teeth of your youth. •The big • official, bandbox * at. Wellington waa always thought the big---, gear wooden bulling in the world. 4 1^ ; seems that it ia about to be ' caoped. The 'Jina«Kae papers report that a new rer-idence for the Mikado is afaut; bt-ing built at Yeddo, which will bd still larger, a grind S rate cerera*nt. a; wtll be performed. It is <o be 'built' part.lv of wood, at an <°B'im-rted cost, of 170,000 yen (»bo-_t £34,000 J Mr George Wi'kina*n. (ire-ir >ri in*inu« fa<-turer, Hifnley-ros<i, near Dudl-*-*. met with afh -eking death on July 25 Wineu -harppning some tools on a grindstone, the latter flew to pieces whilst rerolving. it gr^at speed. A portion of the sfona -truck bim in the cbe.t and neck, nearly decapitating him. Referring to the 'Cirrunt Prae'ice*. pfpvention Act's writer in the Auckland Weekly New** sny*-;— A sore tvin_ it'll give the worthies who know ail the dirty tricks of electioneering and Inw to pr.c-* tiee them." Whr, there'll be no work for rour political un 'e*-.--*-id, -over men, and an bone*t rain wili hive a chance of get* ting into the FT*u-*e. No more vehicular civilitie**, no more heer, no n ore little.; tricks, unless the raemher wants fo be unseate.l and the scenes, to fin-i. themselves in difficulties Election times have, been a festical for parasites and loafers, V>ut Mere's to he no more p'undt-r f<r them, if the Bill be a succ.*ss. Candidates alnu'd njoice. it'll --are th-'ir pocte's. Al will Stan fair, nnd there'll l»e a better chance of the best man wtm.ing. Miny a good msn -has shunn-d •* contest becm*"** of the ronrk hod have to wa le thrnus.--* mnck, too, tbat not only sticks but •"links.