Miscellaneous Items.

Pelorus Guardian and Miners' Advocate., Volume 6, Issue 40, 25 June 1895, Page 3

Miscellaneous Items.

Complaints come from Africa of the wanton destruction of elephants, and especially the useless slaughter of vast numbers of female and young elephants. Ivory is now becoming very scarce south of the Zambezi. In 1892 the value of the ivory that passed through Mafeking was £3,500. Last year it was less than £1;000, and it the precautions now being taken fail in effect, the extinction of the elephant in South Africa will be a question of a comparatively short time. In Basutoland the protective laws take the form of high license fees, and stringent regulations as to the time and manner of hunting such fine animals as the elephant. " I would kiss you if I dared," he said. "If I were a man," she replied, with a determined air, " I think I would dare anything." Just then a cloud passed over the moon.

Marrying a woman for her beauty is like eating 4 a nightingale for its singing.

A Christchurch medico, duly qualified, advertises advice and medicine, 2/6; terms cash. A Chinese League has been formed at Christchurch. Object; to wipe out Chinese competition by stopping Chinese immigration,

The police were complimented for the way in which they worked up the Dean case by the Stipendiary Magistrate. The craze for collecting the first numbers of newspapers is becoming almost as absorbing an industry among amateurs as the possession of very rare stamps and also old buokplates.

The grandfather of Mr Gully, the new Speaker of the House of Commons, was Gully, the famous prizefighter, who left the betting ring with an ample fortune settled down as a country gentleman, and became a member of Parliament.

So numerous have meetings of creditors become lately in parts of New South Wales that some of the merchants have engaged special clerks to denote themselves exclusively to attend such meetings.

The American Government recently paid to a tribe of Indians the Bum of £5,000 for certain territorial rights. A week later, three white gamblers, who followed close behind the Government officials, were in possession of practically the whole amount,