SECOND EDITION.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 4318, 30 May 1885, Page 3

SECOND EDITION.

The Melbourne Argus says:—A great scare has been caused here by a report that a tiger escaped at Mansfield from a menagerie some time ago, ancl lias been in that ancl the Wangaratta districts ever since. Mysterious disappearances of sheep and other animals are put down to the tiger. It was seen by tho railway gatekeeper between Chilteru and BarnaAvartha. The members of the rifle corps and the police havo gone out to hunt for the animal.

A lad yesterday afternoon, at the new road formed through the sections' sold lately belonging to the Meanee mission, saw a skull sticking out of the side of the road, the skull Avas perfect, all the bones being there, and it is supposed there are several more skulls there, if not complete skeletons. The probability is that the mission land Avas a Maori burying ground.

Mr G. W. Russell, late proprietor of the Manawatu Times, has purchased tho plant of the Waikato Gazette, and that gentleman is about to issue a tri- weekly paper at Cambridge, uncler tho name of the Cambridge News, on Mondays, Wednesdays, ancl Fridays.

A notice in Maori ancl English appears in the Gazette to owners of native land in Road Board districts and counties requiring them to pay rates due before tho Ist of June.

A fashionably-dressed young man ran aAvay Avith another man's wife from Birmingham, and the pair put up at the Saracen's Head, at Shirley. The ill-used husband called Avith four of his friends, ducked the felloAV in the horse-trough, soused him Avith buckets of Avater, and finally emptied over his head a bucket of meal and Avater, prepared for a horse. In this sorry plight he Avas chased over tho fields, now down and noAv up, and at last tumbling into a ditch ho Avas allowed to scramble out and drive off with a friend.

The Dunedin Evening Herald says that an amusing instance of the ruling passion manifestedin unconsciousness has just occurred. One of our leading counsel was suffering Avithin the last few days from the pangs of a racking toothache. He resolved to bring an action of ejectment against his tormentor, and repaired to the dentist. The molar being of a dangerous character the patient was -put under chloroform aud the enemy duly got rid of. On coming to consciousness the" barrister found tho operator enjoying- a hearty laugh. On asking the reason, he was told that just as he was gettingfree from the effects of the chloroform he said, "On this point, your Honor, we are all agreed."

A story is current in London to tho effect that one of Mr Whistler's admirers approached him the other day with the honeyed remark—"Ah! Mr Whistler, I only"know of two painters in all tho world —Velazquez and yourself." With au accent of demure irony, the artist replied, "Why draw in Velazquez?" It is also reported of him that another worshipper of the eccentric American addressed him thus —" I sco you everywhere iv nature—in the sky, in the clouds, in the water." " Yes," said Whistler, with Avcll-simulated selfcomplacency, "Nature is an apt pupil. She has slioavii a decided improvement since I took her up." They Avould seem to be getting quite savage in England in their comments upon public men. The following passage from Vanity Fair of lhe 21st of March smacks of the politics of the old clays of Gilray ancl Rowlandson :—" lam greatly disappointed to learn that the man Kimberlcy, Avho was hanged at Birmingham on Tuesday, was not a Cabinet Minister, after all. For a moment a bright hope dawned upon me that, at any rate, we had got rid of one of them. But it seems that the Secretary for India had nothing to do with the murder of the woman unmeet Parker. He has hitherto only been convicted of complicity in the murder of the man named Gordon. A remarkable instance of equine longevity has occurred in Statcu Island, U.S., where a famous trotting horse, named Old Turk, died on the Oth of March last. His first race was run in the year 1542, so that he must have been something like 4G or 17 years of age. At that time he trotted against and beat a field comprising some of the best horses of the day. About 12 years ago ho was standing at the bow of tho ferry boat Westfield when she blew up. He avus hoisted between 30ft to 40ft into the air, but landing in (he water, with tho hair scalded off his back, he swam ashore, The last years of his life were spent at the Richmono County Poor Farm, where a comfortable stall"had been built for him. He had lost nearly all his teeth, and lived upon boiled food for some months before his death. It is the hardest thing in tho world to get sumo folks into any kind of a natural position, or expression of countenance. They will put a kind of I'm-to-be-photographed look on their faces when they come into the gallery and it generally stays there. Then the Avay some women dress ! Thcj r have an idea that the more colors they get on, the better they look, and the result is that when they see their photograph and the curious effect producct by the colors, they'll blame the photographer, though we always tell them beforehand. Nearly till persons look getter in a picture than in reality, except those having clear complexions. Some ladies, for instance, would be considered beautiful in side A'iew of their features, while a front view is decidedly disappointing. Of course in photographing them, we take the side view. Some look better with a hat on ancl some in full out-door costume. But there is ono thing you may not know, ancl that is very few ladies look Avell photographed in white, yet the only pictures many have taken are in their graduation or Avedding dresses.

Vladivostok, a place which Avas all but unknown a few years ago, is already assuming some importance as a military port and naval station. It bears a singularly ambitious name ; for it signifies " the ruler of the East." Only a few miles from the mouth of the Amoor, and equally near to the frontier of Coroa, Russia is preparing to make it the base of future operations against the latter. The mouth of the harbor is defended by a battery of 9in guns. A good floating dock has been constructed, and tho surrounding heights tiro dotted with forts ancl earthworks. China surveys these preparations Avith as much distrust as the Government of Corea does.