Miscellaneous.

Colonist, Volume XLI, Issue 9269, 6 September 1898, Page 4

Miscellaneous.

Auckland, September 3. Rotorua is making progressive strides. New buildings are going up, and the residents are looking forward to a large influx of tourists this summer. It i 3 proposed to light the town by electricity, generated by the power of the Okere Falls, near Lake Rotoiti, some 12 miles away. Port Chalmers, September 5. Arrived— s.s Rangatira, Captain Burton, 52 days from London. She brings 8326 tons of cargo for Dunedin, and 1150 tons for Lyttelton.

he beach, and were successful in restoring animation in everyi nstance except that of Fleming, who was jreated by the Sylvester method for Dyer four hours without showing the faintest signs of life. He was a single man, and a member of the lifeboat crew. Woods behaved with jreat gallantry. The boat reached him first, but he pointed out his companions who were in greater danger than himself, and was the last to be landed. When restored he broke down and cried like a child, and was completely unnerved, yet in the lifeboat he has battled with the fiercest gales and saved scores of lives. Bays Melbourne Punch:— lt is absolutely ridiculous to hunt down the burglar and chase the comparatively honorable bushranger to his lair, whilst we permit the unscrupulous * financier ' to rob foolish or necessitous clients of their last copper, and give him the protection of the law. | The Liverpool Corporation haa decided to license street trading children and provide them with a badge, and to send unlicensed children who traded to an industrial school. Municipal lodgings will be provided for the licensed children. A singular blunder was made recently in the Melbourne Hospital. AMr Rosney was informed of the death of his wife, who was an inmate of the hospital; but on the arrival of Mr Rosney and his children at the hospital Mrs Rosney was alive and well. A death had occurred, and in some mysterious ' manner the names of the inmates had got mixed up. For good humor the Irish beggar's reply to Sir Walter Scott can hardly be surpassed. Sir Walter having vainly searched his pockets for a sixpence, gave the beggar a shilling with the remark, " You owe me sixpence, Pat." j" And may your honor live till I pay you !" was the grateful and witty answer. One of tht recent innovations of special interest to wool-growers,- is the Pnghenden travelling sheep shearing machine, which has made its appearance and is being successfully worked in Queensland. The plant, consisting of shearing machine, engine and wool-press, is taken from station to station and the whole of the work attendant on shearing is done by contract, the owner of the machine finding all labor. A plant employing say four expert shearers easily cuts out from seven to eight hundred sheep per day. In New York State there is an extraordinary dam, more than a quarter of a mile long and 216 ft thick. It turns the whole Croton river into aqueducts, for the supply of New York City. The lake, which holds over 40,000,000 gallons of water, is the largest artificial lake known. BY SPECIAL APPIONTMENT Peabs' Soap, uukera to ,her Majesty the Queen.