MISCELLANEOUS.

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

MISCELLANEOUS.

♦ Common aoda is excellent for scouring tin, as it will noC scratch the tin, and it wilt make it look like new. Apply with a piece of moistened newspaper and polish with A dry piece. Woo:l ashes are a good substitute. The Auckland Her.ild notes that the confiscation of the lands with winch the Government has dealt at the Wamate Plains waa eeanctioned hy Sir George Grey then Governor of the colony, and therefore is unassailable unless it can be shown that he exceeded bis power. A Bomewh.it start! ire; stntesnvßnt was recently mude by Captain Watt, at a meeting of volantcrs at \V. i»nganui, iv reference to firing for prize*: He said a certain trophy hid been presented to the craps, between two and three years ag<; to be won several tiroes before, it became the proper^ of any one. member, and the result had been that the compiny had spent over £1000 in ammunition in firing for v, and, ?o far as he could see, the end was as far off aa ever. It is stated that Allen Kutfeerford an employe in a livery stable at. ! Toronto, has received a letter from i Scotland informing him that he has succeeded to the title oflvirl ofTe^iofc and is master of a rent roll of £61 000 a year. The news from Bulgaria is to the effect that the people nre in such a be* sotied state of ignorance as to bo incap- | able of self-gorernrnont. Tiie l?u!lgarUns are perhaps no better than their ne gh« bnrs but neither are tliev worse.