MISCELLANEOUS.

Inangahua Times, Volume VII, Issue 1181, 11 October 1882, Page 2

MISCELLANEOUS.

From the Insurance and Banking Record it will be seen that the bank d .'posits for the year show an increase of six and a quarter millions, whilst the advances show an increase of over sixteen millions for the same period.

The " Daily Telegraph " is still under a cloud, owing to its publication last week of an egregiously false story about a display of rank cowardice by a company of the Sixtieth Rifles. The offemliug correspondent, Mr Gay, who represented the " Telegraph " for some years in Canada and the United States, and went to the East for some purpose during the last war, was instantly recalled, and is, of course, professionally ruined. Nevertheless, tho " Telegraph " has suffered severely in public estimation, while the feeling against it in army circles is. very bitter.

Finding business rather dull in. Auckland, Kohler, of wax- work farao hit upon the expedient of providing a new " group " illustrative of " Moses striking the Rock " which has proved a thorough draw. The N.Z. Herald relates that many of the clergy and others interested have visited the waxworks for the purpose of viewing the figures.

A very serviceable kiud . of rope ladder which is particularly suitable as a fire escape for hotals has been made by Mr Isherwood, Ohristchurch, and is composed of galvanised wiro rope, about three eights of an inch in diameter, with iron rings about the. thickness of an ordinary lead-pencil rivetted into the rope

Sting, whowontheHawkesbury Hani : cap in such extraordinary time (says Australasian sporting correspondent), ought to have a rare chance of appropriating the Melbourne Cup, for even with his penalty his weight will bo only 7st 101 b, or lib, less than h« carried to victory at Hawkesbury, Yet it must not be forgotten that his half-brother, Waxy, had only 6st. lib in, the last Melbourne Cup, and could not get any nearer than fourth, I'm tola" that he. is a real good-looking horse, and not a fault can be found with his breeding, wb,ich is of the stoutest, as the colt is by the imported horse Grandmaster from. Queen Bee, who is by the stouthearted New Warrior, and further on may be found the name of Spaewife, who is the ancestress of some of the greatest of our Australian celebrities. Moreover, qn the dam's side he!, has,, {wo straps, pf Pyrrhus 1., pne through Naw Warrior,' the sire of Tarragqn f Volunteer, Tim Whiffler, <fee, and the other through, M agus, the sire of Clove? winner of the first A.J.C. Derby. I regret io say that the brilliant victory of Sting, was not without its dark side ; for on the first day the horse started for the County Purse, and ran disgracefully. It ia said that he had his " clogs " on, and that his owner said he was going for a gallop. If this be true, I regret very much that the name of Rouse, should have boon mixed up in such a questionable proceeding. I am told that 2.L;!a's running was only a cje-

•cumstance to it . Why, then, did not the stewards take some action 1 Eclio .a nswers, "why 1 lam afraid it is only another exemplification of the old. Adage which I need not repeat. For the four weeks ending the 6th of September the mines at the Thames yielded 4,156 ounces of gold, and those at Coromandel 1,011 ounces. The principal yields at the Thames, were; — Queen of Beauty, 1,156 ozsjSmile of Fortune 288 ozs ; Golden Crown, 259 ; Moanatairi, 259 ozs; and Waiotahi, 239 ozs. At Coromandel, the Tokatea mine yielded 321 ozs, and the Kapauga 268 ozs. The Queen of Beauty minje is turning out very rich quartz. •The yield of gold from ' that mine in August was 763 ozs, and this month it is likely to exceed two thousand ounces. A very great improvement has taken place in the Kapanga mine, at Coromandel, and some rich: stone has been struck. About 55 tons has been treated, and about 60 pounds specimens, for the very handsome return of 164 ozs .of melted gold.