MISCELLANEOUS.

Inangahua Times, Volume V, Issue 30, 15 April 1878, Page 2

MISCELLANEOUS.

A telegram from Cooktown to tltq Sydney Evening News, slates that tho Natives of New Guinea nro assuming a threatening uttitu.do towards ICuiopoar The natives about Mabon and Sybai :i o threatening to kill the tonchors, and Cor iwnlli.s and Sybai teachers nnd thoir fan-i* lies hnvq lpft for Mnrbrajk, Mr Chcs'cr, tiic pol|qo magistrate, who has just re« turned from a «Msit, says that it is high time there was a visit from n num-of-war. The unpublished orders of tho missionaries and to.ichers lead the savages to rognrd (ho whito men with contempt. Tho natives uro eating tho heads of thoso. tiny killed, M\A nro furthermore inciting iho friendly tribes to kill tho nntivo touchers. A native employed by Pearson and M'Ooll wns orderod to go down finshell, when ho wus seized by an alligator, and hiid his head crushed. Tho other natives standing on tho shor.o attacked the alligator with spades killing him. Another miin, employed at the fishing sin I ion, was seised by a shark, and was fearfully injured. An old Hokitikiop hns been flourishing in Qhristohureh, nnd is thus spoken of by the Press : — "As conveying some idea of tho advancement of Christch.uroh, wo clip the following from ono of our recent ox> changes :.— Mr H Marks is now pushing forward tho interior fittings of his splendid fruit shop noxo tho Whito, Hart Hotel and when his plans nro comploiol, tho display will bo unequalled in Now Zealand. In tho ccntro of the shop will ho a largo fountain, with v basin 10ft in diamolor and the water bo broken into, spriy upon tho principle of iho well kit Oenlsworth spray fountains, Fn lln< oyoning.s »))«) lime light will be b ought inlo ••nnstnnt uso, sind colored Itmsos will l.» onp'oyelto give an eiu'ichod Hleot to t o fmuiinin"

Killy-tliroo persons \T(M*o ooiulo.nnofl fn ilnntli in Franco during tlio imstycnr, bin in only fii'teni o iscs was the capita! siviU- 0.0 osxriMod out.

The Trillion Financier sny*:— • M> i nbi'rs oftlm Stock 12 \ oil ■•njjG.y'Wfcorday (-1 in l\) j nnitl yells, hnrnod tlio Tilings, News, ni .1 o.'lior puhlienM n-» of pro-Russi-in IrncVmicv nr.il tq^tiO'l nil Jiildiv.! drrlnvii'i; 1 . o wiuMciee in tlio Government. Tli:<» win i\ similar demonstration a! lilnvl' . Scwrnl oiildnoi'mcotiiii;;) in Uic (•■uniti'y I, > protest ncfiiust Mic snpplcmon :irv ere I • were tii'dMi p^s-'oision of by l,lio aiiiioiviv, ; nl' f lio (Jovonimi'Mt . 'lll(l (unwii iul.o ar! • Hussiiin ili'monstriitions.

A contemporary sa/s:~ Wo hnv« nlrealy mentioned that dynnmtfe luiv boon used for pioun'u'*c; and ngrtVnltuiv will derive advantago from this nnd oih compounds horoto ore employed in ■ ijincoring" 4t tho works for tho V.s-> position buildings, now going on :it IVo cadnro* Paris, possors«by mny, at ccrbin hours of tho day bo startled by n drop rum'iliug sound. This is o«u*cd by swinging dynamilo mines, which, without nny vio'ont; projection of materials, m ike* tlio obstacles orumhlo nwuc and breaks up tho undorpround rocks, iho I'mgnicnts ot which aro usrd for llio Ixiildiim^. N r ,\v, dvmni' to will prruvni a«i ivlnr .sivvioo' in tho fHd-!. Tlif Du':o o'" Sulhorlmd. in Seotlnnd. nnd |)r 11-tnitn. in Amtrwi. linvo employed it in clearing land for ili^ging mneh deeper thnn any insirnmont. could. A cortnin number of dvnamito cartridges aro buried atregu'nr distances in the sol. and connouled logjther hv. olonlric wires. The oxnlosion is simu!-* tnneous; and thonah nothing is thrown up" the field is oficolually ploughed. A Victorian exchange says:— ln doilwith tho indirect refioctions up^n tho conduct of his 'Excellency during tho crisis, contained in the address of tlw [■joaisliUivo Council, tho Postnmtor* General, after nlluding to (he general esteem and respect in which Sir Goprgci. IVnvonis hold l>y the community, adverted to certain caluminous statements, which v he alleged, hnd appeared in some of tho Conservative journals. So, hitter was tho hatred of that particular soo'ion of tho community that thoy hnd even (i.^oondod to the meanness of insulting Mie l(i.ly.w!u>. presidcd,at Government Honso by sending her frequently «iionyu;«»w jot^", pointing out Irom time to time tho different paragraphs which hnd appeared m the public prints rofloetins upon tho pn.. vaio charaetor of her husband.