MISCELLANEOUS.

Tuapeka Times, Volume II, Issue 62, 17 April 1869, Page 6

MISCELLANEOUS.

A substance of a rather fine flavor and beautiful appearance is finding a ready sale as honey" just now in Germany,- This substitute for the genuine product of the beehive is simply starch converted into sugar by means of sulphuric acid. J.AXAJS is torn now by civil war. The rebels are said to be fighting doggedly. Some of the native Princes who were not favorable to the late Shogoon are being punished severely. Their territories are being devastated by a strong force under Admiral Ermottuo, A Rothschild's "Wealth. — The wealth left by the late Baron James de JLlothschild is something fabulous. The late Baron made the - following disposition of his fortune — he left to j his wife Befcty £8,000,000, the Chateau ! Ferricre (whose art galleries are estimated at about £800,000), and his house in the Rue Laffitte, .it Paris. To his second son, Gustavus, he gave £8,000,000 ; to his third son, Edmund, ] £6,000,000 ; and to his grandson, the son of the late Solomon Rothschild, £2,000,000. The largest plum has fallen to the lot of his eldest son Alphonsus, who comes in for a trifle of £20,000,000. This colossal fortune, and perhaps these legacies do not exhaust the amount, reaches the sum of £44,800,000. - The Government of Buenos Ayres has offered a prize of £16,000 to the inventor or introducer of the system for preserving fresh meat best adapted to its working on a large scale. "Wuooprjro Cough is now prevalent in Auckland, and several children have died from it. Life-Boat Services in, 1868. — During the past year, the National Life-Boat Institution has been instrumental in saving the lives of 570 persons from distressed vessels on the coasts of the British Isles. Duking a severe storm, Miss Harse the daughter of a farmer living at Uphill, near Weston-super-Mare, was struck by lightning as she stood in front of a looking-glass. The effect was to blacken and paralyse one side of her.