MISCELANEOUS.

Inangahua Times, Volume IX, Issue 1348, 14 January 1884, Page 3

MISCELANEOUS.

It is not yet decided what will be done with the Triumph, except that the coal flH^tMcgo- will be taken out immediately; All the vessel except the forehold is kept dry. The -cargo aboard consists of 200 tons of railway iron and 200 tons of general cargo. The vessel will be ready for docking in about a month. Nothing has been decided about lengthening the dock, but it is proposed to erect a coffer dam, and after the vessel's condition is ascertained to send to England for the plates necessary to repair her, the vessel being left at anchor till their arrival. It is estimated that the purchaser-has spent £2000, exclusive of purchase money, in saving the vessel, and that, including the purchase money she can be made as good as new for between £15,000 and fc'2O,OOQ. Her estimated value is ±'60,000. The refriger&toi*, which was saved uninjured, is estimated to be worth £6000. It .was purchased by the Auckland Refrigerating Company. •.. .

The Adelaide Observer remarks that it was the occasion of a show dinner, and the chairman, a self-sufficient country magnate, made some very foolish speeches in the course of the evening, but he got a lesson at last He was proposing " The Press," and took occasion to remark that the

Register like other papers, although it did some good, published a very great deal of" rot" The Register representative quietly got up to respond, and after thanking the meeting for. the, cordial away they had received the crusty toast, sarcastically remarked-!-* Your chairman says my paper publishes a great deal of rot. Ndw I shall be enabled to show you in my dealing with your chairman's utterances for to-day that the Register cnn 'leave out a great deal rot.'" There where roars of laughter, and the eh lirraan felt squelched.

The slums of London are more nests of crime, and are capable of becoming centres of cholera. Some persons have even been hoard to wish for a visit from cholera (which this summer has been near enough) that the public might be stirred to action. Even if without actual postilence the position is to the last degree shameful and dangerous. It is the duty of everyone wHo realises the facts never to cease agitating (as without agitation nothing { can be done) till the condemned houses are condemned. Even then the task of reforming London poverty is only beginning. The poor themselves, it appears, object highly to State aided emigration. They prefer to linger at the docks or among the decaying rabbit and matchboxes in the hope that something vaguely magnificent will be done for them at home. Who can wonder that they have not th* heart or pluck to emigrate as the middle classes do whefi they find England too small for them? Heart and pluck they can never acquire while their education involves precocious acquaintance with recondite immorality. la the meantime, and before the question becomes a party question, private enterprise is doing what it can with with too large a problem. And this private enterprise, whatever form it takes, whether that of a " Society for the Protection of Lodgers" or not, deserves support and approval. Lodgers may possibly be enabled to " strike " against the heartspeculators who live on them, and Coger's Eents may be left to him d isolate. — Saturday Review. The following remarkable words were uttered by Judge Johnstone, of California, in passing sentence of death on a criminal : "Nor shall the place be forgotton in which occurrecj the shedding of blood . It was one of those numerous ante-chambers of hell which mar like a plague-spot the fair face of our world. You need not to be told I mean a tippling-shop — the meetingplace of Satan's millions, and the foul cesspool which, by spontaneous generation,- bre> ds and nurtures all that is loathsome and disgusting in profanity, babbling, and vulgarity and Sabbath-breaking. I would not be the owner of a groggery for the price of this globe in gold. For a pitiful sum a publican sold the vile poison which made the deceased a fool and the culprit a demon. And this murderous traffic is tolerated by law. And the vendor has committed an act not cognisable by earthly tribunals ; but in the sight of Him who is unerring in wisdom, those publicans will be participators in crime. These sinks of vice and crime should be placed under the bah and curse of an enlightened public opinion."

Captain Jeanie White, from New Zealand who had charge of the Salvation Army station at Williamstown, Victoria, is styled by the War Cry " The Hallelujah Maori."

An Adelaide telegram has been received from Port Darwin announcing the discovery of Stuart's route, marked on trees, on the north-west coast. The initials were cut clear and distinct.

The Tiraaru Herald characterises Mr Whitaker's speech as a device on the part of the Goverment who will not in any may be responsible for anything Whitaker may have said, being no longer in the Ministry, and suggest, that Atkinson should come forward and tell the country what he has done and what he means to do some time before Christmas.

Don't die in the house. — " Rough on Rats " clears out rats, mice, beetles, roaches, bed-bugs, flies, ants, insects, moles, jack-rabbits, gophers. Moses, Moss & Co., Sydney, General Agents.