MISCELLANEOUS.

Inangahua Times, Volume X, Issue 1538, 22 April 1885, Page 3

MISCELLANEOUS.

+. During four vears British Columbia has receive 17.000 Chinese immi grants. One fourth of th* business done in Victoria, the. capital, is in Chinese banJa. Lord Wolseley looks v«ry Well after hrs men, according to the Army and Navv Gazette. This journal also re marks:— One of the last telegrams froi* Korti to Cairo was for 200 white utvVfvilas to We personally conducted up the -Nil* with all dispatch by a specially selected officer. As the troops are already arnaod with veils and g 'ggles, the Cairo CaramUs-iH«»a am now cruising about the M ? >ski in anticipation of a further requisition of a conoid of tlwusand funs t« cemplete thefteld equipment of the final advance on Khartoum. One of the moat rerairlwnle races which have ever taken place in New Zealand was the. Short* Handicap, van at Auckland on Monday. Up t« within a few yards of the winning pott fiv* horses were all aWreaat, and tfc w*s imwtfti .le. to fliy which would bs first. Trj the laxt few strides a horse nama>] Kilo, the greater •ttsider of thn lot, shot out and was proclaimed the winnner by a short half-length. When the tota'lisator dividend cawe to be reckoned up it was found t!i u o«t of 839 inve«tor3 at £1 «<*en, ot»1v thrtt* were on tlm winner. The dividend vra«» therefore the. phenomenal «ne of £251 l(k This, we V>eliev«, is the largest dividend ever paid in the «olony since the introduction of the total isa tor. A •* scene " is repoi*ted tr> have taken place on Tuesday last in St. Patrick's Church. Masterton. A youthful c*uple were to be married by the Rev. Father Treney on that day. After the bride, all smiles and orange blossoms, had set -nut .for the cbnroh. tlm Wridejfroom f*iftd,h» bud j»»t,*» A procttre th« neces«»ry license fr ra th». registrar. On j^ainsj to remedy his omission it was discovered that tho nrido was under age an.<i tke register cotild do no more than «h*ke hi«lieaflanfl express his sympathy for the disappointed groom. When the unpleaaant news waa Jironght to the bride-elect, the young lady, instead of swooning into her lover's arms, as the heroine in a novel or on the sUge would have done, or weeping bitterly and wringing her hands, as a plebeian bride of an un romantic disposition would have, lwhaved, flew into an ungovernable passi«n, tore her bridal veil into shreds, and unceremoniously fled the church. Bavaria has enacted a law forbidding the marris;?"! of couples who do not posse** snnvjient means to maintain themseWes, or who, during the previous three years, have received help from the. pnnlic funds, or who have not paid their -quota of taxes, t>r ragartlin 1 * wWn tli-re is rea<»in to ausoaet that trouble will- result to tb# household from w-uit of sobriety, economy, or love of work. The London Times says : •• There is no more hopeful sivjn for the future of the Empire, no clearer proof of the vigorous manhood of the English race, than the willing offers of military service which have come to us from Australia and Canada. While G»«rmani emigrate to avoid the obligations of the co«ucrfpti«rt, Englishmen voluntarily •enlisted for Colonial service only Ate willing t© come forward and face hard ship and danger for a cause, which is distinctly Imperial. This willingness on the part of our great Colonies to stand *>y the flag, and its practical realisation in the raoverarnt of an Australian contingent to Buakin, will , not ««!jr serve, to make it clear to Kurope that tlm small regular army of' Englaml^s «fi«r all <m\y a portion of the military strength at the disposal of the Empire bnt it will materially add t»the oopnlarity and Vffi jiency of all the Colonial foro*s. y • ■■ r Th^ttt' entet«4 ♦' Fairminnt Park, VhiliwWphiiw last y*»rf, 1,041,274 one and twfc»r«*,vi»ktafcf, 815 four bars* tehM«ftv\ B7,n* '■ bicycle.. 49.777 equestrians, and 4,691,510 pedes trians. More goldfieidft are reported to have been discovered on the Russian-Chinese frontier of the Amoor, twelve miles from the frontier on the Chinese side ; and the Russians, who liavf complained BO much of the invasion of thfir own side by the Chinese, ir« no>v swarming over to tfee new Chinese El Dorado. A* Smolensk (writes the St. Petersburg correspondent of a contenjp.jrary) a strange trial is. just taking place. Five young m>*n, nf tjo^d families, and wail- to do as to fortune, are accused of having parpost )v sH fiiv to IB l)Oil3*"S, churches, and aflier c-'linVe* Is has been ditCOVHred b/ tfit detective bureau that th'!Bf youM^ m*n aie BeasWrs of a souths* of " iucendUrisi T* o

— from . pleasure,*' who horn -down houses and rnin, kimili s f<»r the Bak> of (he "strong emo ions" it gives them. The society is large, and among, its members are women and yoiinir girl*. Th»»y are animated by no hatrvr! for their victims nor have they an> reason to select one hous* rather than another for their night's amusement ome of them appear at the fire, and are the most zcalons in pretending t" extinguish it. All five of the accused in this case confessed the truth, and correspondence has sinew Iweri found which has laid *»are th»* entire plot. Nowhere is • pyrora*nia " go common as in Russia, where it seems aitnns' in horn in the common pe»ple ; but this is the first example of an organisation of ♦• pyroaianiacs," and some people are inclined to see in these men dis gnifted Nihilists. Nothing, hawrevnr, has I'ren discovered to counriu this supposition.* The accused are .gay, rich •• young men about town," And except this mama have nev*r be>n known to commit any "dishonest o. oruel action. From Queensland comes an extraordinary, 'mt nev«>' t''«»!esg a tnw story, of how the pi «?»•«?. iv of one poT"><l sterling inside it LI OO,OOO. It wns not a rase of sfiun^'iiiij or 'iorse .mint]-?,' b'jt simply a pnivh;>H -at a:- auction., sale. .Some Vfars b*.k, it appear*, a Mr jatnef* yong Bonar I»^caia<» insulveitt. His estat** consist**! of some 800 or 400 acres in different parts of Queensland, some of them being in townships. At the time of his insolvency the properties were talned at L4OOO, ami they were subject to a mortgage for L9OO- A fewyHarppmspdawny, nothing appeared t» have been done with the estate until this y»'.t; . «v':n';> a ■ i-^i^i^t's .ulveitisornent :-iniv-i>'f(l. jioliFyiu^ t!u" sale liy auction of his rights in several insolvent estate*, Hino; of.'ieis tiiee^rateof J. Wvkonar. Nobody ••nnnefted J. Wybonar with James Young (or J. Y.) Bonar, and so the public took no intrr est in the business. One sinewed in iividuul, however, took t lie trouMe to inqniiv into the matter, found out how things stood and purchased the as>ri?oe<»'<f tit,»« f«v M. Thcau-ei'prty, worth L4O >0 at the date of the s»ques tration, is stated to be n»>w woi th LI 00, 000, and this propei-ty (subject tn a comparatively small mortgage) My W. Fiynn, the shrewed or lucky individual, purchased for 20*. This " find " certaiuly b**ats anything old of the early days of the g)>den aafe in Australia. Skinny Mek.— "Walls' ' ealth Renewer, " restores health and vigor cures Dysppesia, T.npotence, Di-biiity, At druggists. Kempthorn"* Prosser, & Co., Agents, Christchn ch. A C \ TCD. ) To ALL WHO RE BUFFERING from THK errors and imliscretimmf yi tilth rierv.iu* weakness, early decay, loss of manhood. &c, T will send a recipe that will cure yo«, FP^E OF CF3TVRGE. This great remedy was discovered by a missionary in Sowth America. Send a self aiWr«ss«d envelope and sixpence to prepay postage, tn the- Rev. JosBVH T. Ivxax, tat ion D, New York City,