MISCELLANEOUS.

Inangahua Times, Volume IX, Issue 1398, 9 May 1884, Page 2

MISCELLANEOUS.

I «. Speculating on the approach ; v.» generalelectiorithe Marl&wough Expp*s says that MrOonolly, the present member for Pioton, will most probuhly 1 have Mr Seymbur pittwd against him, and that thii names of Mr Eyms, M r A . J. Thompson, awl Mr W. RvTwry-havp' been freely mentioned as candidate?. Mr Conolly holds his seat by a very frail tenure, and with the miners and the Catholics against him, his charges of election are very doubtful For the Wairau it is said that Mr Dodson will me it Mr Joseph Ward and pel-bap's Mi* Henderson as antagonists. At Chevoit it is said Mr Mcllwraith will be opposed by Messrs Sannders and Gibson A member of the party of Wanganui prospectors, writing to the Wanganni Chronicle, gives the following account of the native obstruction referred to by the Hon. Mr Mitehelson : — " You will see by the heading of this letter that we are at Utopu the toll-gate of the King Country, We. have been detained here since Saturday, and a fltariSßg has been held ©w since. Tftomata, the chief of the plao* would not consent to our going pint the toll. We have an armed force with us, and two or three chiefs of note, and they told Taumata this morning we were going to start. Everything was packed up and put in the canoes at 6.50 o'clock a.m. , when the chief Taumata came down and seated him self in onr canoe. We, the Europeans, were told not to get in or interfere, and arra*d men were placed out with caps on their guns to protect us. As soon as our onnoe-man went to start his canoe, Tonmnta closed with him, and a wrr stling match took piece, the women joining in. It ended in them getting a ducking, and neither party gaining his point. A long discussion then took plnce. At length one of our chiefs got up and told his men he was detarmin«MJ onr party should go, and gave the signal fnr them to tafre the can Oft About 20 <v» either side rushed in, onr side having to pnll against the stream : bnt they succeeded in gaining the day, and one of the moat powerful chiefs will now be on onr side. Thus ended the memorable battle of Utopu." Many Otago and West Coast ppnnle will remember the notorious Jock Graham. .Thus be writes recently in «i Dnnedin contemporary : — " I have held some very important positions, having sat on the Education Board for the Waikari district with the late respected George Hepburn, Esq., M.P.C., and I was also elected a member of the Road Board for the Caversham district and I was also one of the candidates for Dun*din Central at the late election. In local industries I have taken the lead, is I was the first to make mushroom iatflup. I was also the first to cure ish and make jam fend many other hings. The publicare also aware that [ was like Whittingfcm, the late Lord Major of London, and I wat a. cat nerchant [on the West Coast] in oom>any with my hold respected friend, vho is now un M.H.R., and for many

ye?t rs past, as all know, a respectablebooksi'ller. lam also author of the ' Christian Review' and the ' Independent,' both of which are to be got in (he Melbourne Library bound. I wan also a minister onee r having established the only tr ue religion in the world, «nd at, the present time lam proprietor taul editor of tTve'Hot Springt oaide.' 1 tut: I shall 'ue'iiextr God only knows, [for I don't" •• \. The Ha^era p*p*»r mye — •' *¥Se o£ t;!te v«stlesi , sotft« in this tKstfidfc are anxious? for ft liMUr •iciteraent* and! are considering the t4risabifity of inviting *ir Julius Vojjet*© contest theßgmont seat with Major Atkinson. ' A telogratn from Glenrowan in tho A-jje s-vy^:— "A notorious criminal, named Jin Quinn, uncle to-the iateNetf JKLolly, the bushranger, has been arn^ted on a charge of nrard«vously ■•■tssnlting an old woman named Hart, at Greta. The woman now "Res In- tho' Wangavatta Hospital in a v«ry preca•i >ns condition, and little hopes are c itertaincd of her recovery." The will of a French lady who W cenrly died at the advanced age of ninety contained this provision :— " I le?ave to my physician, whose enlightened care and wi«te presoriptiorifc hivo made me Hvj m long, all that 1* contained in the oUI oak cMifc of my Wndoir. The ley ef the chest will be found under the mattraas of my bed." he family were somewhat anxious. The fortunate physician arrived. Tho "best was opened, and found to contain solely all the drugs and potions, still i\ j,ct, which the doctor had given bis patient for years back. -'ore Expense.— The Australian !;i Tew Zealand Government*" have a ■-.•■;i. ; l, (the Army and Navy Octette un 1-rstands) for the services of a number of noh-CWmissioned officers of the Royal Engineers for employment as instructors in Submarine mining, in conu'.-tion with the defence of the ; pri> c'\r\) colonial seaports, and tho War | Offi<v h;iH decided that the request shall he. gra'sted. The pay of these noncom m'-^ioned officers will of course, be pw'vidH from colonial funds. The. Wellington 'Post' concludes n'i \ :*ticle on the Education system th^st-r-'The amount paid annnally for edncational purposes presseß hardly on the colonial iboome, and there are not wantiug intlioatiouttpf a growing opinion that either free education should be made less costly and less comprehensive, or r oiAtitb.e»burden of its cost should not/w3tt3tty he met ont ; of th > general revenue *)f the Colony. | "La .our" says that;- Major Atkin* i pn^i's «?nepch at Hawei-a, is ..truthfully !i:wl wi^inijly described as a bidforth« |o.it!.oi^s. the bookmakers, the Civit ! Service, the publicans, and the Ribbonnvnt. Why not? Ho is <i .representative man. • •»••>. j In an article on Tawhaio's visit to ' England the Melbourne ArgusMj*:— !In one respect Sir Georga <3fe**y appears to have given Tawhtfeth* best of all pottibl* advice. The tronblc with Thakomban at Sydney , wftg to keep sober atfcfcl**, mid Ui« Same Ulitiioul^y ocoorrvd with Oetewayo. ; That lahle mooAKh it said to have j added two words to hit vocabulary in London, the one being " good night" and the other " fins," and the latter J was the term usually on his lips. His j decided preference, however, was for ' whisky. Knowing their own weak- ' ness, th* Kin» tri'»es forbade, the iutmduction of liquor into their dominion and were wont first to consume j the contents of smuggled qnarter- ; barrels, and then to knock in the hoads •of the smugglers. Sir George .Greystrongly advised Tawhaio, if he does go to England, to wear th* bliie ribbon for a year; and if the chief and hit attendants can nerve themselves to do so much, there is no reason why the Maori Monarch, with the romantic hirtary and the poetic diction of; the, mo*, ahonJd not be a marked social 'nMH. He shovtd be a draw for fltrter Hall and for temperance platforms. His constant enemy will be, not the Secretary of State, nor the<Sol> nnial Ministry, bat what the potentate his brother Zulu, was taught by the hvoverent to describe as " fiiz." Sir John Lubbock publicly declared the other day that the neglect of science and of modern languages in tbe English schools was a national misfortune. Gambling is the cause of more suff •; !•;■; in the United States today than tH trie liquor drunk therein. A man «wmot will spend a fortune on liquor in a single night's play at ** fai'o." — Boston Transcipt. -vThe German Emperor's prize, awarded every five years, for the best Germnn bifitorical woi-k produced within that period, has just been given to Pmf-Rsor roo Treitschke. This is the historian who, in a recent lecture, described .Abraham as " the dirtiest old Jew • that ever lived," and as a " grasping coward." Lieutenants Harber and Scbnte, of the United States navy, lately passed through Berlin on their way to Hamburg in charge of the bodies of Lieu-tenant-Commander de Loner and his companions, Dr Ambler, Mr Collins. mil «;\ -^ilors belonging to the ill-fated Jea'M.'tto expedition, who were biii-ieil. or rather encairned, at the month of the Lena. Tho British taxpayer never has a chn.tice of keeping his few coins in his pnekots This expedition to Egypt whn-ti has hemi undertaken .for the pumnse of "buryinsr the de,afl," and which has been successfu,l'-in adding* some- two thousand nddftfional corpses to thosn a waiting inter* n.ent, will 'cost this country at very lcavst one million of mouey. Camels, nnil^s, and ' hones «•««« el conrse, at a premiam as aaon Mft W/M known that we waitfed-ttietn at • fliort notice en fhat what wdnld have been a mt>re milifary manceux-re, under ordinary ..

circumstances,, has run alrnss;, into th heavy . expense of an. actual com paign. The wol^t of it is that we shali more tbatf :; likely, have to go " througl tha whole thing again.. EtDsfr "Bugs. —^Beetles, iriseots roach.es, *an^, bedonga, rats, mice gophert*jfi^-T*-^its, dmfed odt. :■) " Rotigh'Wsa^; fl " Tbe New Zealant Druf Ca, ; %dney, G>unal Agente. That iny^d,. wif^ juutkaii JiißtfK^>i child can' WniadeW^Kt^o? Mm\