MISCELLANEOUS NEWS.

Inangahua Times, Volume IV, Issue 36, 2 July 1877, Page 3

MISCELLANEOUS NEWS.

A oilme, committed under roost extraordinary circumstances, is reported irom Paris: \ 'fu -eral procession was leaving; the oiiurch «lio-« suddenly the re;-orlo<' firearms was heard, aud one of thej jaouri'ers, « middle-aged woman, .fell > mortally tiounded. A .nstol shot had ■ entered her stomach and passed dni,> at her back. .STir expired in a hvr sopon s. The mourners, ou .looking ..roiud,- saw- a man running away. Tiie police ran after him, bat were too late to captui'O hihf. ;v The murderer succeeded in reaching his 'house, and, as- soph, as he got into. his bedro-n*., blew out his own braius. Ue turned oui. to be the husband of "the .woman, just shot." Ho was a mason, • * ngOd* M. For the pant 10 years he had liyedat^ Sevres separated from his wife, who resided al* Versdlles. . Merphants in Canada appear somehow to, havo got into embarrassed circuinst nees. The writer of *n A iwei lean Jetter, quoting from^. tbe Mercantile Circular, winch Las } ,just- been started, says that the ' failures- in, Canada . in the last two years number Vteiarly 4000, winch occurring amongst §0,000 traders, argues so.netbiun; . radically wrong iv the trade of a rich obmitfy. . At this rate, in 10 years every business man in this couutrj'Tnny fuocutni* . During those two years the gros* li- *"■ abilities of failed estate wee over fifty million dollars, a sum barely eq<u)i**d by the eutire. exportj of yraiu in thar period. Of this -fifty milliou dollars, it ii p«itim*tcd that t at leasi. eight million have been irrevocably lost. The circular urges the adoption' of some policy by whicii the number of traders may be lesse.ied ahd the standards of credit be raised higher. I suggest the formation of an Anti" compromise Association, by which the present*,'.' System of compromising, with seren -out of nine who fail may be brought' to, an end. Upon. the whole, this first Canadinn mercantile circular is a decidedly doleful document, bewailing tho past and the present, and holding oui little, hope of improvement in the early fUttkrc*. ,•'•'•' deferring to the late Waimate libelcase the 'Oamaru Mail' says; 'Though the editor of the ' Waitangi Tribune' has happily escaped from the grasp of the law, 'it appears he had a slight iaste of the unpleasant Mr Er-ed. At the conclusion of the trialat Timaru on Wednesday last,.; thp amdutii'of his fine not being foriheorf)* ing,' Mr Cuming wos. taken in company witfrMr; to tho gaol by the police, where, baring beea ii Court all day without food, he requested something to eat. A piece of aieat and a junk of bread w*re given him ou a tin plate and, on asking Tot* a knife to sever a piece # for manti cation, be was iv formed that knives were ,-i.tp* a'lowed the prisoner* in Timaru Gaol, Tue (lifficnltr, howevoi', was got over by Sherrin lending him his pocketknife. 1 ;Pi»r'"fho first time the journalist appeWd tv, realise the position, and wus settling doWh on I is dry bread and meat, stek<lily, r bat with an as-pert of deep dejection find so tow pn his face, wheuhe was informed that a message had arrived from M/« i: iMV»iis ; Jo'ta?, ege.it and auctioneer, with ' an of a hundred pounds to pay -Bie' fine. ' -Although ?L' Cuming's exper'wixce has beo'i. luueli shTni of . thai of'iijs'bypther oLtynder (,'j)ierriu), whose total^iHeai'i>4rat?ou fon his committal aruounts'.'to almost aix iiioutlis, hii taste <>f prison fare s aiul iis nc<*«->mp:inimonis will rerfa'in among i" c uuploasaui memo lies of liis life/ The following remarks occurred iv an address recently delivered ly the Hon Mr Pc*- —''With the public works *chome the days of provincialism ceased, ie beiug no ioliger'of any use, the General Goveru. meht'hayiiig assu. Ned the solo right to borrow wid consequently to sriei'd.- It is unfortunate that a well-devis<'d sclieme did not take Iheplace of provincial institutions. It was at the fag end of a most tedious, session, when the Ministers were wor^'ont/ihat the County, system wns devisecir Some altera-ions will possibly have to take place to harmonise it with the 'B<m<^l?oarilfl, ,or to merge one into the other.. The question.- of education. will* 1 hive' to bY considered during tbe coming session. As you are nware, the systeuis', which are of a . locaLcharactor, abolisliilm^ hn-re 1 to l|Kle^s|idwi|feSi^^ the broa^sWps^pies^^ bb* stao^^b^^iiit^ed^itli^il^ clergy" and'tne upper, classes who do not send thelir -children to the common schools. It'v is cunous'thafc in this professedly. O.aistian country the Eible should be the only prohibUedbook, hut among Iho contending parties: so it is, and, muoh as I should like to see the Bible read in our sohools withont 'gloss or comment, I. fear that a ."broad aud purely secular b, stem \vr\lV- have to be adopted. The hon." gentlemen concluded by observiug that he would recommend tbe colony to borrow -• so long as it could find lenders but to^ exercise prudence in so doing and a judicious economy in expeiidUuro for the next twoyc'Ers. 7 * P "'"■ '„ d "■'■"*' ,' ,( , ,— rr-a