MISCELLANEOUS.

Inangahua Times, Volume X, Issue 1596, 4 September 1885, Page 2

MISCELLANEOUS.

We hear that au assault of a very grave charactet was committed at the Lower Hutt on Wednesday night last A resident of the Untt was returning home bet wwn H and 12, when two men sprang upon him from behind a hush, striking htm a very serere Mow on the fort-head, which knocked him ; down and stunned him. When he I came to his senses he found himself j handcuffed and his legs were tied. His j assailants then torn off his clothes ! and covered his face and body with I lar. They then took off the hand- : cufis and left him lying with his legs ! very severely braised and injured, »«• j sides being Udly cut about the face, I apparently from a blow from the 1 handcuffs. It is to be hoped that no efforts will lie BparH to bring the offenders to justice, for no mans life is safe if violence of this kind is to pre* vail. The Tyjieside Coal Coy. are •• forcing the pace." The mine is open bat two or three days, yet the town has beeu well sprinkled with samples, while to day the Omapher* takes away over 50 tons in her buuki-rs. This will give the coal a thorough trial, and bring it prominently before the Union Company. We believe the Company anticipate bt'injf able to put out from 150 to 200 tons per day within a fortnight from the, present time. — Grey Star. A writer on New Zealand in the Sydney Sew* says : — " One of the greatest drawbacks to New Zealand's progress is the excessive freight charged along the coast, and as other means of communication are scant, the high freight charged is a great handicap against the producer." A Wanganni firm lately received a novel dividend in an estate, in the shape of a penny stamp. The firm have put it in a show frame. A sensation was created in London fashionable circles on July 80 by the report of a fistic encounter between Lord Lonsdale and Sir George Qwt<« wynd. The fight took place in a wellkuown resort in Rotten Bow, and lasted ten minutes. A woman wti at the bottom of it The men were jealous of each other, as loth were paying attentions to Mrs Langtry, the actress. Mrs Langtry explained to a correspondent of the Sun that the men quarreled because one of them possessed a portrait of her painted on china wbich the otber thought he ought not to keep adding at the same time that "their quarrels are nothing to me." The World says the trouble grew out of an experiment on the part of Lord J.onsdale to divert Mrs Langtry 's affections from Sir. 0 Cbetwynd, her lover of haif-a dozen years precedence. The actress has left town to avoid the con* sequences of the scandal. Vanity Fair denounces in effect both Lord Lonsdale and Sir 6. Chetwynd as unworthy of toleration by gentlemen. The artiole calls them " titled Mackguards,' and declares that they are worse than navvies, and their conduct a disgrace to modern manners. It laments in this instance the abolition of the code of duello, which would have put the fighters on equal terms and given hopes to the world of the riddance of one or both of them. The Radical journals are making great capital out of it. A correspondent of the QUyo Daily Tim* writing on the political situation says :— The net, is, governmental matters are becoming iutolerable. One Government is no better than another. In the Assembly there is little don* for the good of the colony. Fighting and wrangling for place and power are continually going on. la the Upper House, where 11 uew members were elevated to obuin sinecores to support Ministers, there is little er no business being transacted, and dajr after day lavish expenditure goes on unchecked. Instead of these two bug* Parliaments legislating for c, handful of people, such as this eoiaoy eontairfsv 20 honest men with a few exnensiito officers wonld perform all the legit*. ! r i\v duties reqin ;<'d :u.d wr>u!d euSc* a -. ast saving in t-s:-e.Mses. Until t'uTe i» a lvvoiu o.i — uik! fcr»e sooef- ' If. .:,•■; IC-ci 'i.c 'k •••.- — t .•,•■ 'O'^ # , »-i