MISCELLANEOUS.

Inangahua Times, Volume II, 23 November 1881, Page 2

MISCELLANEOUS.

4 A peMtion in favor of Mr Stevergon*s Sunday Closing Bill, in England preseuted to the Commons, was HOO yards long, and signed by 48,283 women, including the wives of many publicans. It has been ascertained that the Mr Hoskins, of Maryborough, Victoria the suppose originator of the 'Vown grant forgeries, went to India by the P and O. Co.'s steamer Hydaspes the trip before last, He took passage, in company wirh a man, who was his factotum, for Yokohama, but they both stopped at Bombay. An attempt was made to get the difference in the passage*money refunded, the two men representing themselves as travelling for the firm of Jas. Service and Co. but when the local a^ent of the P ami. '■>. Company wanted to refer to the firm, they declined to have any further trouble taken in the matter. Though the Bombay police have been communicated with no word has been, up to the present time, received from them. Warrants will in all pro« bability shortly be issued for the apprehension of Hoskins ani his companion. Many of our readers who have been on 4 de.ir old liendigo' will read ;he following item from tta B.wuign Advertiser with interest ;— ' It aifjr.l^

us much pleasure to announce tlm final aud satisfactory settlement <u the important Bui" between Mr J. B. Watson and Mr \V"illi;im Heff j rnan, which w;ia effected thii morning in Me bourne- It will he remembered that, hy the order of the judge in tha Equity Court, two months were allowed as the time wilhin which tfm balance of money due to Mr Watson on the mortgage of tli<,» properly wa* to be paid over, and the deeds, liens, &<?., involved were to be re-transfer-red to Mr Heffernan: The sum amounted to £30,000, and this having all been duly paid the negotiation* were thn morning completed, and thu popular enterprising and highly-rep-peeled proprietor of the old Shamrock Hotel has been duly reinstated. Thtt suit involved, our readers remember, the Shamrock aod all its belonwinsf, Sfc James* Hail, the Campaspe farm, stock, &e., &n., all of which rcvort to Mr W. Heffernnn. The announcement will, we are sure, be read with tho name pleasurable feeling by thoustincU in this district with which we make i:. an many will wish, as weheartilvdo, Mr Heffernau a successful, prosperotn future.' One hears a good deal, remarks ft Home paper, about the brusqueoe^i of ihe treatment experienced by persons who deal at co-operative store- ; but the shopkeepers have Homethini? to sav on the other side of the question Here is an illustration :— The customer a clergyman, evidently wth a largt* share of leisure. The clergyman, or th© clergyman's wife, requires needles, and writes up from the country to the stores for one packet. The packet, of course, is at once forwarded. By return of post comes a letter from the clergyman, somewhat to the following effect :—' The proper, number of needles in a packet is 25 ; the packet is returned herewith) contain* as you will find, after counting them, 24. Now it is not the intrinsic worth of a single needle which concerns me: I am thinking only of the principle involved. What confidence do you suppose I can ploce io tbe managers of yourestablisbmentif after oromieing I to sell me 25 needles, they send me a packet which contains only 24 ? Bj good enough to at once to send me a packet containi ug the proper number and request your Board of Directors to read the 25th verse of the 17th chapter of,' &. The Thug.*, a murderous and fanatical sect of India, accomplish their work with grest celerity and secrecy. Oue of them confessed tj have been concerned in the murder of 719 perI sons. One epoke of every wheel of all the carnages shipped from New Haven, Conn., wa< recently found to have a knife nick in it, which spoiled the sale of them so that they had to be returned to the factory and a new spoke inserted. A detective watched through the bole of the roof at the steamboat wharf and discovery that the culprit was one of the steam-boat's company's employes. He said lie had no idea why he did it.