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The account winch we quote in another part of to-day's issue, of the sufferings of some of the newly-arrived immigrants in Otago, will ho read with feelings of indignation. We hope that the inquiry demanded by the Guardian will be granted. A gross breach of faith would seem to have been committed ; and the sufferings of the immigrants, in one of the most inhospitable regionsof the Southern province, are painful to contemplate. The story, too, will find its way home, and its effect in discouraging immigration to this Colony may bo very serious.

The Government organs—the New Zealand Times and the Guardian —find fault with the recent appointment of Mr Bowen to the Ministry. The latter journal, usually well-informed, falls into the blunder of supposing Mr Bowen to be a relative of the late Governor, and draws therefrom certain erroneous conclusions.

As a " contemplative philosopher," Major Ropata is only equalled by Josh Billings. His reflections in the Waka Maori on the experiences of his Australian tour, are sometimes very amusing. He paid a visit to the Melbourne Exhibition of Arts, upon which he thus moralizes:—" In this building there are some shocking things—images. Really the Pakehas are a most extraordinary people 1 They are shocked if a button falls from a man's shirt collar, and exclaim, 'Mind the button of your shirt! It has fallen off! The ladies will see your throat!' And yet they manufacture naked images of stone, and exhibit them to travellers. Who can comprehend the mystery of their ways ?"

The reporter of a Northern phper has placed upon record the observation that the late lunar eclipse was "doubly effective from the fact that the moon was at tho full." Should an eclipse of our satellite take place at any other of its phases, the absence of " effect" would be amply compensated for by the unprecedented character of the phenomenon. When such a wonder in the heavens does appear to the dwellers in any part of the earth—" may we be there to see."

A very lady-like correspondent, signing herself (?) "Terpsicore" (sic) rates Mr Fox in that curious paper, the Buller News, for the Act closing dancing saloons, and " depriving us girls of a livelihood." Tin's is Ja specimen of her style:—' Can Mr Fox prevent dancing in houses? No; the nasty, jealous old thing, he can't, and he shan't. And pray, if it is naughty to dance in public, is it not quite as naughty, if not naughtier, to dance in private? Drat the nasty old thing, I've no patience with such starehed-up, mock-moral old bachelors, and sour old paterfamilias."

The following American extract would apply with almost literal correctness to a weekly " Mail," and a daily therewith connected, published in this Colony:— " The editor of the Columbia, S.C., Mail, with graceful eloquence, acknowledged the receipt of a milk punch in one column, and in the next published ' a Temperance Department.' Somebody has complained of his inconsistency, and he explains that the editor of the Mail has nothing to do with what goes into the temperance column of his paper, nor have the gentlemen who conduct that department anything to do with what goes into the editor of the Mail."

During a recent invasion of ants in some parts of England, it is recorded by a lady that her little boy," with schoolboy ingenuity," wished to be excused from his lessons, as tho ants covered the pages of his book to such an extent that he could not read. But schoolboy ingenuity is quite equalled by that of jurors. Not long ago one of them successfully urged the " strong prejudice " he had against one of the parties. Several others, who followed with the same plea, received a snubbing from the judge. One of the latest instances in point is thus narrated by the Wanganui Chronicle :—" At the Supreme Court yesterday morning a juryman who had been challenged requested his Honor the Judge to permit him to retire, as he had important business to transact in connection with the delivery of her Majesty's mails. His Honor being desirous of, if possible, acceding to such a reasonable request, quietly put our juryman through his catechism as to the specific duties he had to perform in connection with the mail delivery, when it appeared that Mr Juryman was the proprietor of the stables that lodged the horses that dragged the coach that carried tho mails. His Honor did not seem to realize the importance of the business, and the juryman experienced the truth of the remark that ' the best laid schemes of mice and men gang aft agley.'"

Brother Jonathan will have to look to his laurels. Recent indications convince us that the Continental journalists are excelling him in a department in which lie lias hitherto taken the lead. Take, for instance, the following from the Berliu National Zeitung : The latest American progress in building will he the Mammoth Hotel, soon to be erected in Chicago. This enormous hotel is to have a frontage of three English miles, and a depth of six miles. The height of seventy-seven stories will measure 3,480 feet from the grouad floor to the roof. The hotel will have no stairs, but five hundred balloons will always be ready to take visitors up to their rooms. No room-waiters are to be employed, but visitors will be served by a newly invented automatic, put up in every bed-room, which will do all the sharing, shampooing, etc., for the guests—a very simple and ingenious mechanism. Supposing the guest requires hot water, the automatic will be able to call down stairs, "A bucket of hot water up to room number one million three thousand one hundred and seven 1 " and the water will bn up in seven seconds by the patent elevator. One-half hour before the table d'hote, instead of the ringing of bells, a gun (24-pounder) will be fired on each floor to call the guests to get ready for their meals. The tables in the dining-room will measure four miles each, attendance to be performed by twelve waiters on horseback on either side of the table. Music during table d'hote will be played gratis by eight bands of seventy-seven men each. For the convenience of visitors a railway will be built on each floor, as well as telegraph offices. The price for one bed-rooom will be from one to ten dollars. The cost of this building is estimated to be S6BO,0 n O,OOO The billiard-room will contain nine hundred American, ninety-nine French, and one English table; and most of the visitors are expected to be American. The billiardroom will be fitted out with a spittoon of one hundred feet in circumference.

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Hawke's Bay Times, Issue 1631, 24 November 1874, Page 438

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Untitled Hawke's Bay Times, Issue 1631, 24 November 1874, Page 438

Untitled Hawke's Bay Times, Issue 1631, 24 November 1874, Page 438

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