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Inangahua Times, Volume VIII, Issue 1307, 8 October 1883, Page 4

The lettersof those knights-errantare undeniably entertaining ut itispeihaps somewhat unfortunate that the liveliness of their styles throws some doubt on the veracity of their narratives. There was once a book written on New Guinea by a Captain Lawson, under whicii _iom de plume the Age professes to have discovered Captain Armit, the present representative of the rival journal. This, of course, is bat the outcome of the jaundiced imaginings of jealousy, but it is none the less true that one can trace inthe ecstatic style of Captain Armit aresemblanee to the fabulous narration of his forerunner. He views everything through rose coloured spectacles. New Guinea is not only a land where every prospect pleases, but even man himself in not vile. A more matter-of-fact way of telling his story would enhance its effect The charm of this unknown land does not need to be heightened by the display of imagination. Of Mr Ernest Morrison, the Tepresentative of the Age and Sydney Herald, nothing has been heard since the letter he wrote announcing his arrival at Port Moresby and his start on an excursion into the interior. Possibly he is carrying out his announced intention of making a walking tour from one end of the island to the other. In the " Vagabond" the Argus bas a most indefatigable special. Every mail from New Caledonia brings some new and startling development of .French aggression. He is as fruitful in the elucidation of new instances of this spirit as Dr Titus Oats was in the discovery of Popish plots when public excitement demanded them. You are weii acquainted in New Zealand •with the many genial qualities which Mr Thomas possesses ; but perhaps you will agree that if there be any truth in the transmigration of souls, then that of Baron Munchausen must now inhabit the body of the " Vagabond."Mel bourne correspondent 0. D. Tim s. Earl Granville is small, slim, straight, of the most symmetrical figure, with white skin, pink cheeks, and grey hair, and dresses nattily inthe style of a quiet fashionable youth just of age. He has reached the scriptural limit of years, Messrs T. S. Weston and Allan Holmes have awarded to Mr J. Hay, of Christchurch, the Canterbury Law Society's gold medal for the best set of papers presented by candidates for admission to the New Zealand Bar at the August examination. They have also awarded to Mr W. 0 McGregor, of Dunedin, the Society's gold medal for the best set of papers presented by •candidates . for admission as solictors. The same gentleman have recommended certificates of merit to be given to Messrs H. T. W. Holliwell (Dunedin) and P. Kippenger (Christchurch) for good solicitors' papers. The examiners refer in complimentary terms to the solicitors' papers sent up by S. G. Raymond (Christchurch), A. S, Adams (Dunedin), and J. A. Caygill (Christchurch), and pronounce them to be more than ordinarily good. "Arithmancy," or the science of diving by numbers, is the subject of the following -remarks in " Harper's Magazine " ; — " In 1866 many persons in France were looking to 1869 and 1870 as years of possible catastrophes because of some curious arithmetical facts in past French history. Louis XVL came to the throne in 1744 ; adding those digits together makes 19, which added to 1774 gives 1793, in •which year he lost his crown and bead.. The nert regular order of government began with the fall of Robespierre in 1794, and the Convention, out of which grew the First Empire. To 1794 add the sum of its digits, 21, and you have 1815, the year of Waterloo, the fall of Napoleon, and the return of Bourbon power with Louis XVHI Again, add to 1815 the sum of its digits, and you have 1830, the year of the revolution of July, the fall of Charles X,, and accession of Louis Phillipe. Here another rule in arithmancy became operative. Louis Phillipe was bom in 1778, the sum of whose digits is 18. His queen, Amelia, was bora 1782. The sum of digits is again 18. His accession was in 1880. Add 18, and the result in 1848, the date of his fall. During the reign of Louis Napoleon French believers in arithmancy were divided in methods of prognostication. Adding to 1848 the sum of its digits gave 1869, to which many looked as a year of disaster. Others counted from the year in which he was mado Emperor and married to Eugene in 1853. Louis Napoleon was born in 1808, and the Empress was born in 1826, both which years gave 17 as the sum of their digits. Following the -rule, as in Louis Ehillipe's case, and adding this to 1858, gave 1870. By a remarkable coincidence, the sum of the digits of 1858 was also 17, and the old rule, as in the case of Louis XVL, also gave tbe year 1870 for disaster, which came with the German war and the "fall of the Empire. That this was not. an afterthought is shown by the publication of this prognostication for 1870 in 1866, as I have already cited it Now, however, the French pro- j phets, by help of the magic in numbers, are in the darkness which over- \ hangs all lookers into the future, i ghall they add to 1870 the sum of its digits and expect the end of the Be- t public in 1886 ? Or must they take \ some one's birth year, and, if so, c Whose? Arithmetic} is as good as any other method of divination if you 1 only know where to begin arid how « much to add. Let us not worry our- - •elves about it." DOM'T DIE IN THE HOUSE, — " Rough on Rats " clears out rats, mice, beetles, roaches, bed-bugs, flies, ants, - insects; moles, jack-rabbits, gophers. 7sd. Moses, Moss & Co., Sydney General Agent, Robust and blooming health in Hop JJitterß, and no family can afford to be Without them. Read.