MISCELLANEOUS.

Inangahua Times, Volume VII, Issue 1119, 21 August 1882, Page 2

MISCELLANEOUS.

* •• £v In view of the possible complete stoppage of the Channel 'funnel $pera- • tions, a revival is contemplated of the large Channel ferry Scheme promoted *-. by Messrs Fowler and Abernethy. '; The project is to construct large ferry steamers for service between England and France, and on these trains, passengers, luggage, &c, are to be trans* ferred bodily. Thirty years ago there lived in the wilds at Shandaken, Ulster Co.' N". V., two bright little boys. An Irishman, was living at this place, .and although a poor man ha thought it would bo a fine thing to give the boys an educatipn 4 .ftnaft^t^^j^ :^iis genial idea placed them in the Gilbo, N. V., ac- .- ademy, under the instructions of the Rev. 0. Bogardua, where they learned their lessons in school books. Now, the uncle is an aged pauper in the Ulster County Poorhouse, while-one of the boys is none other than Mackay, the California millionaire, • "We have it on most reliable authority . says the Charleston Herald) that Mr A. R. Guinness, counsel for the appellant in the late appeal case, Blano v Lander, actually returned a portion ,* of his fee to his client when the appeal *,< was upset Such unheard of generosity on the part of a member of the legal profession, has seldom, if ever, , ; been recorded, The uncommon oc- ( currence — we are given to understand '. —has created quite a panic amongst * the local practitioners. * Some document* produced at the last meeting of the Timatu Borough Council show that pound-keeping is not altogether a profitable business. One impounded horse, having a broken

fetlock, could not be sold, and had to lie shot aftor running up expenses to thu tune of £$ K . LV.> died of " old age" in the pound, the costs of the two amounting to £11 is. "One billygoat" ran up a bill of £1 13s, and was sold for Is. -Another . horse was 1 told for thirteen shillings, hia bill ijgjing £2 16s, and a loss was sustained one. Three animals were is&d at a price that left some surplus, but the whole of the transactions showed ;» loss of £7 6s 2d, the expense ac'Hcouut beijog £li Cs 9d and the receipts I Three handsome volumes were recently dispatched by post from Liverpool to Cincinnati, .which were found to have the leaves, carefully: cut through the middle of the pages, leaving a good-sized square receptacle in each volume. In these holes had been placed diamonds and jewellery valued at ovpr a thousand pounds sterling. Some ' keen-eyed official of the New. York York Post Office, apparently suspecting 'that pearls of eloquence were not the' only,, precious things contained i v these, /olutods, exaqliß^d ■??*&§} ii care wiiich iMib the detection of this ingenious attempt to defraud the revenue. The books with their Cosily, enclosures were handed o> er to the New York Custom House. The officials are now conudering what shall be done with these gems of literature.