MISCELLANEOUS.

Inangahua Times, Volume II, Issue II, 9 December 1881, Page 2

MISCELLANEOUS.

A pert young bagman who professed he knew everything (excepting the length his own nose), was arguing with a young lady lust Sunday m the Recreation grounds ns to the gender of % cera n bird on the Ink , be asserting v. was a gander, and she that it was a goose, 'i be question was defiDtiely settled by Miss tt. Q. . who came up at the time, and declared that the gentleman ' must' be right as a goose always koew a gander at sight,

According to the pnblisbed programme of the Knaiish cri.-kMters now in Australia they were to beg'n iheir tour, on November 23, with a match against twenty-two of Muitland, k Xew South Wales. Three roor.j raatches against twenty-two's follow and then the fiwt important contest aguinat eleven of New South W;»l^s. takes nine**. 'I his is fixed for December 9, 10, and 12; ami immediately following they pay elpven of V'ctorin, on "December 16, 17. nod 19. On Boxing Day they |.l.iy 18 of South Australia, and on Xew Year's D.«y or iig equivalent hoiidav, the grand miteh nf the trip will be fought out. between eleven of Anstra'ia and the flnszlis 1 "* team. If they come to New Z -aland nt all they will leave for- this Coiony at the conclusion of the big match, and play at the four principal towns, Oaroaru and Timtra being added >o the list, if sufficient inducent h offered.

The natural son of Leotard, tbe celebrated clever gymnast, has recently, though the death of his father, come into the possession of an inome of £40 000. The father of Leotard ha* thus fulfilled the dying wish of his son who could not, according to the law of France, bequeate his fortune to the boy, owing to ihe bun under which he was born The young man baa already at the ageof nineteen taken unto him* aelf a wife, and lives in magnificent style in a chateau at Toulouse.

By the brigantine Omaha, which arrived from the Cr.atham Islands, there arrived a Maori chief, ;i particular friend to Te "Whitti, laden with presents for the Prtrihaka prophet. Am>ngst the sayory things this rnngafira bad with him were twenty-thr-e cask^ of preserved albatrosses, a oVlieat\y much prized by the N^ives The coafc of capturif.g, preparinjj. and packing tbat quinary of brds wa? saii to have beeu £200 a sum which the chief generously paid over, hoping to have the pleasure of surprising his nrophetic friend at Parihaka -scith Bubst;iQtial evide i^e of his allegiance and reverence. Upon the vessai's arrival at port our reporter informed the passengers of the arrest of the ar^li agitator and his due lodgment in pris<in w'hh Tohu and the o r hers, The chief, however, utterly repudiated any belief in the story, remarking than even were such the f*et and that Te Wlvii was killed be would return to life ngain quite easily. Upon a news' paper bring shown him w ; tb tbe p>r* ticulara headed' Trial of Te Wltiti,' he laughingly observed that it was meretv put in the papers to fn*ure a more readipr sale from the Press.

< ffii'hl returna show how vist arp the flocks of sleep ownnd in New Zealand. The New Zealand nn-1 An«» tmiian Lmd Comuany own" 300 000 sheep, Robert r.-imoMI. 386 0 0; George Henry Mon>e 99 000; Messrs Dalorerv and Co ' 20S 000 : Sir Dillon Ball. 82 000 j Hon. VVM'i.m Hobmsnn. 168.000 ; Sir Cracmft Wi'snn, 40 000 r Mr Kirchnn. 80 000; ani Alien M'Lean, 500,000.

At. "W^phington.a G:\rfieM m^moria hospital is to bo hu ; lr, by public Kiib! script oa, and at B >stor m Garfi"l<l scholarship is to be founded .nt th? Un'versity for the benefit of poor 'ads.

According to the * Pill M;iH Gazette,' an in^p»ii"us Swiss dean dis^ c >vered a short time ;«go tb it there wan ii cl^ae tie hetwpen divorce an'i drink shops. He proved by an elaborate array of sfciti^tie's that, on an nverase you could n^ertoin the nnmhpr of divorces per 1000 ma'^s owr fifteen years of ace Tn Anpp?!7 j ll, for in^'anpp, there arp 37 pnbhV houspp and 78 divorces; in Zurifh. 25 :mH 57; »nd in the B me, 16 nnd 36 A Ru^^ian statish'cian has prnvpd thti 1 f rerp is a not less noteworthy connection between number nf vndkv shop in a villuee and the mim^pr of live stock possessed by the villagers. Jr. the Gove^nmen^ o e Orel fhe vil'affp. of Jirnovo bns thr>--e public bouses. In the farmpr, although the f»rms are double area the of latter. 38 per cen', of the pe:isan*9 have neither horse m.r cow, while in the latter \ho uuraber de*lihi c nf live slock is on'y 7 ppr cent. These and similar facts are be«ng made good use nf by M. Kniltr.ff and others to wJiopp, labors in the cauae of temperon-'p reformation is laruely dee the appointtneut, of a representative com-, mitree to report on the mean^.wbicb should he employed to diminish<irunkPiinesH.