MISCELLANEOUS.

Inangahua Times, Volume VIII, Issue 1266, 2 May 1883, Page 3

MISCELLANEOUS.

— .» A fish of solid gold, of the bullio l value of £'500, is reported to have been dug up in Ober-Lausitz, the border land between Saxony and Silesia. Its surface is said to be incised with mythological figures, wrought after archaic Greek patterns. The well known Kennedy family of Scottish vocalists, including "papa" and Helen, Marjory, Maggie, and Robert, sailed from London for Melt>ourne iv one of the P. and 0. boats on March 14 last. They are to appear in Melbourne in M:zy next.

There are now nine lawyers in the House, namely, Messrs Bathgato. Conolly, DoLautour. Holmes, O'Rorke, Sheeham, Tole, Whitaker, and Wynn Williama. Last session the number was ten, but the total is of course reduced by the resignation of Mr Weston. An Irishman tried to shoot a sparrow with an old Queen Anne musket. He fired ; the bird, with a chirrrup or two, flew away unconcerned in the fore-ground, and Pat was swiftly and noiselessly laid on his spine in the background. Picking himself up, and shaking his fist at the bird, he exclaimed, 'Be jabers, ye wouldn't a chirruped if you'd been at this end of the gun !" "Pray, Brother A.' what is the reputation of Mr B. in your parish V " Well, sir, all I can say is, that such is the estimation of Mr B. among ns that when I read from the pulpit that passage in the Psalms, 'Mark the perfect man and behold the upright,' the eyes of the whole congregation are not turned to that part of the gallery where Mr B. sits." The Land Nationalisation theory seems to have got an out-and-out believer in the Wellington Times. In a recent article we read : — •• Let the big capitalists and land-sharks oppose as they please, the time is rapidly approaching when the nationa isatioh of the land and leasehold tenure by individuals will be generally recognised as the normal state of things, and absolute ownership, if allowed at all, be the only exception. Compensation at the market value is all that our land-sharks can except to get for their idle and unproductive lands, whether in country, suburb, or town, and they ought to think themselves lucky to get that. That there is nothing wildly impracticable is clear from the circumstance that we have long adopted it already in the matter of occupation of land by miners."