MISCELLANEOUS.

South Canterbury Times, Issue 2740, 4 January 1882, Page 3

MISCELLANEOUS.

'■' ' ’ v; " ■ ■’ Experiments will be made shortly to light the streets of Melbourne with the electric lights The Australian Electric Company offer the City Council to furnish electric lamps for six weeks free of cost, if lampposts are provided. The company are also importing lamps for domestic lighting. Strong Opposition' has been offered by the police against the transfer of the license of ‘the cafe at the Theatre Eoya), Melbourne, tp the present occupier, oh the'ground that the place was improperly conducted. The barmaids, in consequence of the constable’s statements regarding them, held a meeting, and decided to instruct a solicitor to take steps to have them examined before the Court regarding their character. They threaten an “action for defamation against the constable. Captain Lancaster, of the brig John Wesley, who arrived in Sydneyham on Dec. 23, reports that an alarming shock of earthquake; was/felt at Tongatabu on Nov. 24. The extent of this disturbance may be better calculated by the fact that at one of the islands an immense valley' has been formed at a locality which was previously nothing but plaint In consequence of Captain Lancaster’s departure from the islands two dayafter the occurrence, he is not in a position to state whether the sub • terranean wave affected other portions of the group. _ The Chinese residents of Dunedin have nOt rbeen unmindful of the holiday times as far as the Hospital is concerned, having Subscribed the handsome sum of £3B Ifis, which has been handed to the Hospital Committee to be at their disposal for the benefit of the patients. This is the. third auh* scription. within the last three months, the total amount being £6llos fid. AJ?ond street man , looked into the garden ’hose to see why the water did’nfc come, just as his son turned the water on at the hydrant, and when the doctor came the stricken man told him that he saw a fellow climb over the feiidCrhut -didn’t see his revolver until just as, he shot. And then he. wanted to know bow long he had to live, and said he was not afraid to die. But when he got to the true inwardness, of it be bunted for that boy nearly three, hours, with a piece of lath and a skate strap to hold, him, and then didn’t find him., , " The lurid-flames shot their red tongues of fire high-up toward the glowing .heavens, as if they were, in their vengeful fnry, endeavoring to sear the bright faces of the twinkling stars P” It Was only a SOdof stable, 25d01s worth of hay, but the reporter felt that way and really couldn’t help it.