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Inangahua Times, Volume VII, Issue 1188, 4 October 1882, Page 2

The monthly meeting of the Hospital Committee will be he}<l at the Southern Cross HoteJ, this evening, at the usual hour. Just when people were congratulating each cither upon the weather having changed for thu better, conies a new reverse, with the gljws again down almost to mid-winter guage, All day yesterday it rained bayonets, with points down, and by dusk the Inangahua river was running almost bank qn,d bank, All

traffic being thus cut off by the flood no coach arrived last night. We hoar that there was an exceptionally high Hood in the Buller, yesterday. , A number of putty thefts take place constantly in different parts of the town- J ship, incautious householders who leave their clothes out on the line during the night, havo frequently had occasion to regret their confidence in human nature, by finding many of the articles missing in the morning, firewood has a special propensity, though not of a volatile nature, to disappear, and lien roosts have also suffered considerably. In a place where poverty may be said to be utterly absent, there can be no possible excuse for these depredations, and, should any of tbe petty thieves fall into the clutches of the police, we have no doubt, that the sitting Magistrate will bear that fact in mind, and inflict punishment accordingly. The Christchurch 'Press' notes that in the manifest of the Rangitikei is an item of 40 bales woollen clippings. This item of export, it appears, consists of the tailors' clippings from Canterbury tweed from the Kaiapoi Clothing Company's factory. It is stated that they will be bought up in t ngland by cloth manufacturers and made into what would be considered in the Home country very good cloth. Here, of course, they are of no use for that purpose, as the demand is for the best article, and a cloth that will stand the requirements of the colonists better. Mr Ruskin, in the concluding paragraph of his lecture on " Snakes " touches the modern system of university training. He glances regrttfully at the old days when " the delightful meal of knowledge was not so common as now," and when " young people really hungered and thirsted after it.' He likens the modern system of education to the way the boa constrictor " hitches himself on to his meat — like a. coal-sack," till at last, says he, "Heaven help us, our university doctors are going at such a rate that it will be all we can do, soon, to know a man from a sausage. " Letters forwarded by the Nelson mail to-morrow morning will be in time to catch the English mail. A new use for orange peel has been discovered by a Manchester man. A quantity of orange peel being collected, it is dried in or on the oven until all the moisture has been expelled. The peel then becomes readily inflammable, and serves admirably either for lighting fires or resuscitating them when they have nearly gone out.