MISCELLANEOUS.

Inangahua Times, Volume VIII, Issue 1315, 26 October 1883, Page 4

MISCELLANEOUS.

« Mer Majesty has already had as many as 32 grandchildren, distributed among her sons nnd .daughters as follows : — The Princess Royal (Crown Princess of Prussia) eight, six living and two dead ; Princess Alice (Grand Duchess of Ee^se Darmstadt) seven, five living and two dead; Princess Helena tive, four living and one dead; Prince of Wales six, five living and one dead ; Duke oi Edinburgh, four; and Duke of Connaught two. This list gives a total of 26 grand children living, and Her Majesty has also two great-graud-clildren. Early on Sunday morning (soys the Clutha Leader) a terrific explosion of dynamite took place in a hut on the banks of Caltin River occupied by two men named Hunter and Barney, who at the time were pig and cattle hunting. The explosion was heard twelve miles distant. An editor in Georgia : " Gold is found in thirty-six counties in this State, silver in three ; diamonds in twenty-six, and whisky in all of them ; and the last gets away with all the rest." On September 21st, 1888, Edward Ryan, contractor and storekeeper, was charged before F. Bird, Esq., Resident Magistrate, Okarito, with bavins; on ths and 24tl¥of July last, at Paring*, illegally sold and disposed of spirituous liquors, contrary to the provisions of the Licensing Act, 1881. The informant, Andrew Scott O'Niei. sworn, said — I am a laborer ; I. know the accused, and have keen working for him since November last. The accused keeps a store on the Paringa and Haast road, near tho works, Iremembpr the 23rd and 24th of July last. I/was in the store on the 2Brd. I bought six bottles of. brandy from ..Ryan's stoyetnan. Afterwards, on the;- same date, I bright, five more bottles I ."' The" accused^, l \so-. present. I know Andrew J6lt^b|^ Michael Cox, and Louis Jean ;tn%;werfi there all the. time drinking. To the beet of my belief Cox spent about £40. Johnston "iold v me he spent about i>!3o. I know a man named Joseph ijYancis ; he sppnt upwards of £60./ On th 23rd and foilo/nng days Francis wos lying in a" • hunk drunk. Accused would ask him how* he was getting on, and he would say, " All -right ; another shout for the boys, Ned." Ten shillings a bottle was charged for Ten nan's ale or brandy. At the time I lolft the works there was drink in the. store. On July 23rd and following days I spent £19. .1 had been paid £12 10s for wages. I spen£ it all and about £4 besides. There was.no defence, and in gifting judgement. His.. Worshiß* said it was a clear case of, fly-grog set-, ling," and it,was a disgrace to the country that such ' things were .carried on, especially by a GovernrtVenit contractor; and as no defence, wair offered he must take the evidenceofi?«§ informant as true, not or. ljr as , r^^^cfS J6tfe money he had spent h™|gp^i;TO|ta.l^) RS to the large amountfiiapeni^^^f^e-d down by others. It. was a qase Af what is called "Lambing Down" as had ever come under his notice ; and if'tbe costs had noit been so heavy he •would have inflic^rcl the ful penalty. A fine of £40 was inflicted with costs £7 10s. te Bishop of Melbourne's address «.„ U ue Church of England Assembly occupied nine and a-half columns of the Argus, a greater, space, it is said, thau any Australian journal has ever given to the address of any one man. A Skippers correspondent of the Wakatip Mail states that at the head of Shotover River lately two horses were seen which had be n attacked -by keas in the same manner as those birds treat, the sheep — that, is, by attempting to pick boles in the hacks of the animals, in order to reach their kidneys. -Attention has been called in thn 8. A. Assembly to the publication of notices of Victoiian sweeps and lotteries in South Australian papers, as an infraction of the law. Judge Cope, of Victoria has in timatpd in the County Court that for the future he would not allow barristers' coats in a case unless the barristers who conducted the case appeared in wig and gown. Attendants at Windsor Castle have to exhibit much tact in getting rid of lunatics who desire to see the Queen, to obtain redress for their wrongs, fancied or real. On an average there are fully a dozen in the course of a year. Some of them are harmless, and others very violent. They have been known to drive up to the Castle with a cab load oi: luggage and ask if their rooms are ready. Others assort that thny have come to claim the hand of the Princes BeatriceOne afflicted person was known i o have come from America for this purpose. He was rich, bad a splendid turn-out of portmanteaux and baggage, and his appearance astounded the sedate, lodgekeeper at one of the principal gates. But the startling information that this wealthy American desired to become bridegroom of a Royal Princess recalled the worthy func ionary to a sense of the situation. The marriage of a member of the Royal family with a successful speculator in ' ile' was a little more than royal fiunkeyism could stand. Flies ax Eugs. — Beetles, insects, loaches, ants, bed-bugs, rats, mic:-, gophers, jack-rabbits, cleaved out by " Rough on Eats." 7-Jcl. Moses, Moss & Co., Sydney, General Agents.