MISCELLANEOUS.

Inangahua Times, Volume V, Issue 39, 5 June 1878, Page 2

MISCELLANEOUS.

Snyfl tho Snn Frftno(sco Chronicle :— Tho ocoonlrio Indy who ordorod nn Edinbjurgh bliicksraUh to put golden shoes on her maro, and who suhsequ aly lodgod in nn out-of-tho-way tavern in Spnin, vdioro sho ooujd, throw away gold pieci'S by tho hnndfulto tho beggars, is now snid to bo an.Amoricnn hciro^s worth lift}/ n milim, Her nnmo is, Miss Thompson^ and s'ho has boon tho objpot of persistent nttontions. from, fortutiQ. hur.tors in. No* Xork and olflewhere. Rumpr babbles that ono of hor admirers, amused her f although she know ho tras a v lorriblo scapo* grnco, and'sho found it w;a^ hard, to get rid. of him. Sho hns just pqrqhajicd & now, maro, and in cno of hor mad fronts told hor suitor that ho micht havo hpr hand if ho coujfj Rot ahead of hpr in a hnlf«mito gallop. Ho accepted tho challenge ; sho rodo thoninro horsolf ; tho raco for a wifo was a nook to neck aflnir, but tho maro dr ( ow away at tho finish and won by a length. Gratoful to tho maro for break* ingoff.tlio ma'nh tho la,dy had hpr shod with goldon fihoos. From an ]snglish paper wo obsorvo that Selby, the Englir.li profonsional cricketer was finod n few. months nr;o for assaulting a mnn namod , Nottingham. They aro. a rough and ready lot those English professionals. Poploy's oaso is ojill fro.sji, in tho romombr^noo of Christchurcji people ; Awnijago was • run in' at.Molbourno for orooting a disturbance ; ami this samo Solby, thoagh it is not generally; known, was oxtronioly noar figuring in thp Di^nodin Court for con • noctioi^ witha most disropujablo row, of 'which i ho was tho principal; oauso. It was only by groat exertion* that tho mattor was hnshed up. 'Th'o Ha'wfto'a Bay Kqrald, ,of tho 3fllth, April, roforrmg to eomo recent articles ; whioh appoarod in a Bunodin papor, saw itprosumos thoyaro' tlio samo as a lotto)? which wo havo scon in tho Ago, tho, dimes' ovoning issue ; and wo may remark that tho lottor is certainly ono that should come in somo shapo under tho attention of tho authorities. It is without exaggeration, tho foulest produotion that wo have overseen in print. Wo aro proud of tho purity of our Press and proud that, as a rule, its purity can bo ranntaincd by publio opinion without tho safo-guards of the law. Thcro have, hithorto boon no journals in tho Colony

unfit for admission into Iho sacred familv circle. If iho J'.eol.chmen of Dunolin continuo to tolerate such garble in I.lkm r public- prints, however, (itir bonst will shortly b,o n thing of tlio past, Tho Otngo Times n year ago held tlio very foremost pjaco among rfow Zealand jourpnls ; now |t lias got into bnd hands Ijowcvor, and now it holds tho lowest. It has boon a misfortuno of no insignificant oharaotor for tho Grey (government, that, in Otago it should have boon visited wit!) the support of tho Rood, Fonwick . . faction. It is necessary however I o remember thnt thai is tljpir misfortune ami not 'thoir fault* Thoy htivo nlso, in i\ njoasure, tho support of (ho rcspoi-rablo morning p.ipor thoro, tho Hi:nAr,n. The Auckland correspondent to the LyC'Hon Times writes:— Humours mjv ourrontof Homo gigantic land specula' ion scheme. ' Several names are. mentioned in connection with it nnd tho area staled, varies from 100.000 tc 300.0,0,4 acres. Tho land at present] it is understood, Mon^s to the Ngatimaniopotocs, n tribe ol whom Kewi' \n chief. It ia whispered, that tho bargain is almost closed, nn<l that Sir G. Grey's ngroement with tlin King natives will* help to tho completion of tho speculation.