MISCELLANEOUS.

Inangahua Times, Volume XIII, Issue 20596, 31 December 1888, Page 2

MISCELLANEOUS.

••Oivis " wrik'3 in tho Otago Wit* nesa :— The Ohmtchnrch dog case reported thin week allows into what a hideous tness a man may x«t himself by mere gooduos* of heart and strict fidelity to duty. Mr Donnolly, of the Palace Skating Bink, Christohurcb, had a St. Bernard pnp, and this pup, ' us in customary with dog* of tender arc, had the distempor. In an unpropitiour honr nnd a condition of physical dubihty, the pnp very imprudently went ont for a walk, but after a short progress, found it necessary to reat for a timo ut full length on the pavement. | By au extmordinary miscbaucn this j o«cu ned exactly in front of the window of (lie office of the secretory to the Society for the Prevention of Oraelty to Animals. For the secretory, looking oat and observing an animal in '

distress, concluded too hastily that tho case was one of poisoning, and that it was his duty has a responsible officer of the S.P.C.A., to put the dnmb victim at once out of paio. Accordingly, summoning his messeiigar, h« ordered him to "kill that dog," aud when Mr Donolly arrived ou the seen» It was to discover that dig unfortunate S\ Bernard had b^n-mur.lHvd by the Secretary to the Socifly for tho Prevention of Cruelty to Animals j< Farther developments u;-e « waited ih the police court, where the nnhappy sec ! rotary h being prosecnted on a, .charge of cruelty to u:i animal,, jtyil at the SiUiiHtiiiif is miod for damages. His reflections on the situ:itioii>>vi!l h ; » not j uiiH.k.' tKA, of the mrjifii-emltmng Zntli^ w!j«'-i in a somewhat similar pickle :— •• What a misfoYtnne to have a humane tiisposition ! How dangerous to look out at a., window ! and how difficult t ,r> be btppjr in tfyra life." I The Qnnarti Mail is iuformed hy ati j eye witness that on November 29, an I enormous avalanche occurred on the j ranges üboiit Lake Ohan, aliout sic * mi!-« from the Tiihn Ohaji hpmejtewi, R»iff in tiw ttrfcetion of Ben Olian Bt*i * tion. The noise at the homestead was terrible, and it seemed as though tin* side of the mountain was tumbling into the Like, and hnge pines were mangled and spiit iuto splinters. The movement w*sgoin« on for about four horns, and lar«.! clouds of dnst couui bo seen arising from the moving mas*. The noise was heard at Benmore station, twenty miles away, and resembled distant thunder.