MISCELLANEOUS NEWS.

Inangahua Times, Volume IV, Issue 64, 5 September 1877, Page 2

MISCELLANEOUS NEWS.

The London Spectator humorously ramarks : The fact, is, Victor JFlugo'& fecundity is as colossal as is his genius. Thit he is, in our days, a literary clossus, whether looked" at ag a poet or a novelist, none who has read either the present poems ov his last novel, " Qaatre Yiitgt Treise,'* can doubt, (hie can fancy him walking off with all the poets and novelists of contemporary Europe and America stowed' away somewhere about his Brob» dignagian ptM-son,. without so much 83 feeling ihe weight of them,— Mr Tennyson, Mr Lowell, and George Eliot sitting on his shoulders ;. Mr Browning balancing himself on the head of a shirt pin;. Mr Longfellow and Mr Hughes curled v up asleep under his coat collar f. Mr Black,, clamberina; up one arm ; Mrs rftowe, Mrs' Oliphaut, Dr Holmes, and Mr Palgrave looking out of his waistcoat pockets, in the, depths of one of which Mr Robert Buchanan shrieks lost ; Mr Swin-burne, Mr Morris, and Mr Dante Rpsselti astride on successive buttons Whitman hanging on by a grey .hair behind;-. : Mr, Trollope and Lord B 'aconsfield, M.* .Flaubert, M. JDuiias, and Herr Auerbach. thrust with a " mixed multitude " into his, coat-pocket, and engaged in exploring the intricßcies of his pocket*handkercliief ; whilst M.vEmile Zola has slipped into Jus boot, and is studying the ooudiiions of life under the giant's instep, and endeavour-' ing to depict them in the strictest plebeianlanguage. ! - : • When lovely woman* stoops to folly; remarks " Atticus," the wit of the 'Melbourne Leader, I would particularly recommend her to be careful in her choice of domestic servants. In a Melbourne paper of last week an advertisement appeared from a person catling herself "a female detective," seeking for. a situation in .town or country. There is something very suggestive and ugly in the look of those eleven words. We must imagine the woman prepared to act the traitor's part —sly, stealthy, watchful— in name a servant, in reality the mistress of her mistress — conspiring in secret with the jealous husband to bring to light the hidden sin. And then the man— apparently unsuspicious, living on friendly terms with the wife he n'as set a sleuth hound upon, watching day by day and hour by hour for t ie report that will confirm his doubts and break up his home— what should we think of him? The idea is altogether revolting, and I hope the "female detective " busiuess will never take root in Melbourne. Servants arc bad enough in all conscience as it is ; but if in addition to their o: her faults they are lo be suspeclcd of beiug detectives, a good many ladies would much raiher do without them altogether. vJ ,j

. ; , -, .»■ ; — — — ;-v "Considerable interest,' 1 says an Enjj--^ Hsh .provincial paper of recent date, " 19 i*. ' being' excited among Baptists and other i . >" onconForniists of t.he Midland district by V the visit to tbisscoantry of the Rev. . | Charles Clarki of^Melbojurne, Australia | (and fqrmerlyj oj|ijroadJSoad, Bristol.) | During: the lasfi fevfljfeetfs^ as preached | in several places ofiw{o^sliip, Baptist and ConfrrejfationatfKPneilVcls who knew him f before leaving recoguise tho-^ .1 same cletir striking voice o«ilp mellowed sV aud deepened somewhat by ago tho same | 0 poetic stylo and dramatic delivery. /On | Sunday, May 23, Mr Clark preachjad a I ' Sunday-school sermon at Geore stXg&fi Chapel, Nottingham (Rev. \VV WoWs J Pastor,) -and in the afternoon .conducted n i- 1 children's service in the large Mecliaaies' * Hall. We understand that since his arrival.in England Mr Clark has received invitations from more than one important lj Baptist Church, but os his intention i ] is to return very shortly to Australia, to 1 deliver anotlier course of lectures ]ie 1 prefers to hold himself freed from pasUfral ! engagements for i'he next, 12 o/^ls " mouths.'' ! 1 Just tliii'tytseven years nxo, this six- ' (eenth day of August, 1877, says, the -, A karoa Mail, the nucleus of tho town < f ' Akaroa was formed by tho pitching of a ' tent, as near as possible on the spot where stands the office of this journal The French colonists landed from i U c ship Count de Paris, on the beach at the foot of what is now Jollie street, but what was then a dense bush, on the orening of August 16, 1840, heartily s lad to* find themselves, af.er n six month's' voyage, once more on termfirma. The first boat from nhe ship that touched (lie beach of Akaroa was steered by otir fellow townsman** Mr F. Lelievre, who was at that lime a stib-oflicor on b)ard the Count dePitr-s. Death, and removal since that date, have' thinned the ranks of those" who bade this "the home of their adoption ;.".of tye ofi s in'al x/olonists there are still resident amongst usMr and Mrs de Malm3nche,.senr., Mr 3 and Mr Guindon,.Mr and Mrs WaeekerW Mr and Mrs Libeau, juur., Messrs^ Bourioud, Libean, senr.. Bernard, Breit- i meyer, Le Vallbnt, David, Mrs Ditcly, * aud Mrs Lelievre, sanr. i - Mr G-. E. Carton writes to tlve Wei- \ lin^ton Argus as follows :~rdu state that \ the complaint brought under the notice of \ the Government by one of tire barrister of the Supreme 'Courtis' an "allegationthat theCliief Justice in recently giving judgment in an i mportaht", case—Hare v.. the Borough of Waugamii— did not call upon the counsel for the defence to reply. Allow me to Bay , lhat I tiaze Jiroujht nosuch complaint under the nptice of theGovernment, nor have Jl-. ever said to any person lhat I M'nfceuded.t.to; do s-o. Thecompla'rils which -l Abate mad© lo tue Gp-rei-nment regard other and'g'.'aver ma^- ■ tei-S. - . ->: •' "^ -jftS:

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