MISCELLANEOUS.

Tuapeka Times, Volume VI, Issue 267, 13 March 1873, Page 7

MISCELLANEOUS.

Dynamite, accqrdine to the "Bendigo Advertiser,' is liable to explosion from concussion. That journal reports : — '• An accident occurred from a dynamite explosion at Kochs' Pioneer, which might have been attended with very serious results. A hole charged with the agent was fired in the morning, and a large quantity of stone was broken, but not sufficient to clear to the bottom of the hole, and in the course of the day the men found it convenient to continue boring at the same hole with the view of putting in another charge. But there was a small quantity of dynamite remaining from the previous shot at the bottom of the bora, and as the men. were at work with their drills it exploded with great violence, carrying the drill away, which passed between two men, who fortunately and narrowly escaped. Had the drill struck anyone he must have been instantly killed ; as it was, one of the miners was knocked down, and received a severe blow in the itomach. It will be necessary for the* future safety of miners to avoid boring in a hols which as once been charge \, even although as in this case, the charge should have taken effect." At a raffle held at Dubbo, some extraordinary throwing was witnessed. The raffle wa§. three throws and three dice, and the winning number was 53. Out of the thirteen throwers 10 threw 40 and over. The Rev.' Mr Niall, who some three years ago was convicted in Melbourne of a grave offence, has caused informations for perjury to be issued against three of the witnesses who gave evidence against him at his trial. Xhe Waiirai kidnapping case, tried at Sydney has resulted in the committal of Captain Gay, bail being allowed. From the evidence of a sailor named Heath, it was - proved that 130 men aud 7 women were s.okn from the Solomon Islands, and taken to Levuka for labor purpos- s. The affairs of the Victorian "Woolen. Factory afc Geelong are prospering. Tha demand for the company's tweeds has so increased, says the " Advertis -r," that the machinery has-to be taxed to the upmost to keep the market supplied. Large orders for winter goods have been pouring in, and for weeks past work has been carried on. nighfc and day. The report of the Victorian Civil Service Commission contains fully 600 pages of printed matter. At the annual meeting at Sydney of the Wesleyan Mission, the year's receipts were stated at £13,000, A man named Barnwell has been accidentally killed at West Tamar. Tasmania, from another man jumping off a haystack on to his stomach. The latest Americanism is *• nuptaton." It is synonymous with " married." A Cedar Rapids editor envies the census for embracing 17,000,000 women. A Sorrowing Widower — Old Dame : "Lor, Mr. "Potts, not at woik to-day, and a-going on like this!" Mr. P. : '• Got. an 'oliday, mum — been a-bcrrin' the old gal !" — (Hie.) A leap-year proposal was thus made: — Mary—" Well, my dear Eli, father thought I had better see you and propose " Eli— " Oh, darling one, lam thine ! Take me, never mind father ; take me as I am ! Take — " Mary—" But, Eli, let me explain.' They wanted me to see you and thank you for your many kindnesses, and propose that you dan'fc come here any more." "We the find the following strange story in the " South Australian Register" of the 24th Jan :— " More than a week ago a man knocked at the door of the Fowler's Bay Police Station, and upon the office in charge appearing, handed in a strychnine bottle, telling him that he had just taken the contents, and would soon be dead. The statement was ere long verified by his being seized with convulsions and ultimately expiring. In the intervals of the fits the official gathered from the man that his name was Antonio Silvestro; that ten years ago, at Oastlemaine, he commited a crime which placed his life in jeopardy, and since then he had wandered about the s wildest parts of the bush, never venturing near a town or any place of habitation except occasionally an outlying shepherd's hut, fearing he might be detected. .He lived on any wild animals that he could catch, and such roots and fruits as he could find in the desolate and hungry Australian bush, till at last he resolved to end a life of hopeless misery. There being no magistrate at Fowler's Bay at the time no inquest could be held, and all that the officer was able to do was to bury the body of the unhappy suicide, and travel to Streaky Bay to report the case." " Pray, sir, of what profession are you ? " asked an eminent Q.C. recently on circuit of a witness who had come prepared to prove a fact, and who was deemed not very respectable. 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