MISCELLANEOUS.

Dunstan Times, Issue 458, 27 January 1871, Page 3

MISCELLANEOUS.

The official documents which hja ,T e fallen into the hands ofthe new French Government pro e that with the exception of the Orsini Pianori conspiracies, and the rising at La Villette, all the alleged plots which made a sensation under the Empire were got up by the police. The last of them was arranged by M M Pietri and Bernier, the “ Juge d’lnstruction ”, in order to produce oi. the public mind an im.pression favorable to the “ plebiscite ”.

News has heen received of the discovery by the Colonial Cover meat geolosjists, Messrs Sawkins and Brown, of magnificent waterfalls, far exceeding those of Niagara, in Demerara, Brittish Guiana They are on the upper part of the Patora River, three days journey from the colonial penal settlements, within one hundred miles of the capital of the colony. Although so near comparatively to European settlements they have hitherto remained unknown to civilized men, and are but rarely vis ted by the indians, who have not appreciated their marvellous character. The fall consists of two leaps—one being a perpendicular fall of over seven hundred and seventy seven feet, and the second over fifty feet. The volume of water measured in dry season is twenty eight feet in depth, and nearly one hundred yards broad. The Government of the colony have Undertaken to open the neighborhood and give facilities to visitors The Niagara Falls are one hundred and ninety feet high.

What is termed the Contractors’ Debts’ Bill has lately beeij. introduced into the Victorian Asseinblv. It is stated that workmen frequently have lost considerable sums of money by had contractors—men who take jobs, and then, after the first or second “ draw leave their men to look after their money as best they can. The Bill is to afford the required protection. At a meeting of working men, held recently in the Trades-hall, Melbourne, the following resolution was adopted, viz., “That, in the opinion of this meeting, the Contractors’ Debts Bill now before Parliament deserves our individual support, as we look upon it as a first instalment towards the attainment of a Lien Bill wherein we can have a claim on property for wages due” A similar bill might, with much benefit be passed in Otago.