Local and General.

Dunstan Times, Issue 1022, 18 November 1881, Page 3

Local and General.

And still they edihe ! The next venture in the newspaper line is to be a weekly published at- Switzers; uu-'er the title of the “ VVakaia Herald.” It will make its appearapee early in December. With

ilte Mount Benger Mail,” the * * Tail'll Iu t Conner, “The Popotunoa Chronicle,” “ The Cluthti Leader,” “The Mataura. Eti-ugn,” and “The-Wakaia Herald, ’ that si le of the Cuuuty should be wed supposed.

The annual Statutory meeting of the Vincent County Council will be held in the County Cham bets, Clyde on, Wednesday, the 2d id inst.. at 2 p m., notice of winch is f> Vt 'n in another column. 'I he County Clerk informs us tliat the usual course of catling the meeting is l.y circulars, accomluinied hy copy of order paper a week before iht meeting ; but as on this occasion the election of councillors falling on the day p ior to the meeting, no other course was was openi to him but to advertise. The Minister of Lan is has telegraphed to Mr W. A Murray, late member for Bruce, retire sub-division of the Otago runs “There is no delay in sub-dividing runsi he maps are already in hand, and a preliminary advertisement will be out at once.” Mr J. W. Jago, manager of the Dunedin “ Evening .Star ” has been requisitioned to stand for lire Peninsula district in the new Parliament, but has declined to accede to the request, on account of the pressure of business engagements. A salmon' weighing 821b 1.3 <z ’-as lately sold to a restaurant-keeper in Manchester, England, for L 5. It came from Carlisle, and it is stated to have measured 4ft Gin. A salmon was recently caught in the Columbia River, Oregon, which weighed ,8 ill).

Snakes are shipped from Africa and South America to the United Sta-es in bags. These bags are enclosed in tight boxes,"so that, the serpents have neither food nor sea air during their passage. Their chief ailment on their atrival is a cancer in- the mouth.

1 rickett iia® issued a challongo to Haitian to row him a three-mile race -for I,OOOdol a-side and tbe'championship.

At Creswick (Victoria), the Father Heinebuty, of temperance crusade faint, gave the origin of dancing as follows : -i When the devil was cast out of Heaven) he dropped right down into Hell, .hut the paving stones-being too hot for his feet, he commerced to hop and skip rabdflfquite lively (whence originated the phrase dance like the devil ”), and ever since his imps havedancod jigs, polkas,and quadrilles.

The latest “new departure" in newspaper enterprise is reported from New Or'cans. The “ Democrat ” o f that city has titled up a branch office on a barge, which, having been towed up the Mississippi River to MumiAus, is now floating down to Orleans a»ain, stopping at all points of interest on ♦h« way to gather information concerning the country along the river and for some distance back into the interior. The barge is sixty foot long, with twelve feet width of beam. Its inteiior accoiumo lotion coin prises business, editoral, an 1 jol> offices, composing and press rooms, sleeping apmt meins, dining-room, kitchen, and stable tor the horses me 1 in making laud trips i ack from the river It is practically a folly equipped newspaper establish.ueut all .at.

The facts in regard to the internal machines found on I oard B itish steamers recently have been ferreted out by the Secret Service agents, United States, and arc now made public. Tue scheme is a clever plot, and showed that an Iri-hman named Fry'e, a saluon-kieper in Phthidel phia, to make a little mmiey caused to he mimifactnre 1 infernal machines by Patrick Crow, of B iria, an 1 then turned them over t.u O’D iiovan Rossi When the time was ripe, Foyle began negotiations with the Hri'ish Consul at New York, and recti veil l|)o,i OOdols for information leading to the discovery made in the docks at Liverpool He has fled from the United Stiles, an I no one knows his whereabouts Crown and Rossa have been ostracised from the Irish nationalists

Tit a United Kingdom has linen visited by a tenible hurricane A dispatch of October IGdi mentions it is one of th; inns; di asltous gales known for years Much damage was done to the shipping in the Me scy, ami steamboat traffic on the Thames was suspended The London parks were strewn with fallen timber In South Path 400 trees were blown down The ga'e damaged property all over tbe country, unroofing and wrecking hundreds of houses in Ireland an 1 Scotland, kilPng many people - Forty-Jive fishetmen are reported missing at Harnouth and Eyemouth, in Scotian 1, and. 50 in Berwickshire They are now given upas lost Seventy Dunbar lUhermm are reports I as drowned; a !so three pilots in the Tyne At Stockton-on Tees five persons were killed by the falling of rofifs The steamer Cypre lan, from Liverpool to Genoa, was wrecks 1 on the Welsh coast, 22 lives being lost The telegiaph wires were down in every direction, and most of the land wires connecting England with the Continent were broken.

A WR'ITKR in a Taranaki paper gives the following as an instance of ‘ ‘high tone” in the young ladies of that place: “The other morning ono of these ladi.-a knocked at the door of a certain house in the suburbs in a v<u-y imperative manner The door was opened by a daughter of the house, to whom the visitor addressed herself as follows:—‘Will you please tell your mother that my rna cannot wash fir you to-day', and she’d better engage another lady for this week.