THE Daily Southern Cross.

Daily Southern Cross, Volume XXXI, Issue 5522, 5 May 1875, Page 2

THE Daily Southern Cross.

LUUEO, NON URO. If I hare be«n extiuguiahed, y«t thero ris* A. thousand Ueaoou* from the ipark I hot*.

WEDXESDA F, MA Y 5, 1875.

It is gratifying to find so largo an amount of prosperity in any province as seems to be indicated by the} telegraph resume of the speech addressed to the Provincial Council of Otago by the Superintendent, in opening the thirty-fourth session of the Council. To judge from the terms of that address, matters are in n progressive and satisfactory state in the southernmost province of the Colony. The immigration has been satisfactory, we should imagine, for not fewer than 12,311 immigrants had arrived in that province during the year, and nothing is said against their quality. It is wise sometimes to exercise a judicious reticence, for remembrances of Mrs. Howard's "Asiatics," as the workhouse contingent by a vessel of that name was called, and by some other ships, is still painfully fresh in Otago, and is evidenced on the sti-eets of Dunedin. However, the proportion of these is but a small per centage of the lot, and, as a rule, with these base exceptions, Otago's immigrants have been of a superior quality. The railway trafhc has been a success, as the receipts have risen from £35,000 to £57,000 in a single year. This is nearly an increase of cent, per cent., and forms a most satisfactory augury of what we may yet expect from our railways. The Provincial revenue for the past year has realised the sum of £244,766, an amount quite equal to the work of duly providing for the real wants of the Province. The Government propose to establish a School of Mines, and, as we understand the telegram, to deal more " generally" with the education question. It may be, for the wire advice is vague, that the Superintendent refers to the necessity for having one "general" scheme for the whole Colony. Of that we may probably hear more anon. Mr. Vogel loot an excellent opportunity of providing a general scheme in 1872, and it may be found difficult to securo such a scheme now, for the loss of the flood tide often leaves the vessel in shoals and narrows, escape from which is no easy matter. But, to return to Otago. That province has already spent £21,000 during the financial year on erecting school houses, and, on the whole, it might seem likely that not a cloud would have disturbed the serene atmosphere of provincialism in Otago. Yet by far the most marked feature of Mr. Macandrew's address is the acknowledgment that the future of Provincialism was clouded, and its prospects far from settled. The Superintendent of Otago is a representative man, and, it may be said, he stands in the natural position of the champion of Provincialism. Sir George Grey, from his great talents, his former position and his recent action, may, indeed, be accepted as the leader of the Provincial, or, as perhaps it should be named, the Federal, party in the Colony ; but he does not take it so naturally as the Superintendent of Otago. In Mr. Macandrew the best and the worst features of the provincial system have found their exponent. At no time an aspirant to office as a Colonial Minister, he has done more than almost any other man to make and to destroy Ministries. Evidently more proud of his position as Superintendent of Otago than he would have been of any position in a Colonial Cabinet, he has looked at Colonial politics wholly from a Provincial point of view. The work of the Superintendent of Otago, if not on the whole mischievous, has certainly been local. His politics have been those of | Otago, not those of New Zealand, and while, more than any Superintendent, he has generally secured what his province stood in need of from one Government after another, and from one Assembly after another, he has always been open to the reproach of making our political existence, as a Colony, a mere scramble for what each province can get out of the general plunder. To do Mr. Macandrew justice, we believe him to be a model Superintendent. His whole soul is centred in the advancement of his province, and it must be confessed it has been so centred to some purpose. But while he has done good he has also done harm. If the interests of Otago have conflicted, or seemed to conflict with those of any other province, or indeed, of the whole colony besides, the interests of Otago have been deliberately preferred to those interests. This waa the natural product of the Provincial system, and it is no particular reproach to the Superintendent of Otago that he is a thorough representative of the system in which his political life has been passed. On the other hand, it is not particularly creditable to a political system that its best representative should, by virtue of his very loyalty to the position he occupies, have acquired the character of the most successful log-roller in the Assembly of the Colony, only too well provided with adepts at the business. That Mr. Macandrew admits the necessity of a constitutional change which shall affect the position of Provincialism may be taken to be a very large admission, especially for him. The view taken of what the change should be is, of course, the view in accordance with Mr. Macandrew's antecedents. He believes in the independence of the provinces, and he persuades himself that the separate existence of the provinces is the certain passport to a condition of unity for the Colony. There is much

that is vciy illogie.il in the opinions c\-pi-ussod by the Otago Superintendent. Ho wishes it to ho understood that ho clingb to the unity of the Colony, but it is clear that this is wholly subservient to the independence of the provinces. Let Otngo, Canterbury, and the other provinces be free and independent ; let their revenues bo their own, and their liabilities be borne by themselves, and then ho will talk about unity. This, wo confess, seems to us a singular sort of unity ; but, of course, it presents itself to the minds of its advocate as a sort of federal union of nine separate colonies. And, in the abstract, wo do not say that suoh an idea is necessarily absurd, although tho day is past when such a doctrine could prevail in New Zealand. Some- of the colonies of the American Union are no larger than even the smaller of our provinces, and almost sovereign colonies have existed with no more population than Otago or Auckland now possesses. It is the actual circumstances of our position that render the political ideas of Mr. Macandrew "like the baseless fabric of a vision." If all provinces had the revenue of Otago or Canterbury ; if each Superintendent could speak of progress and of all sorts of progressive work being performed under the auspices of tho Provincial Government, it might, indeed it would, be a different matterAs it is, Otago and Canterbury stand alone, and they do so because they stand upon an unjust basis of financial prosperity. While Otago can engross something like 13,000 immigrants in one year, owing to her undue influence in the Assembly or because of her large land fund, other "provinces get very scanty justice. Wliilo she can spend her £21,000 on school houses, and can establish schools 'of mines and other admirable but costly institutions, other Provincial treasuries are positively on the verge of insolvency. In these latter, small cheques for a few thousands of pounds are retained — it is true, partly by misadventure — dishonored, and there is imminent risk of officials being unpaid, and the institutions of tho Province unsupported. Such disparities of position are the fatal enemies of federation. The idea is all very well where tho proposed parties to the federation stand on a tolerably equal footing. Where there are no unsettled questions as to the relative claims of the various high contracting parties, an agreement m.iy not be impossible. But when we have some provinces wealthy, by reason of revenue m which others claim to share, as part of the national wealth ; whilo some provinces can have all they need, and something to sparo ; while others can scarcely struggle on in the midst of an anxious and chilling poverty — it is a mockery to talk of .i federation. There is no equality of position. There is no equality of wealth ; there is no hope of equal advantages being enjoyed by different parts of the country, and the public will not consent to any proposal to perpetuate and stereotype this state of things. Of course, Mr. Macandrew is not to blame. His proposal is quite a feasible one from his limited point of view. The flaw in his ideas is caused by the existence of other provinces, neither so well provided, or flourishing as the province of Otago.

It is gratifying to see other journals in the city taking up the question of our sanitary state, to which we have of late so frequently referred ; and urging, as we have done, the necessity of the immediate action of our authorities. We perfectly agree with the Staf that our local Board of Health has done little or nothing in the direction of sanitary improvement ; our City Council seems equally supine ; our Harbour Board has at the wharf entrance a collection of malodorous and disease-disseminating material which iills two vast receptacles, aud sheds contagion in the neighbourhood. Our drains are ilank and fetid in their exhalations, aud from the odors that prevail at many places, Auckland deserves to be termed the " City of smells." If typhoid fever shall succeed in obtaining a footing in this city, it will hold it, and the ravages which measles and other endemic diseases have lately committed, will be but trivial as compared with the fatalities which typhoid fever — possessing such fecundating ground aa Auckland offers — will produce. It is because the bodies we have named appear to be able to do nothing, and seem destitute of the scientific knowledge, or of the vigour to compel and enforce the removal of dangerous nuisances in the city and its environs, that we suggested the appointment of a sanitary commission to make a spoedy investigation and advise with equal speed the prompt action that is necessary. It the Board of Health is slow and Apparently silent, that will excuse neither the City Council nor the Harbour Board. Still, these are officially interested in preventing the growth of miaims and causing the immediate removal or abatement of such, as now exist, and the public look to all three for enforcement of those sanitary regulations and remedies by which alone we can hope to prevent the establishment, or stay the ravages of a dangerous epidemic which already has assailed some New Zealand cities, aud threatens to fix itself in Auckland.

We have received the following additional letter on the subject of the recent action of the banks, and some of the Apparent causes of that action : — "To the Editor : Sir, — In your issue of this morning you publish, in a subleader, a letter from Mr. J. Lawford, manager of the Bank of Australasia, in which he rather offensively makes use of my name, in connection with a statement made by you in yesterday's paper, which attributes to his bank the attempt to withdraw capital from Now Zca land ; to which I referred at the half-yearly meeting of this bank on Thursday last. In my remarks I named no particular bank, but 1 beg you will allow me to 1 assure Mr. Lawford, through your columns, that my information on the point in question is so reliable, that should necessity arise I entertain not the slightest doubt that every word I uttered on the occasion in question can be substantiated. — lam, &c, "D. L. Murdoch. " Bank of New Zealand, May 4, 1875. "

It appears from the latest telegrams that the trial of the Guicowar of Baroda or Giizerat, whose regal orthography is now Gaikwar, has resulted in his deposition froin power, because of his wicked administration, and the sufferings of his subjects. His trial at Calcutta was uelieved to be based on a charge of complicity in, and of originating, the attempted murder of Colonel Phayre, the British Resident at Baroda, the capital of the Gaikwar's territory. The deposition of the Gaikwar, who like most of the Mahrattas is treacherous and cniel, and, like them, has severely treated the conquered people over which he ruled, will result in the annexation to British India of his entire territory, just as in 1856 it was found necessary to annex the province of Oude, which was administered with still greater cruelty apd barbarity by tho native king. That annexation was followed in one brief year by the outbreak of the Indian Mutiny, and Oude became the very hot-bed and one of the centre* of the rebellion. Indeed, it was deemed at the time that the annexation of Oudo was the immediate cause of the outbreak, the memory of ■which is still painful. That any disturbance of tho kind shall follow this now annexation is not at all probable. Like the rest of the Mahratta Princes, the Gaikwar rule over a conquered people, who have been ground down by cruel treatment, and beggared by severer taxation. Had this prince been found guilty of the attempted murder of Colonel Phayre, the representative of the Queen, possibly, hia fate might h»ve been

tha* of tho tieachcfous high Kr.ihinin chief Nuncomar, wlio, in the zenith of Ins power and oi>j>osition to the Ka9t India Company's (iovernment, Wairen Hastings seized, tried, condemned and hanged, in the presence of ten thousand awe stricken natives, who learned by the ignominious death of the lofty chief of a lofty caste, to estimate the power o£ the handful of pale strangers who ruled the subject millions of Hindostan, With our railway system and our experience of the last mutiny, there is little fear even if we should see a local outbreak, of any difficulty arising to prevent its prompt suppression.

In a ease brought before the Resident Magistrate yesterday, in which a boy was convicted* of having squirted water iu the face of an aged woman who sells lollies in West Queen-street, his Worship regretted his inability to order the delinquent a good flogging. He said that for a petty theft — say of the value of one halfpenny — he could do so, but not for acts of larrikinism, which much more richly deserved the lash. He expressed his determination to deal with the utmost severity which the law allowed him with such cases, and emphasised his remarks by sending the prisoner to gaol for one mouth with hard labonr* We hope the other magistrates, who ntty occasionally occupy the Bench at the Police Court, will treat all cases of larrikinism that may come before them in a similar manner. If they do, larrikinisin will soon cease to exist in Auckland. The telegraph station is now open at Giiborne (Poverty Bay). On Tuesday, the 25th instant, the electoral list of City East will be*revisgd before Mr. H. C. Lawlor, at the Supreme Court buildings ; on the 26th, the list for Auckland City West ; on the 27th, the list for Newton ; on the 27th instant, the list for Parnell ; on the 28th, the list for Waitemata ; on the 31st, the list for Frauklyn ; on the 1st June, the list for Eden and Onehunga ; and on the 4th June, the list for Rodney, at Mr. SduthgateVhotel, Mahuraugi. There is at present to be seen in the shop of Mrs. Yandle, taxidermist, a large glass case containing some 00 American birds, beautifully stuffed and mounted. They have been prepared by Mrs. Yandle to the order of Mr. Samuel Morrin, who brought the birds with him when he returned from America, recently. Tho case and its contents are well worthy of examination by those having an interest in natural history collections. A piece of wanton mischief was committed at Ponsonby on Sunday evening. The seat which Mr. Quick had ereoted on the realside under the shade of some trees, for the accommodation of passengers waiting for the coach, was torn from its place and destroyed. Such acts of wanton destruction should not be allowed to go unpunished. We learn that the approaches to the Wynyard pier, which have l>cen a standing disgrace to the local authorities in Auckland, have at last been made passable by dint of private enterprise. It' is a well-authenti-cated fact that officers and sailors of men-of-war visiting this port, have been compelled to land at the Queen-street Wharf, not only at the sacrifice of personal comfort, but at additional cost. On Friday night, the fourth annual meeting of the Onehunga Band of Hope was held in the Presbyterian session house. There was a good attendance. Mr. John Bycroft occupied the chair. The report, which was read by the secretary, showed that there were 100 members on the books, and that the average attendance of young persons was 60. The report was, on the whole, of an encouraging character, and hinted that soon there would be a necessity of renting » larger room for meeting in than the one they so long occuEied, free of rent, belonging to the Rev. T. [araer. The following office-bearers were elected for the ensuing year : — President, Mr. John Bycroft ; vice-presidents, Messrs. Robert Neal and C. C. Fleming ; secretary, Mr W. Spragg; treasurer, Mr. J. R. Hcndly, and a large committee. It was resolved to hold a aoire'e in the course of a few weeks. Votes of thanks were passed to the Rev. Mr. Hamer, for the use of the school-room in Princes-street, to the officebearers for the past year, and to the Rov. f J. Brown, for the use of the session house, after which the meeting dispersed. The following are the names of the vendors of milk summoned to answer the charge of adulteration at the Police Court to-day : — Matthew Herd, Timothy Haye3, Terence Brady, Alexander Wright, Catherine Harrison, Catherine Rutledge, David May, and Joseph Wood. Out of the 24 samples of milk obtained and examined, only live were r jally good. The balance-sheet for the quarter ending the 31st March last, of the Court City of Auckland A. O. F., showed that there were 180 good members on the books. During the quarter the sick money paid amounted to £10 6s., the total amount of funds being £1,358 11b. 3d. Twenty-three members were admitted during the quarter, six were suspended, and two left by clearauce. The recent heavy rains in the Waikato have so swollen the river that it has overflowed its banks. Quisk's coach, on its way to town, had a very narrow escape from being washed away. Constable Robinson, stationed iu the Waikato district, brought down, yesterday, a prisoner named George Lippen, who has been sentenced to six months' imprisonment, with hard labour, for splitting a man's head open with an axe. We learn (says the Tliames Advertiser) that the General Government have determined to make a searching inquiry into the issue of miners' righto at Ohinemuii prior to the official proclamation of the field, and for that purpose a commission will be appointed, armed with full powers to take evidence upon oath, to compel the attendance of witnesses, and to punish for contempt. We presume that three commissioners will be appointed, but their names have not yet transpired. We are informed that Mr. James Mackay, who has returned from the South, had determined to prepare a full statement of his connection with the issue of the miners' rights, but he has now resolved to wait until the Commissioners are appointed and can take evidence upon oath. The point raised by us the other day, namely, whether Mr. Mackay examined and counted the rights he received on behalf of Mr. Brissenden, is one of great importance in the cose, and when fully explained will probably assist in tracing out the culprit. Mr. Mackay, we believe, will not rest satisfled without the most searching enquiry, and as Captain Fraser is in a similar state of mind, we may feel certain that no stone will be left unturned to sheet the charge home to the offender. On Monday evening a meeting was held at Onehunga for the purpose of forming a Rechabite Tent. One was constituted and named "Strength of Mannkau," No. 5 I.O.R. Mr. Somorville, D.C.R., for the Thames was the constituting officer. Brother Robert Neal was elected chief ruler and George Moody, secretary. While New Guinea and Celebes are being explored by Italian naturalists, another of the same nationality has made a valuable contribution on the ornithology of Borneo. Count Tommaso Salvadori is the author of n memoir on the subject. It is based on the collections made in Sarawak by the Marquis Giacomo Doria, assisted by Dr. Beccari, the companion of Signor d'Alboitis in the exploration of New Guinea. The activity of foreign naturalists in tht Indo-Australian archipelago should excite English and colonial emulation. The Duke of Norfolk is said to be about becoming a priest. The Rock finds the following extraordinary announcement in the last number of Chr'utian'ume Au A J Ante Sixle • "The chief of tho Catholic portion of the English aristocrat, Duke of Norfolk, with the Hereditary title of Premier Peer and Grand Marshal of England, is about to take orders andjointhecongregationof the oratory of St. Philip of Nen at Brompton. The Duke is twenty-seven years of age. His property will go to his brother, who will soon attain his majority.

A meeting of the Auckland Football Club was helil at the Thames Hotel yesterday evening. There M'ere only a few persons present, ami the business transacted was of an unimportant nature. The tender of Mr. J. Wilkins has been recommended for acceptance, for repairs to bridges and culverts on the Great North Road. Only one other tender was received. The fortnightly meeting of the Harbour Board took place yesterday afternoon, when a good deal of routine business was transacted. Previous to the rising of the Board Mr. B. Tonks, Provincial Treasurer, passed a high enlogium on the manner in which Captain Daldy, the chairman, had conducted the business, and in view of his departure for home lie expressed the utmost satisfaction with the gentlemanly manner in which he had always been treated, and promised that during his stay in the United States if anything suggested itself to him as being likely to be of use to the Auckland Harbour Board he would not neglect to furnish it. The ordinary accounts were passed and ordered to be printed, and a satisfactory statement of funds made. No tenders have been received for the purchase of the Provincial Black Elephant, Thompson's road engine. Two tenders have been received for the erection of a bridge over the Mangakino River, near Raglan, but the amount of each is so much in excess of the estimated cost that neither have been recommended for acceptance. The directors of the Pumping Association had an interview with his Honor the Superintendent yesterday, on important financial affairs connected with the works in progress at the Thames. On the subject of the remedy for the miasmata arising from the sewage, &c., Mr. j Strange concludes a long letter thus : — "At the present moment, the world offers no remedy better than that practised by China, whose teeming three or four hundred millions purchase it ' before fermentation takes place,' and restores it to the earth in ' detail,' sufficient to produce ' two ' crops per year. Nature rears all the supplies for the great multitude by the 'Law of Detail,' and can only receive it bock profitably by the* same — viz., 'detail.' Engineers have failed by endeavouring to deal with it 'bulk,' after spending millions of money to 'bulk' it, an immense larger expense is required to 'detail' it to the land beneficially. Sir, I have thought for years on this subject. I have culled information from any source open to me. I have studied it in all its phases, and I can see no plan so sure to effect a remedy (if honestly dealt with) as the scavenging, or removing, all solid filth, &c M by the 'detail* system— by errfch. A remedy at once certain, cheaper, and quicker than any other plan yet devised." Mr. J. Carruthers, Government Engiueer-in-Chief, with Messrs. Knorpp and Stewart, returned on Sunday from their inspection trip on the Waikato line, and started again yesterday morning to inspect the Kaipara line. A large bag is said to have been made by Mr. G. Godkin, of the Farmers' Hotel, Drury, on the 1st of May. We understand that he was successful in securing no less than 25 brace of pheasants, shooting over his own farm. ! A meeting of creditors in the estate of James Lamb, coach proprietor, Auckland, was held yesterday at the office of the Provisional Trustee m Bankruptcy, when Mr. William Kirby was appointed trustee. The | liabilities in the estate were set down at £409 17s. 10(1., and the assets at £130. The Right Rev. Dr. Cowie, Bishop of Auckland, will conduct Divine Service at the Whau Public Hall on the afternoon of Sunday next, the 9th instant. Mr. Gladstone's reply to the various answers made to the Vatican pamphlet is a very publication. He pays a high compliment to I3r. Newman's essay, but considers that Archbishop Manning has only confirmed the views he had himself expressed, and that the Archbishop of Westminster's propositions should be accepted with the word " not" as qualifying each of them. The following may be considered the principal point of Mr. Gladstone's reply :— "When the Christian scheme first wont forth it did not discourage but invited the' free action of the human reason and the individual conscience, while it supplied these agents from within with the rules and motives of humble, which was also noble, self-restraint. But in the Churches subject to the Pope's clerical power, every doctrine and usage favourable to clerical power have been developed, while all that nurtured freedom, and all that guaranteed it, have been harrassed and denounced, At last came the crowning stroke of 1870 — the legal extinction of right and the enthronement of will in its place throughout the Churches of one-half of Christendom. As freedom can never be effectually established by the adversaries of that Gospel which first declared equality for all orders and degrees of men, so that Gospel can never be effectually defended by a policy which declines to acKnowledge the high place assigned to liberty in the councils of Providence." The Troy Times states that Mr. Kalaes, who was known among his acquaintances by the name of the king of smokers, has just died near Rotterdam. He had erected a mansion, one portion of which was devoted to the arrangements of a collection of pipes, according to their nationality and chronological order. A few days before bis death he summoned his lawyer, and made his will, in which he directed that all the smokers of the country should be invited to his funeral, and that each should be presented with ten pounds of tobacco, and two Dutch pipes of newest fashion, on which should be engraved the name, arms, and date of the decease of the testator. He requested all his relatives, friends and funeral guests to be careful to keep their pipes alight during the funeral ceremonies, after which they should empty the ashes from their pipes on the coffin. The poor of the neighbourhood who attended to -his last wishes, were to receive annually, on the anniversary of his death, ten pounds of tobacco and a small cask of good beer. He desired that his oak coffin should be lined with the cedar of his old Havana cigar boxes, and that a box of French capsoral and a packet of old Dutch tobacco should be placed at the foot of his coffin. His favorite pipe was to be placed by his side, along with a box of matches, a flint and steel and some tinder, as he said there was no knowing what might happen. A correct calculation has made out that Mr. Kalaes had, during his eighty years of life, smoked more than four tons of tobacco, and had drank about 500,000 quarts of beer. The new aspirant for favors in the photographic world, Mr. W. Davies, from Nelson, who has taken the spacious rooms above Messrs. Hewin's premises in Queen and Wakefield-atreets, is now turning out some excellent vignettes of several of Auckland's well-known citizens. Mr. Davies being a true lover of the photographic art, which he has followed for upwards of twenty years, bestows the utmost pains to secure undeniable excellence in his productions, and those who favor him with their patronage are invariably pleased with the pleasant feature their photos, assume under his manipulation. A new and beautiful application of photography has appealed in England, by the aid of which any 1 ice design can be transformed to silk, so that the latter material appears to be cover© I with the delicate and costly fabric. " The lace to be copied is secured in a frame in contact with sensitive albumeuized paper, and exposed to the light until a very deep impression is obtained. This is then fixed, and the paper, washed and dried, forms a negative. Another piece of paper is then sensitized with bichromate of potash and gelatin, and exposed under the negative. Inking with lithographic transfer ink follows, and the paper is placed in water and lightly rubbed with a sponge. This throws out every detail of the inked spaces, the rest remaining white or free from ink. The impression is lastly transferred to lithographic stone, and thence printed upon the silk by the usual process,

Messrs. Mason Bros , nurserymen, inform the public that the planting season is now on, and that they have appointed Mr. Robert Brewin, of Queen-street, as their town agent, from whom descriptive cataogues may be obtained. The London correspondent of the Brighton Daily News writes :— " On Sunday morning Moncure Conway, preaching liis usual sermon in his chapel in Finsbury. made a strung attack upon the National Church, but subsequently modified it so far as to admit that it was possible for some clergymen of the Church to be of use in their day and generation; and he referred especially to the rector of a neighbouring parish, whom he did not name, but who was evidently Septimus Hansard, rector of Bethnal Green, who is now lying dangerously ill of scarlet fever. This is the third perilous illness he has had since he has been m his parish ; each* time it was caught while visiting his sick poor. On one occasion he fell down suddenly ill in his pulpit. It was found that he was suffering from small-pox, and he at once said that he would go to a hospital. A cab \\;is brought to take him there, but he refused to enter it, lest he should be the merni of infecting other persons; and a hearse happening to pass, he declared that he would go in that, and in it he went to the hospital— a r.ne instance this of pluck and self-devotion. His next illness was typhus fever ; and now, as I have said, he is suffering from a disease more terrible still. Five hundred a year (and two curates to^ay out of it) is scarcely excessive payment for such a life as that." Extraordinary Coincidences : On January 2 the Liverpool coroner held two inquests ; both the bodies were those Of girls, six years old, the daughters of labourers, and both children were accidentally scalded the same day on the same parts of the body, by their clothes coming in contact with the fire-grate during the temporary absence of thenmothers. To complete the curious chain of coincidence, both children died about the same time next day. Her Majesty Blocking the Way : One day some years ago, when her Majesty was standing on the public road near Balmoral, sketching the castle from a particular point, a flock of sheep approached. Her Majesty, being intent on her work, took little notice of the flock, and merely moved a little nearer the side of the road. A boy in charge of the sheep shotted at the top of a stentorian voice, — "Stan' oot o' the road, 'oman, and lat the sheep gae by !" Her Majesty not moving out of the way quite so fast as the shepherd wished, he again" shouted, —"Fat are ye stan'in' there for ? Gang oot o' that, and lat the sheep pass !" One of her Majesty's attendants, who. had been at a distance, on hearing his royal mistress thus rudely assailed, went up to the shepherd, 'and thus addressed him : — •• Do you know who it is you have been speaking so rudely to, boy? "Na — I neither ken nor care ; but, she be fa' she likes, she sudna be i' the sheep's road." "That's the Qneen," said the official. The boy looked astonished, and, after recovering his senses, said, with great simplicity, — " The Qneen ! Od, fat way disna she pit on claes that fouk can ken her?" A Fictitious Lord Mayor-: A provincial dining at a restaurant in Paris (sp says a Paris journal) sat near a very respectablelooking grey-headed person, with whom he entered into conversation. " To whom have I the honour of speaking ¥' said he. " I am the Lord Mayor of London," said the venerable diner with great simplicity. "I came over to assist at the first representation at the New Opera." " I have seen that in the papers," replied the other, intimating that his new acquaintance was in luck. "Mon Dieu," replied the soi-disant Lord Mayor, " I pay for my place like others. I have bought a box, and there are three of us. " After a short silence, he resumed— ' ' I was about to add that I would willingly sell the fourth place." "For how much?" said the other. " Two hundred francs ; would you like it!" "I should think so," said the other ; " how much I thank you, my lord." "Very well," was the reply; ask this evening for No. 4, Avant Scene, and give me the money. I have but just time to dress." The provincial paid the money and has since made a complaint to the police. A Centenarian : An interesting ceremony took place at Nantes (Loire-Inferieure) the other day. A large crowd of friends and relatives accompanied a widow, named Bouin, to church to return thanks on the occasion of her completing her hundredth year. She was born on December 28, 1774, as her baptismal certificate proves. She is in full possession of all her faculties, and walked with a firm step at the head of the procession. A remarkable circumstance in her life is that when she was 83 her son was drowned in the Loire, and his wife perished also in trying to save him. They left seven children, very young, and the old woman took them home, tended them, and brought them up, and has now the happiuess, at the age of 100, of seeing them all well to do in the world. What Next ?— A Paisley correspondent informs a Glasgow contemporary that at a meeting of a certain Paisley club it was proposed as a rule that the members of the Club should each not have more than two children, for the reason that such a measure would "tend ultimately to create scarcity in the labour market, and consequently benefit the working man !" Paris journals describe how' General Banaiad, a Turk, residing in that city, moved from one house to another with his furniture and hi« harem. His wives went in two omnibuMes. * There is a rumour, growing in strength every day (says the Court Journal), that at the end of the season the Duke of Connaught will take to himself a wife, one of the fairest of all the fair daughters of Erin.

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