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Bush Advocate, Volume VII, Issue 476, 2 June 1891, Page 3

FILINGS.

Wellington has 92 v Jay Pays" on the list. ' • Mr J. B. Poynter, of the Commercial Union Insurance Company Wellington, has invented a calculating machine that is said to be a great success, , . Petone hasa flourishing Working Men's Club ; a new clubhouse is just about finished. A Telephone Exchange is to be established in Palwerstou. The other week Mr George Watson celebrated his thirty-ninth annual commencement as master of the Melbourne Hounds, when he was met and greeted by an enormous gathering of hunting men and several ladies • Mr' Chamberlain, of Ellesmere, who paid a visit to the Transvaal, considers there is a splendid opening in that country for young men with a little capital. t A ,. Thomas Carsley, a verger at All Saints Church, St. Kilda, near Melbourne, was killed while sleep-walk-ing recently, having fallen downstairs. A remarkable discovery of fossils j has been made at Hamilton, Victoria, 60 miles inland at 600 ft above sea level* consisting of sharks teeth a gigantic cowry shell, and a whales «ar, all perfect. A New Zealand association has been established in Melbourne. Its object is to bring together in a social way ex-residents of New Zealand; . and whilst promoting good fellowship and brotherhood, enable them at th« same time to keep alive feelings of affection for Maonland. It is said that the Government intend to send Sir Eobert Stout to England to argue the Edwards case before the Privy Council, # The influence of wealth is paramount. W. K. Vanderbilt returned : to the States in his yacht on April 16, from an eight weeks' cruise m the Atlantic. Ona of the crew had smallpox, but the millionaire was not quarantined. .',,.» • Mary Anderson's married life is said to have been an unhappy one, and she is as thin and pale as a ghost. The family have been obliged to practice severe economy. Only one church on this glebe has a ballet. It is Seville Cathedral, where once a year, on Corpus Christi Sunday, a religious ballet is danced before the altar, but only by male dancers. It dates from time immemorial, and is regarded as a solemn function. ■ ' n __. , It is not true that Baron Hirsch, the Jewish millionaire once kept a small shop on the Thames goldfield. Daniel Jones, a tramway foreman at Cheltenham, Victoria was dragged three miles after becoming entangled in the horse gear, and was dreadfully mutilated and killed. The population of Hokitika now stands at 2,200, showing a decrease of 500 since the last census. -■ A new departure io cremation is reported. A patent has been taken out in France for an electric furnace for the repid incineration of human remains. TT , Joseph Gardiner, of Bourne Heath, near Stourbridge, met his death while cleaning his gun. He blew down the barrel while his son held a candle to the . nipple. The gun, unknown to Gardiner, was loaded, and went off, inflicting deadly wounds on the unfortunate man, who survived only two hours. He needn't have asked. The correspondent of a Scotch evening paper complains of a clergyman, who after preaching for 65 minutes save out the hymn, t« Art thou weary. The North Otago Times says :— To show the enormous success of the phonograph in New Zealand we may* mention that the net profits so far for •.the New Zealand trip amount to about £5400. .' Runaway horses can be stopped now by an electric contrivance, thanks to an American inventor. Should the animal bolt, the driver (says the Graphic") touches a button, and the runaway receives an electric shock which brings him to a standstill 6X once. . . An Athletic Club is being formed inWangaoui. The .Christchurch Press says that this year there has, in the northern district, been a remarkable decline in the civil busiuess of the Eesident Magistrate's Courts, which some say Is due to the storekeepers shortening terms of credit, and others to the idea that the farmers have experienced more prosperous times A newly-married woman, the bride pf a fortnight, named Priscilla Petrich committed suicide in Sydney a few: days ago because, poor soul, she couldn't cook. If all other wives similarly situated were to follow her sad example there would be a terrible number of gaps in this year's census papers, The danger is not imminent, however. ri A private : letter from Sydney states that Sir George Grey leaves for Auckland in the first week in June. - ■ A school-boy of a good family committed suicide in Vienna because he found Latin so difficult. ' The. new census of India reveals the fact that the population of the empire is-285,000j00C, or 30,000.000 mere than in 1881.' Of this increase 3,000,000 is due to conquest, Upper Burinah coming for the first time into calculation, and probably as many more to the gradual dying away of the objection ielt.in many districts to any enumeration of women in the census papers. Sarah Bernhardt's Australian engagement is for sixteen weeks, at £1 250 per week. Mr Arthur Clampett, whose services in the cause of religion in Christchurch are so well known, is giving musical entertainments in Dunedin. " „. , , „ The Rev. Mr Simmonds of Ponsonby states that it is true that our ancestors had rougher food to eat than we have, but it is also true that they had better teeth wherewith to eat it. The English race, especially in the colonies, is tending to become a toothless race. The latest modern invention in the art of writing correctly is to drop the "m" in the abbreviation "a.m." Thus we put it-" 11 a.," "4.30 p:' A correspondent of the Southland Times, writing from Athol, wants to know how it is that with oats at 25s 6d, in London, farmers there can only get 10s (3d for the same weight (3841 b). A daughter of Mr A. S. Abel, proprietor of the Baltimore Sun, has entered a convent, and is expected to take the veil after Easter. Her fortune, estimated at £400,000, will be given, it is supposed, to the Roman vJatfwlic Church.