MISCELLANEOUS.

Inangahua Times, Volume V, Issue 36, 8 April 1878, Page 2

MISCELLANEOUS.

Tho Timimi llornlJ llius diacouraos connorning tho commercial changes in its district : — Whr.t i:i thoro stirring in tho oomnioroial ntmosphoro winch producer all this rcstles:i chaiujo P Everybody seems to bo selling out or buying in, and nobody knows exactly who is who or what is what. There- havo, wo believo, been more tran.sf'orn of business in Tunaru during tbo last six summer monlhs Uiun during ns many years previously, and still we hear of many coming out and to codio. Tho same thing is go in?.; on in-fcho couulvy too, and settlors who ceoincd to have penuuuenlly (akoji root in tho diss trict uro " outtiui; up " their property uuJ I

I adopting a I)' c niifl baiTirngo policy. To-; • hy'we annnun' 1 " tint, one of the ia 1 : • ; mercantile linns in Tinwu and Oimmiin. a firm intimately oonnoeted with tlwtrndo. ni!«l commerce of Sonlh O.uilorbii'T for m.'mv years pist, and which lias nv>ro recently otlablishod itself iv I'/ondon also, under names familiar hero as household words, iias born purchased ofT the faro of Ilio earth, an- 1 Ins lianiio.i over all ifn houses: (o a joint slock oompany P Wlnl, doos it, nil monnP Is th<> pr.wnt moment considered n favorable j'lnefuro 10,- dNposing of properly of business cuiimv tionsP I Live tlio settlors all " wde th«M--pile," nnrl resolved to vrXb-'- i-V-ui. risk.. ing any of it? Or ia i.'. fh.it h<ul 'tmes arc looming .ihead. mi i""*^ peonlo ; m> nnvious to bo q-iit of ilw.r ri>sp»u-«il)ili-ties on any terms i' Wo pnuse for a reply. A paragraph in tho Australian now published yesterday was to the < flecH that; 11 Siipplo is to bo released.' 1 GoraM Sup? pie was n alcvor Melbourne barrister who from being oceontno developed t\ hnrnioidal mnnin. Ho imagined that (}. l.\ Smith, n Melbourne press writer, w:h nlwnys writing him down, ami ono day iv tho street ho tried to shoot. Smith, but, instond shot n Servant of Police. V<ir this ho wns tried, ntid being found to bo insano, was ordered to bo imprisoned dining tlio governor's pleasure. Mi 1 Supplo wns n brother-in-law, of tho TVI r Wilson^barrister-jfho wns drowned in tho hnrfflP«nrinsPib very early days of— « tho Thames, nnd uiHA recently ho hnd relatives residing in Auckland, "vAn American paper thus indulges in Oio use of l.''s: "Persons who patronise papors fihonld pay promptly, for tho pecuniary prospects of tho press have, peculiar power in pushing forward public prosperity . If the printer is paid promptly and htu pocket-book kopt plethorio by prompt p/iyins patrons, ho puts his po>i to puper in poaee ; ho paints his pictures of passing events in nnro ploasint colors, and tho persuil of his paper \s moro pleasure lo the people. Paste this pieeo of proverbial philosophy in some plneo where nil persons can perceive it. Bo plenscd also lo ponder upon it thyself patiently and porsovoringly and profitably and persistently prne.t,iso its prcocpls perpetually." A number of "drovers nnd gnntlcmcn in chnrt;o of travelling slonk " petitioned tho IVtayor of (lien T.nnis, Victoria. to so!, apart a day of .humiliation and prayer (or win. Tho mayor, Ivlward Jav.cr-, replied a;i follows ;—" Cientleniim : 1' havo duly received your requisili'in t;i;;nod by gentlemen travelling wit'i ;.l'sck who obtain ftrtiss in tin; cheapest manner pop* siblo. I deelino to hold a publio, meetin;; under my auspices, on tlio ground, that it is great presumption to nsl; the sublimo Creator to alter his organised arrangements of what, ho has wealed to suit tho convenience, or vat U-r profit, of squatters who limvo overstocked th.>!r runs. — K. .[ones, Mayor of (non Tunis." The Argus of March Iflth ssys ;— XI oU bMirno yesterday wa:i watcrle.^. The ].Ve>ton reservoir wns ran out nt; li> o'du'lc, t.'u 1 lu.'tiiis were exhausted in mi >* I. ioralitie;! Uy mitlday, and in >ho afternoon t!ioi:il,y :rnl tniburhs wero ,ib> i.oiuiely des(it\ilc, nor in ti'.ero any pro.--* pi'ci, nf reiiel' uiiiil liio coinmunicatiiiu \iit'i t lie. Van Yean i:J restored, Lurgo miiii!'er;i o l ' citizens nt Iho first, nlnrni stored what water llioy could, but thons atid.s of houses i aye been left unprovided {'or, nnd alruidy distressing seencs nro. (iceiii'ring. \v m or is hegired for from hoii>e to hou^e, and tho lire plugs nre !>oseioi,'ed ill tlio hope of petting :;dro|) from (.lie mains. Tho department holds out the hope ,'hut there will bo water on Wednesday moaiiinc; but this is long ti\ wail, ai d much sullering must ensue in, i he meantime; A pump has been eretcd on Iho Vnrra near Kdwards 1 hosith-onso and the muddy water thus obtained is at tho puhlio disposal; but the dilliouity is how to dislribulo ii ; Tbo extremity that has occurred is a very !t\'m\\. one. Tho department ought to lmvo inado eflorLs to fiend out waler-cavls to the suburbs, to supply households with gratuitous pailful* of the Yurm water, which is nil that is obtainable, but the immediate wnnts of tlio populace do not scorn to have been thought of.