MISCELLANEOUS NEWS.

Inangahua Times, Volume IV, Issue 77, 5 October 1877, Page 2

MISCELLANEOUS NEWS.

Amongst all the reports attached to Dr Giles 1 report on gojdfields there is/pnly one parsing reference to tire safety! of theworkings, and that made by Mr Mining: Inspector Goldsmith concerning the work- ; ings on the Thames. He say* that these ; accidents- have been few. the raining mips fos workmen have bepn rigidly enforced, and the miners injured hnd either neglected due caution or evaded tfto regulations. The Times Correspondent say* :*— A. sad fact is related by so so many that it can hardly Be questioned. During tlio fiwlit a Turkish detachment thrpw down tlieir arms apd asked for qntrtcr. Tt wn^ granted, end a Russian offi -or went to the commander of the Turks to demand his sword ; but he frenzied by dofpsU, forgot himself, drew a pistol and shot die Kn*sian through the breast. With a wilii cry of revenge the Hussini soldiers sspr.ins; forward and bayoneted tiie Turks-, wlmsV commander had sacrifice 1 tiicm by violating the well-known rules of war. A similar case occurred durin> Prince Frederick Clmles 1 advance on \m Mans, and, seeing the fanaticism of the Turks) it is to be feared that such scones may occur again and again. It is hard enough, to stem the passions of in ill-Mucate.l soldier in Btiv case, but when officers, on the other side, fail to recognise the rules of honor which have been devised to re« duce the horrors of war and ruthless slaughter, no hope exists of maintaining such rules of chivalry as exist. This is what freedom means in Ger« many. A letter from Berlin says that Herr Guido Weiss, editor of the Berlin Radical journal, Die Waage, has been sentenced by the Berlin Court of Appeal to three months honorable imprisonment for charging Russia with pursuing a hypo* critical and utterly mendacious , policy, under the protection of the three Emperors' Alliance, The Court deeming this pagsage to involve a heinous offence against his German Majesty, as a member* of the three Emperors' Alliance, passed a sentence which excites no little sensation, It was in vain that the ascuspd quoted aprevious speech of Prince Bismarck to theeffect that the so-called Emperors' Alliance was really not such, but only an. agreement to secure mutual consultationin the event of the peace being endangered. It was likewise in vain that theaccused urged that even an alliance ex* isted which was not the case, it would be only in name between their Governments,, at least as far as the Constitutional 1 Sovereign of Germany was concerned. The Court thought no appeal open to the accused. The Constantinople correspondent of the* Standard says, that the " arrival of thefleet in Besika Bay has caused great trritation here. There is at the present moment among the Mahometans, and especially in the higher circles, a bitter hatred of the English, who are accused of thinking only of their own interests and' of caring nothing tor Tuskey. Many leading Tnrks Hectare loudly . that if Turkey is compelled to sue for peace, she will do well to dispense with the adviceor assistance ol Rnglnnd, and treat directly with Eu-sia. This is the general feeling at Constantinople. In this community we often hear com*plaints of the inconvenience consequent on there being but one legal luminary in Vincent County, and who is often askedi to fight both sides of a case. But, afte^ all, perhaps it is not an unmixed evil, for,, with lawyers as in other trades, it is .possible to have ** too much of a-good thing." Take highly-favored Queenstown, for instance. There they nurture three gentlemen of the long robe, all of whom have thrivon and fattened in that salubrious, region. But of late things appear to have got dull, and the professional gents havebeen washing some dirty linen in the Temple of Justice. Action and crossaction have been brought and dismissed, and the latest development of the pretty quarrel is a threatened writ iv the oup* ri«me Court at the suit of Mr Lawyer Finn, for £I.(W d-nipisjos for maliei mi* prosecution lor perjury.* W.ll the scq-iel be tnatof the historical cats o' Kilkenny? 1 There are very few people indeed at all acquainted with the Knglish language to whom the name of William Collins, bons, and Company is not thoroughly familiar;, but the knowledge of the extent of tUeir printing and publishing operations is ex» ceedinjjlv limited. The actual amcunt of work performed by. this establishment seems to be almost incredible* From, the Edinburgh Couran*, we learn that " The number ot Bibles, educational works, and atla^ issued during 1876---amounted to 2.802.187. copies. Ii the station»py depantmeut perhaps no establishment! in Great Britain, certainly none in Scotland, is their rival. On a rough oomputatiou, they manufacture every year 100,0Q0» ledgecs nad day-books; eight ■millions of memorandum books, copy i books, aad drawing books ; 75 millions of envelopes using 60i0QQi. reams of ruled paper, and 250,000 reams of paper of a medium size, or eqjunl to the turn out of four or five paper mills*. These figures show an immense business connection, customers being founds in every part ot the globe. Like other, large establishments, they employ, commercial travellers to push their trade, who however, do not limit their sphere of operations to the British Island, but visit America and. the antipodes. The firmJiave three establishments, their head-q,u*rters being in. Stirling's road, Glasgow,, with, branches- m Edinburgh and in London.! The firmthas. also recently opened la ■ branch business in Sydney, New South Walesi" Erom a letter received from Conway of the Australian crikets, it is gathered.that the proposed trip of the Australian .team, to .New, Zealand it is not now- likely, to take- place. It appears the Australians calculated upon the takings at Wellington, cricket ground, which. is enclosed,. to go a considerable way in recouping: their outlay ;:but the terms offered by the Wellington cricketers were considered the most illiberal of any town in the colony* and it is thought all arrangements for playing iv T> ew Zealand will break downin consequence. The letter adds that the arrangements for a trip heme are going on well, that- all the members have signed articles and there is a strong probability? they will secure tbe services of Eransi.tlifc famous bowler..