MISCELLANY.

Inangahua Times, Volume IV, Issue 92, 7 November 1877, Page 2

MISCELLANY.

As tbo Green-park Forms a sort of supplement and appendage to St. James'spark, so does Primrose-hill to the 1&* gent's park; it has the character of n " park for the people," and its association^ are the rererso of aristocratic. The hil lies on the north side of the park, and its name still bears testimony to its rural, and rotired situation, when its sides wero covered with brushwood and au under* irrowth of early spring flivvers. Groin* Iviolc to the tiuio of the Homan settlors^ \ro fiad that when they plnntod thci colony ou the b:iuks) of the TUamss and

founded Lindon,* mo^fc pjirfc of \\i& northern dia^ricb c»nsistel ofva larje fo»---ost filled with wolves andf other wild nnimils. Eii*'f in the thirteaVh ftdnturv t!ie forest of Middlease* was disforastrd, Imt although portion* were- cleared, St. •TohnVwood, n<? we navdiatreipy soon remained sufficiently deqte in .Queen Elizabeth's reign to afford shelter and concealment to Babington,nie-conspirator, and his assoeiats. At tjj'at tlmn. however, the slopeo of Prinrose-uill wero used ns meadows land, anl wpfo prbbrtbly iv the mmd of riters wlf) allu<!d to *hoy many "haicoo es in .Tily nt St. Panoredao " (Sk. Panoras), tufa thing known to everybody. This district dates back to very oarly times. if w» may aennot tho name of Barrow-hill -~ formerly Grs<nberry hill— which lies oi its western sido. as eridenco that it was cnoe the scene of a battle and place of for tho plain. There wag fortteriy a Barrow Farm, and Barrow-bill itself is now ooiMipied bythe reserroir ofith© Wesk Middlesex Waterworks. The 'nsme sur* vives in B<»rrow-hill place a»d mad.— CasscU's Illustfated News Lsitjfott." " The mannar in which our horses aro con6nod by tight and heavy strapping and traces, by tight pole- chains, by bearing ran«,and the indiscrimiriate as© ofVlinkers to the bridles, has been Much overdone ii> Eneland. If a horse with o heavy loatt driven fast orer slipnerv roads should stumble, it is most difficultfor him to recover hirasetf— tits falls, is soraetime? pushed along by tho impetus of tho carriage, and is mire or loss injured in his limhs or nerves by the accident, while it is difficult for him to riao again until theliamesn is unstrapped and the carriage is removed from above him. We also harness our horses to closely to their work in the two«whceled carriages. We harethought* only of tho caseof turning and moving the whole vehicle in crowded aud narrow ways without observing the ad* van t a (re of the long shafts over short shafts' If the shafts ere considered na the levers by which tho horse- supports and movos the weight behind bira in n two wheeled cart, it wilt at once be ohvious that (althouch whilst those- leversare parallel with the food) it does not so much signify whether they are long or short ; yet the moment when they point upwards, and ospeciaHty when they pom b downwards, the difference bettroon long and short levers is severly felt by thehorses." The sense of these remarks an well as their humanity must commend them to everyone who his notine<) the sufferings of horse* in London.— Thrupp'* " History of Coaches."