MISCELLANEOUS.

Cromwell Argus, Volume 1, Issue 51, 2 November 1870, Page 6

MISCELLANEOUS.

An inquest was held at the Scarlin I viau Hotel, Dry bread, on the 21st inslo the body of Annie Woodland, alias Abie King, a woman about 30 years of Jre.| the jury returned a verdict of “Fomi dead,” with the rider that there was nt sufficient evidence before them to enali

them to find how she came by her death. His Honor the Su perin tendent, in a spee made by him at the public dejeuner was entertained at in Invercargill, is i

ported to have said “ Probably few i [ you here may know that I had more to d with the founding of this city than any! other man now living—in fact it might ? have been with greater justice called Inver- ') Macandrew than Invercargill, As that' would have been a very long name, it is ! perhaps better as it is.— (Laughter and cheers).” His Honor also said, referring to the educational and other arrangements of the united province, that “ the other day . we sent home for ten schoolmasters, to ( provide additional educational facilities." } Burning books in contempt, and burning them because the authors could not be got at to fasten them to the stake, has been thought to have gone out of fashion for a long time. That such is not the case \ is evident by the following extract from the Geelong Advertiser : —“ At the meeting of the Presbyterian Church committee, held at the Shirehall, Winchelsea, on Saturday, 10th September, an article in the Geelong Advertiser was read, purporting to be a report of the Geelong Presbytery, wherein it was stated that the Kev. Henry Bristo Giles had only a certificate as a missionary, and that he had not been ordained as a minister. As the said statement is utterly without foundation, and as the Geelong Advertiser had refused to publish Uev. Mr Giles’ letter contradicting said statement, the Committee considered themselves grossly insulted by the slander cast upon their minister, and on account of not being allowed to contradict the erroneous statement, a resolution was carried unanimously that the ‘ Geelong Advertiser be burnt in contempt,’ which was done accordingly.” The following remarkable phenomenon in connection with a boy William Mooie, who was killed by lightning at Sandhurst, is related by the Bendigo I / (dependent: — “ While the medical man, Dr Keiruii, was making the post mortem examination of the body, he observed on the chest what appeared to be a resemblance of the foliage of a tree. On examining more closely both Ur Keiran and Dr Pounds (the coroner), found on the boy’s chest the distinct tracing of a small tree, with trunk, branches, and leaves complete ; the most singular thing being that the tree was inverted as it appeared on the chest, the trunk being uppermost and the branches extending downwards. Beleiviug that the phenomena which attracted their curiosity had some connection with the circumstance of the boy s death, Dr Pounds took on a piece of paper a pencil sketch of the tree as it appeared on the body, and proceeded to the place where the boy had been killed by lightning on the previous day, which was a slightly rising ground behind the Catherine Reef Hotel. The spot of ground being pointed out to him, Dr Pounds perceived quite contiguous a young tree growing at the side of the pathway, which, on comparing with the sketch he had made of the photographed tree on the dead body, was found to be perfectly alike. iS'ews of the safety of Dr Livingstone, we learn by recent advices from the Cape, was received at Table Bay on May 22, by the schooner Montrose, Captain Anderson, from Zanzibar, bound for Boston. At a public ' breakfast given in honor of the Rev. Robert Moffat, who was about to leave the colony for England, Sir Thomas Maclear, the Astronomer Royal, in proposing the health of Dr- Livingston, who is Mr Moffat’s sou-iullaw, thus referred to the subject:—“ The letter,'therefore, from Dr Livingstone, dated Mdy, 30, 1869, and which was received at Zanzibar osyOctober 2, is the latest news we have direct,- from him. But we have the news brought, us the other day by Captain Anderson, of the Montrose. Captain Anderson lumselrv told me that, he had bad a conversation with Dr Kirk, and that the doctor told him ho had received a letter from Livingstone only a day or two previous, and that the great explorer was not only alive but well. (Cheers). The Montrose left Zanzibar on March 12, and I believe the news brought by Captain Anderson to be perfectly true. (Prolonged cheering). It, was physically impossible for Livingstone to have gone from where wo heard from him iu May, and to be where he tv as said to be, according to the West Coast rumor, at the time when be was reported te >*L murdered.”— European .Wail. -fd in