MISCELLANEOUS NEWS.

Inangahua Times, Volume IV, Issue 92, 7 November 1877, Page 2

MISCELLANEOUS NEWS.

In high life we have j'ist had an awful scandaK in the elopement of the wife of Sir Charles Torapest with a Mr Hungerford. Sir Charles is a Koinan Catholic, and resides in Lancashire. His first wife died 12 years ago, and at the age of 43 he roamed a Miss Gordon, aged 19, whose father was a captain in the 42nd Higblan« ders. She is a most lovely woman * indeed quite celebrated for her beftuty, and the middle-aged baronet did not satisfy her ambition, her longings, or whatever you please to call \* t so she has fled with a very much younger man, a Protes* tant, to which "persuasion " she also* belongs, the " Young Loohinvar '* being himself a married man. [The most unhappy part of it is that Sir Charles, as a Romanist, cannot, according to his creed, sue for a divorce, which is very hard line.*, Perhaps the worst feature'in the case is that an other married lady in high life is the chief aider and abettor, of Lady Tempest in her adultery and flight*, and this facthaving come to the knowledge of her husband, for she boasted of her share in it lie became so incensed that he instituted, steps for a separation. ! A religion 1 ? journal has jcHscov wed th» al' the accidents in France— a slntor falling from a roof, a workman caught in the wheels of some machinery— i»re the cons sequence of people following their ordU nary calling on Sundays ; the five milliards paid to Germany represented but the , illicit gains of Sunday wark. The same ©rgan predicted that F^nds would rise after M'Mahon's last speech— instead they fell. What to think of voting at the general elections for its favorite candidatp, the Ultramontane Oaptafu de Mun, which polling will take place ona Sunday ? Only a Republican is likely to win. The victory might be also attributed to Sunday labor. „. . , . .. Drunkenness in the British Army, it appears, costs the offentfcrs no less than £17,60;) a year. Every soldier convicted of this crime is fined iii a sum varying from 2s 6d to £1, according to the state ofhis defaulter sheet : the sum thus obtained from the l«t April, 18G9, to the 31st March 1876. amounting to £133.343. The money is devoted to gratuities to well-conducted soldiers, and in the seven i years under notice £1 10,000 has been applied to this worthy object. A really curious printing order is reported by the ' Petite Presse,' under the leading " Turkish Cuirasses" :— ° One of the largest manufacturers <}f Paris baa

!jl«tir|wi^ed'an (extraordinary prdcK It :oaßemSpt man's shirt*, on 'wliieh nre from *M& TCovan in blue lefepiin'd white woollen vests, on whinh arl^p|Meii f e'T tbo f««o °f tl io gre^ifc rMalrbjn# with 'a- ro-iIW 'liviuo ff r.ine. 'Tht^order is clesiinod for Tuvlcay, whoso Biipe^iliiimis soldiers will not vonturo under; fife tinlnss clothed with thene artJclogi tq: wliich they attribute the virtu(39|pil|iHsman. f A. )' rambling correspondonf,," writinir frowSfftney tn the Poverty Bay Herald observes fV The meat hern is very poor; .with.asfood pair of epectacloa you couhl see right through the whoep, for they nro jusjfi Iwafl bf skin and bones. They would 'beali.the better of a little New Zealand fat upon them. If I was nsked which was the best place for a workin? man T ■would at once decide in favor of New Zialand. Tito laboring men here hnre lone; hours an& small wage*, and without; the same prospect of money rooking bofnro them.'' Wo think it wiil be general! v admitted that the correspondent is not far out in h'm aßuertion. Tho London corro'iondonfc of the Birmintrhnm Morning Nows allude* to a now book thathas recently appoarod. onnMn* in^ remarku aboufc tho diet of certain literary men ; and he aiatnn that ho is acquainted with a well-known writer who cleurfts to oatmcil porridge when he n m working trim. In th»n resect tho snid writers imitiffls i Gerald Mawy, who '« wears' by oatmeal porridge as a braininspmne oampound. " Thwa in a deal of phoinhonw in oatmeal." Mr Ma««ov snvi, " nn'd phosphorus i«» brain. There is also n large amount of ph<v«phownß m tMi. Omsfquently I never mis« having a fisli dinner at lea«t once a week, and tnirn n plate of good, think, coar«so, woll-brtiiPrt Scotch oatmeal every morning m tpy hf«. It is stated that tho largest mw in Ont!fi>ratn is n"* in the Ynxomite Vnlley. King's Tlfrer Vnlloy, in Fresno Countr. is 5000 foefc abovfl «he sea, nnfl its walltt, whiofi are about 3000 feet high, nra very prfloipitous. In this vallpy a erore nf colossal ro<Wood trpos has benn dis» eoverod. On* of them polips^i aM thnt JiavQ been disooverod on' thr» Pacific Cortßt. Its eircumfnrence, as high as a man can reach and nans a t<m« line ground, in a few inches less than 140 feet. TMifani beyond the mea^urera^nf; ofanv treo in the Calavrna grove. The height U.eatimtoA at 160 foet; ani a pair of the top lyin«r on tho ground is over 100 feet ia length. A greater farce than the .Tonps 1 priviW* cMc was never played in Par'iaraent. Tt •was only by making the matter a Governmonft question, and so freeing memher* to rot»« with tii^m. tho G^yernrnpnt piipeeedt-'-i in preventing Me .Tono's (lis< rhnrgf. Tlipv, in fart, used thoir majvity. Anp^opriafelv enough, the farr" ond^d by Mr Jono<! boin<r cnllfd beforp tlio curtai.i (fn U»» Uar 1 ) nn<l making a fnrpvrell bow. WhMhpr Mr Jonofl is rigU or wrong in I tli«» Piots of (be alleged libol. powlfl do not (iiffl ihn iflca of State prosoonuMons, pt\<\ IHs folk tint Ministers hnvc n good deal tn Wflmo thom^lvM for in nllowinc f»t? worsi charge* by Sir Grey and,. Mi- T?ces to bo passed lightly.— Lyttelton ' Timos. TVtr Mfchifl ani Sir .Tu'nm Vogd Inv/» I>fld s^ intoijvtcw with Ti'putewifc OolonM W. ,f. Tiinmfnn, C.8.. RnnMarv of Public Works in India. \n oH<>r to ascertain the vi(»ws nf th? Tn<lian (rnvpvnm'wl with regard to tpWvapb fhnrgps. and ieiUqraph communication bpfwppn EngJfinfl and the East. The Indinn Gorprnmpnt if«upfl liflpnspo M tolegrnph <v>mynn'yen. and binds thoir* compnnips by rnnflitions an<l recnintiomj. Tt does riot favor coHJppfiHnn. but adopts tho prin< cipleof establishing a fair rhnrw. Tt is rnrHv in, nnd is boind'hv thf» Tpfpgrnnh Oonventiofi. and tbr> only pracMpfll rPsnU of the interview is thnt Anitrnlii ifl to he fpfpspntod at thp n^ft of thp«p (ripnninl. rnnf*»r n nep<. Tho Prtitmnqtpr Genorni of Victoria has minutpd the pnnnrs to t,h,p offfct that thfl agpnt.gpnprnlß uhcwiA ehnntio one of their numW to attend tbp tipxt convention, anrl this siifrgefHhn will \ be communicated to the sister colonies, 1 They will s»orm tako. <o loflcing • np JV ! spoons at fhfl G^prnm^nt -Ho" 0 * during passions of "tho Ass^mWr. A Wpl'ingtnn \ I^umal will have it. that, nf; tlip Hon G. M'Lean*s ball somp 1 quop" doingi tooV ■place, from a waiter's ro'mt of riow nt. Jpast. A lady- hflv'ng lost a valuable cambric liandkerchipf. hoy huobanrl., flip morning after thp Kail, prnr n prlp<-l to the KCPnfl nf the previous night's f»»«tiritips and asked on* of the waiters if he had pocn aeara^riff handkprp.hjpfnhont.. "Oh, dwir no. sir.* 1 replie-i tliP waiter, " Wn, nerpi* find anything nf tlmt «ort, foe (this flonfiMpniial bfltwepn you sn^ T) tholadips fliftnilv tako awiv the brushes and o-omns." The«entlcmfinhasHlv rorirpA 1 , fnd wd<« heard to pxnia'm. wimn h« lpft, the hall door. " Oh. woman," and then he wept.