MISCELLANEOUS.

Inangahua Times, Volume IX, Issue 1383, 4 April 1884, Page 3

MISCELLANEOUS.

The will of tht ; late " Professor" Holloway has been p >roved. The exact value of the personal property as sworn to by the executors: is £550,061 Ba 2d, besides the freehold 5 >roperty, which is considerable. The testator gives all his real and personal property, and the lease of his premises in New Oxford street, the goodwill at id connection of his business, and his 1 ecipes and prescriptions, to Miss Ma ry Ann Driver, the sister of the lat« s Mrs Holloway. Except, therefore, whei -c any charitable endowments have been set apart under deeds, any further cha: ritable disburse nients or other gifts ou t of his estate will be entirely as Miss Diver pleases. • Truth' declares that the Queen has decided to make the rod oas in Windsor Castle occupied by the la te John Brown sacred to his memory b y permanently closing them, and that a further Royal determination is to plac< * a large brass plate on door of his sittic ig-rooni recording his virtues and depl oriug his lose. A daring robbery wus perpetrated the other day in a grocer's shop in Altona. A stranger ask ed the apprentice, who was fclone in the shop, for a pound of treacle. Wh en the young man asked what he should put it in, the stranger took oft his hat and told i him to put it into that. The unsuspecting apprentice smilingly complied, but he had scarcely tilled the hat when it was suddenly clapped 0 a his head. The stranger then proceeded to clear out the till, and, snatching up a few parcels of groceries lying 01 1 the counter, %l made tracks." The pod. r apprentice, who had great difficulty in getting rid i of the hat and the sticky matter which covered his face, shouted for help, but the robber had by this tim< > got clear I away 1 — * Hamburger Nachricrichten.' Some of the more rabid of the ternppratic* people appear to have become quite mad, arid are doing much harm to the cause they advocate. The " minister " of a large town in Midlo- j thian recently preached a sermon in j which he maintained that no publican or other person dealing in alcohol was tit to be admitted to the " membership " of a Christian congregation, and that with the consent of the kirk session (i.e., the vestry) an applicant belonging to the abhorred trade has just been 1 ei'ascd admission to their church. This, i'u Scotland, is an equivalent to a refusal of the holy communion in England. A great row has been the result of this intolerance, and several members of the kirk session have signified their dissent from the minister's views. The aggrieved persons have appealed to the Presbytery, and the case will probably be brought before the General Assembly. — 'Truth.' That husband of mine is three times the man he was before he began ; using " Wells' Health Reuewer." Druggists. The New Zealand Drug ! Co., Dunediu, General Agents.