MISCELLANEOUS.

Inangahua Times, Volume V, Issue 36, 20 February 1878, Page 2

MISCELLANEOUS.

A writer in tho Queenslandftr says :— If, nn in byrfono days, bcneQts a? 6 not thrust upon actors, o survey of a yoaVw plnysMils ■ will amply testify to tho numerous cnllg mndo l>y individual heto.rs upon tho public, and it is noticeable lui.w readilj nnd cheerfully notors nivd ncttosses eotno forward/ 1 with gratuitous ussistniice to, benolits to acknowledged, •■• Star's, ' V>r bfmefiiß Mitt nrrn.ntfpmfints ' of which i\r« til It on in hand by aristocratic pom'rmttcnu, the aftvruQou performaocon Ki"i'U '»'*• benefits do not bring n great; denl of m,p,ncy to , thp ucedy coffers. -\lf thorn I rqmain a credit balanao at all,\horc is, indeed,, in : those, ■"' ard times," A-i Mr E'cqlch,, retail rked* much to ' b.i thankful' for, Tho author of " Tho IVrnqptor'* Box." makou Xh6 hero, W. do JJncy , Fit?altnmont, trngodiani lecturer, nnd qo,mio fiinger, sarcastically comnlnins thul hi'« last bontfii' brought him £l 17s, and that Homo of his? patrons- forgot lo pay lor their tickets, nli ich htill further c'imir^ifi'iocl tho tbtiil. ' But thorp is n.slpry of ■ n '"Frphoh 'nctdr-'-iuul 'tho, laf.o Mr Murray quoted tho tale in ono olnis, nddrcHSi'H iit tlio Addlphi f lhmitiv mmy 'years .njjo — who protested nuiM.nwt; l»*»vim» n boiielit, it boinu compnUo,ry in. olden times l)y tho letters of iiKt'ooment, for antors to, lake one, tlia mniiaucr lioing ofirof'ul to Uko <or Ih'h slm ro tho nrtuai oxponsot) of tlio purfori^nu«\ nnd if i.lr.» ■roni'ipm nm united, to less?, todl»iltict. tVotn tho no(o,r's unlury this dit\iiitMit (?nm. t*o when th'n d,rtlo lor tho LVonihinAn'M l),oncli,t wa« npproaeldtnj— ho "W)iß.phiyii\i» in tho provisos — in vain ho oxncnlod nil his civility- 1 iy,\p!orJDjj tlio innnni;/tr nol to yivo liiin 0ji.0.., "Oli siiir,,bo so gooil, s'il votil '|ylntfr* Li ' ll 'Sii vjpu^ " iionsi'iiso' 'und ' 'linmbuK," replied th(J austere muifiuei 1 ;. '• I cannot break thro'utfli my rule, which gays that eyery 1 of Hiy^ortipnny nhall hnV« a bonej^.." \t was no nso arcuinu;: ihcra mi»«or wns inexorable! and despotic, nnd tlio notor. had, with thn bi-st possible Kmt'Ct to submit.' Tho evt-nLl'til ovonj'itf passed ,• and tho FccMiirhmin's sniritrt nppt'ared, ttl'tor tho'rtin'Oimis lia 1 b^en balnncoil, to lio briiflitor tliart usin\l. A ffi'iid onq -j; d of him fn t;.> wlmt penur.lHPV suoimss liis b.enel\t hid brought him. " C)li, insitjii'llqin*," <!;uyo th,o reply from thff j >yfiil aotor, '• supnri>, bountiful, .bonefit i*l i h yeiir— l only lode ,; five p,ou?ids'!' <: i ■.'■''•■ •• i • • The'Di'u'k^'on tho.horn'* of a dilsmna irf iflusvtrnUil^ Kyi >." (iulort" i,n tho Times of Tndin s X^'iulon letter:.— •MVnas in to l^oo'mo'of fho untiappy Turks P Mr ,<sl,idft,tQiv> . nrjd, .his lot, insist thol thpy Hluilt bWdriyeft, l»it|; n»rt,'t)aKiDsago out o^ Unrope, Whilst the ltussians i^ro" evidently bejit on dri^in« thofti out of Asia. 'Whether aro they to botnko thomsolycs then ? Tho dilopilji'iifeiTiuyls tno Of OluVsij^nsUul by a, SiiiTor on b^ard ono of Her Mjnjosty aiiips to nn old post cmptnfij whom I. know. Tho captain, mot him, oomimj on board drunk; and addressing hirh sternly pnid, ••• What: do, you mfcnn sir, hv l)ein« drujik : o.u" b!>t\r,l yhip? T won't havo it sir. And I henr, b.^sidos, that you've been 1 drum* on, shoro. I won't, lmvo it air." Tho ipflbi'inted tarateadied him,iolf for a twomoiit,, nnd looking the captain full i.iitho l fa<>.\ iiiocou«li»'d out, 'We I if A n?,nn niayn't get drunk on board an mayn't pot drunk on shore, woro tho blank' ls lijo to tot drijnk 1^" Dickons snid of tho following r^nooilofo — ">Yrtit m,ast know that I havo appro-priiit'-d that story nnd acquired im,mens.e roputiilion by it." It occurs in a pnpor of romitijtfflcneos in Soribner's Magazine, oiltilled " A. Yunkeo Tar and his Friends." On one of Gnplain Moray's yoyago, 1 * from America to Kngland ho had under bin enro a very nttruetiTo . young lady: who speedily distinguish'^ horsQlf l>y 'roduciniT firm young gentlomon to tl>-> vorpjo of distraction, Sho was quite ready to marry oho, but what could, sho do w.itKfl.foP In, tho enllmrraßsmonfi of her nchvs s|io sought tho Captain, wlio » ; tter a few moments thought, said : " Its a fine, onlm day ;. suppose by accident; you. should fall overboard ; X'll havo a boat lowerod roady to pick you up and you. will then bo ablo to ju,lgo which loves you well enough to jump alter you.'' This novel proportion mot tho young lady's viows, and tho programme was accordingly carried out, with tho trifliiiß oxoeption that four of tho young mon took tho pkingo, and, being piqkod up by tho^ boat presented tbo'msolvos, , a drippintr quartette, upon thp. ship's dcok. The object.-qf^thcir, .u'hdampod nrdour, no le«s wot tha'ii, themsolvos, fled to hor Htateroom rind for > her udvisor, tlio captain. '.N ow" CAptain," oried sho in dospair, " wliint am I todo.P," " Ah, my dear," roplioH.tho biip(;ain, "if you, want a sensiblo, 1 Hllsba'nd tufce. ,^hp dry, ouo"-r ; •Vhioh' filio did.. , «■•. 'Mr liotbery the Wrock Commissioner, •'gnvo jjidgirtont on 'i uesdiiy in tho fnquiry a'cNpcoting the loss of tho .ship Cairo,' an iron ship, of 1443 tons, which was lost at i he beginning of tho' present year on tho voyago from London to Australia with nil on board; Tlvo vessel oxrried botwoeh 27 ti» Hi) tons of gunpowder, atid there was .uxpii'ion I li ill she bad be«n losf. by nu evil ?fioo. Cm tho part of tho Board of.

Trado, ntfontion was drawn to tho stowage of tho powder in a nmkoshift ninirnzine of un.ioourod boards tied in hiindles of four nt.oabh side, anil eandln b'oxes'nt; en<:ji end, with' only ono thinknoss of cmv i-m under'tho powdor' barrels, 'and the *n>\ cloth thrown ovor tho top wlioro ilhmv was onough of ikjeffc. The fnot was ah<> i'nsist|d on thftHSb (ires iil »i houso on deefe wero dangijwnsly'noar the gunpowder in the 'tweonfnWks. On tho part ot tho ov/nors it was admitted .Mint tho ship way lost, but it was suggostpd that she Jfas run aaliqro at Tristoft or (Jough tshmd Hi |,ho di^rotion of which pliico sho was k (l ing when lust noon. ThoOommissioher hold, tluit tlioi'e wns ho evirJnncO"'a9 16' how' tho bhip v.-'is ijcsli nivl, biit as jt bad been sh.wii Ihnl, il'n-'h n<e i-ontnining tho eondensor niid t;illt'y lires wi>r« placed over the coiupiiri.iiients 1 iii which gunposvder wilts .siorod, no costs would bo given,— Pall Mall'lJudtrot,.