MISCELLANEOUS.

Grey River Argus, Volume VI, Issue 389, 11 July 1868, Page 3

MISCELLANEOUS.

By a singular and noteworthy coincidence the London Times of the 27th of April contained in parallel columns the telegram forwarded from Sydney by his Excellency the Earl of Belmore via Galle, to his Grace the Duke of Buckingham, Secretaiy for the Colonies, announcing the attempted assassination of H.R.H. the Duke of Edinburgh on the 12th of March, and the telegram received at the Foreign Office from her Majesty's Agent and Con. - General in Egypt, announcing the death of Theodorus, and the conclusion o? the war in Abyssinia. In the leading article in the same paper in reference to the attempt on the Prince's, life, we find the following passage : — ' ' The Australians have welcomed with abundant loyalty and hospitality the son of their Queen, but the feeling for the Duke of Edinburgh in good health and spirits will be weak in comparison with that he will excite when the colonists hear of him as lying wounded and helpless under the bullet of an assassin." How fully these anticipations were realised we need not call to the recollection of our readers. Communications have been received from all parts of the country describing the horror and indignation with which the intelligence of the cowardly attack upon the Duke of Edinburgh has been received by all classes of the community. The detestation of Fenianisn, which previous outrages hail rendered so general, has been deepened and intensified by this blood-thirsty and malignant attempt to murder an amiable prince while engaged j in so interesting and conciliatory a visit. The Evening Post .„ quotes from an English journal of recent date the following piece of information concerning New Zealand, the conception of which can hardly be credited in these days of constant communication with the Home Country, when Colonial Treasurers proceed thither laden with large-sixed deben-ture-bags : — "The Moorhouse tunnel, opening up the fertile plains of the Canturbury settlement in Australia, is 2,838 yards long, and cost L 105,000. It affords, it is believed, the first instance where a ■ complete section of an extinct volcano has been opened out. An extremely distressing calamity has occurred on the Solway Frith. Five young men' left Port Carlisle in an ordinary fishing boat, intending to cross to Annan. There is too much reason to believe that they had partaken too freely of liquor. In attempting to cross to the Scotch side without passing through the open in a railway viaduct, the boat unshipped and turned completely over, and all the unfortunate fellows in it were drowned, the calamity being rendered the more heartrending from the circumstance that the accident was witnessed from the shore by those who were helpless to assist in rescuing them from death. General Mete Kingi, one of the Maoris representatives in the General Assembly, arrived iv Wellington on Saturday, the 28th ult., escorted by over one hundred Maories on horseback.