MISELLANEOUS.

Inangahua Times, Volume VIII, Issue 1324, 16 November 1883, Page 2

MISELLANEOUS.

A Team of cricketers from the Unite** States will pay England a visit in thY Spring. Latest returns give the yield o! the American wheat crop at four hundred million bushels. Last year, 140,469 ounces of gold, valued at £526,52 1, came from thfr New Soutii Wales goldfielda. The total value of the mineral products was &SIL 782,841. The estimated surplus of wheat for export from whol» of Australasia it is estimated will be about three million quarters. Napier district has two million fivehundred and eigh y-five thousand eight hundred and eighty-three sheep. The quantity of sugar exported from Queensland since July, has been close upon eight thousand pounds*. A London cablegram announces thefailure of Messrs Alexander Brothers,. Australian merchants, 7, Draper's-Throgmorton-avenne, with labilities of fc'52,000, and estimated assets at £46, 000. The Sandwich Island* export annually five thousand tons of rke. The Sydney Young Men's Christian. Association's new buildings are to cost thirty-three thousand pounds. Of this, sum £12;000 is in hand. Mr John Frazer gave £2,000. The building are to be erected at the corner d Pitt and Bathurst streets. The Wanganui • Chronicle' makes a fuss because agentleman in that locality has charged £750 for ten days work iii the Native Land Court. That is a comparatively moderate charge. Mi- Henry M. Stanley's mother ig. an innkeeper at the little Welsh village of Gross Foxes. The explorer'sstepfather is a thatcher and tiler in, the village, and had never seen Londoiv until Irs adopted son brought him thither when the African explorer waa the lion of the day. Late English files announce the dathofLady Pringe, relict of the ' lat ■ barouet of that name. This lady's ri: phi; w, who is heir to the baronetcy, wiiich unfortunately carries no property with it, is seated by the Fielding paper to be a brewer living in thedistrict, and well known m Fielding. K o ;o::o can bo, sick if the stomach, blood, .liver and kidtfeya are. well. Hot> Bitters keep? them, \folk Notice. •

We understand (.aaFßtheatiew Zenland fee»ld) that Mr D:,Hean, the Auckland' manager 1 of the National Bank, will shortly leave for Dunedin forthe purpose of assuming the position of inspector of the National Bank in this Colony during the absence of Mr Dymock, who at present holds the position, and who is abuut to visit-. England. Mr Heanhas for some time been inspector for some of the northern districts' of the Colony, and has been I the most successful ofc the officers o|' the Bank since its fou^p^n. ...„.,£ The, Van tean .Jipworks- of Melbourne have cost J||p4,446. It may be presumed thafctira'fs a sumjfor in excess of the original estimalss/antl that if at the first-such an^xpehdituje. could nave' been foreßeie%^ij£o|^ assurance of the reverine t^jbej|(^itfwithe works mi^ht never, hay&i been commenced. But in th** meantime the income has been £1,15^,551 — that is, within £254,000 >of the cost.: Thfi remaining debt will -;etoily be dea^ with from current income v The yearly expenses are less, than 620,000; the' income is £100,000, leaving £80,000 a ye^r tothe good, - Strange it is that people do not Imow when they are well off, even as regards their family history/ Many a man to whom the fates' nave not been liberal in the matter of grandfathers -would be only too delighted if he could trace bis decent from baron and baroness, even though the one were a brute and the other a fool. And yet there is a gentleman claiming to be, the " lineal' ■descendant df LeqMc, /aAd'^odiyja,',* , i?ho writejs,' to, the London Tames endeavouring to discredit the Coventry legend which has been pronounced by Iristoriana and nursery rhy mists to be 1 absolutely and unimpeachably* true. The " lineal descendant" is evidently a prosaic soul who donsn't appreciate liis owrf kd.ya'ptageg^ ' 'His remonstrance is, mor^j)vei\,r^tfee,r cruelly timed, as it come4it«t ..a moment when .a' grand revivalofiithe Godiva pageant has'juat been held at Coventiy. An actress whose weightiest clothing . was hei 4 native modesty' f ode through tibe 1 principal streets on a milkrwhite steed, and was folio^yedby a go g j ous imitai ion of a medieval mob.* Everything went swimmingly, and the procession might have been permanently revived but for the unnatural interference of the lineal descendant, who appears to be something of an antiquarian, and to be endowed with abnormal, delicacy of feeling.^Eyen at this, distance of time he is shocked at the delioiously outre character of Lady G-odiva's self sacrifice. He regards it as a slur upon the ancestress of. a very estimable individual, to wit, himself, and is willing to barter his birthright in , the. caiise of. modern propriety. The result is a rather fiery letter, wJbich is also \ com olusive if one clause may be accepted as correct . The, ' lineal . descendant avers that^Qyenjry, did not exist at; the alleged pe/iodvof the Godiva ride. If this be. so,- the; i chief est glory has departed^ from Coventry, and it must henceforth rest its-pretensions to fame solely upon the manufacture of ribbons and bicycles. ;-y ■"..■■'; ■•" A witness at the. R.M. Court, Christchurch, was describing a conversation. The pe.rsofi he was talking to had said, "I am a gentleman." "Yes," replied the other," a 'gentleman with three outs." The magistrate wished to know^ what the ; meaning of that expression, was. f"Wfell, ? ' said the witness, " I meant that; he was a gentleman without' wit, without manners, and without money." A special telegram regarding , the Melbourne Cup says :— The ring were depressed, they having been hit very severely? The public are jubilant, Martini- Henry has ' een persistently backed through the winter to win both Derby and Cup straight out* and he was also picked in heavy dotiblei The colt rah ' grandly, ' and proves himself be the \>esf thr^eryearlpld of the , : Trqni: .the. starts of the race he held a good position, and at the home- turn commenced to come through his horses.. At the diStApce post he HreW away from the ottiers ai if they were standing still. The Hon.. M r White, the owner of Martini-Henry, wins £35,000 by his, victbjyY .The stable followers have also,: it : is' said, *won a largV stake. First Water, who finished second for the Cap; showed good form, and came very fast in the straight. He was backed by his owner to win £80,000, arid the stable alfiio had £20,q00^about his chance. The third horse," Commotion, in spite. of his heavy weight (lOst 101 b) performed brilliantly, he kept among the first division throughout, and was only beaten for second placeby half a length He had not been backed for anything heavy to win, or even to run into a place. Archie ran well for a mile arid a-half, but his performance yesterday showed that, under the most favorable circumstances . be, could not" have won the Derby. Claptrap ran gamely and had been backed for a large sum. Aide-dc Camp, Santa Claus, First Demon, Despot, Cahna, Stockwell, Dirk Hatterick, Linda, and Nicholas; performed fairly well. Don't we in the house. — : " Bough on Rats" clears out rats, mice, beetles, roaches, bed-bugs, flies, ants, insects, moles, jack-rabbits, gophers. Moses, Moss & Co., Sydney, General Agents. '