MISCELLANEOUS NEWS.

Inangahua Times, Volume IV, Issue 3, 16 April 1877, Page 2

MISCELLANEOUS NEWS.

An extmordtfliry marriage took place i* England the btt»f darrthe ceremony bem* perforaied by the Vbiy Ber. Archdeacon Philpbt, in tiwpwiMt oft targe congregation. The mwried co^rfe both belong to the parish of Jevmgton, hut the singular part is, that th# bride had no arm*, and the ring had to he placed ott the third toe of her left foot. At the coo* elusion of the marriage «eremony aha signed that register, holding the net} with her toes, in a very decent ' hand.' In eighteen days the Moanatairi gtre eleven thousand one hundredandfiytyei^ht ounces of gold, rained at £39£000. I The Advertiser says the bulk of this large, | amount of wealth has come oat of an insignificant space not measuring mora than ten feet in height an,d length by three feet wide, and the quantity remain-, ing cannot be told, bat there is ocular demonstration that there is an extraordinary rich run of gold, In connection with this mine, we are told tba,t a metiica! « man residing at Wellington recently J bought 175, shares at 19s, and he has jast 1 sold them at £22, thus making aclear-1 profy of £3683 15/. A nafire ch»eftaia (says the Boverfcy Bay Herald) after talking himself horse the other day at the Makaraka Lands Court whilst averting his right to. countlefis acres of hill, wood, and dell* found it necessary to assuga his thirst after the. labors of tbe day. The fleeting hours flew swiftly by while the noble savage quaffed, goblet after goblet of the farfamed local XXX, Meanwhile his faith* ful steed, which was waiting at the, door to convery him to his kainga, inspired some gay pakeha revellers, with a brilliant idea. Loosening the girths they reversed the saddle with, pommel facing the tail, and then left. At length the rangatira. bethought him of his home and the wife, of bis bosom, and striding to his horse, he placed bis hand on the po-nmel, his! foot in the stirrup, and instinctively felt or the rein, None was to be found, however, a f that end of the quadruped, and with a wild cry of rage and. anguish he. rushed back into the hotwe, crying, " Who's cut off mj horse's head f" We clip the following from the Christ* cjiurch Evening Star j— " According to % Wellington con temporary,, it has been decided by the Resident Magistrate at Marton that a man who lets oat a, h,orse on Sunday cannot recover damages iftha horse sustains any injury. The ground of the decision is stated bj the Wanganni paper to have been that defendant was, not boun 1 by a contract made on Sunday. This woujd be eomprensible enough, however pitiful the plea, if plaintiff had) sought to recover horse hire. But we are not aware of any law which either expressly or impliedly permits one roan, to injure the propeny of another on, Sunday, although the former may be. temporarily in charge of such, person with the owner's consent. ]jt 13 hard to, believe thajt tbe case had been, correctly r.eportedr" A gentleman has han-ied us (N"esv Zaa-_ land J^erald), a bopp fide bill of costs, remarking that it' this was the " big. gooseberry/ season, we might d.) worse than present the pu.Nic with & specimen, of a bill uf costs, winch, however, ts not remarkable as. beinx unprecedented,, al« though it is pertamlr a nxpintrosit'sr. The real nam.es were attached to, the. bill presented to us, bu,t we do. npt publish them. It will be observed* that the^um, wjiich th*> account smarts with, is. a debt of £22 16,* 6.1, and, this included a larg* amount of osts. The following i>» a. copy of the bill :-rSmith Jones. Writ of fieri facia* under execution of Real Es». tate Act, 1867. Debt and. damages, £22 16a 6J. Sheriffs fees and expenses herein. Warrant and return, 10* : ponndage, £1 2« 104 ; executing, £1 ; inventory, 10*; mileage, £7 10s; bailiff, twelve days, £4 165 ; advertising land in, newspapers, £14 ; likewise Provincial , Government Gazette, £9. 6s Bd— £3B. | 15s >d. Lind sold, amount received, £16 9s. " iEales," in the Australasian, gives the. following :—*- Xon knot* O' Blast His fleeces are heavier, his sheep better. bred, his grass more abundant than, that of anyone else. rtMelMviji I called at his place, the other da,y, having travelled, down. the. Paro^ from. Coopers. Creek,. Ha* w^s. greatly exuau^leJ through ha?in^. t» make long stages, £, p W ant of nster. After letting his horses, loose he told.OB; what a terrible state the couptry was in for w.ant of rain, 'Do they wan*, water/ said : O'B.f ' I'7e oceans of it. would you, like a bath?' 'Delighted,; said H., 'havn't had such a thing since I started.'-. 'Or, perhaps,' said, the host, • yontf prefer a swim ? ' * That indeed, would be •.treat.'- --' Come on,' said the hpst ;' but, I say, are you, a good swimmer ?* Ihe water is very, deep. Wouldn't like, to have.to hold arv inquest on you.* T,be stranger's reply was to undress at the dam, bead before, plunging in. But somehow as, he took, bis. header he wasn't out of saghvtillhis, head grounded in the mud, and he came, up looking like what a bunyip might be!- --| The deepest p#t of O'B's inland lake was ! about 3ft. Hidebound; won't take any more headers till he can dp so. in tfce. bay." A somewhat dissolute old gentleman, who was more remarkable for the length of time be had li*ed in. tbe colony and ,* sound judgment with respect to whiskey than tor other virtues, called on, a wealthy merchant of this city, last weekdays the Sydney. Etenjng News), andt entreated, on account of auld lang syne, for a loan of £25, The opulent citizen leaned back in bis comfortable armchair, placed his thumbs in his waistcoat pockets, and shook his head slowly from side to side. •• My dear, ajr," quoth the wealthy merchant, "I am grieved, but I canpo* comply with, jour request. I am not bound to give my reasons, but you are welcome to them. X have a wife, my friend— l have a wife." "Is that your reason,?" asked the dissolute colonist, " because for the matter of that, I've had several." " Hear me out, continued the merchant. "My Wife v a source of great pride to me, bat »£». also a source of great expenditure. She must have carriages, horses, a villa in the suburbs, boxes in the theatres, dresses from Worth, and many other trifles that mount up. A lady, you know, of such delicate refinement, such fashionable tendencies, must be humored and, in short" . "Well, I don't know," interrupted the needy one, who. had been biting his nails daring this, oration, " She usen't to be so partic'hu;.

"• »lien -she was washing for my mate and me on Bendigo." The loan was not only granted, but to show his regard for an old friend in distress, ihp wealthy merohsnt readily consented to pay his passage to other ,*!) ore*». , The Globe of * lie sih Jorivry has the following interesting item to i>tiilHers : — " Some house builders will see. with anything buf unmixed satisfaction, that a coroner* jury has delivered a verdiel of " manslaughter " in a ca*e wh°re h child bad been killed by the fall nf a house. Some circuuistarees attending this acci" dettt are sufficiently suggestive to merit notice. Towards the beginning of last summer the butler at Wellington College employed a builder named Bland ford to construct for him a house at a cost of £245 10s. Blandford prepared all the plans and specifications, and was therefore responsible for the safety of the building. It was finished by the end of November, and on the Ist of December ibo butler ond his family entered into occupancy, very happy, no doubt, to have % comfortable house of their own. On the morning of the 29th the owner was aroused by a mysterious noise as of walls cracking and mortar falling. He appears to have gone to sleep again, probably under the impression that such sounds Were usual in new houses. Three hours afterwards, however, there was a renewal of the uproar, and in a minute down came a portion of the house, with the result of burying g child in the ruins. What, tl 0 1 was the ciuso of tbis swift destruction of promises which had only bepn linishetl about a month ? The evidence left no doubt on that head. On examining the ruins, it was found that the cellar walls- were built of lime concrete right op to the level of tbo ground. As if this were not sufficiently dangerous, the concrete appeared to /be of anything but proper quality. Furthermore, the mortar employed in the brickwork was declared by a professional expert to be wanting in jcohesivenexs. In short, the house tumbled to pieces because the proper menns had not been employed for binding it together on a solid foundation. With this evidence before them, the jury had little difficulty in finding that " the death of the child had been caused through the neglect and improper way in which Blandford bad built the house,' and the coroner therefore made out a warrant for his committal for trial on a charge of mauslaughter. 1 ' On a recent Sunday two girls, pupil? at an Illinois seminary, were about leaving itbeir homes for church, when a dispute arose as to which had occupied the most time in dressing. The discussion waxed warm, a bet was made, to be decided on the spot, and three other girls were called in as judges. The contestants removed their clothing, and -at the call of " time " sprang to the contest. For a few moments the air seemed filled with flying bits of feminine drapery — shoes, stockings, garters, &c. — and the winner was all f hooked up," and her bonnet on in seven inmates and thirteen seconds, the Other girl coming out in less than half a minute behind. Billoir, the man charged with the murder of tho woman whose body, cut in several piece*, w;is found in the Seine gome time 4go, has at last confessed his guilt. He states that his mistress having renamed bonje drunk, n dispute ar.o*ie, in the couse of which she inadvertently or wilfully broke a glass which he highly valued. While she was stooping to pick up the fragments he gave her a kick in the chest, and she fell down lifeless. He pissed the night an I part, of the next day !>V the corpse, without knowing how to dispose of it, but at last cut off the limbs, broee the spine with a chisel and hammer, and placed the viscera in the water-closet, where they were recpntly discovered, and, wrapping up portions of the body, went put from his rooms, near Montmartre, through St Oven's Gale and cast them into the Seine, The next night he got rid of the remaining portions in the same way. The tragedy for weeks escaped all clue. jßiUoir was simply arrested because his mistress had disappeared, and the first search of h's lodging gave no result. The details given by himself are not, of course, to be implicitly accepted. A correspondent to a "Victorian paper relates an anecdote relating to the late Resident Magistrate of Auckland, Captain Beckbatn, who died last year ;— I remem» ber a dog in Auckland that nearlj sent Oaptaim Beekham mad. There was a pertain butcher, whose shop was in Queen street, through which thoroughfare it was necessary that the captain should pass every morning on his way to his office. Well, this butcher was a bully and a fighting man, and was constantly before the Eegident Magistrate. In revenge for the severe punishments which the beak inflicted upon him, Smallribs trained his dog— which he named Beekham— to lie in the middle of the street at the particular time at which the Police Magistrate ' passed up to bis duties ; then, just as. the man Beekham approached, this butcher would stand in front of his shop and blaspheme at the dog. " Now, you dog,. Beckljam, what are you doing there, lying in the street— yer P Come in you old cuss ; come in you old loafer until I polish your wicked ribs. A dog! you ain't half a dog ; you're only an imitation," and he went on. The poor Magistrate, who bad to submit to this sort of thing every day, at last caused a path to be out down Barrack Hill in order to avoid the nuisance. He had the consolation afterwards, however, of committing his tormentor for trial for murder, and the further consolation of knowing that be was well and skillfully hanged. Beyond the iafit tfcat young ladies oocai Honally fish, or are alleged to fish for husbands, there would at first sight appear to be but little connection between fiabing aad matrimony. But in some parts of Scotland the herring season is equivalent to the London aeaion aa regards matrimonial prospects. II the«eaw.niß a dull one, weddings are few in number, whereas when the season » brilliant Toung couples "pair off" with comparative briaknW This year the failing in the herring fishery has had.it i« stated, a very depressing effect on the matimonml market ai nearly l\\ tho fishing stations. The decrease ,n the marriages in the three months ending Sopf amber 30th last is very considerable.. It Si Bland of Lewes, with 25,000 inhabitants, 1b n: were only two marriage, and in Wick wit 1 -, a 'population of 13,000, the Dumber o; mnniastet Was only thirteen, being rathei m ->ro than half the usiftl total. Over the whole of Rosa and flromarty, with übou 83 00i* inhabitants, there were only thirtj wn'i'm. The lUbenuen, in short, seem t< he d- playing the same kind of willingness a; ■r:o herriiigß^-Pall Mall Gazette.

The Fijian's notions of property are not easy to understand. Except as regards the chief's right to take whatever he pleases, so long as his subjects chose to submit to it, a kind of communism ap« pears to prevail, which is necessarily fatal to individal enterprise. They beg from one ! nnother without limit, and it is contrary I f<> their notions to refuse anything that is asked for. They sometimes try to pat Hie same system in force towards strangers—of course with varying success. We clip the following from an English exchange. As regards its prognostications we trust that as this colony was, at the lime the rhyme was written, not added to the possessions of the mother country, we may be exempt from everj thing therein foretold, excepting that in the last but two and last lines. It is somewhat peculiar that the present year should hare commenced with so, many disastrous floods both north and south of us :— Christmas day fell last year on a Monday. It fell also in 1865, and on that occasion the foltlowing was unearthed from, it was stated the Harleian MSS., JNo,2 252, folio, 1534 .— If Christinas day on Monday be, A greater winter that years you'll see. And full of winds both loud and shrill. But in summor, truth to tell, High whda shall there be, and strong, Full of teinpesfa lasting long ; While battles they shall multiply, And great plenty of beasts shall die. They that shall be born thtt day, I ween, They sliiill be strong each one and keen ; He shall be found that stealeth aught ; Tho' thou be sick, thou diest not." ( The year 1866 was the year of the Austro- [ Prussian War, a year of disastrous gales, and a year of cattle plague. Again in 1871, Christnas day, fell on a Monday. The twelvemonth following that day saw us with cattle plague in the north and some great storms ; but as to " battles we must go hack a few months in 1871 for the capitulation of Paris, and the conflict with the Commune. We have * now a Monday Christmas for the third time within a dozen years.

With a loaded pistol at your head you would not trifle with a footpad. Why then trifle with disease which is often as much to be dreaded as the ruffian who demands " your money or your life " with bis finger on the trigger. Recollect that a cough is the harbinger of consumption, that a trifling kidney disorder may develop into Bright's Disease, both considered incurable maladies. Apply the remedy while thete is yet time, and remember that Udol?ho Wolfe's Schiedam Aromatic Schnapps is the best preventive.