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Manawatu Times, Volume V, Issue 140, 11 May 1881, Page 2

Balance Sheet.-The balance^ sheet of Messrs. Gutherie and L>irnach> New; Zealand Timber and Wobd Company ha<; just been publish*-. In additioi^ to £10,000 carded to profit and loss, i\a_tows a loss of £2800. . "A The Heathen Chinee. -A crowded, and influential meeting was held m Sydney on Friday, to discuas the present influx of Chinese into the colonr-es -' The meeting ■ 1 -solved upon sending a deputation to G»>- . jremm^nt to urge the necessity f fjyP^X ' BiVe~"measures against Chinese immigration.' ' ' ■ -• A Sferange Aff*ir.— A valuable ir*o> ported -mare; belonging to Mr. Archibald M'Lean, of Napier, died on Sunday last under most extraordinary circumstances. The mare took ill oa the Fri lay, and the services of a. veterinary snrgepivwere a* - once, secured, but he tailed to ascertain the cause of her illness, the remedies administered did no good, and the mare died. The sanie day the mara was opened by tb« surgeon m the presence of several other geutleman, and to their great surprise, the upper p^rtof a sheeps skull was found m the itomach. The bone measured -i inches by_f inches by * inches. The gullet Of the mare was sore and inn i mcd. Mr. Tanner, the surgeon, intends -ending an account of .the affair to- the London Meld. -32Q0 was recently given for the mare. ,How » Hindoo Burglar Works. — The Hindoo thief's manner of scaling, walls.is very, ingenious. It is hy means pf • a huge lizard which, he carries with him m his nocturnal rambles. The process is as follows :— The liaard, which is perhap-i a yard m length, with great claws and flattened feet, and suction power like those of a fly, is made fait to the dacoft by a tough cord tied to : its tail. When the dacoft is pursued, and comes, m his hasty flight, to a wall, he quickly throws his lizard over it. holding fast to the other end of tbe -*ord. By means of its suction powers, the lizard fastens himself to the wall on the .opposite side, and the: thief draws himrelf to the top, and jumps lightly down. By choking the lizard it is made to release it* hold. The Champion Beauty*-rHere is a novelty taken- from the advertising columns of the iVow Xktrh (Kipper— I . Adam VForepaugb, proprietor of the largest show m the world, desires to secure the services for thirty weeks during the coming spring and summer of the handsomest woman m the world. To that extent he. offers a premium of £2000, payable m pro rat v weekly instalments,, to the' lady contest-mt who shall be adjadged the most beautiful candidate. All applicant"-, mast forward photographs and full address. "All eora-qau-nioatiohs strictly confidential. The fortn nate lady Vwil be reqnire.i to appear .daily m a great pageant, nnd, as-b-'auty and not talent is required^ good looks alone will ae-,. cure .the prize. . ho personal applications or interviews wiilfrbe granted. No letters answered, tio photograph's returned ." Sad End- 6f a Parisian Cele-hrity.-^Do** any one remember a beautiful girl who 'went 1 by the -"nickname La Cemete and flasbrd through the Parisian world during the last year of the Second Empire l v fche was called *■' ' omet " on account of her. exceeding length and the loveliness otuer golden hair. Theophile Gautier wrote] a soanet tp her,; Gaoanel painted her portrait, Worth dressed her, and -Leon Cugnot topic h-r as the,model .of his pretty statue "La Baigneuse.'" " Her real name was Adele Terchoutj.and^jut before the Franco -German war brOkeout she declined an offer of marriage from an elderly di-jke with a very ancient escutcheon. At hat ti.ue she owned one ofthe finest, mansions m ihe Chsimp- Elysees, had twelve horses m her stable, and a bushel of diamonds; m her dressing-case. Recently this darling cieature died m a Parisian hospital absolutely destitute ; and tlu disease which: carried ht-T off was the : meet hideous: that could befall a pretty woman— a btpus vorow. or cancer m the face, .which i>. tally diifigured her. Like Zola's " Naua " the on y veslige left of her beauty when she died was her matchtess'hair, which niea* sui «d nearly five feet. * . V : The Financial Aspect on the Channel Tannet— Precedents as to cose woul i hardly justify an eng'-neerin estimating a tunnel under the Channel at less than £200 per yard, or £352, u0i) per mile, being less than halt the cost of the metro politan iines, of the cost of which, howr, ever, we must remember that the price of land formed an importa -t though; undistinguished portion. To pay 5 per cent on £350,000 per; mile requires a traffic of about £35,000 per mile .per annum, or more than five times that of the South- Ka_t«ra Railway. iNo English Railw *y •. approaches tho quarter of that figure wi:b the exoepthin of the two metropolitan li- es which take respectively *SB.6oo,and £34,300 per mile. These, it is well known, are entirely exceptional cases, fed by constant local urban tra*l>c, with --stations little more than a-mile apart. In the Channel tunnel there can be no local traffic. Generally speaking it will be on'y the .through paseenrf rs from London to Paris and vice versa who could be deoended on to feed the line.' Taking all things m. the mott favorable light, we have to consider whether a traffic . eqnal to that of the Metropolitan District line is rationally to be expected, under any circumstances, to arise between Dover and Calais. Reminiscences of a Scoundrel. —A. New York reporter who ha< recently interviewed Mr. Thurlow Weed, succeeded m getting from the oldest of American journalist* tome very inteiestiug facts about Aaron Burr who killed Alexander Hamilton. Burr ii one of the darkest and fiercest figures of modern history, and all the circumstances connected with the fatal -duel which deprived America of one of her noblest statesmen, have imparted a very romantic interest to his fame. Like many other adventurers, Burr was much loved by women, and according to Mr. Thurlow Weed he fci>t all the love letters written to him and carefully filed th_m under the names of the writers, this was harmless enough so long as Burr was a'ive, but when he ditd all those letters were found iutacr, and carefully pr^serv.. d m a large trunk. it seems evide t Burr purposely refrained from destroying those letters in| order to gi?e pain to their writers atter his death ; for m all cas»n whew letters either had no signature or bore initials only, Burr had carefully wiiten o:t Ihe name m full. The sory throws a fresh light upon the graceless nature of t" c man who practically murdered Hamilton and dreamed of fotming aM* xican Empire. But the- disagreeable eccentricity of Burr's action m .thus. : preserving the letters was quite surpassed; ; by that of his executor, Matthew Davis, who tb >k upon himselt the loveless ta«k of returning all these letters of thirty and forty. ■ years before to such of their writers as , were still alive. According to Mr. Thurlow Weed, he actually did -•turn hundreds of letters with his own hand, and on^one; occasion requested Mr. Thurlow weed to. i restoie a package to a lady m fiondence, then a grandmother, but- -Mr. Weed de- ; clined to discharge so unpleasant ftierace « :

The King of the Cannibal. Islands — The travels of tbe Sing of the Rnndwich Islands promised to be a windfall for the caricaturists, says the Homo Neics. "Judging; However, from the immediate efforts, *Jh?B6 ingenious persons will prove more entertaining- than instructive. A tin* pot heftaefr,V,a\ nose- ring, and no ; clothes to Fpeiik^of.V doubtless accord well Vwiih the popular notion; of the Sovereign of "The Cannibal Islands," but very little * with J_iiag' David7Ealakula. Th« direot line of tbesconquerer barely lasted fifty years. It was continued by four weakling^ his sons and grandsons, who soon succumbed to civilisation; and both the present king and his predecessor Lnnalilo, the | •« well-beloved-^whoTeignecFfdr one year, are of royal blood by collaiteral branches ! only. Since the day when Captain Cook I was ''kill^'inrE-Slakr-'fiilraa^Bay-.'ihß*' Sandwich Islands have wonderfully advanced, till th-y will now bea** comparison with Vmost European States of the same: population: There is a legislature, a Cabinet, » ■court, and an order of kmghthood .with decorations so gorgeous that it has even beeu said that weak' -sighted people require to , look at a .throng <>f . Hawaiian notabl- * throughout pieces of smoked grasa; 'Queen Emma's huiband, the Fourth Eaoiehameha wa** a caivival monarch. . . Foreigners not yet initiated into the ways of the country ' used, to.be shocked at hearing the American merchants asking His ' Maj Vsty whether be felt likebrandy-and^water to-day. , But m time they ' learned ■ that "the ' King usually did feel "like 'brandy : 4n'd^wifterJ'''^Kala-^ v kua ia a man of a diflereti.' stamp,' Hft-fv lives when be' is- at' home in '■' what i- not misca'led a palaoejwtorebe has Ihis-leveea and dinner part ies, w ith the • menu i printed on white silk and Sevres china on the t".ble. •" ---■ -.-.----- •