MISCELIANEOUS NEWS.

Inangahua Times, Volume IV, Issue 58, 22 August 1877, Page 2

MISCELIANEOUS NEWS.

About nine months ago a storekeeper lit Haveloek (Hawkeaßfly)s named M'Raefailed, and entered in.to.a composition with' bis creditors to pay them tea shillings in the pound. By th& last mail he- received intimation that by the death of a relative, he had inherited a legacy of £12;000and: a considerable quantity of landed: property. The Herald state* that he has. informed his creditors of his. intention, to. at once pay them, in full.. „ *•• Tottering Lily,' v the Chinese Envoy's, wife, is not permitted by the laws. b£ her country to be seea by men of cqnal.rink with her husband. Subordinates, are. looked upon as belonging to a,;totajly different catpgory of beings, and np.notico* is taken of them,. The di{sculty,.bow* ever, to finding amusement for '.''HerExcellency " is (says a. London ootrei**- . pondent), in process of being, got otier* by arranging, tbafe on visiting, the theatre, she will be permitted to enter- by tbe-pri-. vate entrance. On Saturday, morning; next she wilU we understand*, bt pwaenfe. at the representation to the- children.. ' - The liquidation of the Westernirßankc - ef Scotland is now completed, apdtfche.re* maining assets, and. liabilities, aioouji#ng; to very small sums only* have. beeataken, over by the National Sank? ofr Scotland;. The Times in, its money articlepronouncesi the report of the liquidators to.be ■ model one. The liquidation, has. lasted 19* years,, and its total expenses have been £118/797, of which £48;703has been.paidas salaries,, and the balance as law and miscellaneous* expenses. During- the l&yeari liabilities to the amount of £G,L3<MO& hVse been, paid off, and calls made to the ampunb of' £125 per kbare, yielding a grow teiaj off £2,054.566, or which.. £87ftl XfrbsxiJwtt, returned. There is still a small surplus, of about £11,000, which wUI aUtyft. : *,jsidt return, of about 15s per. share.to.thi shire., holders.. -■"■•:J^, A Dunedin firm is reported?tovhart-mr-'trodwed a new. description <rf'«&f> there, by which the risk of acciden{fli-ineWent«ij to the use of oil for illuminating/purpose* is greatly diminished^. The- sgecialfeature-. of the lamp is. that the. aperture through, which the flame of the wick comes, initeadi of being in one piece, is moviable. ; Theaperture is kept open by too springs, which are pressed down, b# two. smallj weights. To put out the- lamp one>bas< only to lift the weights.; Should) thjplamp. fall, the weights become Mleased,.andtfhe. burner, closing tightly round? tbe<WMsk-r ifc converted into an estinguiiher* *■* w 1 The Evening Post has, the. follomng,. 'from a Napier correspondent i?-£ u OurHouse of Representatives hsialways bwu. noted for the number of membersTof 'the* .fourth estate' who hare fouiid'thtsir w*y there, but in this case more, theni ever.. jNot only have we .recently heard; of M.H.R.'s canvassing for newspapers, to. support- thaxr views, but a. further. dev»loprment of the Bame mauia has. come to hand. At least * two honorable-membef* '" are desirious. of becoming Wellin^t6i},cor' respondents during* the «eisidnV'fo^ th© A newspapers in, their district, offering, mag--nanimously to B^nd! telegrams of unheard 'of length, without any reward- for- theirtrouble. We4l, this.is ono way of getting, their speeches. reported at length^' The Times publishes^ an account ofan. 'electric candle,' invented, by a Russian. es«onlper,. M. P*ul JabloehkolF, now in. Paris. This gentkman uses a ' candle *of some compound which is his. secret, but ,into which. 1 kaolin," the clay from which,, hard ehiaa is made, largely- esters, and with ono battery can, produce- some fifty lights. They are so powerful that it is* .necessary to softon the light by using opaline burners, and. sis of themgav*, in >the Marengo Hall, Pane,. a light equal to that from.one hundredtargand gas burners.. Xt is believed that the light can. boused for theatres and all other large buildings,, and further improvements are expected*, hot as yet nothing is said either of its. cost or of the amount of trouble. involved. The main fact as yet is thati iL. Janlochkoff has succeeded in dividing; the electric light soy that one battory. would' light fifty electric candles placed^, say along the Strandt Th&t is an ominouti ,fact for all gaecompanies to think over. ; A. GoTernment prospecting party inu "Victoria have struck a. payable quartz; reef* in, % tunnel, which had been driven* 250 -feet ip the Devonshire Rang««,.Buniftyoung.. T;be. Auijiwlafiiap aeye.tbjfti&