MISCELLANEOUS NEWS.

Inangahua Times, Volume IV, Issue 72, 24 September 1877, Page 2

MISCELLANEOUS NEWS.

A oontrao!: for ki'lfne 4000' Tabbits ory the Tornnn' rim, Marlbproiigh. has just been ffnished. Th> Frprpss states that the mon got 41 perhpad besides the car— eassps. which wprp sold to a person who brr trgTit them dnity to sipnh>im for sale. At Kekernnmi tftpy lm*« n different plan. Messrs N r E.iwnrr's' and" Cn. lately imported" 1000 trnps. aometlnn-jr liko th« RDrina; traps n<«pd fi»r rats bu f larger, nn»i by their means ha»e talcn 1 enormousqiittntiSies. from; which they sfrinned tlio skins w)»di were fonrarded to Ensl»pd. % last mail they receive! flic raluation | from London of the last s'npnipnt ; viz., the sitrpr urey 4«, and the common rabbit 2s per do? -n." It was lately s>nt"'l '" t ? <^ House oT- Rpprespntilives by AFr Lir« nack. liwt on twenty-four holdings in Southland during last year, no le-?« than J t oo9 000 nbbits wpre dpitroyed. On the* same runs thm-fl were 153.000 shepp Jess than were sb^rn .previously, and those' runs pr'ducprl I,7t)obafes if wo 1 less than, they did previously. That amount of wool, taken at a moderate computation of £15 ppr bnlPr woiilH bring in a return of £25.000, wliieh at 10 1 per cont. wonld ro» presenra caprtsl ofa quar'er of a milHon. T . Aurltland people hare bern pnnsj.lef>iblr exercised oflate oveT a hife little elopo. ninnt vandal The fnt'ior .-.f t}io vnnnv Indy. Mr J- M- Tr.it»iiton. b»* n-i»tf- n to fho rvrnyic; pa: If>r - "s^iMT '^'p e;iitnr fo „..u;;<.h r".-c. nf thf l*"f tf»r.^ frnrv' in hi-? .I.'iyht-.-'-'q fv,,.,' -.frrr hpr'disjipin^rancf.. , 'I«r> !'">"•'!*. tK'» cl^ru 11 : v-> {'<r> ,r : s f ,-r t -qtio •\irir --f V>'f">! tn (^"CiT'np'.l is n"t vrrv ttoll r,-> ; -i i'Vißing; by thr

etfistf c he nlfted to his "dear pirl." as he ""railed tier. He writes f li • i s :— ' The plan ,f tryija-to Escnpp is Mii*. I will get some "(tlfeping powders 'or yii to make tl'Ptn Sleep,, Y,rn nil liimo to put if; in The 'teapot aid nrnd if yon p».«r out nnv Cor ... yourself), no.t w» Drink if, < v v n would «»o to sleep, and iv»* wo'iM '<» d scovwl. TliGy-will sdipp «MMI til 1 »t» - r«\na. M'tc'Jbey aregtw 'o l' |1( l. »i<'l von ilrnk tliey arewsh'fln of Comsc voujm-p n<>t t«H»o to bed at all. Be drnsx n ■ v»>iin« j M nil flic • jtinie gnd })tvi»nii»iif (<»r ('m-fv w 'I litAslffp, to pn' on flip I3i s» you Inivc hii.'l /youritj'irt^'is in \onr poekt't i'iM im l>oo s ofltill.you meet mo, I inul H tidy wi!' be waiting at tlip stockynnl I'm 1 v>u "W in regard to your dog he miuht B»i k.aml ' to stop his noise I will g<-( n r*o«'f'ep f'o' 1 him also. You rni^i (jive it to Hi" in ,-fome milk and tlen all i« safV. Wiili leiflrd to your window it might creak Oil it every day until Priday, on the b ides and work it up and down 2 or thrrn timPH-when the:e is no ono nnou f f aid Jiave a stick ready and long enough to keep, i', up.". The following amusing verses fnrn n West Coast paper hit off the inconsi^ti. t-ie» arid c< ntradictions of cable news in a very hnppy manner : — On Monday'morD the news nrvirel, . There hod been bloody woik ; But no one knew which lied the most — ■ The Christian or the Turks On Tupsday mornijg Hussitt claimed "A victory for lipv file ; On Wednesday, ■' from a Turkish source," The victory was dented. On Thursday each side swore it had The other put to rout. And Friday's news the fi^lit confirmed Without the sligheat dou'n. On Saturdriy 'twas whispered round Tho wholu affuir wus small, And Sunday's cable news declared There'd beoti no fight at all ! In a paper pntilled " A Peculiar fTnli< ca,y," Dr Wallace is 'has npoken of: — After filling with much distinction * tljpologiial chair in the University of Kdji b'uruh, as nlso the pulpit of a historic Edinburgh parish t-hurcji, a»d hiving last May been hpyond c(«mpurison tie rblphtand most brillimit debater in the f'enml AtiHi-mMy. lip suddenly cast his church, pte'emiciit nside, and entered ji quite diffprent sphere of useuilnt-sa viherf 1 , no d< übt, 'here is no room for ail nis talents. I 'remember hearing a popular TiMidcn preacher syy, yoars ago. lhat if Ilii- Apostle Punl were living in England low, the ofTce he would covet would not 1 c that of Archbishop of Canterbury, but jatlier thnt of editor of the Times. If ihfl'f .emhienfc preacher be right, it may be lelieyed 'hat the Apostle, living in Scotland, would prefer the work of conducting <he Times, of. that country to the modera- , lorshjpot the General Assembly. Whether .*■ I Paul wou'd make v good editor or uot n.ay be doubttul. As lor the success of ) r Wallace ihere c»n bu no doubt 1 . But tlip. loss of drbating p« wer is great. iNot < v«n the brilliant and pathetic el. qu«nce i f'Prinoipnl Tuilocli, in r the calm, iuuisive, ] K/Vt-t'iitive uniiom'iMPK of Dr Siory, nor 11:0 clcwi, right uißiilu.ess of Dr i*lii«>r heem-f'tii lit litre and plHce quite so |erfVi'ttv n«' did the tvety ready word ot the '•oat reader. The "Moffett Liqttor Law " of Virfninia, wbidb.' came into operation tlu rear, provides for the estalilishmen 1 i-f liquor -metres, by which the c<<iiMimi)iii>H rf drink «t erch bar can bo projwrly checked. 'In addition t<< tie raymct of rlift twu»l iimount, for a 1 cenße. pach b»r r"om kppppr or retail lqiu r denlnr is rpqu'red to hiie from tin 1 revenue eomniis--B'oncr of l>i« district ><n ni<p» ruins vpspral.ling h ga<! meter in nppenrni cc, and termed s " hnr-i'O'm r^gisl^r." The ln*v directs pac • Imr-'Oom k«'<»fe r , " immedia iply np<n the ►a'e of c eh drink of wine,ardent s rit". m»t!t liquore. rr nnv mixJnrcllur of. in lie i-res n-e of the nnrehiner* or to (1 c person to whom if- is retirrrpf', In n (he rrnrik of the prr p- r leuhttr un'ii the be 1 ha-< struck once. ?;nd ihc indicator on i's d'-al has moved f>ve vrfrtt op number f< r each driuk sold by him" TVe je_' ; stpr« are to be inacected mostttv?sn&- U'ff tat'irt pospd ts 2| cents fnr:(ftf|li;(|n«k « t wine or sr>iri', and \ a pe^nitf jor;^?|e^*me quan«i'y of malt'l'g.'inr.' Iri W^rfpi biner can be mf re inirpiiwis tlphilfii? appapttta, but in pra?iieie rTf ia fe^a ffia't' it wit prove an ißdacemfn^ t« fraud, and that enn{iinie:l topers w : ll readily convive at fch<* breaking f f a law the. tendency of v»h eh is to raise the cost of drinking. A'story ia told in theMelboi roe Lender which does riot show the literary attainments of the Victorian elite in a brilliant light.:— A lady " moving the bost «oc|ety" in' Melbourne wa< advised by her friends arid encouraged by the dressmakers fo jrepare a bandsbnifl dr<s* for the approochins' fan(*y boil. Her hu«band was go'rig n Charles II.; nnd if wrs considered tl at her reculinr ityle of beauty would bp wlown to the Ijpstj advantage in thp oharfl« ifer o' 1 Ntll'Gwyne;. But between the orderi' g of the costume and its coming horre 'h>- lidy t^ok to tl-e study pf history, and disroveiel I r t]te first timfl who the prrson was that she had undertaken to persi nite. Horror and indignation filled h<r soul at the'thought of the indignity she wsß so. nearly , suffering ; and tho husband, who should have known lo'ter;' lias bp< n condem. Ed by his offendpd wife not only tto p»y for a new dr -ss for her, but to cha^e bis own character. As she very 'prrpTly snid. " Them as dresses like Charles 11. might act like ; him !"