MISCELLANEOUS.

Inangahua Times, Volume VII, Issue 1065, 24 March 1882, Page 2

MISCELLANEOUS.

♦ Signs are becoming apparent of marked disatisfation with the vacillating and infirm atttiude displayed by ; the Gladstone Ministry in their foreign and colonial policy. A meeting ha* '. been called in London by some of the : opponents of the Government tor the purpose of expressing indignation, and to urge upon the Ministry the importance of making a more decided stand. 4 No, said Miss Dashwood,' I dont care about seeing Patience again, I've seen it six times already. Bat that horrid Kate Carleton, when I found out that she was going, I learnt what seat she had bought, and I bought the one just in front of it, and I shall wear the biggest hat I've got, and yon can be sure she wont't see much of the play.' There is surprise and astonishment that Mrs Langtry should acquit herifif so well on the stage without a lifelong previous training*. Bui has there not been a long previous training-. Is not many a lady in 'society' from her youth up, so far as acting is concerned, in constant training and rehersal t If acting involves pretending to be what one is not pretending to feel when one does not, pretending to be glad, sad, gloomy, morose, disappointed, overjoyed, exuberant, interest, enthusiastic, sympathetic or and other phrase in the range of human nature, ought not 'society* to furnish many excellent actresses) Why, half our girls in 'good society' are born actresses, as were their mothers before them. — Graphic. The Philadephia papers tell a startling story, which only supplies fresh confirmation of the warning we have repeatedly uttered as to the fire risks of electric lighting. On the last Friday in the old year an electric light wire was brought inadvertently into contact with a telephone wire. Instantaneously the latter was heated to whiteness at both its extremities although one was a mile and a half distance from the other, and fires were occasioned, which fortunately were discovered in time to be extinguished before much damage was done. If the accident had occurred at night time, both premises might have been burned down. It is quite on the cards that London may yet be fired simultaneoulyin a dozen distant centres at once by an electric light wire coming into contact with the wires used for telephone purposes, No one (remarks the "Pall Mall Budget"), however, seems to take any notice of this latest I danger of civilisation.