MISCELLANEA.

Cromwell Argus, Volume III, Issue 154, 22 October 1872, Page 7

MISCELLANEA.

Tin! Prince Philip and Augustus, of Saxe. Coburg, li M'u arrived *u jle.uourne, with their attendants. A late Australian tele; ‘am says that at Tarulrtroora 12d!)ozs. o: go d have been taken from fourteen tons of stone. The Shag Valley reefs are looking up. A second battery of five stumps has been placed on the Perseverance Co.’s claim. The master of the schooner “'Bniihodltr'* must indeed be an enthusiastic “abstainer! ’ He notifies be advertisement in an Auckland paper that no alcoholic liquors will be received as freight on board bis schooner.

The lice dm correspondent of the Grey

Inver uirjus w—r-s : ’ j •tilinr-sg reigns suprune. it is impossible to ett’*ct a sale of house property, and the very town sections which were considered worth £IOO ortlv a few short months ago, are scarcely worth that number of shillings.” Many will remember John de Haga, formerly of LvateV’s Opera troupe, whose death by his own hand was announced by telegraph the other-day. it occurred at Williamstown, and the reason of his destroying himself was t hat his reduced circumstances compelled him to sing at a second-rate concert-lull.

Taa tunnel on the Oiutha railway through Lookout Point Hill to the valley of the Kaikorai is 946 yards long, 15 feet high, and 12 feet wide, in shape like a Gothic arch. l£ is cat throngli solid sandstone ali the way, and will require no lining, except at the ends', to 3‘cure them from me weather. Including this lining, the cost of the tunnel is £95 JO, or about £L>) per running yard. The Rvngitata bridge, at Tinnru-. is ono of the largest bridges in New Zealand. An idea of its ».za can be obtained from the following schedule of tiie materials used in its construction Masonry, 3JO tons; concrete, 13)0 tons; cast-iron, 41) tons; malleable n on, 280 tons ; and timber, 235 tons. There arc also 31,200 rivets, 14,300 spikes, and 13,5 )0 bolts in the structure. The total cost, excluding engineering supervision, ore., has heen £19,(512.

A want which has been long and severely felt by the bar of this Colony is a periodical containing law reports and other information of interest to the profession. That want is to be supplied by the New Zea-and Lav) Tima, the first number of which is announced to appear in April next. The names of its editorial managers—Messrs Macassey, Haggitt, and 0. Cook—are sufficient guarantee' of the thorough reliability of the proposed work, which we feel sure will, on issue, tie largely supported by those to whose interests it is to be devoted.

A Californian Scene.—The New York Times of the 23th ult. says :—“ A woman lectured in Sail Francisco a few days since on the inexpediency of granting the privilege of suffrage to women. This of course aery naturally failed to meet the views of the strongminded women who were present, and they vig.nironslv hissed the lecturer, with almost tlic vindictiveness which they would have shown had she been a man. Among those of the audience who desired that the speaker should not lu* interrupted was one David Meeker. This person, who, if his mime be at all appropriate, is by no means a combative individual, ventured to mildly remonstrate with Mrs Lmily Pitt Simons, the ion.lest lusser of them all. Indignant that any mere man should reprove her, Mrs ■■'[evens seized the rash Meeker by the collar) and presenting a pistol at him demanded an apology. Strange as it may seem to those who knew San Francisco in the in o-shootiug days of ‘49, there were men in the vicinity of Mrs Stevens who oil not desire to see a fellow-being shot. They therefore interfered. and took the pistol forcibly from the possession < *l the vindicator of women's rights. The press of the city made the most of so in-

tciesniiy an iltm nows tl.o next, nir.rrinsr, and Ails fcUA t iiv, tinning that l or emu u t ci;d nut meet with ] nhlic approval, excused it by alleging that the pistol was only a wooden dummy.'’

A Amy Awkvaid Pia dican; cut.—A fnv days ago a gentleman named Needham went to the river Lea to bathe, taking with him a favourite retnover dog, and, Laving nndr< used linrselt, dopes.ts. d Ids clothes, containing a valuable gold-watch and a emsid* eraide sum of money, on the bank, leaving theni in charge ol the dog with an injunction

to mind them. This ! e did somewhat too faithirdly i.» bo pleasant, for Mr Needham, having had Ins bath, emerged from the water. and i,dv*neul towards his clothes with tlir into!',lii ii of dressing Vims* If, which the do;;, wiiicii was a you; g one, and did not recognise Ins master without his clothes, would by no means ] eviuit, and resisti d all his attempts to ; i s.ess himself of t-lieju, In this dihniiua Mr .Needham returned to r he water, and l.»y dint of rej catcd whlsliii a and calling to the doif at icng'h toaxcd hj ni to leave his vbarge and • o to him, but no sooner had the dog lent the clothes than son,e men, who mivf have been lurking near and. witnessed what, lias been described between the dim and.his master, pounced upon too clothes and ran off with (hem. Mr Net dhani shouted- to them to coiiio back. but of course witlmull t'lie least avail, alld situated ns lie was he could not pursue them ; so there was nothing for it but te roin iin where lie was, which he did till at length some boating men came by, to whom he related what had declined, and they taking compassion on his unfortunate predicament, kindly lent him a pair of boating trousers and a coat, with which Jie was enabled to reach home ; but Up to the present time i he has not been able to discover anvtiling of bis mining property.