MISCELLANEOUS.

Inangahua Times, Volume X, Issue 1540, 27 April 1885, Page 2

MISCELLANEOUS.

The London correspondent of the Dunedin Star says under the heading " Westport Coed " :— " In his speech at the Colonel Institute the ether evening, Rear-Admiral Scott, R._T., of Dunedin, made an extraordinary statement about the coal from Westport. He said that during the Kaikonra's recent voyage from Wellington to London ehe need only Westport coal till Rio was reached, and had no difficulty in stea. rting 13{ knots per hoar. At Rio she was filled np witb the best Welsh coal, and whoa ating this eonld not do her 18_ knots. From this Aehntml Scot* deduces thai Westport coal is superior to the heel Welsh oonl m fool far stoasasrs.' Tii ■ Ma-fhonrne Af*, spooking of .. otty as oniensai_F tv» 04 t'wci dealt withi%t£

Police Cvtrts, *ays :-Tlvy show th growth of a criminal class out of all p .portion to tbe incentives that exist araing us, for we have no pauperism to recruit the ranks of vice, as in Europ-vi T'.-re is no reason .-hy so many men and women shonld be ero.gl.t up »>efore the Magistrate for drunkenness each morning, or why the larrikin i« W« various questionable shapes should adopt ruffianism as a pastim-o. a profession. Want does notdri..J urn tn it, for as a rule he is generally fto-id to »*- earning * livelihood tt so ne trade or industry in the neighborhood of his depredation*. The d :S -ulty of suwpiu* nim out 1§ not le** perplexing than the difficulty of accounting for his appearance. Fines are of mo w, for he generally pays them ; aid if he goes to * < Y> l m .P™* ferenc •, his res.de.ncQ there has SO little effect oa*-his * .iul ■•••'•«- "* that be quirt iton'vto return *» ■«• '»* a » . !t suits hi.i faii-y. I-it'i. absence of the lash, however, there is no other mode of punishment; and we regret to say that th.* magistrates d» not avail themselves of even this mode as they might." Diseasing the chores of a serious dam i ',- F"<vn the shells of a hostile ei*nis«re, tb* Melbon »c Argtts writes : —•♦lt is" good from the military^as well as the ean'tary standpoint tha no city is more straggling i ! > ••» f ° r ' nation than Mel»*Mirn«, th*t the Streets are wide, that parks and gardens and private grounds abound. Our residences ar? spread skirmishing | fashion over many a square mile of , hill an I "dale, aid tf closely packed cities s\'X ns Puns and Strasbnrg escap-d with co-op uativ-ly little "hiu\ frem the sustained fi ■•<• of tiie Latteries which -.veraWistant-y fed by railway.* in their rear, our *id -oread capital might hepe for still better luck when the attack came from th** comparatively easily exhausted magazines of one or two cruisers. The Co.ii-uu.iUts i.i thenmadness did far more damage to Paris than the German foe. ludeed, when Von Moltke entered fie city it was intact. The majority of the shells which had fallen within irs bo v.i Is had exploded har üb-3s!v, and when one crashed through a uoiioe .'did .o fellow Ihat the iatnatt-s «"'r» finrt. No shells probably contain explosives so powerful as the machines ased by the dynamitards in London, and even then wh»n the charge is specially placed so that it may do the maximum •of mischief, th»*r« is more fright than injury. To -mm up the situation, the mission df artillery is to clear a road or to wr«ck a building, biit a man-of-war has neither the guns nor the stores for the destruction of any large eity — mare especially a straggling city such as ' Melbourne, which can be exposed ouly to a vortical fire." Fce_r thousand two hundred men are employed daily at the wonderful new d.V?k*ai Tilb-iry,.. near. Loudon ; "515 loomnotfves, 80 pV^'able engines, 87 era-its, 1180 railway wagons, and 7"Btaatß navvies*', 'each excavating 800 enbtc yards per die«». When finished the new docks wiH accomodate 200 ocean going steamers. Oranges (says the Herald ef the 18th inst) aro at the present time somewhat plentiful, no less than four vessels bringing cargoes of that fruit to Auckland during the past week., Tbe schooner Lilian brought 150,0 <0, the Ada C. Owen 80.000. and the Sybil 156.000, making in a'l a total of 480,000 received duiing the period named. The Views of the Defence Minister On the necessity for protecting the colony are thus stated »>y the " special " of the V. Z. Herald', I asked the Defence Minister whether he was prepared for the possibility that the enthusiasm for defence would subside with the abatement of the scare. He said that whatever might be the state «f public feeling, the Government would proceed steadily towards the defence of the colony. The scare has showa Clearly that if war were snddenly proclaimed between England and Foreign Powers, New Zealand was exposed to the mercy of any hostile cruiser. She was helpless. Sheouffht never to be* left se again. Progressing steadily with the work from year to year does not imply any very great addition to the permanent charges of tke colony. Who says that pnbliciana never do any good ? One Mr Gorman a vinter of Dublin, has Hi-el worth £120,000. made by selling whisky. Before he died he said, " Irishmen brve begarred and ruined themselves by giving me what they should have given to their wires and children I shall make restitution Htbe destitute widows and orphans." fo be bequeathed LSOO, 000 to the charities of Dnblin. Good asant Don't die ra tboe house.— " Rough on Rats " clears out rats; mice,, bee- . ties, roaches, bed-bugs, flies, ant.:;, -insects, moles, jack-rabbits, gophers, Kempthorne, Prosser and Co. Agents, Cbristchnrch. 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