NEWS FROM ALL SOURCES.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume VIII, Issue 1404, 20 August 1881, Page 2

NEWS FROM ALL SOURCES.

! The following story is Uld in a country newspaper: — 'On one of his reoent official toura, Dr. Mcorhouse, the Anglican Bishop of Melbourne, had the exquisite pleasure of occupying the next seat at the dinner table to Mr. Joseph Thompson, the ' Leviathan' bookmaker. In front of His Lordship stood a gorgeous pie, of such inviting appearance as tn attract inquiries from all parts of the table as to it* contents. ' I'll see,' quoth the Bishop, as he deftly inserted the blade of the carver into the crisp pastry ; but before he could raise the crust, a bejewelled hand on his coat sleeve restrained him, while a highpitched voice with a slight nasU twang was heard to exclaim, ' Hold hard, my Lord, I'll lay five to one no one names it.'"— Tableau. A terribie disease has broke out among the Chinamen employed on the Canada Pacific railroad works in British Columbia. The case of a Chinese cook will serve to illustrate the phasea of this strange malady. He sat down, apparently perfectly well, to eat his dinner. His feet began to swell, and the swellextended itself up his legs and body, reaching a vital part in about ten minutes, causing his abdomen and chest to expand in a most unnatural manner, and he tumbled down dead, all in less than fifteen minutes from the time the disease attacked him. In this way these people are dying in dozens. Says the " Pall Mall Budget" :— lf anybody wonders why the Irish should not love England, let him look at the comic papers just now. Hatred and contempt glisten in every line of these caricatures of the national type. It may be said that such things as these are trifles, and that Irishmen do not mind. It may be so, for anything that we know ; but, if it is, then the Irish are more callous than any other people ever were before. As a matter of fact, it is pretty certain that they do not mind, and that these ferocious satires, showored by a strong, dominant people on a very weak one, produce an angrier and a deeper resentment than would come of ever a* many harsh laws. No-

body would bo so stung as an English* man by odious caricatures like those which he relishes without scruple when directed against Irishmen. Yet we profess to be amazed at Irish ingratitude and antipathy towards us. In 1878, 3,976,409 rabbit skins were exported from Otago ; in 1880, 7,505,616 skins. Mr. Maitland Commissioner of Crown Lands for Otago, reports that 13 runs, comprising, 502,750 acres, formerly brought in a total rental of £2,288 17s Id. Ten of these rnns have been re-let at a gross rental of £619, thus showing an annual loss of £1669. Most serious of all, however, is the evidence that the number of Sheep in the colony fell from 13,069,338 in 1878, to 11.405,389 in 1879, showing a deficit; of 1,663,949 at that date. This deficit may be fairly estimated now at 2,000,000, reprsenting a loss to the exports of the colony of fully £500,0<R) per annum. These facts and figureii speak for themselves. The enemies of the Celestial do sometimes get the best of him. A Chinaman's vegetable cart travelled all round a New Nouth Wales township the other day, with the words "Small-pox 1 * written in large letters in chalk upon it. John wondered what made business dull, while yet the people smiled. A career of remarkable success in New Zealand (says the Mark Lam Express) has been described in the Western Times by a New Zealand correspondent. In 1854, Mr. C. G. Tripp, a Devonshire man, left England fur New Zealand in company with Mr. J. B. Acland, youngest sou of late Sir T. D. Acland. Both took sheep runs, Mr. AcUnd's beiag over 109,000 acres, and Mr. Tripp's 60,000 acres in extent. The rest of the story, however, relates to Mr. Tripp's success only. He had onHy £2,500 of capital, and with this he appears to have purchased Orari Gorge Station, in the Province of Canterbury, or a portion of it — the account is not at all clear. He greatly improved the land and also the sheep on it At the end of eight years he sold his tun for £32,000 a pretty good increase on £2,500. In 1864 he repurchased the run at £1,500 more than he sold it for in 1862, and he now estimates its value at £112,000. Three years ago he refused £100,000 for it. Mr. Tripp has obviously solved the difficult problem " How to farm profit* ably." As an illustration of the ignorance which prevails in the Old Country relative to New Zealand, a writer in the Saturday Advertiser relates the following : — Some time ago a Dunedin gentle* mon sent the MS of a novel to a leading London publishing house to be printed. By the last 'Frisco mail he received the proof-sheets. In a chapter treating of the month of September in New Zealand, the writer had some reference to the "pure spring air.". The London proof-reader could not understand how the air of September could be that of spring ; and to he marked on the margin—"Rot i! Spring air in September is nonsense." The Lord Chancellor has introduced a Bill into the House of Lords the object of which is to enable offenders to be arrested in any part of the British Dominions for offences other than felony, which are not comprised in the present Acts. It also enables intercolonial arrangements to be made whereby piersons escaping from one colony can be followed to another.