Miscellaneous New s.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XVI, Issue 5435, 27 March 1889, Page 3

Miscellaneous New s.

Almost all fchePari* theatres arolighted by electricity, and by the time tho Exposition opens it ia hopod tv have tho syitom installed in the remainder Tne following amusing paragraph is from a Madrasa paper: — "The death of thr-.H! horaes in the JUintpore tablu made the owner?, so nervous t.iiat Dr Symona was sent up posr hasto fr'in CalcutU to sei j if ho could put a name to tha dieeaae which had ?o su ..denly killed the unfortunate victims, bui tho natives having eaten the defunct gee-get'B, thero was not much reliable evidence to work a report on." A correspondent, writing under date Deoorober 28, from Johanniaburg, Transvaal Republic, the contre df the gold mining district, states that ''during the last week they have had nothing but races to divert their attention, and that two sivL'L'jjSfnkes wt-ro got up of tho value cf £20 000 and £10,000 respectively. Among * community «.f 10,000 to 15,000 this beats th-.- record uf trm Old C ••untry." A r<ciiit news-poper auys: "Bookßteaiii>g #et-ma t> have bccti eluv.iuid iut> a tegular tr:\do i'-Pai'ia. for, according to a rctii'ii drawn up by the Prefect ure of I'nlic- , the number of persons prosecuted f -r this offence within the last two years has beea 145, of wiioni inly fivo ha o been acquit t-.-d, while 00 others have borii sentenced to tine or impiisonnn-p.!, and the remaining 50 aro still awaiting their trial. The amount of bail lodged and of fees paid for hearing has exceeded £3000, these sums being exclusive of counsels' fees and other legal expenses. Moreovor this iar form of mania is uot«oonlined to people who aro in what may be called tho criminal classta ; on tho contrary, it in genera.ly to bo found amnn^ people of higher lvßpectubility.