AMONG OUR EXCHANGES

Northern Advocate, 9 April 1887, Page 2

AMONG OUR EXCHANGES

A premature attempt to blow up the Spanish Chamber of Deputies with dynamite has been discovered. x In the Government Gazette of the 31st March is published the date of shooting season for imported game, &c, for the Auckland district. Prom this notice it appears that pheasants, Calif ornian quail, and Australian quail may be taken or killed from the Ist May, 1887, to the 31st July in the same year, and that the license to kill such game has been fixed at 30/. Native game, except tuis, may be taken and killed from the Ist of April, 1887, to the 31st of July of the same year. This close season is for the Auckland district only, and excludes the counties of Cork, Tauranga, Rotorua, Whakatune, East Taupo, and Wairoa. An incipient fire occurred at the premises of Mrs Vare, fruiterer, Wellesley-street, last evening, about eight o'clock. A bed-room window had been left partly open, and the curtain had been wafted near the candle by the draught, causing it to ignite. The blaze was put out in a few moments with little damage. The Premier is still in Auckland, whose time is principally occupied in receiving deputations. He was, however, to deliver an address to the Radical Reform League on Wednesday evening. Among the curiosites of contemporary literature the following, which appears in the leading columns of iho Post this evening should have a conspicuous place considering that the Bill has been "appropriately brought forward in the Jubilee year. The writer proceeds: — "The principle of laud nationalisation is as old as the days of Moses,and the law as laid down in Leviticus provides against land monopoly by preventing the alienation of property beyond jubilee year. Every fifty years the ownership of lands reverted to the original possessors. In our case this would be the State. There was, however, under the Mosaic law no compensation paid, no valuation with 10 per cent, added ; in fact, usury of all kinds was strictly prohibited, and the chief injunction of the jubilee year was ; Ye shall not therefore oppress one another." What a glorious thing it would be if wo could celebrate this year's jubilee strictly after the Mosaic fashion. All mortgages and debts would be wiped out ; the State would resume possession of the land, and we should all make a fair start. It would uv»lk however. •%^-HiHwc*)j^s*^Tir-^-crocß^jsCT : _^m'^^eat loan' companies, the DanTcsT and frtt^C^KiiiglMh^ money-lenders I " . V- >^ r ~~~-~-~S At Paparoa Mr Stick, met his' death on Saturday while bush .chopping, by a. small tree falling on him and fracturing his skull. Death must have been instantaneous. Mr Ariell with a jury of six, held an inqupst, when a' voudict of accidental death was returned. Information was received from Wellington by the railway authorities at Dargaville, this attenoon to the affect that the Governor to-day (Saturday) signed the Order-in-Oouncil guaranteeing £47,000 of the Kaihu Valley Railway Company's debentures. The works are progressing rapidly this fine weather; Vistors to the locality are charmed with the splendid land, and the forests $|$the head of the valley. „. fpßr ■ The feeling of opposition manifested to the mode of celebrating they, Queen's Jubilee in London is.on the increase'"^:' An inquest on the Bulli catastrophe is now proceeding at Bulli. The evidence given shows gross carelessness, on the part of tho men, and neglect of necessary precaution by the Company. „ Tno prosecution of Dillon and others the Irish agitators has been abandoned. Efforts are being made to liberate Holt, the bank manager who was sentenced to five years' imprisonment for embezzlement. The ground for this movement is Holt's alleged insanity. Russia refuses to send exhibits to the propoped Paris exposition. Herr Antoine, member ot the Reichstag for Metz, has been, dy order of the Government, .expelled from AUace owing to his Francophile tendencies. An Otago paper says : — 'f A Dunedin woman sold her wash-tub to a party of riflenien^ for a target. They paid her for it, and after they [ had gone home she went out into the field and brought it back as good as ever again. The health of Auckland still continues in a ba<J<Btate. There has within the last few days beM a fresh outburst of typhoid. In addition 28^|l!aumber of cases in . various parts of the town, a- case of diptheria is reported in Pompalier Terrace, Ponsonby. Dr. Reid, of Opotiki, has just thrashed out a crop of oats covering 13 acres with the handsome return of 68 bushels to the acre. A lot of navvies at Eketuhuna were all taken ill lately after dinner, and sent thirty miles for a doctor, thinking, they all had been poisoned, he rode thirty muea in the dark, and found that a packet of 'washing powder had been, used in a pudding instead of baking powder. The Mount Albert Roga District purpose borrowing £6,000 for highway work. -.■ Owing to the temporary illness of Professor Kirk, his visit to the North will be j posponed. Mr. Kirk during his visits to the i South has suffered from exposure to rain and bad food, which brought on a gastric disorder that confines him for tho present to his house ; but his iUnest is not considered to bo attended with any danger. At about a quarter to"«me o'clock tin Saturday afternoon lost a narrow oscaipo from what might .have prosed to be (a most disastrous fire, oc<?urr«l bond, Albertstreef." The large building kiSqwn asithe*bor.'i named ' is iJJftrtly used as" a fre.e ana bonded store, and a portion of the upper flo*r is used as fl., temporary Custom House. At the hour stated one of Mr Firth's employees, named J. Brown, noticed a quantity of smol:e issuing from a. ventilator, and at once rushed to the jjpiritof the building from whence ;;he smoke gjj|s coming, and he was soon followed by Mr Ssomiston, the manager of tho bonm. Brown seized several of the Star hand grehades, and dashed them into the seat of the f/re, which was achest of- drawers standing (In the top of a number of casks of cement. "• Tlnis had the effect of keeping the fire in check. Meanwhile the fire hose kept in the building*;' wjas got out and soon a steady stream of water vras playing on the burning mass with such gpod results that the fire; was confined to thjp chest of drawers, and was speedily put . out! After the smoke had cleared away a close ins-nectioh was made of the remains of the article /of furniture named. Amongst this was foivinl the body of a dead rat which was patty chaiired it having died evidently from suffocation. I The fire is presumed to have been caused/ by this rat Ziaving got at some matches th/at may have been amongst the clothing in the ilrawers. . . On Monday morning! about two o'clock a six-roomed house belonging to JMr Skeen, at the corner of Beresford and I Upper Union Streets — was a mass of flames! and all that could be done was to confine /the fire to the burning building, which was successfully done. Tho origin of the fire is uakno\lm.

A fire occural at Pakuranga, at the residence of Mr Robert Millcn, blacksmith, which ended in the destruction of the house (an ei»htroomed one), and in Mr Millen, himself getting badly burned. It appears a fire Droke out in the kitchen, while he was away in Auckland but a neighbour put. it out with a few buckets of water, to all appearances, thoroughly extinguished. On petting home he examined the locality of the fire, and was under the belief no further danger was to be apprehended, but at two o'clock in the morning he was awoke by a crackling noise, and finding the phne on fire, got out with his wife and three children in their night clothes. Being under the belief when he got out that the baby was inside the house in its cradle, . Mr. Millen rushed back, getting burned about the head and shoulder. Not finding it, he came outside again, and found the child, mnch to his pleasure, lying in . the cradle on the road, Mr Millen was brought into town to the District Hospital for treatment.