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Grey River Argus, Volume XXXI, Issue 5314, 8 October 1885, Page 2

What a cheerful place to live in, to be sure must Rotoruaibe, that pet township of the Government, where one cannot walk out of an evening to enjoy the stellar beauties of the night without the fear of tumbling into a hot spring to be boiled to rags, like that unfortunate .Mrs Seddon of the Comet Store ! It is insinuated in a mean sort of way that she was " a little queer," though the probability is that the poor lady was hot and restless — it must always be hot and stewy in the midst of so many boiling cauldrons— and went out to cool herself and soothe her irritable nerves. The local paper, which by the way is a trifle in advance of such a sulphurous section of the earth's surface, calmly records in one issue — as if it was the most common-place thing in the world, the opening of a new hot spring, that hasn'tthe slightest imaginable connection with its next door neighbor, and of some new and deeply interesting subterranean activity. It is only a few days ago since a man who built a house in the township ivbs nearly snffocated one night by quite a neat thing in solfataras breaking out under his floor, and sending out enough sulphurous fumes to start a sulphuric acid manufactory. For inatance, what a delightful prospect is held out to the expectations of mi intending settler in that much-laude^ sanatorium* especially if he should be a martyr to delicate nerves and a .too vivid imagination, by the following matter-of-fact item ! — " Subterranean Ag£ tation.— Various are the indications that considerable activity is going on below the surface of Rotorua and that probably some permanent alterations will take place in regard to some of the hot springs. A noticeable featuie in the- hot lake Kuirau, near the Palace Hotel is, that the water is apparently falling, and some of the ground surrounding the lake is getting very treacherous. Parties desirous of seeing this lake should be very careful not to attempt doing so without"" first providintr themselves with a guide." This is decidedly encouraging — the " permanent alterations" of course — for those who intend to go into the guide business, if not quite so exhilerating for those who prefer to take their " walks abroad" alone. The other item is equally eircuraetantial and

was evidently penned in the public interest j by one who knew his duty to his readers, and was determined to do it at all hazards. It refers to the new spring, and reads — "Not the slightest connection is as yet noticeable between the newly broken out sulphurous spring in the Hospital grounds and the Oruawhata basin alongside of it, which proves that there must be a wall of solid rock below, keeping the two boiling caldrons apart. During the last; four or J five days the area of this probably- valu- | able addition to the permanent supply of j Rotorua mineral waters has considerably ■ extended, being now fully four times its : original size, and the adjacent ground is ! becoming unsafe to walk upon. It is ' fortunate that the spring broke out when ; it did, as it will likely necessitate some ' slight alterations in the laying out of the grounds in its immediate neighborhood. The water continues to rise to the surface with unabated vigour, and in full supply." Altogether a nice place to cook one's goose in, or to get " boiled down," or made soup of. One " drunk " was the euly item on the , Police charge sheet yesterday morning. The Westport Harbor Board have received the account in connection with the raising of their loan in London, which gives the exact cost of obtaining the money at £2773 17s 6d, or about If per cent. Mails for the Australian .Qplonies and China ma. Sydney, per Hauroto, close at Wellington on Saturday, at 2 p.m. . j The match between O'Loughlin and! Craig, of 'Auckland, is not to come off, O'Loughlin will, probably run Woods; but in-the meantime he has turned-to again in the Brunner mine, where he will work for a month or two before racing, if he dues race Woods. Should Hunt , put Woods away, as is fully expected, o^ing to the champion being a bit stale, it is quite on the cards that Woods will forfeit with O'Loughlin. The job at which the dredge is as present engaged is just about finished, and her next, it is understood, will be to dredge : the upper berths alongside the wharf that are now too shallow to be of any use. Yesterday a gang of men was employed in get- . ting-ready to fix moorings on the other side of the Jiyer for the dredge. It is not improbable that after: the next job is completed the dredge will be laid up for a spell. It will be seen by an advertisement in another column that the County Road Overseer invites tenders for half-a-dozen construction and maintenance contracts. . The Hon. Secretary of the Grey River Hospital begs to acknowledge with thanks the receipt of £37 2s 6d from the Marsden Local Committee, per Mr G. H. Russell, junr., being the proceeds of the annual ball recently held at Marsden on behalf of the institution. The Naval Volunteer Artillery received their uniforms yesterday, and will appear in them this evening. An attendant at the Welsh Harp Hote named Lionel Ohanman was recently brought up as a wandering lunatic at Edgware petty sessions. It appeared that the man was laboring under the delusion that he had proposed marriage to the Princess Beatrice in the year 1878. At that period he wrote a number of letters to the authorities at Windsor Castle expressing attachment to the Princess. An inquiry was instituted by the police, which resulted in Chapman's removal to the Colney HStch Lunatic Asylum, wtence he was discharged early in 1879. He entered the service of Mr W. P. Warner, at the Welsh Harp, where he was regarded as a rational being until the announcement of the proposed marriage of the Princess Beatrice, when he again renewed his suit, and in a letter to the Dean of Windsor he asked the rev. gentleman to interfere on his behalf. Chapman was removed to Hanwell. Here is a " stunning get up" in which a well-known actress appealed on the race course at Longchamps : A crimson velvet bonnet representing a saddle, tied' under her chin by strings tipped with steel stirrups. With this the lady wore a cherrycolored iockey's jacket, fastened about the waist by a horse-shoe. Her skirt was embroidered wi';h horse-shoes, while to complete the costume, her hair was dressed over a silver bit so as to fall down her back like a horse's tail. Most London newspapers receive their news in the language of the country from which it is dated, and employ a bureau of translators to prepare it for English readers During the Hugo obsequies the Times translators made French small boys sell " cocoa" a sweet and coll, not hot, drink, that is as dear to the Parisian populace as soda water to Americans. There is on exhibition'in London a painting by Mr Lowes Dickinson entitled "Gordon's Last Watch." It represents the hero, the night before his betrayal, standing alone upon the ramparts of Khartoum, his Bible and his field glass in his hands and a look of death-expecting reverie upon his face. It is pronounced by Gordon's friends to be an admirable likeness. Daniel Wagner, said to be the best Celtic scholar in America, is engaged in sweeping the streets of New York for a living. The demand for pure Celtic language in the United States is small. _ We Sometimes Eat too, Much. — Appetite occasionally outrun'^ J discretion and the consequence is a fit of, indigestion which may lay the foundation of future wretchedness in the shape of dyspepsia. As a means of counteracting the effects of over-eating, and, if used persistently, of i completely eradicating the last-named] malady, there is none more certain and ; agreeable than that admirable antidyspeptic and after-dinner cordial, Udolpho Wolfe's Schiedam Aromatic Schnapps. — Advt. Goood Words — From Good Authority — We confess that we are perfectly amazed at the run of your Hop Bitters. We never had anything like it, and never heard of the like. The writer (Benton) has been selling drugs here nearly thirty years, and has seen the rise of Hostetter's, Vinegar, and all other bitters and patent medHnes, I but never did any of. them, in their best j days, begin to have the run that Hop Bitters have. We can't get enough of them. ! We are out of them half the time. Extract from letter to Hop Bitters Co., . August 22, '78, from Benton Meyers, and!. Co., wholesale druggists, Cleveland, O~ Be sure and see. Good for Babies. — "We are pleased to say that our baby was permanently cured of a serious protracted irrejyulaity of the' bowels by the use of Hop Bitters by its mother, which at the same time restored her to perfect health and strength."— The Parents. See.— Advt. i