MISCELLANEOUS.

Inangahua Times, Volume XI, Issue 1654, 18 January 1886, Page 2

MISCELLANEOUS.

« The, in n'i •!• »m ■ n ew of tha y H iti*i i)t C > 11 II i ■ i .VI) Me.V r It «f')r«f w^re elect* I to P.iimMit is 3)2. ; Tuia has no piraliel since the diso Parliament under the Reform B 11. Despatches from Bel»nde J-ited December 16, siv the, w^at'ier. wu intensely col. l iin.l t!ir> sol tiers at tha fro-it ari* suJferin » severely. A mm of Servians wer- frozen to d\ith whih- asloej. M • Spu-gmvi tie eminent pre.-icli-r, is suffering fro » h,«art disease, \l l is permanently hrok-ui in heVtli. W« notice fro n the Hv.vk€'s Bay Herald that an inp.Ktin cis* was heard before C lief Justice Pivuder^-ist at the recent civi sitting tlvr*». Tiie action wi< b>o ijr»it hy H. T. H. Knight v. Ki'-Hif.iana'sT'iisr.e^. Tim was a case in which plaintiff sued for £465, o!i a promts >ry note signed by the late John Siij-hui as trustee in K-iraitiaua's estate. Mr LiscelVs appeared for pi ii » tiff ; Mr Dnvuie Stewart, \vi h him Mr Finn, for defendants. Mr Lvcelles co'itenl'd that the trustees in the estate were liable, the. promissory note having b^n signed by M: Sh-ahan iv his opacity as trnstee. Mr Djwnie S:ewirt argued that the wor-ls " Trustee in Kuatmna's estate ' w".e m-ve'y words of description, an. l tint Mr B'se- Inn's executors were alone lia'ile. His H-vmr said that he considered th« point raised too c'ear f>r lengthened argument, and decider that the defend utt trustees were not liable, and that the only persons who mi^ht be liable whi-« th*- late John S leehan's ex^-no s. No evidence was Clll»'d, plaintiff being nonsuited, with costs, on his own statement. The following? s r ory is told hy an etcb-inge : — When Mr Andrew Yo:rig, of Wellington, now vv-fof its w-'-i'thiest citizens, was driving one of Cvb'a coaches somewhere in the wilds ofO :i-jo a few y»*ais aifo, ho changed to drive no »*qj liist the ac Mr Anthony Tr.illope, then Of his travels. Tiie placn where th^ coa h met Mr Trollop's carriage was in the middle of a n irrv-v cutting whore ther* wis no room to pass. The novelist alighted from hU trap, and with withiU'iin'' scorn addressed the coachman, ordering him to ba<k his hors»s and let his own rap pa<s. "If you don: get out of my w=iy in three seconds, r -plied Andruw, *• I will drive niyctfch and j assengers I riqfht over you aid yoiir rattletrap of a one -hr-ss shay." "Sir," c-'el the ferocious novelist, "do yon know who lam ?' "No I don't ; who are yon ?'* said Andrew. " My name, si»,' replied the great novelist, impressive 1 ■«*, "my nime, sir, is Anthony Tit>llope." '• V >s, I knew, it was sr>ni' drtr >ed fi o' O" t'la i other like that," s-iid Andrew. " We I, Mr Trollop*, my lame is Andrew | Yonng, and I sjive yon jut one I second more if yon don't start to back j out of thi> cutting ve'li see your name I on a tombstone as soon as re'atio is take the trouble to nut it there." Mr ; Trollope for once m»l his match, a^d without any more ;»t l".O'liice, he quietly back d cat of the difficulty, and very wisely sat* nothing about it in his book of travels. Tlide"- the h»ad o? •'C)loiial P'un?ing" tin- Aifjlo-yeic Ztalander says:— i In financial circles ineasiness is agiin I expressed -»t the readiness with which some of the Australasian colonies ar« plnnsjing into de*»% ami a fear ig expressed that 'the financial administrations of these dependencies are. too sjaily Bwi:nmini» with the tide of advantageous conditions. Itisnointel ont that from 1841 to 1885, th« Australian and N>«v Zealand Governments and municipalities Inv* borrowed no less thin £65 550,030. viz — in 1881. £1. 400.000 1882. £325.000; 1883, €17.500.000: 1884, €1,640.003; and 1885. £23.000,030. The efl -ctive workers of the States in question hnvf», t'ierefr<io ha I an addition of £65 per head imposed on them lteyond what the de'»t was previously to 1881, Thi« is considered injudicious and as justifying a note of warning. The following particulars are given by the H -raid of Mrs S ila's wvilesi death in MeMionnie:— " With 1m Tasmania lectures Mr Vila's colonial toil' 1 clo*ed, and the d stin »uished journa.lt&6 had arra'v.'ed to leave M^lbonrue with his wife by thf P. and 0. Company's steamer G X hage for Ceyl- n ou the l*st day of thf year. Mr 6ila intended to proceed from Colombo to Calcutta, while his wife wonkl go to London. Hiving p % «vato bustn«fls to wind up in Sydney, ?tr SUa asked Mr ' Hmvtlie to escort fcis wife to Melbourne, to enable him to go direct by steamer to Sydney. This arrangei inent was carried cufc, and on her ! arrival at Melbourne Mrs Sala returned to her old apartme its in Monties' H >tel. For two days she babied h«i*self making a division of the luggage, rendered necessary hy her inteu led separation from Mr S.ila in Ceylon ; and it was while ent »ged packing, iv which she was assisted ry the housekeeper of the hotel, tliat the nnfortanatolady ie t an agonising p\in, which instantly prostrated um\ Ds Jiuos and Fitzgerald were telegraplietl for. i The former gentleman, on seeing her, j said it was a very seric us case, remarking that it was wond^ fill i»!i» \\ vl no"; been laid up before, Everything it was possible to do to allay the terrible sufferings of the patient was done ; and on Mr Sola's arrival overland from Sydney with the intuition of siiling nextdiiy, Mr Smythe m< t him at > he railway terminus and conr:iuuieat,eltohtui the sad intelligence that he woold hive to postpone liia depart ire. Mr pita's grief was terrible to witness, and, accompanied hy his frie il and manager he, went at once tosce Dr Jones, That gentleman infornvvl lii n thnt hit wife was sut!jti:>g uo.u a:, j.iur.iul tamoqr,

anrl tint it was absolutely necessary tint an ope-ation should \»- performed as a^M o lily as p>s^ible. This was on 30 !i Dot:eni«.er, ,v,id shortly afterwards Mr S nvt'i had t > start for Sydney, j €D route for Auckland, resetting that i business arrange i»*-«its already entem into compiled his departure. Mr Suythe (Lvlared that never in his life, in all liis estei-ive travels, had he -vituess. d si h b.^uMful conjugal co nv> ii DB'iii' or such wonderful wifely d'-v<»».io>>. T'lo-nas n<iMrc.% one of the pvonrie tors of the Mitiiura paper mill lias b"<"i i'ite:*vi'«W"! '>v a reporter of th« the Duu-'liM Hfi-'iNJ, and in the co'v-sp of til** co'iv-rssition he said : *' Mv opini-in is that bonuses are a d"l<niou a •!'! a snare. Peoplfc ' go ' for the bonus, never thinking of the after cM'jspq-V'iccs. T'-e same thing Jus I men Hip '-ni-i »»f t'© paper making md isfciv in this colony. Future reqnirpm'Mitg ai-p nit considered, l» .t. ho-.v, where, and w'm'u -an the cheapest michinery neces^rv for the prodnc ti<m of i he s(i-»tli^od qua nty be obtained is t.he question. Any old worn nut manhimvv that fin h» <jo»- is ".'irnin^'d fo;- " i-i ordrr to get the sutaidv— po^si'ilv ''V someonp. (or a . cotiipiinv, wficisc k lo'vi.'d^pof nmchinpry is v.'-ry limited. The eonvq'ienc** ftrp. inevifai.le. T ! ip anhsidy is oh tai»"l, nnl rh- pr mi'-rs conti-me thp in.lnqtry till it i< all s'ient, with perhtps niorf b-si'lcs. and they will find thp'nsplves pi<ssi-9«"l of what?— a white el.-pha'it. That was th« case with the Mi «nra M : M. a-»d t.li»* on« it W<>ndhan,'lj, too. They both achieved a snßcess by arr-insj^m^nt— o>ie s»ott'ip bonus for hri'-vn a-td the other for grpy r»Appi" T.'ie off»r of a bonus for the fir»t 50 to'is of paper proved a ■calamity. It h*s b?en the canse of great l-.s", not only to thosp. who got the subsidy, but tho^p who carried on thp industry afterwards." Insurance oomoanies disposed to be litigious have (writes the B,iflbin<' correspo-ideut of th^ Ap>) jiistrecpivpfl a strong rnll-haek in a d'-cision given by the F'lM Court. A man na»n»d MiVhel, a bootmaker, had injured his •stock-in trade nn I michinevy f«r £800 with the Colonial fnsnrance Company of New Z^ala'.d. The premises were burnt down in the absence of thp proprietor, and thp Insurance Company, learning the fact that Michel Tiad been burnt oat beforp,. and also wanting proof that the machinery on the premises Was worth thn amount claimed for it, declined paying. Michel sued the Company, and the claim was resisted on the g.-ou'id that within fifteen days a particular and accurate account of the loss had not bppn forwarded to the Insurance Company. The jury gave Mhlx-I a verdict for the full amount with interest. Against this thp defendant company appealed, the. result being; that tho Full Court ratified the jury's vrdiet, holding that tbp Company had possession of the I is* of the machinery, and f hat the plaintiff bad donp what he could, in the facp of all his invoices and pip»r3 being destroyed by "the fire, 'Mr Justice Mein, who gave the jn lum^nt. of the Court, sayin .» : "I would point out that such condition* exist, not for the purpospof enabling insurance companies to avoid just claims, biit for enab'i'is; them to judge the actual loss sustained by people who mrke a claim. " The Chief Justice and Mr Justice Harding con enrred in the judgment delivered, and Michel j?i'l get the full amount the juiy gave him. Mark Twain has written a letter to the mem'terof the Melbourne Argus staff who accompanied Mr Deakin on bis irrigation tour in America, in which he replies to a snsrg' J Rtion which had been made to him that he should make a lecturing tour in Australia. The letter, which is dated October 11. and which is pnMished in the At gn«, is a follows :— " I wish I ware able to promise mynelf a look on an Australian platform, just to enjoy peeing the prnnhp.cies made, good, but indeed I don't see any prospect of it, I find I was only begirding myself with the fa Be notion that I liked the plat form in order to k* ep np my spirits whilst I was chained to it last winter. It whs, indeed, begtiilement — delusion pure and simple— and it all vanished, and passed utterly a"d permanently away within two ■ months after my emancipation. I dread the platform now, as not even a novice i« capable of dreading it, and lam well convinced that T sh'tll nev«r stand upon one again until I do so wi»h the sheriff at my side with his warrant in bis band. I ha'vent't by any means tuveTi up the. hope of seeing Australia some day, but when I come I am coming inno cently, and not to rob. I have re i: qiished the latter projet entirely. H»-i.' (' rth. even in my own country. I fihnil lead in many respects a reformed life. — Sincerely yours, S. L. Clem ns." We do not know for certain (says the Napier News) whether the Gaming and Lotteries Amendment Act of last session Imi put down consultations in New Zealand ; we are inclined to think it has not, and will not do so. But one thing it has done. It has opened the door to a nuisance as big or bigger. Australian consnltationipls, supposing the potato of their New Zeal And bretbern is cooked, are canvassing this side for subscribers. We have before us a number of circulars from a com- 1 pany in Bydney who nsk New Z»alanders to contribute towards a «20, 000 pool, and the. programme Hears the foot-note, " please make known to your friends." The course adopted piohably is to refer to a directory and writ* to every one whose calling is at nil suggestive of free " Parting " lipo'i any occasion, Kudosed in an envilonp with the ends slig'itlv «i^!!op»d the circulars came at the bnvst rtite of po'itage, Id. Now, if the locu! industry

of this kind is to l»e atran^ed, nrmli more should the foreign article. TV , Postmaster-General , to l>e. consistent, I should put ap clan 4of flip Amendi ment Act against the on'sM-i's— stop i all letters, etc., add"«-«8 -d fo them, j 14 Rouuh on Rats " -Clears ontntts mice, flies, ants, I»e-Utivj8, Wtios. insects, sknnks, jnck ' -iM> : K r»nph«-rs. Di-ugwists. Kpmpt!rv-iif, Pi-osser & Co., Agents, Ohm^'i'ircli Page Woodcook's Wim^ Paw hay. fur thirty y«ar» he!« th^ first place in th world as" an effectual nnti !-»t« t.i iii'liu'o*ti.m, win! on the stonioh. hi'i...isness. and all complaints nrWm-i from li^>r,lere'l stomach, bowels, or liver. T...ii\ invu;'.ratin?, aivl purifying th y f>v»n th"- ! >^t remedy extant, and may lie |*ken hy old md yoiin« with etpial l^nertt. —Is. ljl ., 2s. flid., 4s. 61., family B-x.-s Us., «>f a! ; Ohwrnists. Proprietor Page Woodccck. Lincoln England