MISCELLANEOUS.

Inangahua Times, Volume XI, Issue 1741, 9 August 1886, Page 2

MISCELLANEOUS.

I » i ? A remarkable feature of this year is ! that it commenced with Friday and > j wiil end with Friday, and will have 153 Fridays. There are four months in : ! the year .hit have five Fridays in each. ! of them. ■ The grandiloquent ( itle of Champion Australian Native Billiard Piayer ut 1 assumed hy H. Gray. Considering that Harry Evans c<>uid easily coucedo 1000 points in 2000 to any man in the colonies, (fray claims a rather i barren honour. Talking of Milliards, we notice that John Roberts has succeeded iu making to loeak of 500 in a " Spot barred " game. There is a champion, indeed. The Yankee scribes will continue tt* speak of Richard Mathews as th» Australian champion. A* we have p.iinted out, befotv, New Zealand was tin* country which Matthews walk**! over rou'jh-shod. As a matter of fact, Peter Jackson had a hundred to on« the better show of a bout ane evening with Matthews at the Lighthouse Hotel, Sydney. Oeorge Augustus Sala Rays of Australian Bervbv.ts : — " Th« best I met were Irish «»irls, educated in the Italian Catholic OrphanHges, which alw>uud in the colonies. The worst wen* recent importations from England, but who have been jnst long enough iu Australia to have learned to talk about their ' rights.' and to tell us that they were not 'slaves and l>easts of burden."* We expected this, because we happened to l>« in a certain hotel when the distinguished '• Mterator" roared from his eyrie on high that h«\l raise a civil war if his shavingxwater wasn't instantly to

Am Ehlj is ! i journal says: — " Mr. G. A. KiU is buck in England again aii'l look in '4 none the better for his recent, jaunt. G»'nrge Augustus has aged." Wt: knew Ho wonl.l. The backyards of Sydney h .tels, to which he devotes a* much spice as to any other portion of Australian scenery, wore had enough, but the cooking was too much altogether. How can a man write anything good to a place that is iffnorantof/MrfM -de foift y/vw.and knows nothing of trnffl •* ? The wearine-SH of travelling in such a country is enough to a?e any man, especially when the people will not crowd 'ip to h«*ar in- j sttuctive anl eloq'ien r -ly-reiirl lecturer, j A South Australian paper says, upon what authority we are nofawate, that our popular Governor, Lord Canineton, is the subject of the famous con cert-ha'l sori!> " ChamMa^ne Ch iriey.* | It seems that our Go.eruor in his ; younger days was a " gay young man," j living on champagne, and lie wns called by his boon companions Ohara pagne Charley. The composer got j hold of the subject in this way. George J Ley bourne, the famous London conorr. ! Imll Hinder, nsr-(i tosaythurChamiyujne : Ohar!«'y made him, a:td Ch-imp.ic»n<> : Ohai-lev l»rok« hi'ii. George user! to iiot £(\i) a niifht for sinniiii^ this song : Tli" most R«-v. Archbishop ftvai>, of Philadelphia (says the Catholic Times) Jius made public in the cathedral the position taken by the resent Council of Baltiinm-e, relative to the sale of liquor on Sunday, if" announce! that al! j Catholics in the nn-h-diocese. mmt either abstain from selling intoxicants on Sunday, or else leave the Church. ■ Should they disregard this injunction, the priest will rofu3e to yrant them absolution in tin; confessional, and j thus deprive them of the Sacraments j of the Chuivli. Ho announced that the; decree ll;l<l been affirmed by the i Vatican, n\i<\ will be enforced all over t!i<! United States. ] Tlif following calculations on tho rainfall at the Kimberley di<?tri'»gß. . (vvhich have »een received by Mr J. A. j Panton, P.M., of Melbourne) a pirt ' o-'/ner of the nearest station to the! field), will lie of interest to diners. They were compiled by Mr G.J. Poul-to.-i, at Moudoorna Station, Kiinberley, list season, Moudoorna Station is on the Robinson River, east trom Ktug j Gt-orge's Sound and north- Wy-esist ! fiom Derby: 1 885— October, four showers, 36 points rain ; November, '■ (A-j}it showers, 3 inches 86 points ; \ Pt-ccinber 10 showers, 8 inches 40 , joints. I^B6 — January, IS showers, 8 i -tiolic-s, 50 points; Febrnarv, 20 ■jho'.verß, 13 inches, 58 points; March, J2 showors, 6 inches, 6 points; April, ; a :i>. showers, 3 inches, 47 points. j At the heaving of the criminal libel Ms.- in Wellington, in which A. J. [-lojikins was charged with publishing , ■ -candalous and malicious libel igrtinst Sir J. Vo^el in c-ounectiou .vit !i fhe purchase of the district raiJva.y debentures. Mr Travel's, who pro-,-■■-ated, said the libel complained of ■ iir Julius Voge! was contained in ■■'u>i itiwntation thaH»*h« wn* coupled v ,:'•; Mr Steward in receiving c0m-,,,:.-,-..ii for the sale of the debentures ..;■; ii? Govpvnment. In the commen ,;M>t of the article Mr Steward is h<:t, f «d with nsiiiij his position to get ,! District Railways Purchasing Act ;i;nsed in order to secure the sale of the i' jenMiresliy him to the Government. Then it proceeded to connect Sir iilins Vogei's name with Mr Steward « being of elastic conscience and , o-id y to take advantage as members | . ' Parliament of any commission offer j i:< • as being guilty of " gross hribery ■ '.: : r| corruption "; and further, that the • .■■■-nteitCH " needy adventurers of the Vo£e.i type" implied that Sir J. Vogel was a needy adventurer, ready to jump it opportunities of the kind referred o. Mr Travel's then included the ii'toon issued with the copy of the -•.•iper in question as proof by innuendo ;i tiie connection of Sir Julius Vogel -.•it.ii Mr Steward in the article already ■\va M'Hied. Mr Wardell having stated r ii o t *Ue article implied " gross jobbery -iiv! corrnption," but did not, suggest .'■ u'i^ipation by Sir Julius Vogel in In received by Mr Ste» ■v-Ki-d, Mr Travels asked that the information b« amended to include gross i V.)b«-ty and corruption only, and this jiving been granted, accused was committed for trial. A singular phenomenon in connec {Kin with the eruption at Tarawera is .Miontioiied by a correspondent of the Auckland Herald, as given by Mr M'lUe. It was that on the night of ■ ' eruption water could not be got to i!. Mcßae had given his cook to -lions to put some water on tie fis-f to nuke cocoa for the women. ;iee quarters of an hour afterwards 'xh-a CHlle<lin by th<> cook, and when •w water, which had been on a big fire r>'ta logs, was tested it was fonnd as id as when it was pat on. Mr M'Rae ■'.Ibnt'd the cirenmstance to the rical disturbance, but that is hardly : ; isfactory solution of the matter. '■'ie news of the eruption, coming as ii when the Home Rnle question .vossed attention, appears to have / -acted bnt little attention in the old •try. The ernptinn took pi ice on ■'. •: morning of the 10th, and yet, -..<'-■; og 'o the rlifterence in time, it was v < iverl iu England on the evening of :■•■-}. C'th Jane, and appeared iu the '■j v.i :rioi;- papers on the 10th. j 'he icene after the vote on the Hotii'p Rule Bill (says "Atlas in the W :•-' ■■) quite throws into the gbadc v- ng that has occurred in th« H.r-.se within the memory of living -.'■. Mr Ashmend Bartlett was sac : ■ ■.: oosly called a " tio-pot militia H\':.ii " ; such words as liar, thief, »n< ■■■ r .o ;adrel were freely bandied, and fi s ':"j v te none too cleanly) were «!'• ?ho face of Mr Chamber! . ■':'« ager-Hunt wns the sni^'L ol ucmj .ggitilt and battery, n;: i I: r i Mart'iig -■ 'b «■"' ■ ' .-; torn in tht uiiiet:

At one time a free fight seemed inovit able. The cheers and .-omiter-cheers were taken np by the spectators ; a mob of ail sorts and conditions of men took possession of the outer lobby, where Lord Hartin.'ton (somewhat: rufflfd by his experiences inside) re ceived an ovation ; and amongst the distinguished visitors sat tranquilly the. " autocrat of the breakfast table," who 'talked pleasantly to the diplo matists till M. de Stael claimed his place. Gladstone declmid fo attend the i openingof the Ind<» Colonial Exhibition " I see nothing in my duty wliieh com pels dip. to expose myself r,o the ribaldry of a Lonrlou umb '" (" of flunkeys " whs no doubt, the ellipsis^, was his answer wh?n asloMl to go. The j/iv-a* Pi-emi'-r — who of course, k'ie\v tliat 111'oty- | nine htin-lrpd'.hß of the s- at* at the ! ceiem )iiiiii wr-re let. at prices which j would ensure tiif ;it-iend;inee only of titled Tori.-s and the wealthy siiol>s wlio follow tliH.ii — hag a bitter r;col* i lection of the occasion two v< j ai3 <»g'>. when he attended th* Alb-rt Hall. • wherein whs jjiitlieivd a gilded and euHed ai'd careful iy nssort^d as-em hl.ige whom (JiaHs^in'-'s b<-ildn***s en. abled fin- a mom^n!. to y ratify tlciipaltry in i'k'o by lmi'l'v hooting tlie t'oTpni'^t livin-j E:i%'lisiiinau. H-n~ nik"i- Heatosi, M.P., wns -it, Mi" IndoColonial opening. Silmou Wilson wns thciv, the Q;ieen was there, her sons and ljer sous in^l.uv, the rost of the leeches who p i> ey on thn British body politic wi-rv tlu-re — 'nit Gladstone strayed away ! Hooray for old Billy Gladstone, the real King of Eng. hind I—Bulletin.