NEWS AND NOTES.

Manawatu Times, Volume V, Issue 130, 2 April 1881, Page 2

NEWS AND NOTES.

Change of Business.— we learn thai Vvr. F. A.ndersen, hureher, of Terrace End, has dispose-! of his business at Terrace End to Mr P. T. Collins Mr. (Vlins howevei, intends to carry on both business b, that at Ter ace End be-ins placed under the m-magc ment of Mr. John Lane. : The New Court-house. — - s 'inc > our last, issue •■<■ quantity of timber has heen placed upon (he ground for the addition ti> the Uonrt-hmsp, «nd a s.art is to be made almost immeiiately. We understand t ; :at the contnotorg are q-iite sangni >c of having the buildins completed within ;.he contract time — the first of .T«n*. To Our Awahuri Subscribers. — A? wo lea r n that onr papers when potted to Awahnri Ho not reach onr subs-fibers nnti' i\v^ cr three daya afler publication, we havp now made arrangernen s f r onr runne" to leave them at Mr. Bennett's store every Wr dries lay and Saturday mornings. Ry th's I'oovse the expense of postage will be saved to them, and they will got them on the morning of publication. The Foxton Harbor Board.— At a recent m/'fiting of th-i Kox'on (Ta'-b^r Roard — when considering ihe va anoi's caused by ihe rr><iremnntof Mess's T.oudon an<' 0 »k — it was unanimously nereed to recommend t-> the Govemm nt that Jamp I. niton, Ryq., t.li« Mayor of Palmuv*ton. should be gazetted to cie of the vacancies. Mr. J, W, G >wer was selected for recommendation for the other. The Daily Mail Service.-* *■ with groat pleasore we tore to inform QW '

readers that tlie daily mail service between Wellington and Foxton was resumed yesterilay, and wili be continued for the future. There is no doubt that we have to think Mr. Walter Johnston, the uew Postmasie -• Genei-al, for a concession whidi has b^en -o persistently and obstina ely refused by the Ministry previous tj his joining the Government. Sale Of Land.— We understand teat M . A chic Stewart has disposer] <>f hi- land ii H"i'zhertiert. »h- purchaser b<ing a n" v arrival from the Old Country, whose name we did not hea-. The lot contains ore hnndre-1 and thirty-ei^h' ucres, one hundred of which are fe led. I'he price obtained was £1000 whi li i« a fracti n over £7 per acre -ut the land i« the pi'k of Fitzhirhe-t, bei ig most picturesquely situated m a valey surrounded by iiills. Feathered Victims. — Yesterday b. irg the first day of the op n season for d icks, considerable slaughter was ma 'c amongst that p -mo i o! the feathered tribfj, and the crack of toe gun was heard from dayl-gbt to daWc. We have been informed that o"u ks are unusually p'entiful this seisin, but if the era-ale which was inaugurated yesterday continue with anything like t c sam-; vigor, the nunrwrswi 1 soon be very maeriaily reduc-d. An Abundance of Grain.— From a late telegram which we ha c received fr^m the outh cc le^rn th-tt sogr-eat is the rush of grain from the surroun ing country into Timaru by rdi and road thai although five hundred fonsperdayare being shinp d the. stores are full, and grain h i- to be sucked m tlm <ipen ir. The average dai' > dehv ry m that town per day is «s>iinated at fully 600 tons The Manawatu Prospecting Company. — 4 meeting of the ivuna vatu Gold Prosp cting Company was held on Thu-sdiy evening at the office of Mr Piers B. W.irbiirton, for th« purpose of rcc-ovi g tho resignation of hat g ntleman as ma nager to the company, an>l appointing a su-ce>sor m his place. After «ev«ral gentlemen hal be^n proposed, Mi. Thomas W lion wa> unanimously chissn to fill the position. Educational.— Messrs. Watt, Baker, and Bridge huve b?en elected to fill the three vacancies on the Education Board. Creek. — Application from ttie Chairman of the Committe for the appointment, of a cadet to that -choo!. The nu oner of children on the roll was 70. — It was resolved. "That the cadets asked f.-r be employed as monitor*, without r>ay, I until the Inspector had reported a< to their I quafcfi ations for cadetship." A^ahuri. — Letter from Mr. Hi<lop, stating that Mr Dick was unable to comply with the Board's request for an addition to this school, m ordV.r to accommodate tto Native children. There was no matter of any interest came before the Board with reference to any of the other sr-.hoo s in the district Something Like a Train.— in. a day or two it is more than prob «bl« that ">y far th-* longest tw'n ever seen m the district will leave Palmerst >n for the North M . Caverhill. f a f h rof Mr. Caver 1 ill, of the Bank of New Zealand, has six thousand sheep coming over from Napier, and as they are to b» eonvey-d by rail to Waverley, it will take one hundred trucks to transport the lot. Already there, are a goodly a;rav of waeeons at the station, but the are b<>ine daily au^ment^d until the required number is at command. We be lieve large as the train wll he, it is thought that nne of the larg^ Fairlie e^tnn s will b >. sufficient to tv :it along. Presuming that the distance fr >m one truck to onoth r would be twelve feet, th- length of the train would b • four haidr c d va>da. An Animated Compass. — w* were n her «rniiß=! a day <>r t.vo sine** a< hearing t <-n n p r; critics., a rmng • ■ h wliv*Jvappearol m alow - Societ journal," wherein the -Si-igi al " .|iro<- f . md fi^n - pafa Hum for is nvi-derc by psen.lo -a'iri -nl remarks upon thn. p r«,, na annparaT-ei of l>is -übj-cts. '• Vly wo r !," said v *o. 2 after Mo. 1 ha read a'oul the sruri ity m qn>* ti-n, "My word, hu> that's c->ol", and th* pot ca'lin : the kettle bla>*k. with a v^neeance. Did you ever S e° <he writer of that paragraph." " N>> " Ra ,fl flr o> « b ,, f j kn -w him by repute (!)» « Well, returned his mate, he is like ths corporations we read about— with.. uh a body to be kicked. He is all legs— in fact nothing more nor les° than an animated compns* " Tt is only necessary to see thf> g n'iMman. to acknow ledge how correct is the photogra h and the teUing r semblance. A Cool Customer —Wehav heq-d ••f coolness, bnt th(> f II win? ; s about. »h" fin'^t s enme • "f co»l i:nr»ul''nce -hiih : m- come a^r <s our notice. A g -nt'»»min of the 'on? rob% vholivs m a•> it'hbonn<r •ownsh'p. ail who i<» f nd of ''isfc'-ibu'inr' W'^rthlfss o.'i'>q-ios, grave a f'ie'd of our- "n---fo r £25. beinrra "-efnid 'em nded fr ->?ti h : m for monpv piid t.i him "or i iior->", wh'^h th« nmo.hqse 11 found, upon gone to take po<s<s<->s<ion. he had •'old to anoth -t ppre ri <on When th« che^ne was recivfid, th« 'e^p/ftt for the horse wa« TfMirnp.d, hnt as the former was dishonored. Mr. Parchment was threatened with a criminal pmspention for se'lih? the hone twice The mun of law "as. however, pqual t"> the occasion, for he snapped his finor p rs at his victim, treated him to some le?al advice gratis, by inform* m? him that he had better keep qui^t le^t be should get into treble for "comionnding a felon-'." by takine tb. eh qn« The bounce and blnff wi.s worthy nf the man. but it did not wash. The intended victim ienoreri alike the threat* anr. the fnendlv advice, and proceeded to put the mnchinery of the law m motion, when Parchment thought it wiser to "ante up." True Charity. — Tn theae days of eelfisfcness and inhumanity it is refreshing to havp to ohronie'e an a".t of true libe r ality. About twelvemonths ago. as^tt'erat Feild ing. amostindustrioua man, tmtaftd Wp.at.h^rIcy, drownnd himself, while of unsound mind, leaving n widow and a large family. Mrs. Wcatherlev, who at the time of her husband's death received a great shock, lingered on nit 1 a few <»eeJrs ago, when she too, die^, it is said, of a broken heart, leaving a young and helnleis family, r I'he fiirciimstances of tbe rase were explained to the Govemm^- 1 Inmra-ce Department and we are please 1 to learn that the Ihsnr ance Commissioner has paid two gentlemen m Feilding £100 on behalf of the orphans, upon their consenting to act as euardiann. although no premiums had befn paij' by Mr. Wpathe-ley for 'wo yars and a; half previous to Mr. W<*athrri"y> death. Thi claim was on'y made ten days a?o. m consequence of their thin Vine f he policy had lansed. The surrender vVlui had b°en devoted to keep it m force du<ing thit time Such instance «f libprali'y are so rare, that we feel it on'y r'eht to make the action of the department puNic.

Thb • PISEON. — The carrier pigeon wH»mi trav-IHntr nevnr feeds Tf the d : st'mcv b^ lone it flies on wi h"Ht, pfoppin -, an 1 at lnpt arriv-a, thin exhausted, a]mo3^ d m?. If oorn he prcented to it, it r ' fnses, contenti"g it.fl.-lf with drinking: a lit.tlf waer. and then s'e^pins. Two )iours later it heeins to oat with great moderation and sleeps aeain immediately nfte-war-is. If its flight had b^n very »O"g, the pipeon will proceed m this manner f >r for j r -eight honrn before recovering its normal state of feeling,

What's m a Name?— Some amusement, says the Otago Daily Times, wmp caused at the City Police Couit yeßterday, when a bye-law case, m which a Chinaman named Oockshy was the defendant, was called on. Jhe peculiarity of the name was the m°ms of fairly convulsing the Court, and it was some time bufore the police-constable at the rfoor couU recover sufficient compo-iure >o call out the name of the offending Celestial the customary three times. Origin of Chess. — There is consider a c uspute about the oigin of the game of che«s. Ft sepms to have be n known from a r emote data m Hindostan, where it went by the nsme of chataranga, or the four m -mberg of the army, namely, elephants, chariot 8 h rsemei and foot soid 'era From rlitviostan it pa-sed into Persiav-wbere it whs called •• Lb.-itrn.ng.' 1 or the '"Kine's Distress." Thi Arabs introduce! it into Spain m the eight century, and from thence parsed into all the countries of Rurope. Risky U'Ouk— Th« diffi.'nlties attending the first production of a newspaper, especially m a country to vn, are proverbial, but those fncountere ' by the proprietors of the Western Grazier (N.S.W.) were extraordinary — almost enousrh to dishearten them. The printing plant took three weeks to accomplish the jou ney by wa'er ; then it was entrusted to a bollock dray, whiefc was bogged and lost si ht of for a month, p. wa^ brought on hoard another team, m which the bull cks died - ne by one, and a team of horses hal to be sent out to supply the place of the defunct bovine. Afteiwarda it was uuset into the river, and a black diver '>ad to rescue tba packages piec meal. Finally, it reached its destination at vViluannia. Pauli>me--tart PoLfTEsns s.— The excnangn of abuse m the Legislative Assembly of New South Wales, sometimes would put a BiLlingstate fi-hwife to the b'nsh. In oir exchanges w findarepct of a scene m the Uouse. between Mr. Mllhone and Mr. Buchanan, when the former eh irg>;d the latter thus :— " He would not ref-T to the hon. member. bu f h • w.uld say that if h** had put a man m m..; mad-honse, and taken that man's wife for a concubine ; if he had go: that woman's son into the public service of the Colony ; if he were m tho habit of denouncing such pra tices and still were guilty of the^i ; if he refused to stand for * constituency until an hon. m mbsr pal \ £20 on his account ; if he r 'Cc"piel tlv. position of so-ue people, and had b^en lugged about through the country townships m a wheelbarrow m a state of beastly inebriety, he nhould be •Ashamed to enter that chamber." Civilities m Japan— ! t is amusing to see two Japanese acquaintances meet. The amount of bowing and scraping gone through at such times is something tremendou-. Wh-n within skirmishing distance — about twelve yards — each one endeavc s to put t is head between his kne i, blowing away like a porp »ise all the while. This operation they repeat as they approach each other, and then stand looking at one another's 'oes for about three miames with the liveliest satisfacion depicted on t''eir counrenances, {Suddenly a brilliant idea seems to strike one of them, which he communicates io his companion m tones of pracious condeßceneio'i, The otbrr is, of course, so much struck with .the originali-y of the remark that he is perforce oMige'd to bow to the ground m admiration of his friend's gsnius. Disraeli and Thackebt. — It has always be-n the fa«hion to regar I L>rd Beaconsfield as tin impers^nifiijarion of philosophical calm, m respect to his indifference to attacks, whereas his works a d speeches offer a 'imdant c idetice tttat there have eun fw men more spiteful ; 'he nourishes his wrath to ke-p it warm." The il natured hit at Thackeray, m the character oi >t. v be, is nut. only alt-.-gether ua» •vorthy of f^or-i Bnac"E«field. and m every wiy discre litable and reprehensible, but it .ives a most unfair an 1 mi«levling idea of t^ grunt ny« ist This is the " illustrious autiioi's " m"th>>d f replying, after nnar f-r y year«. to ' Coiiingsby," "Thackeray's, iiDmi'able skit on " <~!oningsbv," m w'uich 'id nia's pompous absurdities were so mer cil ssly B»t;ri-ed. A Brave Policeman. — A notice appeared m the police orders a few days aao m"ntio!iß the grant of a gratuity of £2 to Constable Magaire, 90 H, for special tjallantry m saving life from a burning hou<e m Whitcchape.l. When Maguire ar- ■ ived on thesefne the fire was caning all bef .re i r ; bat hearing th-it there was somrO'ie on th • first floor, he rushed through the <moke and flime and rescued a woman whom h ■ carried m his arms down to the street. The fresh air revived her, and she th n told he-- preserver that her hu band van I vim; on i b <1 m the room they had just quitted. Maguire there 'pon returned to the lazi g building, f «rc-:d his way th O'ltfh thicker flame ani smo'^e than be had faced b.fore. and br u^ht the man do vn m s-'f< tv. It was barely accomplished m time, f>r he a- iilant const ilile wa* almost s ffoca^ed by the smoke, and badVy scoi ched. This ca-e is to be recommended to th ■ Royal Humane bociety.— London paper. Wooden Pavements r he Melboarne Oorporati m are trvinsr the experiment of laying own a wooden roafway A cmcre'e founda'io"i of six inches thickness has first been laid down, and upon this toere is being laid a roadway form p d of redgum blocks three inch-s wide, six inches deep, and nine inches long The rows of blocks are kept apart by slips of wood from a quarter to half an irch m width and 2$ inches high. The remaining space to the top jf the blocks will be filled m with »ar and ecreenings. Wooden roadways have, been m u^e m Echucaf r several years, and a letter receive i fron that, place (says the Age) statas that the b ocks of wood appear as good as the day they were laid down, and hav^ cost nothing since for mainten- \ ance. The Rchuca roads, however, are by no meana models of smoothness, and it is to be hoped tha exoerf ment now being- tried , will result more successfully m this resp?.ct. At th'! J ihnson-street briine, wh-re a similar srstem has been tried. th« blocks have worn well since the bridge was built m 1877. The original cost of the new roadway is large. The exact amount will not be known until the completion of the work.— ln-Londnn, the cost was about Its per Kqu *re yard ; m Sydney, 203 2d per yard. A Hodsb Made op Paper.— -At ; the Sydney International Kxh'bition there was shown a dwellin^-bouso const' noted exclusively of ;>at>er, and furnished throughout with artiolcs manufactured of the -ame material, "n this interesting fact Mr G. A. -ala gopsips m the usual an<*. truth to say. somewhat exaggerated style. Fancy, he stys. a house of paper, walls, roof, ft loring and staircase alice carton pierr-.-. Carpe'n and curtains, bedsteads, lamps, shee's and connterpines, towels, bootjacks, baths, kitcbes utensils, one and alt preparations papier ma he. The very stoves m which lartre fires we c kept burning daily were of paper, Banqnets were given m tb's paper house to the Commissioners, members of the pr-S'. and foreigners of distinction. Thr» . dates and di=bcs, knives and forks, bottles and drinking vessels, fabricated entirely and solely of paper. 'omHthin^ ex. traordinarily qu tint m the notion of ; oiri yin? a toauneh with a paper knif •.. quaffing champagne from a paper tumbler, and supping soup with a nnpercpoon, while, happily, i dm servant is stirring the fire with a paDer

poker, another preparing the after-dinner coffee m paper cnp9, and a third, after turning down the paper counterpane of a paper bed, is giving a final pat to the paper pillows! Should these Paper Buildings— of a very different sort from the handsome edifices m the Temple — come into vogue, they may be expected to superinduce some striking changes m the rates of fire insurance, at present calculated upon a basis of bricks and mortar. The Pleasures ov an Editob.—Editing a piper is a very pleasant business. If it contain* too much political matter, people won't have it. If it contains too little, they won't have it. If the type is small, they can't read it. If we publish telegraph reports, people say they are li*s. If we >mit them, they say we have nn enterprise, or suppress them for political purposes. If we have m a few jokes, people say we are nothing but a rattlehead. If we dou't admit jokes, they say we are an old fossil. If we publish original matter, they blame us f>r not giving them selections. If we publish selections, folks say we are lazy for not wr : tir.g more, and giving them what they have not read m any other paper. If we give a public man a complimentary notice, we are censured for being partial. If we do not, all hands say we are an uncouth bear. If we insert an article which pleases the ladies, tha men become jesloos. If we do not Cater for their wishes, the paper ia not fit to have m their houses. If we attend church, they say it is only for effect. If we do not^ they denounce us as deceitful, and terribly wicked. If we remain m the office, and attend to business, folks say we are tco proud to mingle with our fellows. If we go ont, they say we never attend to business. If we do not pay our bills folks say we are not to be trusted. If we ! do pay promptly, they Bay we stole the money. " Obighn or Curious Phrases.— The origin of phrases and some of our common words presents an interesting study. The trrm sub rom m said to have originated as follows : Cupid gave a rose to Hippocrates, and f 'om this legend arose the practice of suspending arose over the 'able when eating, when it was intended that the conversation sbonid be kept secret. The expi anation of the origin of "by hook or by crook," is that m the olden times persons entitled to get firewood m the King's forest were limited to such dead branches as they could tear down with '' a hook or crook without hurt to his Majesty's trees." "In spite of his teeth '' originated thus : King John of England once demanded of a Jew the sum of ten thousand marks, and on being refused ordered that the Tsralite should have one af(er another of his teeth drawn until he gave his consent. The Jew submitted to the loss of s^ven, &n4 then 'paid the required srnn : henca the expression, "m 3piteo.f his teeth." M r . 6. Crossley suggests as the origin of the word "humbug," the Irish vim-bug, pronounced umb°g, literially " soft copper," or worthless money. James 11. issued from the Dublin Mint a mixture of lead, copper and >>ra*B, so worthless, that a sovereign was intrinsically worth only twopence, and might have been bought after the Revolureon for a half-penny. Sterling and urn-beg where therefore expressions of real and fictitious worth — merit and humbug. Startling if Trub.— One of the most startling stories (remarks a London journal) which Mr. Lawrence Oliphab brought back from the East has been almost capped by the Toronto Daily Mail. Mr. Olipbat declares that he saw the followers of a certain Sheikh Bussian Arabonton, whose present address is the Meidan, Damascus, devour live scorpions and snakes, and then finish off their repast by chewing and swallowing mouthfuls of glowing, redhot charcoal. Mr. Oliphat deolares that he not only saw this dene, but that he felt the sickening smell of burning fish as. "they crunched the glowing morsels." Our Canadian contemporary tells quite as seriously as Mr. Oliphat that a stranger has arrived at Toronto whose '• crunching" abilities rival tho«e of th« charcoal and scorpion oaten of Damascus. Arriving on a Monday night at the bar of the Windsor Hotel. this stranger bit a piece out of a beer glass and munched it to powder. He took another bite and tb«n another until nothing but the bottom of the glass remained. He did not swallow the glass, but "spit it out m a half-crystalisi'd and half-powdered form on the floor." He then demolished another glass m the same way, ana to oblige the excited crowd which watched him with amazement, he ata up" a bum* mer's glass which is two-thirds bottom, and is about as thick again as an ordinary tumbler." When he finished the last morsel of the brimmer's glass, those present declared themselves satisfied that the stranger could eat up the Crystal Palace if necessary an-1 enjoy the fesst As Mr. Oliphat's Sheikh and this Toronto Btranger would make the fortune of any showman, it is to be hoped that they will no longer allow ffnch potentiality of wealth to remain unutilized. A Fight with ax Octopus.— The 8. A. Advertiser records the following startling experience of Mr. Inkster, the diver who i-» at present engaged m tightening the bolts of the new jetty at Kingston : — 11 On Mtrch 1, while at work m 13 feet of water, he wss suddenly attacked by a large octopus, which evidently considered the diner's presence as an intrusion, and a sharp contest ensned, m. which Mr, Inkster was victorious. Fortunately, m anticipation of an attack from sharks, which are very nnmerrras m Lacepede Bay, he had armsd himself with a strong iron pointed spear, and with this weapon he tackled his antagonist and ran it through hfm into the eand, but could not suossed m extricating it a?ain, as the feelers of the octopus seiz id and held it fast, and Mr. Inkster 'was obliged to seek safety above water, but immediately descended agin, armed with a large crowbar, with which, after a sharp struggle, he finished the octopus, and sent it up on to the jetty. The octopus, which measured ten feet between the extremities of its feelers, was subsequently taken to Melbourne by the steamer Argyle 5 which sailed the s«me day. At one period of the. contest Mr. Inkster's position was very .critical, as the. monßter managed to seize him hy the leg, and held him sa fast that, had it i-ot been for th-* proximity of the jetty piles, of one of which the diver canght firm hoW, the result of the attack might hive been very different from that we have recorded." • I Wellington anb Waxbbloo. — Wellington and Waterloo appear m a fresh aspect m the following hitherto unpublished letter unearthed by the Aoadtony. The writer, who w«B_an officer at.Wjellington's headquarters during the battle, writes, nnd.rr^ate of Bms?e'srJjnre"lV l ß;l6 if"" X cannot help writing two lines to congvatu la<eard condole with yon on the victory which England has purchased for Europe at the expense of more than half] her army.! I must not attempt to give: yorf any acconnt of the battle, of which the Gfokttte wi'l, I; daresay, pive us the, first distinct information . I underptnnd. .however^ that it throws everything whi^h the Duke hau before done into the shade. His pen onal exertions were, it seem*, incredible, and certainly secured the success of the day, of which, at one time, everybody except iim ; self despaired. One of his aides-de-camp told me this morning that he took un his position an a ridge, from which, he declared he never would move—and never did move, —but m triumph. When Bonaparte headed au overwhelming charge, the Stake threw

himself into the opposing 'square, by which it was successfully resisted, i mention these particulars because they are precisely what hi -t despatches will not mention, and be* cause 1 have them from an ey-v witness. Everybody was killed or wounded about him; bat he was happily unhurt.. One is afraid to enquire after an acquaintance, the carnage has boi-n so inexpre sibly horrible. No words can do an v thing like justice to the valor of bur people, who were literally, almost smothered, by the superior numbers of the French, who were them*e'ves ae»harnes beyond all, lormer examples. Of this you will ju Ige when I tell you that one of the prisoners has just now provoked a .soldier- to. bayonet him byhfo cries of - Vive VEmpercur I As veil as ca,a <.c judged, the French arc supposed to bare lost' lSO pieces of can-ion. Fhedaf was at onetime' supposed to be so completely lost, and the French s> thoroughly expected to make their appearance, I thought ie prudent to dispatch a part of the department, with pap-irs and some of our ba- gage, towards Antwerp) and hare this morning sent after them toretuin" DANGEROUS AND pIABOLIOAL PLANS, —During the trial of some 'Nihilists at St. Petersburg recently, Go denbutg describes the making of the secret ga iery un.ler toe Moscow railway, and disclosed inch a wellconceived and a imirably execu ea plan, that one must com-, lo the conclusion that the Moscow po ice was not so much to blame ; the beat pcli c of the world -would have failed before su^h diabolical canning. The danger of w.n-king was so grea.Uhafc the seven employed ro make the excavation took a violent poison -with them to swal ow m case of th'e/|^Dn4' r *-'jhUing^^'':'?ohd|Br''' one, of the beds m the house from which the gallery began, two huge bottles of dynamite were concealed, at which, m case of the police surrounding the house, one <«f the girls, Sophia PeroTsky, had the order Uv Shoot a pistol and so blow up the house, and all perish i ather than surrender. All the persons concerned m that, and ail other attempts to take the CsarY life, were animated with a fanaticism perfectly unequalled, and they havu one and all displayed marvels of personal courage and of cunning m. the arrangements of those plant which. Providence alone could have frustrated. A Curious PititionJ— -This -was addressed to the Governor of Fouth Carolina,, m the year 1733, by sixteen maidens of Charleston. It ran thus ;«• Ihe humble petition of all the maids whose names are >>nderwritten. Whereas, we, the ha Mble petitioners, are at present m a yerj melancholy stajte of mind, considering how all the ba-. chelors ate blindly captivated bj wi lows, and onr own youthful chances th^r by neglected ; m consequence of this, our request is that your Exctllebcy will for the future order that no. widow presume to many any young man till the mnias are provide') for or else to pay each of th m a fine for invad-. ing our liberties ; and likewise a fine to belevied on all such bachelor* as shal marry widows. The great , disadvantage it is ta us maids is that the w dows by thdr for--ward carriage, do snap up the v/>ang men, ana" have the vanity to think their ra«i a. beyond nurs, which is a great imposition on us, who ought to have the pref re ice. Thi» is humbly recommended, to your Excellency's consideration and. hope you ■will permit no further inWte And we poor maids, m duty bound, will ever 'priy.'' The maidens all forlorn would hive much ap« proved the edict of the Fortuguese Kingwhich forbade widows more than fifty years old from remarrying, on the groaud that women of that age omraOnly wedded young men of no property, who dissipated the fortunes such marriages brought them to the prejudice "of children ; ijtrid other re* latives. — Detroit Jfre& &rev. Ma^t ?pobt, IndjbkijJ.— The following paragraph extracted from a recent iss >c of" the Hodgkinton Independent, of Queers*, land, affords an indication of the sentiments, with which/the a origines of that continent are regarded by some of flic White settlers * — M Gn Sunday morning last a perr-on, named Martin Doyle, whi'e out on a kanga-roo-hunting excursion, and when getting as. far as Wooster's paddock., distai^t about three miles from Tboroborou_'h came opon a mob of blacVs-camped, who. on. perceiving Doyle immediately marte tracks m '-double^ quick time.' The dogs accompanying Doyle,, gave chase; and overtook one of the gins, ahefe tore her to such an extent that she "died almost as soon as they were drawn off, their victim. Doyle, on returning to the camp, suddenly vacated by the blacks,' dis« covered that they had kiUed a cow, and were about to appeas* their appetif ies when, they were disturbed. It is : anything butcreditable to the Government to allow such, a state of things as this to exist. Blacks, m the present day to be roamin? about within a short three tailed of populous town, like Tbor nbpronebv established now riearl y five years, and slaying the cattle of its resu dents, is truly shameful ." It will b* observed that the unfortunate black woman was hunted as soon, as she was sighted, and before it was known that her: companion*; had "killed a cow.'* It; will also be noted that our southern contemprary seems ta shocked, not at all by the sport indulged m, by Doyle, bat by the fact that blacks arestill allowed to roana about within three miles of a township established "nearlyfive years." Thk Pocket handkerchief —Until the reign of the Empress Josephine a hand-, kerchief was tbonght m France so shock-, ing' an object that a lady would never have dared to use it before anyone. The word even was carefully avoided m reißn^d con* vernation^ An actor- who Konld have used a batt^keschiet oa the sta^e ev,en in"the most tearful moments *" of the nlay would; have been most unmercifully hissed an > it was only m the beginning^ of the present, centnry that a celebrat d. actress dared to, appear with a handkerchief m her hand.. Having to-speaVo^ this handkerchief m thecourse of the piece, sh^ cou'djie^er. summon, enough courage to call it by its . name, bub referred to it as a light tissue. A few years, later a translation of on« of Bbaker>eare'», " plays by Alfred >1c having been acted, the word- hahdkereh^ef- Was used f»* the first time on -the sta^e^-amiri cries of in-, dignation f rom a great, part of the bouse. I doubt if even today French. e'eean*s, would carry handk°rchief» it- the wife of Napoleon L had not given the signal for- ' adopting themu. Th" Empress, J^oseohine, although really lovely, hal ugly teeth. To, conceal them she was m the habit of carry >. ing small handkerchiefs .adorned /with, costly laces which 'eh^V.oontinjvilrjr raised 1 gracefn'ly to ker.' lip*. - Of cowrae -all the., ladies of the CourtAcJlQjr and hankerehief s have rapidly become an im-. portant U|d rostly part of the feminire. toilet; so- n>ucfe »b."tha^ the 'price of a single handkarchfeio* tbe-ti«lißseauof the. Duchess of Sdinburg : : jc<u»ld make the forv tune of a necessitous family. .