MISCELLANEOUS.

Inangahua Times, Volume VIII, Issue 1284, 15 August 1883, Page 2

MISCELLANEOUS.

According to a city missionary the Duke of Westminster has closed no fewer than 24 public houses on his Grosvenor Square estate within the last five years. His Grace had closed 18 others previously. Of the 24 others still remaining se yeral are already doomed, as the Duke will not renew the leases for their oontinuatiou as public-houses. _ At Quito, the only city in the world on the line bf the Equator, the sun sets and rises at 6 o'clock all the yearround. Your clock may break down your watoh get cranky, but the buii never makes a mistake here. When* disappears from sight for the night it is 6 o'clock, and you can set your watch according. In one part of the city it is summer season and in the other part it is winter.— "Rochester Democrat Thick heads.- Heavy stomachs, bilious oonditiona-Wollß' May Apple Pills— anti-bilious, cathartic. 5cL and j is Moses, Moss& Co., Sydney, General Agents.

The "Vagabond" writes in th( " Argus" ':---" These New. Zeolant lakes are the coldest in the world Here, 1 on Wakatipu, I, am told th< same as OD; the Fraser River, in Britisl Columbia, should I fall overboard ] shall never come to the surface agair — the ice-Cold water will kill m& Bui they also r say that I should never read tHp bottom.; but 50ft down would bt friwsefli and so float about, stiff aud graeao_i.e vl _ fearfuLsight fortheyouin: trdttt; '• «Sb the old men tell,' and il Sttcli ]Be the case instead of planting one'? on the hill-side, it woulc be meeitbmoor him Qr. her to a buoj in tha middle of the lake, and then oik could -occasionally haul up the deal departed and See how the body was getting on; it would W far bettei than any system of embalming I hav< heard of. It isn't a very easy thing tc bottom Wapatipu; in places it if 1400 feet deep— that is, 400 ft below the level of the sea. In all these lakes there is a peculiar, quality, present ot lacking, making the waters wonderfully light. It is very hard to swml In them, and it may be this, instead of the cold, which keeps down the bodies of drowned men." What is stated to be the largest steel casting hitherto m ado in Scotland was satisfactorily finshedon April 21st at the Dal_eil iron and Steel Works, Motherwell. It was for an anvil block a 12-ton hammer for ' the stabbling ; ol steel ingots, and the j weight o( tuetal run into the. tuouid was -no ; less than 170 tons - the operations of melting and running occupying 24 hours without intermission. An entire foundry planl "was 1 specially constructed for the pur pose, while the bloick was cast upside down, with trunnions in the coutre, sc that on the removal of ' the plant il would cant to its proper p6siti6n. i * Th« weight of the stroke bf.this.RUg.e^Jham mer. is calculated at 400 foot tons Another of the same size has just beer completed at Govan^ , ''■•-The following curious circumstanc*: is mentioned by Bloomfield, in M •' History of Norfolk " :— •« On Castor Common ' there is r a tree grown in -J very ;unusual mannerv.lt was first a large . willow^ on the head or tod oi vrilich the seeds of an ash, an elder be'riy;;' and a ha?el-nut were 16dge«3 (probably carried there by,. birds), all o'. which took; root in the, dirty and rot ten^art of the tod, and so run down Svards till they reached the earth, anc Tooied' ih it^ahd continued growing til $hey split the body of the willow open and so the'fiisrtiroote^which ran from l-tettcat'teH'the^edlthv have become a tree; and the'dittwai-d rihd Of thi ftydvr be^ng^stan^^.tbere are five s/ojeti pi tye^, cqnjo|n^d,; (^iz.^ ( an oak| an' ash,, ;a • wdW, &&&&*■**& -'*P elder.":'. ••,)! ;■;«;•>.•!,.;;. ■:./." .•:...-.;.. ':.-_. Herald"; says of the informer o_rey, who lately met with death'at the.hands of an assassin :— l tim Qf>ihis tragedy was a coiriparatively young man, being only 38 ' years of i age. He was born in Dublin, and was married 18 years. He leayesr a family of seven '•cliildren, thjfe 'eldest beiiig a boy 16 years of age. IrlisfatheKFr^tieisCarey.wAs^ I()ricklayer >f frortt-eoanty ..^Eild^re, th< family consisting of three sons and thret daughters. Of his two brothers, Peter whd was associated' with him in th< invincibles* conspiracy, was a fortimar bricMayer in Dublin, while the otlioi trbtb^**. Francis, /is a master : builder iiolo^ing'a good position in the saini city. .Carry's three sisters are married and..are located iv Australia, San Fran cisca. sand Dublia respectively. Th deceased man was in the employment c Joseph Meade j the present master c his brother Peter, for eighteen years Latterly he had been y<fry ,successfD in business on his own accoujrt; %o wariis the end of,' last-year. Carey wa elected a member of the Dublin Cit iCoxmciL Apart from his association 'With the Invincibles he appears to hay _bfhe igood character' his wife speat ing highly of him as a husband and Jaikhgr/.whiie he took ah active part i itnanynonpohtical local movements. - Dbi*'* DIE IN. THE HOUSE.— -" RoUg on 'Ra_4 ! ' J "clears out rafe, { mice, bei %les^ roacihes; bad-bugs| flips, . .ants iusects, taoles, jack-rabbits," gophers Ti&/ Moses, Moss & Co., Sydnej General Agent. ■.:,