THE Inangahua Times, PUBLISHED TRI-WEEKLY. MONDAY, AUGUST 28, 1882.

Inangahua Times, Volume VII, Issue 1122, 28 August 1882, Page 2

THE Inangahua Times, PUBLISHED TRI- WEEKLY. MONDAY, AUGUST 28, 1882.

It will be noticed that the old established tirm of Powsing and Lines, have dissolved partnership, Mr H. Lines retiring from the business. The firm have always enjoyed the cunlid^pjA^of the public, andj2g^4^&?ro**l»| • ! ";*!fwr- 1 U > .RP.w C#6pnetory the BaineJ»i.ntidei>eu ant\ liberal patronage will Jfe>s£jr.4t*d4vfl Charlea-Dowaii^«s^^f:W* ai * f^''^"' Owing to pressuro of ' ■'/•'sports we arc compelled to hold over mnoh cither local matter until our next issue. VN c publish to-day the list of subscriptions to the fund for the relief of the distressed Jews in Russia. IVIrT. Smith announces that he has commenced business as a watchmaker and jeweller, in the premises adjoining Kelly's Hotel, Broadway. Diamonds to the value of four and a half million pounds were exported from the Cape of Good Hope last year. The Devon Herald, Tasmania, says :— " A gentleman from Waratah, in which the writer says that whilst Messrs Hall Brothers and Exel were at work on the Bischoff and Cor in track, a large hyena, either from hunger or ferocity, attacked the party, and a very exciting fight took place, tho&e engaged in the defence only Tiaving sticks to keep the animal off. After two or three attempts by the hyena to seize hold of one of the Messrs Hall, that gentleman struck tho brute a severe blow on the nose, which bled profusely. The animal then mndo off into the scrub, but after a time crept back again to the attack, and the battle was renewed fiercely, but this time the hyena was despatched, and on measurement his length was found to be 5 ft. exclusive of tail." Tlie song, ' Behave yourself ' before folks, 1 has been made a subject of controversy in the Lyttelton Times.' A correspondent says it was written by .Robert Nichol, a poet of no mean order, who lived in the early part of the eighteenth century, a self taught man, but who at the age of eighteen became editor of the Leeds Mercury.' An editorial note to the letter says the poet was named Nicholl, who lived not in the early part of the eighteenth century, but between 1814 and 1837. The paper he edited was the Leeds Times:' Anbther correspondent Bays : — "The author of the song was lexander Rodger, who was born on July 16, 1784, at East Calder, Midlothian. His father removed to Edinburgh, where Alexander was apprenticed to a silversmith. Bnt his father emigrated to Hamburg when ho had been about a year at the silver-smith trade, and, after his father's departure, A lick took up his departure, his mother's relatives, who put him" to the weaving trade. At an early age he studied and taught music, married at the age of twenty-two, and, like most poets, he seems to have had ' misfortunes great and small ' but aye a heart aboon them a." In 1836 he was assistant publisher of the ".Reformers' Gazette," a situation he held till his death, which took place on September 16, 1846, and some of his admiring friends have erected a handsome monument over his remains in the Necropolis of Glasgow." ' ■