MISCELLANEOUS.

New Zealand Mail, Issue 1165, 29 June 1894, Page 33

MISCELLANEOUS.

Amongst the many extraordinary occurrences reported in connection with tho southerly " buster M at New Plymouth on Sunday night (says tho Manawatu Standard) was that of a horse which was blown from his owner's paddock into a carrot field belonging to a neighbour—a fact. The horse is the only one that has reason to bo satisfied with the result.

Quantities are now being taken out by the Government Quantity Surveyor for tho Ilawera Post Oflico and Courthouse.

A deputation comprising Mr J. Stevens, M.H.R., and Messrs Eeid, Aldridgo, Moore, Paulin, and McGregor interviewed tho Minister of Lands and asked that tho now bridge in tho Rangitikei bo placed at Otara instead of at Three-log Whare, about ton miles away. Tho Minister promised to consult his colleagues on tho subject. The creditors of S. M. Wilson, hotelkeeper, of Palmerston North, havo recommended his discharge. The Assignee, who is to wind the estate up at once, said he did not expect there would be any dividend for creditors.

Complete specifications havo been accepted for 15 patents this week. Among them we notice an invention by Edward Keillor, sheep-farmer, of Bulls, for an improved wire-strainer, to be known as " Tho Farmers'Little Gem Wire-strainer " ; one by Donald A. Douglas, of Blenheim, architect, relating to the use of asbostos in buildings as a protection against fire; one by Edward Potts, of Ashurst, builder, for an improved fire lighter, and one by Georgo Bishop, of Fordell, Wanganui, farm manager, for improvements in digging ploughs. The Otago Harbour . Board recently applied to tho Timaru Harbour Board for the loan of the s.s. Timaru suction dredgo for trial at Port Chalmers. The application has been acceded to, tho charge fixed being ~£2O per day and to be insured for .£15,000. Mr Richard Henry has been selected as Ranger for Crown Lands for the Southland land district, to have jurisdiction over Resolution Island and adjacent islands. Mr John Cargill Miller has been appointed Registrar of Brands for Oamaru, and Mr Donald Kerr, Rabbit Inspector. Tho Gazette also notifies that Dr Frederick Money, M.R.C.S.E., has been appointed Public Vaccinator for the district of Waverley. We have to thank the Registrar-General for the first three parts of tho Statistics of the Colony for 1893. Part of the Quarry road (Eketahuna to Stirling) in the Eketahuna Road District has been declared a district road.

A Dunedin undertaker, Mr Benjamin Wallis, is patenting an invention for sanitary coffins.

It is stated that a couple of type-setting machines will be shortly set up in the New Zealand Herald office. This will be tho first oflico in Now Zealand to make use of machinery for type-setting. Two Natives at Parawai, in the' Thames district, while under the influence of liquor, accused another Native of having mahutued the late Honi Nahe and Hori Matene, causing their death. This got to the ears of a chief, who held an inquiry, and as a result fined tho two accusers .£lO each for libelling a brother Native.

On Sunday night, says the local paper, the congregation at St. Luke's Church, Grey town, consisted of " only one." The lay reader gave out that there would be no service. The Wesleyan Church did a little better and tho Presbyterians held no service. Considering the roughness of tho weather it is surprising so many turned out.

The Napier Herald says that a violent hailstorm passed over Hastings on Sunday evening. The hail lay so thickly upon tho ground that it could be shovelled up. i The Brunner paper says that the discovery of the illicit still at Square town is likely to make other distillers who carry on j their occupation in defiance of the law very « cautions. It is freely said down that way | that there is more work ahead of the Cus- J toms department In tho way of finds. Two horses entered for auction at a { Christchurch sale yard were seized and j destroyed by the police. One was broken down from old ago and the other was suf* j ft ring from a spinal complaint.