MISCELLANEOUS.

Inangahua Times, Volume II, Issue II, 22 August 1881, Page 2

MISCELLANE OUS.

_, The estimated value of the Melbourne Public Library and Picture Gallery is £500,000. It is said that the best way to ensure having plenty of room in a Sydney traincas is to have a brown paper parcel marked ' From On Ohong and Co. This side up with care.' The Goyernment interpreter at Melbourne says tbat Chinese leprosy is not contagious and dies out in three generations. He also says tbat smallpox is well understood in China, and yacciuation universally adopted. Military intelligence from Aldershot, referring to the departure of tbe 42nd Highlanders, adds, ' A few men of the 42ud regiment were left behind at Portsmouth for the purpose of instructing its few linked battalion, the 73rd, with referrence to the use of tbe kilt.* How easy it is to hold and how easy to lose an audience. A preacher was declaiming ia Hyde-park one Sunday recently, So long as he dwelt upon Mr Bradlaugh and his writing, a large audience listened to him ; when he began about the Revised edition of the New Testament everybody forsook him and fled. The Archbuhop of Canterbury has issued an appeal to all Englished who loye the Church and desire its administratiohs to eonbinue to contribute to the more extended usefulness of the Church Defence Association, so that an adequate remedy may be provided against the teachings of the Liberation Society, whose zeal can no longer be ignored by any A-ell-wisber of bis country. The Right Hon. Leonard Courtney MP. for Lisheard, tbe new UnderSecretary for the Colonies, was edu cated at St. John's, 0 ambridge ; was a Fellow of his College- for a time was engaged in private tuition at the University ; he was afterwards called to the Bir at Lincoln's I in; was appointed to tbe chair ot Political Economy at University College, London, and held that professorship until Le went out to India in 1875. In 1876 he was returned for Liskeari in the room of the late Mr, Horsman. For years he was on the regular staff of the Times, and for a time occupied the ed torial chair after Mr Delane's death, He beloDgs to tho aa'vauced liberal party. A correspondent under the subriquet of ' Didymus ? writes to a London paper, offering to bet £500 that no amateur in the world can beat 10i-sth sees for a hundred yards race