MISCELLANEOUS.

Inangahua Times, Volume VIII, Issue 1339, 21 December 1883, Page 2

MISCELLANEOUS.

The following eloquent passages are culled from Sir Ge-oge Grey's Annexation and Federation speech : — " As I look around me here, and know that many of those who listen to me are to be amongst the mothers of future millions of children who are to be the ancestresses of such children-Mian I believe that any one of them- will not with delight hear a subject discussed and considered in which some son, or the offspring of some son, maybe so interested that his bearing a part in the great events to come will leave his name an imperishable one in Ihe future history of this country. Is the feeling that we will be shut out from all further progress, and sink into Japanese and Chinese, separated from the exterior world ? Is that the feeling you all entertain ? (Cries of « No.') Or is the feeling that the Anglo Saxon race shall spread, that the English language shall penetrate everywhere, and that at last we may hope for one great federation of the whole Anglo-Saxon people, speaking one tongue, with a common literature, and able to dictate to the world and compel them to maintain the world in peace? — (Cheers.; For 40 yeart I have watched for this time in patience ; for 40 years I have longed to see those hopes animating the people of these Colonies which brighten up then hearts, and I have lived at last to see my hopes fulfilled? — (Loud cheers). And this is as it should be. The world was made for man. The world was created to be used by God's creatures. Various commodities have in modern times come to our use and improved our condition. Sugar, tea coffee and many other things were unknown to our ancestors, tnd there are others that remain behind y«fc undiscovered, yet unknown : they will be found yet in these islands of the Pacific, and a commerce which has astonished the world by its progress, shall yet spread and become greater, more enriching than ever it has been. —(Cheers)." Speaking of the inability of Englishwomen to swim, a writer in 'Truth' says that he never goes to one of our "sea-side lesorts" without noticing how very few Englishwomen there are who appear to know how to swim. At Brighton, Eastbourne, or Scarborough, you will see dozens of girls ungracefully bobbing up and down in 18iu of water, but not one in fifty swimming. Abroad, on the contrary, at Trouville or Boulogne, plenty of ladies swim about in the uiost fearless manner. This difference the writer attributes entirely to our insular and idiotic prejudices. Here the unwritten law of Mrs Grundy decrees that no girl shall bathe with any man, even her father, husband, or brother ; and the consequence is that few of them learu to swim, and many of them do not bathe at all. Abroad, on the other hand, where the sexos bathe together, ladies are constantly taught to swim by their male relatives/ The sooner, therefore, that we supersede our ideas on this point, and alloY both sexes to bathe together, the betterespecially for the ladies. Catarrh of the bladder. -Stinging irritation, inflamation, all Kidney and similar Complaints, cured by " I'uohupaiba." Moses, Moss & Co., Sydney, General Agents.

At the Mechanics' Fail' at S&r Francisco the most noticeable thiu'J was a machine which separates the milk from the cream in a few moments. The milk, fresh from the cow. is put into a reservoir, and, by a few turns of a wheel, is at once disembodied from the crea.ny particles. - A correspondent sends the Ota"<; Times tlie following instance of Irish fertility :— -There is a town-land in Ireland, County of Derry, Half-barony of Coleraine, parish of Aughadocy., named Mboeydig, where lives a Mr John Myrrell, who had a lot of chickens hatched on the 6th April thi.« year, and on the 15th July two of them laid their first eggs. Could New Zealand beat this 1" It is estimated that the increase ir th^-po. >uktion of Canada by immigratibti j will this year reach nearly 150,000 Last year the increase was 115)000. Wels' "rough on corv&" — Ask far Wells' " Rough on Corns." Quick ! relief, coraple c, permanent cure Corns, warts, bunions. Moses r Mos.i &Co., Sydney, General Agents.