MISCELLANEOUS.

Inangahua Times, Volume VIII, Issue 1278, 30 May 1883, Page 2

MISCELLANEOUS.

The shareholders of the Golden Eagle Gold Mining Company, Wellington, . have decided to isrind up Jtheir affairs and dispose" of their crashing plant

Professor Kolbehas demonstrated, iby Actual experiments,, that beef kept in an atnqsphere of carbonic acid remaips .sweet and sound for weeks, while mutton under % ; same coa^ ditions becomes offensive iv ejgnt days.'- ,

It is said that before long Parliament will . be. asked for a grant for Prince Albert Victor. .Thte young prince is nowjn Ms eighteenth year, and , being heir presHmpfcJve to the Crown of; England.. is .abready a pei-. sonage of some, importance. He is expected .shortly, to assume a title and take his seat in the House of Lords.

On vgaturday evening Mr Dewe gavef an exhibition of his horse-taming powei-s at Sheffield before an audience of about 200. The Press states : " The animal he had to work with was one that had never been broken, a seven-year-old gelding which has befen running wild on the Homebush Estate, and . is the. property of Mr Jas. M'llwraith. In a little. over an hour the horse was under complete control, and was easily ridden around the ring by the tamer." :

By this direction of Sir Henry Brougham Lock, Commissioner of Woods and Forests, mountains of the Isle of man, which are now bare of vegetation, are about to be" planted with trees. Becently 25 men arrived from Scotland with the ; §rst instalment of two and a quarter millions of trees, with which the mountain called Arcallegan is to be planted. Should the experiment prove successful, it' is intended to plant other mountains of the island, amongst others SnaefeJl, which it js calculated will take four years to plant. Sir Henry was till recently Lieutenant.

Governor of the island. Messrs Little and Ballantyne, nurserymen, Carlisle, have been entrusted with the contract, one of the largest of the kind entered into in Britain.— { Jan 17.)

The Salvation Army are encountering much, more serious opposition in. Christchurch than the slight demonstration which they were met with in Duuedin. At their evening meeting in Christchurch. on Sunday the ad*

dresses were interrupted by hooting, howling, and other noises, and finally brought to a somewhat abrupt .conclusion. We learn from the Press that '^then ensued a scene which does not reflect credit upon Christchurch Though told by 'Captains 'Wright and Pollard that the meeting had closed, those in the theatre refused to leave, and commenced whistling hooting, &c. One of the most prominent of the disturbers was promptly secured by Pollard, but the audience insisted upon his letting him go. A threat of turning out thq gaa

h&d no efifect, and ultimately * Captain ' Pollard had to call' in the assistance of the police TEo clear the building.. -". . .-..:,'■

The Railway departraenf have hid one of the. passenger-carriages painted with Balmain's luminous paint, and oq Saturday last a trial that proved •very satisfactory was made. The carriage -was token ihto r the.Caversliam tunnel, and it was found that sufficient light waar emitted from tihe sides and ceiling of iiie. carriage to enable passengers] to .see each other distinctly. A general opinion was expressed in favour of the paint being extensively applied to this purpose, since by that means a large , saving' in labour and expense might be effected, and people would not be left in darkness, in the tunnels, as they: so often are.at the present time. .The useuto which this paint can be applied.are very extensive, For buoysandlife-beltSitis particularly -well adapted, and it |s use| for decoraiive purposes witJi goqd. effect Mr Walden is the goi? agent for the paint in this Qolony^ndj^w apparently determined.to maic^h«^Hc W^uainted witfc P* el #^?g light Tw6 ;^^;.j«6wpf 'jtftTO been fitted up.,i^-Ji|f;?^^^ Princes street, >ad in one. .of these a number of oniame»ig, Iwiate, Ac^ : are «xhibited,,while, tb^ Q&«r iarighted by luminous painty it? ri4«B and ceiling *eing cpated with it, . A visit to these rooms villsliow:^, when properly applied, ike. paint gives out a cpn*iderrt»lou*iw>imt^f light, and that it may be ;--ttija for very many purposes. _•

It is, I teke the liberty to suggest, a rery bad practice of some New Zealand journalists toattemnifapenatrate to the secrets: of^that .anonymity . which in mostdvifcs^ countries is therecognised privilege "&. those engaged bathe perio-: dicaUPHjM. wmld be thought -of the Ljrndim Tiin«&^« instead of anStanda^i, it%« to attack; aomd member of Parliament bir t>ther public man as the writer o| ii* leading Itttfclea, tod U> ftUttde & ' ita r contetnMr "^nlj-Soy paper? The, speedy wo^ld W ' that ' the Times, 'w*si^plVfr'.jou}& be os-tracisecl-by'aJl respectable journalists ; for iW I^* otde^hef aid 1 bieacli tii a rule of universally recognisedby • joftirtafi^ tunately 51 it fe'tyfiwrwise- in , f^ew ZeUlanct. " t>tfer iß^ / ijVeir v a^m>i i I--lfik*6 }1 "beoaaiteilkei^ tiiewwttr of leading eontribations S'^pl in%M^VeW Ivtote' a 1 ■ line in my life, I have been charged -with being the '••«* hafeitnal correspondent for the Colony willi' several Lon--don papers, 1 wl*en I was not and' never* lad beetfeortesponstent of a single bne.Of course- 1 -Sfeould not have -the smallest objection td-»be : a><JontribYitor ♦ to the Presß^but £ do object to bei held responsible 5 for -artiolea which I -did not oottkibutei for sentiments I ■never uttered) and probably ,to. be the "butt of 'ac,^ dashing." artacle by an editor who has a weaknesafor tilting at -windmills ; (hough in tbiß case I have no reason to .complain in ;thatrespe<?t. J^nother thing also, vexeame j it is that in each cases it generally happens -that the acticle lam charged with, liaving written is 'one utterly nnlike my style I^do^ smte, and ofie the composition ' and; even the grammar of which I shoald h»ve.bee^i ntterlv ashamed.— Sir W. Pox.

The question as to whether premature burials of living .persona are more common than, is generally imagined has * frequently been discussed •(says the Si James' Gazette), and an incident -reported in one of the New "York papers igVnot calculated to relieve anxiety on this point. Mrs W. L. Pettit (wife of the teller of the first National Bank. a^ Port Wayne)apparently died, and the undertaker topic charge of what were.Jßuppoaed to be her remains. Arrangements were made for the i funeral, and watchers -were sitting with the body. At 10 o'clock at night the watchers started to their feet in alarm oil bearing a faint sigh, which thrilled through the room. It proceeded from Mrs Pettit, who a moment later was seen- sitting up with her eyes open, and asking in an audible whisper for her husband. The attendants . were first speechless with wonder, and then screamed with' excitement. Their screams brought Mr Pettit to the room in haste, and "with joy unspeakable .: he clasped again his living wife in his arms." The doctor was sent for, and could; not believe his eyes at beholding living what in. his exact medical science he had declared dead. His piosition was, in fact an awkward one, but he seems to have made the best of the situation, for he " administered ■ restoratives," and Mrs Pettit, by latest accounts was never better in her life."