MISCELLANEOUS.

Evening Star, Issue 4266, 28 October 1876, Page 1

MISCELLANEOUS.

, An eminent New York SSwcsSSS.--TheLcndon the escape of the FcUiatf BfffldnMi Western Australia one of ttKX; rt “S? wst days of tite year It came this year on the 7th o! AnJSTiS , wMoh ft. froth, cnsssajig: woman. WiSwSml sona^witnessedthein^L^fcjSSmeat.m o rj 6t attorn JSfc 10 ) O'Miv fc'CTwy;* «*»■*•» il r J^ orton *? ‘ Sonthericiis; nejrapamepnn the 19th inat„ andrthelmZ} the'mh borei& n atae T short efltor deolaras that he regards deaTand any revive thatifiete The _ appcatanec of about a May nesiao|boya mHhefstreeta of AualrUnd, w i. o Mnved i^^Mftsiohai^finfibSSr^thMn oross, attracted nosmall attention. -Aa~ - alliintended for the Natfth mjnistnr r of theMekneaian Islands, they I afA newlatyle 4 *. of Bipon, wtf£ hw diocese to qpen a ; cqpieteiV, found the rain so that,he did-jabt. sate’tb ‘;' r expose hlmaelfv.v do keepers of the- ooohd ') brought tb .thU hotel hj few handfols ofSrth j the bishop, prayed over tK»t, and sent itback t° the cemetery as sufficient. W.e hear of courting by telegraph and marivins y h#T 1 The * New Zealand Hmlj * aava t ** A discovery ha* recently beeTxnadß In cliff south of r show that the dog is atieast ejfcmaSent this distrietyartupwards of IQftft wbkTjffi are of pliocene - cretaceous farmamtc —A~ — bone hnnng been obtained from- the face of the cliff by one of Captain Good's children* - Captain Rowan! «©arched^the / shot.- anJjfSSrr - y succelaful in finding pdrSbhs vCrtebrps, and Icg-boneaiolA doB. n Dr Qfles, Poverty Ba£he-A institute inquiries oonoenung' MMr meats made byjudge [j Native Lands Pnroh»an impugning the accuracy of SerfiKn repreoUniiament. SomegannteT«)^wM,»«^-^ <u i rn- - r the .Native Lends, PnrAhse iriMitefaSflUteoU against Judge Rogan are alao tobeinveett gated.. ; Meantime the Wamuahwl howliDg J with > > loss of their RetidentiMa§totA%. i I see tS Chinese Sy s., on the arrival orthatveaasi, Ivere yarded ns UVn fat bnUpolu in so enclosure erected forthe purpose, , ih r / j^bs'6f , 'SW« 9 ' jo thbty at a time. Tfon adopted & order^enfcre thecoll^ti^nofeagsWlng () 'we have seen Polynesians tiong 1 f with brands on their ttensers to ensure identificatlbn.and in flletfe hhow thsmselvet to purchasers, but thSv .# cause of total well formed the Roman Catholic teetotai^aAf.. ■ London into a body called tho.'TotaTAJbetl- ° nence League of the Cross. ; . The members of the League bad a meeting on Clerkenwell Green, bn Sunday, the 6th August, wh«m the Cardinal presided. Me was escorted by V a detachment of the Crusaders, in uniform, g and about 6,000 persons wece present. In the oourseOf his speech, Dr Mftmrihg «dd ,i there were nudwn Gatholiofc in Lon> ■ don. and an ' equal number of childmn' bf • Qatholic patents who bad died in the houses, whither they had been driven by drm^and^eteofnoreligi^^idj l ., A very interesting lawsuit is cropping nnf. in Wanganui. ; The water supply there ® ; obtained from the Virginia Lake, which is situated on the property of »M*f sEair. j seems that the Borough Council totik the water without thinking it worth wMlb to ' obtain the consent of the lady. The Borough Council have now taceived fdrinSt* >i' intimation from the solicitor for the reputed proprietress of this water privilege, that J legal to Be instituted with a view to recover a certain nominal sum, equivalent to the ex-r----pected to be assessed for. damages and Jspl-tv, t pass, and thus establish a right to dk)tate,<Nt! what taring the privilege to use the water ’> will be conceded. Mrs Hair is “mistrras of the situation, ” and will apparently be able to make the Council bleed freely. It is said, however, to-be not Unlikely that th» Vir-.| ginia Lake will become exhausted; - ' » A very remarkable fact (says ** Attious,** in the Melbotu-ne 'Leader') in connection with the cemetery of one of the Australian - n capitals has just bben m|9.r For a long time past it has been MBgaik*4, , that the burials from pnbHc institutions 01. Wesleyans, Independents, am the denominations wUs out el all proportion to the numbers of those denominations as returned in the comma. Inquiries were and the reason soon became apparent. The . Government allows a ministers fee fear each ' pauper funeral; but as the only ehntohes that have a cleigynian on the ground to read ’ 1 the funeral services tire the Episcopalian Roman Catholic, it follows that the oontraoting andertaker is able to pocket the fees himself when the deceased does net be* long to the persuasion qt these gentlemen^ The undertaker had the mining of the denominations . Qf iriß dta>tap im?( made them of the faith that would be inbst ■ beneficial to himself. The discoveiy was .! brought about by a person named Fntriok. O’Toole being entered .in the cemetety books I as a Jearj while as% matter of fact he was a jlloraan OfthoMc.