MISCELLANEOUS.

Grey River Argus, Volume XXVI, Issue 4359, 22 August 1882, Page 4

MISCELLANEOUS.

Pay your debts promptly. Question not the veracity of a friend. Respect the counsel of your parents. Sacrifice money rather than principle. Lie not for any consideration. Make few intimate acquaintances. Archibald Forbes is drawing immense houses at Adelaide. The Devon Herald, Tasmania, says : — " A gentleman from Kentishbury has re* ceived a letter from Waratah, in which the writer says that whilst Messrs Hall Brothers and Exel were at work on the Bipchoff and C'>rina track, a large hyena, either from hunger or ferocity, attacked the party, and a very exciting fight took place, those engaged in the defence only having sticks to keep the animal off. After two or three attempts by the hyena to seize hold of one of the Messrs Hall, that gentleman struck the brute a severe blow on the nose, which bled profusely. The animal then made off into the scrub, but after a time crept back again to the attack, and the battle was renewed fiercely, but this time the hyena was dispatched, and on measurement his length was found to be sft, exclusive of tail." The North Island Main Trunk Railway Loan Bill differs little from the New Zealand Loan Bill, with the exception that a ! clause in the general Bill specifically mdi» cates the particular works to which the loan is to be applied, as described in the schedule. V^ hat there is of difference in the North Loan Bill is set out in the preamble, which is as follows: — " An Act to authorise the borrowing and raising of money to continue the construction of the Main Trunk Railway of the North Island. Whereas it is expedient that the construction of the main trunk railway of the North Island should be proceeded with as soon as circumstances will permit ; and whereas the obstacle in the way of carrying on the extension from Te Awamutu may be shortly removed, and it is expedient that the money required should be available for such construction. The San Fransisco correspondent of the Otago Daily Times says : — Mr Creighton has shipped 600 cranberry plants for acclimatisation in New Zealand to Mr Firth, of Auckland, who will take care to propagate them. Mr Oreighton has requested 'him to communicate with Mr Farr, secretary of the Canterbury Acclimatisation Society, and forward a supply for propagation, if that Society is prepared to receive them. Cranberries are shipped to England, and find ready Bale there. They are in demand here. Those Bent are the beat variety obtainable, ' and have been acclimatised in California. Cranberries should be a profitable crop anywhere in New Zealand. They are expensive in preparing the ground and cultivating during the last two seasons.