MISCELLANEOUS.

Inangahua Times, Volume VIII, Issue 1331, 3 December 1883, Page 2

MISCELLANEOUS.

» . The Willmott Combination Company, consisting of sixteen members, will left ChriStchurch for the West Coast on Saturday last Referring to Webb'« foolhardy effort at Niagara, the London Standard sayg : — " The taste for these feats is a disease, whether it be the wheeling of a barrow on a tight-rope stretched across Niagara, flying in a balloon across the Channel or the Mediterranean, or in circus leaps, the zest of which to the spectators consists is the risk which the performer runs." In the Supreme Court at Launceston, Charles Edwin Rolston was charged with having assaulted Mr Arkenhead, one of the proprietors of the Examiner, with intent to do bodily harm* The assault appeared to have been commited in consequence of a paragraph which I was published in the prosecutor's journal, stating that the prisoner had been assaulted by the father of a young lady with whom the prisoner had run away. The jury found the prisoner guilty of common assault and the Judge fined him 4,£o> an order which createdconsiderable amount of surprise. As Bolston's friends are known to be weathy the fine was at once paid. The latest development of bankruptcy morality, says the N.Z. Times is that a working man employed in this ; district has filed his schedule for £31, Bs, together with an odd twopence half-penny. The total value of his estate he estimates at £15, being £10 less than the law allows him to retain, and his wage-earning power ia not reckoned as a legal asset. Having solemnly invite'aVhw Creditors meet him at the Supreme Court building yesterday, they deliberately stayed away, and the poor bankrupt was left alone lamenting. His r seems a hard case, nearly as hard as theirs. Mr G. Butterfield writes to the Sydney Evening News as follows regarding a comet bow rapidly coming into view: — "From the elements of M. Palliser which he gives, I have computed positions of the comet at successive intervals of 30 days, from which, referred to the earth's surface at corresponding dates, it is manifest that we, in this southern hemisphere, shall not be able to see it earlier than next February, during which month it will be a conspicuous object in our western evening sky. On the night of $rd February, at which date it is also nearest to the sun, it will be about 90 millions of miles distant from the earth — as near an approach as the magnificent comet of last year. When w» consider that it was visible on Brd

Septemb r last, at a distance of 2fflM millions of miles from the sun, andM little less from the earth, and,moreove?f* is approaching as at an acceleratine i speed of over two millions of mUeaper day, we may expect a prodigious increase of apparent size and brilliance at this comparatively small distance. At this date (3rd February) however, it will be above our horizon for a- very short time (about an hour) after sunset. The interval between the setting of the sun and the setting of the comet will, however, rapidly increase daily, as the comet crosses the plane of the earth'* <^ Q <m .J, 2tU February, *> a distances of 78 millions of miles from the sua and about 95 imjes froia the earth and fades from our view in the southern regions space." Bmnwy Mbn.— "WeJk' Health Re^ newer restores health and vi«or r cores Dyspesia, Impotence, Debility. Moses, Mos* & Co, Sydney, General Agents. Why dj> Hop Bitten care bo much I JJ** «w tl» y giye good digestion* rich blood aod healthy action of ail theorcana. Read .