MISCELLANEA.

Cromwell Argus, Volume III, Issue 119, 20 February 1872, Page 6

MISCELLANEA.

—o — A lady in Raglan-street, Ballarat, (says | contemporary,) upon killing a fowl for til ' > Christmas dinner, was astonished to find ! J I j gizzard full of small topazes, some of thefl “ | being white and some green. 1 A tunnel 3700 ft long and costing £2o.o'ij , j is-.about to be constructed by a public con! 'I j pany through the Cape Colville Peninsula i * ° connect Coromandel Harbour with Kennedy * y Bay. The tunnel will, it is said, not on] J r open up a large extent of auriferous groans j „ but make an excellent means of communio ° tion from the Coromandel mines to ti l * crushing batteries. .] r The Inangahua Herald of February 3 gitcj the following items of news : —Mr Warde| , r Broad arrived on Friday, and holds his fip-j it Court on Monday.—The large sum of £l3lj g t lias been collected by Mr Cooper, the Receivs j e of Revenue in Reefton, since last Court dat tj j on January Bth. During the above short u period no less tlian 200 applications hat 'j lieen received for new quartz claims, an | ■ s about 400 applications for special and bnsines i y sites, races, dams, Ac., Ac. The deman | e for business licenses and miners’ rights hj ■ e quite exceeded the supply, and Mr Coop ■ 5- has, in consequence, been unable to issn ' them for some days.—Some idea of ti | value of property in Reefton may be forme I when, we mention that two business section were sold on Tuesday last for £2BO. Ti same sections could have been bought couple of months ago for less than a quarts a ; of the amount. The purchasers are thre .” i Westport business men—Messrs Graver ’■ Field, and Stitt—who intend erecting larg u buildings, for the purpose of carrying on the; ° ‘ different businesses. qi The Otago Rowing Club’s four-oared out ; ~ rigger gig, built expressly for the Otago cm Ain the forthcoming Intercolonial Rowir; I Match, was launched on the 10th. The boa 1 I is 44ft. Gin. in length, ‘Join, broad in hrl i widest part, is constructed of cedar, wili ’ ~! white pine washboards, elm timbers, an-: ] gunwales of Oregon. She has watertigt q i compartments—covered over with tight! e stretched vellum—fore and aft, and whe: ■_ i put into the scales before being brought t- ,; the jetty was found to weigh OOlbs. He „ crew are Mr H. d. Green, by whom sb e | was built, stroke oar. Mr J. A. Greet n Mr A. Grant (bow), and Mr J. Mackley, o, Chalmers; and the coxswain is M liyndmau. i- ; | A LIVELY JOIJR.VAL. j A young gentleman named Gumps under- ; l | took to start a paper in Cambria County, ’j j Pennsylvania, a short time ago. He called -hit the Chmhria MUhj Wag. He said in his 0 prospectus that ho intended to make tin 1 /.%/ “lively, spicy, vigorous, fearless, - ; and entertaining'’ : and he did. In the firs i 'iumber he called the editor of the rival pape: hj i “ a diabolical liar, an unmitigated scoundrel 0 | and a remorseless assassin.” He alluded {< 1 | the Mayor in a cheerful paragraph as “acor b | rupt miigifitrate, whoso torments from the re- • - morse which fostered in his soul were only L " | surpassed by the physical agony which is a! i ways the punishment of the depraved ant 1 ‘ j riotous debauchee,” He soothed the feeling '*! of the postmaster with tae'remark that “ flit i peculations of tins ofncuil Dick Turpin car he compared to nothing bur the torrilic rob hcrics committed in the past bv those das- '■ 1 irdly Spanish buccaneers whom lie so closely j resembles in general character.” He ar. ; nouuced, under the head of “ Social Gossip; ' that a certain young man had been rejectee the evening before by the lady of his love *• I and. volunteered the information that it vs d i “ the wisest thing she could have done unde: c the peculiar circumstances.” The next edi ;■ tion of the paper was not issued at the regu i- lar time. Finally, some copies were sent oir > i over the town in balloons, and they container : these editorial remarks :—“The editor ha y | found it impossible to go out to-day to huff, hj for nows items, because the Mayor, and tk s: editor of the Tunes, and the postmaster, anc I, Alexander Jones, and a number of other in is dividuals whose names we have been unable ■s ' to learn, have been sitting on the kerbstone a , and roosting around on the back fence all the e morning with shot-guns and other murderous -- weapons, and looking as if they were in ear'd nest. M e give notice here that we have o moved the fire-proof safe against tiio door oi :s onr sanctum, and have lined the stairs with' i- ; spring guns and insane bull-terriers who have - not been fed for a week. The privileges of a >- free press shall not be interfered with while it- we wield a pen or possess a bnll-dog.” The d inibj I Fithowever, died next day, 5b I. I Gumps having slid down the waterspout, anc d; taken the early train for Kansas. These r j outrages against editors will have to be e : stopped, or 5\ illiavu Penn will have died for -r ■ his country in vain.