MISCELLANEOUS.

Inangahua Times, Volume XI, Issue 1655, 20 January 1886, Page 2

MISCELLANEOUS.

■♦ ... ■— J'H'iicfliiuely on aniviil of th-* Port'i giltt.se schooner 1) 0 o at B -isUinF from Sm Clnistoval, in the S doinon U/oup, she was seized <>y the cust'uns oIH -«ms. A b nly of police was put on bmird, all the sails wore iri'-eut., a id tl»»* firearms were taken awiy. Th" Portuguese &i% »'AB hoi*t«d, b«t tlicollector of customs ordered it, to l>e hauled d >w!i, and the British was put over it The «t«rli.»on«'r was r<P'>:ted some, time l»ack for pirioy, the crew hiving deserted and come to Brisbane from New Bitain in the American 8::lu>0!ier Golden G*te. C iptain S )fens.»M, who Ins Uen iftHi-vieweil, states that lie haJ rt*ad i»i t!i»« Mulbiivue ptpers dt?soriptioi!i of ontra^s siid to have l»een co»n'nitti*d by him. H»* waited one week at the So'oino i I-tla ids for a in vi of wa •, '>u^ not ii.ei'tin^ <>iie, and hiving ini-.Bfd a Sydney trading ves*-l, h»' detenniiu'd to come t» Cnobtown and &>e the mutter out. He denies the allegations against him. A Hoi art man liy the nam** of Green has inarnVd a Miss App»-1. TUt^ir oflfsprin«» will pro'«*My go by the name of Green Appels. "I — aw say," lan^nid l y o' -served one dv le to another, •• I — ayr — «cc that some fellah hits — aw — invented aw — msiw.hinp faw looking into th« liwiin." " Y.iiis," dtawled the other, " but that don't interwest as, doi • teller know." At the Minrhester Con uf.y Police ' i Court, Polic»-liispp«'tor Smith stated | that he had visited a house in Lon »- si«rht, where it was reported a b'\y was l*ein«{ improperly treated, A l-idsjerin the house said that the boy's father was awiy, out admitted the inspector, who on a dirty- looking l»ed, found a lioy hound down by a p lir of heavy iron handcuffs whioh weiv joined to a still heavier en bed chain win h was att<v hed to th»» flr» sfnt«. Th»» boy ! wild he had »»eo'i th»re ohaitp<l for : nine week*. The police inform >1 the magistrate that the l>oy wx* reported to he a disorderly lad, and i ■ himself said that he was chained hy h < father becanfw h<» stayed out »M nisfht and wanted to go to 8»-a. He had been fed on bread and water, ii<u wts at tim-s '»iven f«»n I )*y tb* lo Ig^r. He was occisionally aUerrvd to jro into the yard for tan nHrtf-e *t a time. The mi^istmtes characterize 1 the case as one of barb irons cruelty, and issued a warrant against tb> falter, and a wituess summons against the lodger. Th«» eighth half yearly report of the directors of the Day Dawn Go'dminin^ Company, adjoining the Mexic&n Mine, at Chartnr* Towers, shows that in the half year 8899 toi>s of <r**»« we«r treated for a yield of 16 796 Tfim-toi# gold, and average of 2 zs G|trs per ton. The average co>t of raisin? and treating the stone, w.*s £2 is 2J i»er ton — this including management and | all other expense. A 'abutated state* 'limit, date.l from Septeml*r, IS7B, to o«t., 1885, allows that in thin time the crush ilia's rep-esented 59.843 tons, and th«- yield £186.125 7s 31, an average per ton of 2>*3 5-lwU 12f-s. Tie total ralue of *h» s»l\ was <t53,803. uid of thu t'802.599 8s w»re }>ai I in livt.l" ds. Tliesrt have repre^eutn I £12 12* *d perahare, auatnsnot.vitb

, Rtnnrling that in one year a cake of , 50020zs of gold was stolen from (he i Company's mill. Woiitf Cliin Poo. the Chineae-Ameri-can journalist, writing on the subject of intermarriage of Caucasian and Celestial, says:-T!ie Chinese, as a raw, are affectionate ati'l domestic, making good Imsbinds mil f.-ttlier*. T ley express these Mii,,s»s in fn,, nv W!l y & or example. Finy L»n, a w. 1 k>io«ra caterer, pat one day the fallowing notice upon * M ,r,t street bulletin lv>,r.| : _'l an S> y Pfir * old, hire 4200 111, save! up, a .id hnve a goxl business; am go-*! natnred, healthy, and popular; very lr.,e\y, and want a fl st class American wife. Amy smcH marrying me ci>i In*, the 4200 101. to put in the bank in her own na m, and do 'aleo aunee' MH.mii wife, o.ily must i*. hn«,. after 7 o'clock in tlie evening I STfak Veiy little Eng i h, and B'i publish this norti* Any. on ■ pmciHn,' such a wife will rejeivt my thinks and a large b-ok-rag-. Ii ai -i-tioU oi Bir.m'i. thf '• Clericil V iterl ui I" a j in -nal niblialied in Vienna jvibh-Ih:-. .'*E kj« laud, R:i<sU, and France, from tneir ' different standpoints, are all trying to secure as.enda-.-y over China; but wh-it will it profit the world if th«*« nations snc.-e.-d ir scaring the 403, 030,000 of Chiu-se out of their cois-r---vatism and bi-in^j ig them »i».der the influence of European ii^asi C lina is learning to in ike us- of her coalfields, which are the target on earth, and of her immense beds of iron. What if with her irheap la'ibr slw some day hegi m to pnf>r into mdii (trial co ii. pntitioi with Ei'opet To ns thi§ possibility seems bj no m»»us remote. Tho day when, nnder European direction, a factory is set. np in C urn* to manufacture wfth Chinese oil iron «io.vls, of which E'lropHaml Atn-vica • Ihvh now a mon.if.ily, -vill make the h«*,'inniii<; ofa grpa r ehinge whij'i we can lot co-jsid -r wit'i c1 1 mhiitv." M The ' mi*si >i ' of bnw band* hat •»eeu diso.iv^re.l nt West Mait'ind. Recently," say< the Si/iinc.f 'irl-t Te>graph, v*u * resident in the district wis savniHy bitten on tin? n-»ger y i lilack snake. Am >nta i«>n liy means of a to:o\h iwk, the rou ; h b'U pr* ait and generally effective remedy miallf adopted l,y a couple of quick-witted i l>nsh h »y s in such an e-.n-rgency, was not resorted to. Tiie vii-tim was <ori , conveyed to Dr Pierre's surgery, wb re a twelve-hours* strn ,»,'le for life ensue 1. All t?ie town appo-i**4.to hive h->#»i moved with sympathy. Thronghoat the night a crowd of people volunteered their services ill til" efirf: to keep the |*.or follow awake and ali* « I is doubtful however whether tht dravrging aliont t> which be wm su'j-.-ted would have nvnivome tht fir,tl stnp ir if the I >cal bra« luud had not come to the reset; i\ Thn bund playad says our correspoi d«nt, in th« nint •generous' wiv, and ultimately t f »e stivnnons efforts of the doctor, t!i« crowd, i!»d the lirass '»and t'-in*nphi*f "ver the danger. Bit we are uot viijjiise.l to learn th.it bet.Tefci u\c >oisf>i, th- antidote, th« dragjiig ib .nt, a;id the sttains of th« o is« hnud, the unhap >y maa' requested to ll" allOWi'.l to die." •• Roouh O3i Rats"— Clears ontrau f 'iiic-, d.es, ant<, lied-hiigs, brtetlet, in*'ct-«. skiiii'ts, jtck rabbits, gophers. I)i-us>gists. Kemptltoroe, Prosier k Ok, Aleuts, Cluistcluircb Paob W.iodcock's Wijco Pitxs har« ; »r thirty y^rsi holt th« first place in th« w irll n<\ an effectual mti |»te to inline*tlm, win \ un the stmmoh, hihousaess, w\ all complaints ari«tn<{ fMin dinordenxt ■itniiiaoh, lv»wels, or I ver. Tonic, mvig> imtini, and purifying, they form the be*t teine ly extant, and in\y he taken Hy .»ld in I V'ung with equal benefit.— ls. UJ., 2 9 . 01,, 4s. 61., family B*m Us., of all Chemists. Pnmrietor Page Wnndoock/ Lneoln England THE BAD AND WORTHLESS. are never imitated or coH*t*rt*it t rl This is especially true of a fWily medicine, and it is positive proof that the remedy imitatnl is of the highest value. As soon as it had been tested i and proved by the whole world that I Hop Bitters was tlu purest, bmit, and most valuable family mndioine on dat'th, many imitators sprung nn, a;H began to steal the notices in which tli9 press and the people of the canjitrf had expressed the merits of H. R., and in every way trying to induce suffering invalid? to use their stuff instead, expecting to make money eatb*£'v>J nime of H. B. Mviy others «tart<*i nostrums put in a sit itlar style to H t 8., with variously Wised names in which the word " Hip Mor •• Hops ** wen» use<l in a way to induce people to •wlinve. they were the «ame a« Hop Bitters. All sncti pretended rmnmlies ■>r cure.*, no matter "hat the «tyl« or name is, and HBpe«-ialiy t!iose wj h thn word " Hop " or •• Hoos " in their na;no or in any way connected with them or their nam<', are imitntions or counterfeits. Beware of them. Touch none of them.