SCINTILLATIONS.

Auckland Star, Volume XII, Issue 3555, 30 December 1881, Page 3

SCINTILLATIONS.

"Be brief, tor It Is with words as with unnbofuns; tho more ttioy are condonsod tho deeper they burn."— Soutiiey.

Consumption bus been cured in Germany With creosote associated with balsam of tolu.

Webster was an tcsthetc, because ho enthusiastically Bays in his dictionary that the varb to " speak " is to utter. The London " Economist" estimates the importation of food into Great Britain at present as 40 pet cent, of the total imports of the country. The number of immigrants lauding at New York in September was almost 36,000. Gold-mining teems to be flourishing in the Tangier and Salmon River districts, inJNova sootia. The funeral of Judge H. S.-Clmpman, at Duncdin, yesterday, was largely attended. The Mayoral election in Wellington has resulted in a civil action for slander—Fisher (Mayor) v. Stewart. Damages are fixed at £1,000, Mr Bryce returned to Wellington from Parihaka yesterday morning. The Wilhelmj concerts in Wellington have been attended with great success. The harbour dredging at Dunedin has so far progressed that the steamer Penguin will go up the new channel to Dunedin today, Sho has never previously passed Port Chalmers. Sir J. P. Bell, of Queensland, has sustained a severe loss by the death of bis thoroughbred mare Wheatsheaf, dam of Wheatear. She was found in the paddock with her leg broken. The owner was recently offered 3,000 guineas for her. Sir William Fox has spent £8,000 on his estate at Westoe. Messrs Moody and Sankey have began their second religious campaign, in Great Britain in Newcastle, the seat of the recent Anglican Church Congress. Canon Wilberforceof Southampton writes strongly in favour of according a hearty recognitionand welcome to the Baptists on the occasion of the autumnal meeting of the Baptist Union in Southampton shortly. A writer in a London paper states with respect to the city church scandals that one of theao parishes enables its incumbent to live comfortably at a fashionable watering place on his £1,000 ayenr.yet the bellringers at its church have struck because their wages are not forthcoming. A telegraph operator at Napier, named Crossman, has distinguished himself by rescuing two children from tbe breakers at the risk of his own life, It is reported in Greymouth (says the "Argus ") that Mr Bevan has succeeded in floating the Kangitoto silver mine into a company at Home. Up to the present time it haß cost the Government of New South Wales' a sum of £50,000 to try and stamp out the smallpox disease. A nice little bill this. The " Dnnedin Echo " names the following members of the next Parliament as being capable of holding positions in the Cabinet with ability :—Mr Buchanan (of Napier), Mr Montgomery, Mr Hutcheson, Mr Dargaville, Mr Barroa, Mr Holmes, Mr J. Evans Brown, Mr DeLautour, Mr Fyke, Mr J. Shepherd, Mr J. F. Moss. Mr Ormond telegraphed to the Acting Minister of Justice lately asking when the new licensing districts will be defined, and he received a reply stating that "boundaries of tbe new licensing districts are being prepared by the Surveyor-General with all possible speed, and will be proclaimed before the March quarterly licensing day." Up to the end of October last there wero 1,454 wrecks for the year, or an increase of 417 as compared with tho corresponding period of last year. The approximate value of property was £7,000,000, including British £4,000,000. The nnmber of persons lost and missing was 673. The Hon. Gerald Addington, son of Lord Sidmoutb, purposes settling in New Zealand, according to a paragraph in Home Pa TheWanganui Harbour Board invites tenders for improving the bar at the mouth of the river, The work in estimated to cost £24,000, and to require two years for it Walter Waller has been elected to fill the vacancy in the Onehunga Boroueh Council caused by the election of Councillor Codlin to the Mayoralty. The contents of o coal-scuttle bonnet will often set a man's heart in a flamo. We don't object so much to their being called ostrich feathers, except that it is very unjust to the turkey.

Leveis all ranks, and lays the shepherd's Beside the sceptre,—Lytton. Dr Cunningham Geikie has resigned the rectorship of Christ Church, Neuilly, Paris, France, and received an address and a purse of gold from his regretful parishioners. The English Baptist Missionary Society will immedietely add six missionaries to its already strong force on the Congo river, on which stations have been established as far inland as Stanley Pool.