MISCELLANEOUS NEWS.

Inangahua Times, Volume III, Issue 96, 30 March 1877, Page 3

MISCELLANEOUS NEWS.

A. man can't travel into a woman's : affections by getting on her train. In an article on the timber trade of Auckland, the Herald says :— The Wan(rape forest, of 21,000 acres admittedly the finest in the North, was originally se» cored by a Melbourne Company, was afterwards purchased by Mr Thomas Calcutt, of Danedin. and subsequently leased by him to Mr H. M'Leltan, to whose enterprise and determination is mainly 4ae th# solution of what was deemed by many an impossible matter. During the fast three months over 1.500,000 feet of magnificent timber, in tey en vessels, nave been shipped from this forest, time spreading directly and indirectly a large sum throughout the district and city, not only in the price realised for the timber, but in the employ ment of vessels fitted for the service required. We wish every success to the pioneers of such useful enterprises, to the men who find the sinews of war, and to those who have the firmness to carry out to ft successful issue an undertaking fraught with immense ultimate interest to Auckland and her surroundings. The Peruvian Government have made arrangements for engaging largely in immigration ftotik Ktarope, A Bill has been passed, anthorising the introduction of 100,000 Europeans into the territory of the Bepoblic, with the object of settling the districts lying along the Pernvian head waters of the Amazon. These set" tiers are to be furnished with a free passage, tools, implements, and seeds for the ' fifst crop, and about 40 acres of good land. Payment is to be made to tbe Government by tbe colonials for these adraoee*- by annual instalments over a period of twelve years. The induce* ments are sot such as will secure a large supply of Europeans, while British colo* nies are offering far better terms. The areftypfland to be given to each colonist seemr exceedingly small when we con* aider the vast area ot the BepubJicof Peru, which embraces nearly three hundred million* of acres. Much of it on the lowland, towards the coast, is barren, sandy wastes, and in the uplands rugged broken mountain ranges are not very favorable to that kind of agricultural employment to which the majority of European fanners have been accustomed. With the attractions offered by the British colonies in all parts of the world, tbetTnited States of America, and the attractive allurements held out by Mexico, w* fear Pern will be a long time before tb# lilt of 100,000 Europeans will be filled ?|6io3tarijift extract of a letter writ' tealy mr Carlyle to a friend, referring to Darwinism, has just been published at Rome :— " A good sort of a man is this Darwin, and well-meaning, but with very little intellect. Ah, it's a sad and terrible thing to see nigh a whole generation of men and women, professing to bo cultivated, looking around in a purblind fashion, «id finding no God in this univeric. I suppose it is a re-action from the reign of cant and hollow pretence, professing to believe what, in fact, they do sot believe. And this is what we have got to. All things from frogs spawn! the gospel of dirt the order of the day I The older I grow— and I now stand upon the brink of eternity— the more comes baak to me the sentence in the Catechism which I learned when a child, and tbe fuller and deeper in meaning becomes, "What is the chief end of man P— to glorify God, and enjoy him for ever.' No gospel of dirt, teaching that men have descended from frogs. If report be correct (writes the Home News) in announcement will shortly be made from the Tatican which will startle all Scotland from Berwick to Kirkwall. A JMW Papal aggression, it is said, will be mdad on we northern part of the island. In other words, the Holy See is prepar* ing 9 plan for the division of Scotland into ecoleiiaatical dioceses, and its regular ad' minion into the fold of the Koman Church. Scotland, as our readers are aware, is at present in the eyes of the Papal Court in pariiius wfidelum. Its bishops have no local titles, and it does not come within the ordinary organization of the Boman Catholic Cbureb. All this, it is said, is now to be changed, and Scotland is to be provided with a regular hierarchy likt England, and Cardinal Manning is now at Borne assisting in the preparation of tbe scheme. The following cheerful episode in sea life, on board a German man-of-war (say san Auckland paper) may be interesting to some of our readers : About a fortnight ago a seaman on bo*rd the Herlha feloniously abstracted a £5 note from the pocket of one of bis comrades, and when charged with the theft be stoutly denied it. . A search was instituted, and the jnistiog, not* fotrad in his chest. Triec before • board of officers, be was sentence* to four weeks/ cells; his real punishment however, was to come. A second seere Irial by-a jury tad court of bis comrades

resulted in bis being sentenced to the " Baeksluttu," an old fashioned species ol castigation still in use amongst the German*. On leafing the cell to goon deck, a signal was passed among his comrades to be in readiness for bis return. Id a few minutes he descended the ladder to the gun deck, when he was siezed by four strong seamen, palled oVeramess table, and severely belabored and beaten with brass tipped cutlass scabbards by eight more sailors, who continued the belting till the unfortunate thief sank senseless on the deck. During the flagellation the three hundred and odd men comprising the crew crowded round and roared out a song, precluding the cries of the victim from reaching the ears . of the officers.