MISCELLANEOUS NEWS.

Inangahua Times, Volume IV, Issue 44, 20 July 1877, Page 2

MISCELLANEOUS NEWS.

The "Wanganui Chronicle contains the following: Lately, in the columns of the. Argus a young lady giving thenpmde. plume of "Myrtle," advertised offering her hand and heart, together wjtb a stock of domesticity, good looks and affection, to any gentleman, not over thirty who, should feel " disposed ts accept them." Letters came to the office from all quarters but as the lady was not. of Mormon, tendencies she accepted only, one, with. " two souls with a single thought, two hearts that beat as one." This has set the ball a rolling, and one of the disappointed wooers now offers through the same spuree his hand and heart to public female' competition. The advertiser is now busily engaged picking from the list of applicants the lone one who is in future to become the clinging barnacle. 1 The Otago Times notices as a revived local industry, the manufacture of cod liver oil. Years ago it re ported. erection, of cod liver oil works at Mr Inness fishery. Port Chalmers, and the success that had attended, the introduction by him of a local' oij. But owing to the. scarcity of fish one season and other causes, the oil works fell into disuse, little, or no oil being produced for two or tUree seasons. The industry has however been revived within the fast/three months, and Mr Innes is once more busily employed producing an article potent in its healing influence, if repulsive to the. palate, lne oils now bei.ig prtduced at his works are almost tasteless" and odourless. ihe liberal demand for the oil keeps the. boilers in consfant operation ; m tact tne demand is. in excess of the possible supply. . . „ , r .. MrE. Me Lennan writes to the. Mail from Travancore, date March 5 :— Some speculator at home has been sending, thousands of cast-off red coats out to this: country, and they are now to be met with all over the country. Red with England is an Imperial color. Is it wise, is it politic, to allow it to be degraded before the eyes of our subject races like this,?. I am not myself over-sentimental in anything, but I have felt hurt in seeing these, coats in all stages of decay and filthy dirt,

/»-;■ -j'..^ • **t' jy^^^r^™^ ■ ■ ■ ' ■- * ' ! disU^fivemark^ofW^imerife to which .they.<moo belonged. I ]ia ™" m °ki It ,coats of ,the Royal Scots, some tumes ot „the, .Royal other reg.m.n^ scarcely ft'^foT^e, I believe, to 0 P ',l Vw Was as furßS conyepu-nt ; consult nattr. igjJJ ■" d,. f , SSttike this by the lowest ot the low? DecideJly not. And wh.t uaiform can compare with the J(iine jed line of the , British Arniy ?