MISCELLANEOUS.

Inangahua Times, Volume V, Issue 18, 9 January 1878, Page 2

MISCELLANEOUS.

A' painful' incident, ■ but ono that'for« ttntatoly ended well, occurred nt a suhurban tea luoetiug a • short time since,- A lady who'"gnv6 a table," resolving to • lmvo everything very^nico, not only pro* vhlod tlur best of cal:oa, fruit, and othor tublo delicacies, but>w»s foolish enough to bring her own china and .silver to raabo things look pretty; When" tea was over she. proeooded to eolleob her proporty, when she was horrified to find that sixsilver spoons wore missing, No one had* 1 loft the 'table; .80 tlw- theft imut be-diwo-*-

----vorod. Not knowing .wlirttn to suspect sho addrjo-iscd her oompony with some n«p«ritv, mentioned her loss, ami tlirow; cftnoratly on thorn tlio responsibility nl rZwL !.««• BpoonH. 1 horn was .nn ijrvnrrl p, n *e. o«cK RU.rI; looked nt tl.e o,h«rwilU B .iHpioiou..oy«.,Mdororyono full- oTrpodinaly ua'-omfortnblu. At lust I Lv-thl wlfo of a profowiona -way rcnn.nod for h«r wnfl l , fc nfto lo«iso to ion «poon* frotn^tpockc , « iKn with tUo ftUrnrtiw M pfi«Ude ■j^flo' tiriinrf point Mn« "WJTodt ; ilioAarioiillural Socioty, on tho St Kilda 'ad Th» woont was fixed for four o'clock in tho afternoon and that hour wafl reached tlie pub 10 bo««n to fbok to tho ground. Gro«t was the diMsppointmcnt, ospocmlly amon« tlio iuvoniln portion of tlio vimtorH, when tljo.v found the i?ato e\6m\ t and a notice *>onto< outxido to tho .cffoolthttt tbo n»cont b»ul bpen postponed in eonaeci"oneo of an ftficido.it to tho bnlloon. it appears %it tho procMn.of flllinfi tho floml »l»p witl. m from a pipe laid on to the KroumJ*, and which bo K an at on onHv hour in tl.o morning, had beon about, half comploU-d, when a suddbn uu«t of wind Irom -th« north caused tfio bnlloon to away ftlK'Ut wiih . inch violence tin to bronlctlionottinK,. eovorinit tho body of tho mnohine, which titoii camo info oontnot with Bomo Bmal ■< iroc« standing in the ffround. and eat torn in two or "throo plaoos.' <1C R »?. . once OMonpod in a thick cloud, nnd nil prospect, of nn ascent wna ovor for tlio. day. Tho balloon is co.npojwl of B«<|«t. Amorican onlio, ■ prepnml and oilod by Mr Kvnm of- IWurito Street, tho qunnt.. my of cloth used in fho congtruction boin.B nboitt 1000 vnrrio. It '(a capable of conlAininK 50.000 ft of «ib, nnd .tlio cai whioh is compowl of wicker, -work, v - ■ will hold fivrt or Bix.por.on*, tutojhnr with t!i« ne(JO9.Mr7 q'.inntity ol bnlliißt.. Mr Wfillx, th" nropnotor, cxitfoh to i>e. nblo to Rot the balloon properly roimirprt by next Saturday, when ho propone* to nuke ftnotlior trial'