TOWN AND COUNTRY.

Lyttelton Times, Volume XXXVII, Issue 3570, 27 June 1872, Page 2

TOWN AND COUNTRY.

The San FbaKcisoO Mail.—lt will be observed, from our telegrams, that the Nevada arrived at Wellington $t 6 p.m. yesterday. Ho information is to Imtid about the time of her sailing thenoo for me south, but it is probable that she will arritf at Lyttelton this evening It should be used that tho mails, before delivery, will be • thoroughly fumigated. This will necessarily cause some delay, say an hour, and tho public will have to make duo allowance. Canterbury Temperance Society. The committee of the Canterbury Temperance Society wilt meet on Friday next, at the City Gotihcil Chamber, at 3 p.m. Addington.—Mr B, Short, of the Australian Mutual Provident Society, will deliver a lecture m the schoolroom, corner of Solwyn ond Hannan streets, this evening, commencing at 7 o’clock. . v

Presentation.I—On'Friday 1 —On'Friday evening last a deputation from Southbridge waited on the Rev. J. W- Qrco and presented him with a handsome’pony, saddle, bridle and whip, tho “gift of a few friends in the Presbyterian congregation there. Kaiapoi Institute. —Tho annual meeting of members of this Institute will take Blace8 lace this evening. The annual report and nancial statement will bo presented, after which the election of officers and committee for the ensuing year will be proceeded with. Christchurch Town Hall Company.— An extraordinary general meeting of the above company will be held in Spensley’s Hall, at 2 p.m. to-day—For the purpose of considering a resolution to be then proposed for requiring the company to be wound up voluntarily, and for the appointment of liquidators. Oddfellowship.—The half-yearly meeting of the members of the Loyal Kaiapoi Lodge, 1.0.0. F., M.U., took place on Tuesday evening last. The following members were elected as office-bearers for the ensuing six months: —Messrs G. T. Pearce, N.G.; J. Butts, V.G.; E. Clark, secretary; Bro A. Simpson was installed as G.M! Other business connected with the order was transacted during the evening. Inquest.—ln the report which appeared in our yesterday’s issue of the inquest held at Woodend on Tuesday last, on the body of George Houltby, we omitted to insert the following rider, which the jury added to the verdict returned by them: ‘‘We are of opinion that the evidence of Dr Trevor, who had been called in to see the deceased immeditaely after his death, should have been taken, and that he should have made the post mortem examination.” They also expressed their opinion that the inquest ought to have been held sooner.

Feature.—The Rev E. Bailey having received an application from the committee of the Colonists’Society, Lyttelton, has consented to give his lecture on “ Fudge ” in Lyttelton at an early date for .the benefit of the society. The net results of the lecture given in the Oddfellows’ Hall will amount to about £3O, which as announced, will be devoted to parochial purposes in St. John’s parish. Mr Bailey has been offered the incumbency of Reefton, in the Nelson province, by the Bishop of the diocese, but being his intention to return to England, he has declined it. Reefton has a population of about 4000. Coach Accident. —On Tuesday as Mr Burt was proceeding to Eangiora on' his last trip from the Kaiapoi railway station, he heard a horse advancing towards him at a hand-gallop, and shortly after a man on horseback dashed between Mr Burt’s leader and the pole-horses, carrying away the pole-chain and the leader’s traces. The leader being thus set free, nearly dragged Mr Burt from his seat, but he eventually succeeded in quieting the animal. He then dismounted and repaired damages, which detained him a quarter of an hour. Mr Burt was quite unable to distinguish who the man was, for when spoken to he returned no answer, but galloped on at the same headlong pace without waiting to ascertain what damage he had done. There is no excuse whatever for his conduct, as Mr Burt was driving on the right side of the road, and also had three lamps burning at the time.

Woolston Public Library.—Mr J. 01livier has recently made a donation of books to the Woolston public library, and two other gentlemen have expressed their intention of following the example. The books to be presented by one of these will be of a valuable character as containing very important works, of reference. It is to be regretted that the arrangements instituted for the purpose of handing over the books belonging to the defunct parish library have, to all appearance, fallen th»ugh. It is now some months since the joint committee to discuss the matter was appointed, and yet nothing practical has ensued ; indeed, the committee have only met once, and that was a very long time ago. The matter should not bo allowed to subside in this manner, and it is therefore to be hoped that renewed efforts to come to an arrangement will be made. Fancy Bazaar and Gift Auction.— Should the weather prove propitious we have no, doubt this affair—which is advertised to take place at the Orphanage to-day —will be a great success. The object for which it is got up especially commends itself and there is no doubt it will receive the warmest support. For a long time the ladies both in Christchurch and in Lyttelton have been diligently preparing for the bazaar. In addition to other things, there is to be a concert, a far-famed wizard will show his marvellous tricks, and we are to have a peep show. The latter will especially recommend itself to the juveniles; a selection of. pictures has been prepared, and the show will be managed by an expert in the business. The creature comforts have not been forgotten ; in addition to a capital refreshment stall, there will be a London oyster room where the genuine native can be obtained.

Cattle on the Railway.—On Tuesday night, as the special train in connection with the Wesleyan and Presbyterian church gatherings, was proceeding to Kaiapoi, and when a short distance beyond the Papanui station, a cow lying between the rails was run over and killed. The only portion of the animal over which the wheels passed was the horns, which were both cut off. The body, it would appear, was rolled along for about fifty or sixty yards before the engine and the four carriages attached cleared it. Both engine and carriages were lifted from the rails as they passed over the cow, but happily they did not run off the line, and no serious injury was done to the machinery. The assumption is that the cow had been turned on to the line ,to graze under the impression that the traffic had ceased for the night, but whether this is tho case or not is unknown. This is the third cow that has been run over on the Northern line, and it is somewhat strange that the first instance did not come before the local magistrates, inasmuch as serious risk to life is incurred by these accidents, and a public example should be made of persons whose cattle are found on the line.

Peebblbton.—A concert was given by the Christchurch Minstrels in aid of the Prebbleton School at Prebbleton on Tuesday night last. The following is the programme;— First part: Opening chorus, "Down the River; ” solo, “ Fairies of Dreamland,” Mr Morzon; comic song, Ba Be Bi Bo Bu, Mr Stapleton; solo, “ London News Boy,” Master Stapleton ; comic song, “ Mixed up Family,” Mr T. Hobbs ; solo, “ Kiss me, Mother,” Mr Dunlop; comic song, “ The Comical Ghosts,” Mr Stapletonj solo, “One at Homo,” Mr Anthony; comic song, “ Boarding School,” Mr Hobbs. Second part:—Trio, “ Desolate is the dwelling of Moraa,” Messrs Anthony, Dunlop, and Morgon j “ Picayune Butler,” Mr Stapleton; “ Will-o-the-Wisp,” Mr Dunlop j “ You Remember Me,” Mr Hobbs; duet, " Brother’s Return,” Messrs Morgan and Dunlop; “ Instruments of Torture,” Messrs Hobbs and Stapleton. We must particularise “ Fairies of Dreamland,” “ One at Home,” “the Brother’s Return,” and " Will-o-the-Wisp,” which were certainly given very 1 fairly. There were a great many encores. Mr Searel! presided at the piano. About £l2 were collected. We wore sorry not to see Mr Poore, who was absent through illness, but hear that some tickets were sola for his benefit concert. Messrs Hobbs and Stapleton were the corner men. A supper was given to the Minstrels by the School Committee after the concert, and Mr J. N. Tosswill,' chairman •f school committee, presided.

Charitable Aid.— Mr J l . Calendar has been appointed Adnunirt»tor’"6f charitable aid. Theatre Roval.-—■Tho.alteretions- to the Theatre Royal arc rapidly progressing, workmen being, now engaged bofib in the interior and qt the exterior of the building. Riaonons Economy.— Any one who doubte whether the Provincial Government ie strictly economical, in all its works has only to take a stroll through and about Hagloy Park. Several notices will bo seen with, the inscription F. E, Stewart, Secretary for Public Works.”

Accident. —We regret to learn, that Mr A. Ilawdbn has met with an accident in the Kowai river-bed. On Tuesday evening,, a telegram arrived in town to the effect that ho had been thrown from his horse, and broken one rib, and Dr Ned will, accompanied by Mr J. Hawdon, at once drove up to ascertain the full extent of the injuries sustained. Examination of Teachers.—The second quarterly examination of candidates for appointment as teachers under the Board of Education was commenced yesterday at the government buildings. Eight names had been, given in, but only seven attended. The examination which is conducted by Mr Rcstcll, Inspector of schools, will be continued to-day and to-morrow. Tub Railway Approaches.—Since the winter sot in the approaches to the Christchurch railway station have become most unpleasant, both for pedestrian and carriage traffic, so much so, indeed as to call for immediate attention on the part of the authorities. In Madias street the footpath is in a very bad state indeed, and the roadway is little better, whilst after passing through the railway gates matters are much worse, for ' nothing but liquid mud is met with. Independent Order of Rechabites. — It is the intention of several gentlemen in. Christchurch and suburbs to endeavour to establish a tent in connection with the Auckland district of the Independent Order of Reehabites. Those who are desirous of joining the movement are requested to communicate with Mr W. H. De La Mare, from whom they will be able to obtain all necessary information bearing upon it.. Letters have already been sent to the District Secretary at Auckland, and as soon as an answer is received a public meeting will be convened. Stained Glass Windows.—Mr R. Smith, High street, has just completed a set of 12 stained glass windows for the Prebblcton Church in a manner which reflects the highest credit upon him. The designs do not include any human figures, but are otherwise of a varied character, including chevrons, rosettes, fieur d* lis, &c., which are executed with a skill that could not not be surpassed in England. Mr Smith is the only person in Canterbury able to do. such work,, and before he commenced here everything of the kind had to be imported from England. The windows are being done at the cost of Mr J. N. Toswill, and we understand that the church itself will be formally opened in a few days.

Acclimatisation. —A most successful experiment in the conveyance of live trout to a distant stream has been made by Mr George Balfour. On Monday morning last he started from Christchurch with two dozen young fish in a can provided for the purpose by Mr Johnson, curator at the Acclimatisation Gardens, and travelled all the way to the Lyndon station, Waiau, in the Nelson province—considerably over 100 miles—where he arrived on Tuesday night without the loss of a single trout. Mr Balfour, of course, exercised every care during the transit of his precious charge, even to sitting up all Monday night, and he may be warmly congratulated on the result he achieved, a result that was never expected.

Congregational Mutual Improvement Association. —The usual weekly meeting of members was held on Monday evening last, when there was a good attendance and the Rev. W. J. Habens, 8.A., president, occupied the chair. The subject for discussion was “ The advisability of Christians entering into secular amusements,” which was opened by Mr Newton in the negative and replied to by Mr Gourlay in the affirmative. Messrs J. Jameson, F. Malcolm, W. Jameson, H. Waters, W. Greenaway, Griffiths, Allen, J. Simpson, F. Jameson, and J.' Callendar took part in the discussion which followed, and the balance of argument was in favour of the affirmative view of the subject. Several honorary members were elected, and the meeting adjourned until Monday next. Paper Hunt. —Steps are being taken for holding another paper hunt in the course of a few days. A desire having been generally expressed for a hunt earlier in the week than Saturday, it has been decided to have the next on a Thursday, and according to the present understanding, this day week will be selected for inaugurating the new arrangement. The Saturday meets will not, of course, be abandoned, fcut will be held alternately with those held on Thursdays. The hunt now in contemplation will not be held in the same district as the last two, but most probably somewhere in the direction of Papanui. The hunts are growing in favour, and the muster on each occasion is likely to increase. With a view to allowing as far as possible for the class of horses which will thus be most general at the meets, it would be advisable for the hunt committee to consider the advisability of selecting somewhat easier country than that which was hunted over on Saturday last. A good authority on hunting says: “ Small grassed paddocks and jumpable fences constitute the groundwork of perfection for riding to hounds. Big fences require not only good nerve but extra good horses, and a good start, all of which are not at the command of ordinary mortals; so a practicable easy country, with sufficient jumping and sound galloping, has always a superior attraction to the majority.” In weighing these opinions, it must be remembered that not only the greater number of horses likely to be brought out at these hunts, at least for some time to come, are comparative novices, but even the best are not of a very high standard. Assuredly the hunts will be much more popular if a reasonable country is selected for them. Kaiapoi Popular Entertainments.— The fourth entertainment of the present winter series took place at the Institute on Monday evening last. Each succeeding entertainment that has taken place this season has shown a thinner attendance than its predecessor, and the fact is indisputable that if the managing committee arc not better supported by the reading and musical portion of the townspeople they will, despite their efforts to the contrary, be compelled to close the series before the end of the winter months. The readings on Monday evening were principally selections from the works of Charles Dickens, one of our best novelists, and although the extracts which each reader had selected wore very fairly read, still there appeared a sameness about the programme that did not at all suit a mixed audience. This is the first time that one author has been almost entirely selected for the reading portion of the programme, and we must say that the system did not appear to be appreciated by many of the audience. Not because Dickens’ works are uninteresting, for the reverse is the fact, but because the majority of persons who attend those sort of entertainments do so for the purpose of being both instructed and amused, and a variety of extracts from different authors is more acceptable to their tastes. To make an entertainment “popular,” it is necessary that the programme should be arranged in such a manner that it will suit the tastes of the several classes of the community; but it is impossible for the committee to come up to the standard of excellence in the arrangement of their programme, unless more volunteers come forward to assist them in the commendable and onerous work they have undertaken. The following is the programme of tho entertainment "The black veil,” from “ Sketches by Boz,” Mr P. 8. Funston; flee, German serenade, Messrs Bell, Price, 'eldwick, and Funston; reading, “ Bardell v. Pickwick,” Mr T. May; pianoforte solo, “ Andante and Allegro," Mies J. Hoothom; reading,extracts from “David Copporfield," Mr G. F. Hewlings : violin solo, “ There’s noe luck about tbo house,” with variations, Mr A. M’Donald ; gleo, “Sailors’ song,” Messrs Bell, Price, Feldwiok, and Funston j reading, from “ Anderson’s Fairy Tales,” Mr H. Hookham ; violin solo, “Bonaparte’s Grand March,” Mr A. M'Donald; reading, “Mr Bumble’s Love Making," from “Oliver Twist," Mr J, M'Nicoll.

Theatrical.—Mr Morton Tavares announues that be will giro entertainments in the Colonists’ Hall, Lyttelton, to-morrow and Saturday evenings, i j ' Au.maq.i6 street Bridge.—The Contractors for the Armagh street bridge do nqt appear to bo malting very rapid progress .with their work. Platforms have been created for the pile-driving machine, and the piled prepared for driving, but that is about all. ;

Ran-qltata Bridge,—The Timaru of Juno 24> is informed that great dissatisfaction i» felt in the district immediately concerned in regard to the line of cutting for the approaches to the above bridge, the inhabitants preferring the line formerly surveyed by Mr Babington, 0.15., in preference to that surveyed by ,Mr Shaw, the former also being the less expensive of the two. Ornithological,—The Oamaru Times of June 21 says : —The periodical migration of mutton birds has frequently been noticed, but hitherto we were not awaro that the New Zealand cormorants, or “ shags,” as they are popularly called, similarly migrated. It, however, appears that they do, as we are credibly informed that for six weeks pajt flocks of these birds in a dark continuous; stream have been winging their way northwards. Immigration.—The Otago ,t)ail>/ Times, of June 21, says :—A vessel was in all probability to sail from Scotland for Otago, with a full complement of passengers, about the latter end of last month. The immigration officer at Dunedin has received intimation that a ship with 300 immigrants on hoard was to sail from Hamburg direct for Otago on the 30th May last. This, no doubt, is the beginning of a ! tide of Gorman immigration setting in Otagowards. Tageanga Disteict.—Mr David Graham, an old resident at Tauranga, on the occasion of his leaving the district, is reported to have given the local prospecting association the following opinion upon the mineral wealth of the locality:—“ Tauranga was the outlet to the interior. The natives told him twenty years ago that it was the ‘kopu’ (belly) of New Zealand. There were rumours of gold being found at Tauranga. He had himself seen nuggets of three and four pounds weight. Ho had seen a nugget that size which was full of mundic. He believed there was there the greatest silver mineral field in the world. From information of which he was then possessed from the natives, of the quantity, and from the nature of specimens shown him, which they declared could be found, he had no hesitation in saying that it was one of the richest mineral fields in the whole world, not excepting South Australia and California,

New Zealand’s Future.—MrM'Gillivray, M.H.R. for Riverton, in addressing his constituents a few days ago, is reported to have spoken as follows:—“ He had been in various colonics of the Empire, and knew something of their resources, and of this country as well. He thought there was nothing to prevent the colony rising to a high pitch of prosperity. In Canada- he had seen great prosperity—people coming in in thousands, and business prospering—and yet in that country there was not a single acre of clear land, and there were five months of the most rigorous winter, during which a blade of grass was never seen. Immigration was the grand secret. Without a very large and steady influx of immigrants, the scheme on which our Government had entered could not succeed, and, he would add, it must be attended with ruinous consequences. It was desirable to import population of the right kind, capital as well as labour; the capital would employ the labour, the labourer would by-and-by become a land owner, and an employer of labour himself, and everyone would feel the effects of the increased local activity.” The Transit of Venus.—The following is from Nature : —As the period of the transit of Venus in 1874 approaches, astronomers, both at home and abroad, are becoming more active in their preparations ; and the American committee on this subject, it is understood, has already decided in considerable part upon the stations to be occupied. Of the result of their conclusions we hope to give an account before long to our readers. In Russia the committee, under Prof. Struve, proposes the establishment of a chain of observers, at positions 100 miles apart, along the region comprised between Kainschatka and the Black Sea. The German committee has decided on recommending the organization of four stations for heliometric observations of the planet during its transit, one of them in Japan or China, and the others probably at Mauritius, Kerguelen, and Auckland Islands; and three of these, with the addition of a fohrth station in Persia, between Muscat and Teheran, will be equipped for photographic observations also. The French, before the war, suggested that stations be established at St Paul Island, New Amsterdam, Yokohama, Tahiti, Noumea, Muscat, and Suez. How far this programme will be carried out under the changed circumstances of that country remains to be seen. Copper in Otago.—ln speaking of the recent discovery of copper in Otago an exchange says:—Some twelve months ago Mr William Heckler, a miner, found specimens of copper in the neighbourhood of Mount Watkm, near Waikouaiti. He himself did not know anything about copper mining, so he got Messrs Elias Nankivell, and William and John Clyma, natives of Cornwall, and who had had an almost life-long experience in copper, tin, and lead mines, to take part in the search for copper ore. Since that time the whole four have been more or less engaged in the search, being confident, from the indications which they found, that copper, existed in abundance in the vicinity. They looked about closely ever the neighbourhood, and a few days ago found the long searched for lode, which they are sanguine, from surface appearances, is a large and payable one, and which, for the good of the- province, and as a reward to their energy and perseverance will, it is to be hoped, prove so. The lode on the surface of the ground is from 18 to 40 feet in width, and consists of what is known as “ gossan,” intermixed with oxide of copper, and yellow, grey, end green copper ore. It gives what is considered by the party to be every appearance of payable ore below. They also think it not improbable that they may come upon tin or lead. Yesterday, they received protection from the Waste Lauds Board, and they intend to set to work at once to put down a trial shaft. The result of their sinking will, no doubt, be awaited with interest by all who are desirous of seeing the development of the resources of the province. Telegraphy.—Another development of the telegraph system in New York is thus sketched by the American correspondent of the Sydney Morniny Herald : —“• Two . years ago a company was formed to transmit momentarily to every broker’s and speculator’s office in the city the sales and prices of stocks. The company has been an immense success, and there is not now a fashionable restaurant or bar-room, much less a newspaper office or bank, which is not among its customers. A similar company is now to be organised for the convenience of lawyers, and the number of the cases on and the general progress of business will be ticked from each court-room to every subscribing lawyer’s office. Still another company of a similar* kind has been formed, for the purpose of providing messengers or sending a doctor or the police to a private house. Every house that subscribes 2.50 dols. a month will bo able to make telegraphic calls at any hour of the day or night for a doctor or the police, or one of the company’s messengers—the latter to be paid, of course, an extra charge for their services of HO cents an hour. A nervous miser may have the calls right over his bed, and, if disturbed by unusual noises, can have the police at his door within five minutes—that being the time guaranteed by the company. And a paterfamilias, in place of leaving a sick wife, and endangering his health by running half-nude for a doctor in the dead .of night, may summon him in half the time by a simple journey across his chamber. I have no doubt whatever that the system will- pay ; it agrees exactly with our ideas of civilisation, and 19 years hence we shall pay such subscriptions as we now do our gas bdls —as though for a necessity, not a luxury. What with our park boulevards and now French flat bouses and monster bonks and newspaper offices, and merchants’ stores and theatres and hotels, New York is rapidly becoming one of the handsomest cities in the world—indeed, next to Paris and Vienna, it is now without a rival

Applications of Electeicitv. Profeasorßenedikt lately read a paper on the application of electricity for the removal of tumours before the Medical Society of Vienna, which is reported in a recent numbbr of .the Wien. Med. Preese. He points out the great improvements that have been made of: lato years in the construction and mode of application of apparatus, and refers particularly to the pbwerful current that can bo obtained from the lead-zinc battery of Fromhold. Ho hfts himself constructed a" carbon-zino battery, of great usefulness, which can be sot into action by a concentrated solution of bichromate of potash and sulphuric acid (I to 15). lie mentions as the principal forms of tumours in which electricity has been found efficacious: —‘(1) Inflammatory swellings of the joints, in which, however, the current should not be applied directly to the inflamed part, but to the sympathetic spinal cord, or nerves supplying it; (2) fluid tumours resulting from inflammation, *ns hydrocele ; (3) angiomata and aneurisms, in which several needles - connected with the positive pole should bo introduced ; (i) lymphatic tumours, in which negative needles should be passed so as •to break down the larger into smaller tumours, but the current should not bo too' strong, lest suppuration and ulceration occur. Eepoeting. —“A novel experiment in telegraphic reporting was made,” The Times says, “m connection with the Oxford and Cambridge Boat Race. In order to transmit a description of the race as it was rowed arrangements were made by the proprietor, of the Central News to pay out a cable from one of the steamers which followed the racing boats. Permission to place the cable and pay it out from the Cambridge steamboat wasreadily accorded by Mr Goldie. There is no novelty in telegraphing through cables as they are being paid out; but there is no precedent for performing such a work at the pace of the racing boat. Moreover, whatever happened to the cable, a stoppage of the boat dumg the race was impossible, and, therefore, the most perfect arrangements were necessary to obtain success. These arrangements, so far os the cable was concerned, were carried out by the Telegraph Construction and Maintenance Company, and the officers of the postal telegraphs gave every assistance in the use of land wire and the distribution of the intelligence. The difficulties of the work were much increased by the fact that the whole of the final arrangements and reporting had to be done in the midst of an unusually severe snowstorm; but, in spite of this difficulty, all the leading facts connected with the race, including the varying positions of the crews, and the times at which they reached wellknown points, were telegraphed before the race was Concluded, By thus means it became possible to transmit throughout the kingdom, and to place before readers hundreds of. miles distant, more information respecting the race than was known to the spectators on the banks of the Thames. The Central News-report, the Pall Mall Gazette states, was delivered at the office of that journal within a very few minute* of the conclusion of the race.

Speaking Plainly.—ln. the Supreme Court of Tasmania the proprietors of the Hobart Town Mercury have been sued by a member of the Legislature (before Mr Justice Dobson) for libel. The case is reported at length in the Tasmanian papers. The declaration set forth that Adolphus- Frederick,Eooke sued John George Davies and Charles- EllisDavies for that the defendants- falsely and maliciously published of the plaintiff, in the Mercury, a certain false, scandalous, malicious, and defamatory libel, containing,, amongst other things, the following wokU-; —“ We wish the member for East Devon (meaning the plaintiff) had stopped with his-attempt to deny his own words. He would have saved us the unpleasant duty of telling him what, to a person not lost to all sense of shame, must be very unpleasant truths. The member for East Devon (meaning the plaintiff) forgets- what is due to Parliament, if not to himself, when to gratify his petty spite against the member for Franklin (meaning the said John Davies) he (moaning the plaintiff) avails himself of his privilege as a member of Parliament to wilfully and deliberately misrepresent this- paper. In insinuating that the Mercury, (meaning the newspaper belonging to the defendants) suppresses any portion of the proceedings of Parliament, Mr Eooke not only stated what he himself knew, to be untrue, but he was reckless enough to commit himself in the presence of a body of gentlemen, every one of whom knew that the speaker was deliberately, wilfully, and without the shadow of pretext for his words, violating the truth. Adolphus Frederick. Eooke (meaning the plaintiff) now stands-before- the Parliament and colony of Tasmania, as so addle-pated and obliquevisioned, that should he ever get the credit of seeing beyond his nose, his vision is so transparently distorted and consequently his path, so circuitous that he proves a beacon not an example.. Like the bully or cowardly assassin, himself afraid to fight his own quarrels, he degraded Parliament by making an obsolete rule-the means, as he thought, of punishing us (meaning that the plaintiff had acted as a bully, a coward, and an assassin towards the defendants).” “The reporters’ gallery was cleared, the strangers’ gallery was equally emptied of its occupants, even the Speakers’ gallery had to succumb to the wrath of Adolphus Frederick, who was left to hop and jerk about triumphantly on his perch, a thing even in his moment of victory of contempt and ridicule in the House as out of it, (meaning that the plaintiff was ridiculous and contemptible to the members of the House of Assembly of the Parliament of Tasmania and to the public).” Damages were laid at £SOO. ' ( The case was heard on the -!)tb and 30th of 'May, and resulted in a verdict for the plaintiff,* —damages, £l5O. A Good Point Well Pet.—The Edinburgh Review, in an article on the claims of the United States, as set forth in case submitted to the tribunal at Geneva, makes an excellent point of the conduct of that country in 18-18, when Hungary had risen in rebellion against Austria. The former country, it is scarcely necessary to observe, was just as much an integral part of the Austrian Empire as the Southern States which seceded from the Union wore of the American Republic. And what was the course pursued by the Government at Washington and by the people generally towards the Hungarian “ rebels ” ? So warm and demonstrative was the sympathy exhibited towards the latter by both, so eager wore they to welcome Hungary into the family of nations, that the Cabinet at Vienna instructed the Austrian Charge d’Affaircs at Washington to demand an explanation, more particularly with regard to the despatch of a special envoy from the United States to ascertain whether the Hungarians could maintain their independence. In reply to the Austrian diplomat, Mr Webster made use of the following emphatic language :—“While performing with strict fidelity all their neutral duties, nothing will deter either the Government or the people of the United States from exercising at their own discretion the right# belonging to them as an independent nation, and of forming and expressing their own opinions, freely and at all times, on the great political events which may transpire among the civilised nations of the earth. He likewise added that if the United States had recognised the independence of Hungary, they would not have violated the law of nations. [ Thus, then, it was perfectly right and proper I on the part of the Government and citizens |of the United States to exhibit their ardent sympathies with the Magyars in their attempted secession from Austria, bub it was highly reprehensible on the part of any portion of the people of England to signify their opinion that if the inhabitants of the Southern States of the Union wore dissatisfied with their form of government, they wore perfectly justified in denouncing it, and in revolting from the North, os the American plantations had previously revolted from the mother country. What General Grant, or Senator Sumner, or “ Beast Butler,” would have said if Jefferson Davis on his visit to Europe, had received such an ovation in London as Kossuth received in New York, it is, of course, quite impossible to conjecture ; hut that America should resent conduct on the part of England towards the South analogous to that of the United States towards Hungary in 1848, is another illustration of the tendency of nations, as well as of individuals, to perceive the mote in other people’s eyes, white overlooking the beam in their oira.

Moa Remains.—Tho Timaru Herald of June 24 says : —On Friday, os the men wore ■engaged in excavating in the bank next to the Herald office, to make room for the new hotel to be built, a fall of earth disclosed, juried between sft Gin and 6ft from the surface, what evidently wore moa remains, insisting of portions of the log bone of the bird: The ground ih which they were found, consisted of stiff clay, and there wore no signs of the ground ever having been disturbed, so ns to give a hint of burial. It is unusual, we believe, to find moa bones deep down in a clay stratum, usually they are discovered in caves in limestone country, or almost on the surface of the ground. Wo know of one oaso near Timaru, where they wore turned up in our clay subsoil, but. then it was only some twelve to fifteen inches below the natural surface of the ground. Bkeb and Tobacco.—The Court Journal has the following :—A correspondent recently visited Baron von Liebig, and hod a very interesting conversation of an hours duration with the veteran, which ho reports very fully. Touching questions of alimentation the correspondent writes : —“ And hoer ? Is it necosB ary that people should drink as much beer as ▼on do in Munich ? ” I asked. “ Beer," said the Baron, “ is better than brandy. Man must have a stimulant of some sort. Brandy is a great evil. We find that the consumption of boor is making headway even in the wine districts—for instance, in Stuttgart. As a nourishment, beer takes a very subordinate place, not higher, indeed, than potatoes; and we find that in no city is there such an amount of meat consumed as in Munich, where the greatest quantity of beer is also consumed. Beer must have meat or albumen. Before every beercellar in Munich you will find a cheese-stand. Why? Because in cheese you find that albumen which in beer is lacking. Therefore you see that beer and cheese go together like a law of nature 1 But os an article of nourishment beer is vmy subordinate. Schnapps is a freat misfortune, and destroys the power, hrough our late war we have won great respect for tobacco, tea, coffee, and extract of meat. A physician told mo that when the wounded would take nothing else they have grasped at cigars ; their eyes glistened —they felt a lifting up of the sinking nerves. Tobacco must nave its effect. We could not do our wounded, frequently, a greater service than by giving then* cigars. And we came to the conclusion that tobacco was invaluable to us.” These are Boron von Liebig’s own words, noted down as he spoke to me in Gorman.