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Kaikoura Star, Volume XIV, Issue 756, 17 July 1894, Page 3

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Earthquakes on Monday evening (last week) at Wellington, Woodville, and Hawera. Dunedin police captured 4 lads burglariously entering a factory : one lad already awaiting trial on similar charge. Capt. Bruce, Te Awamutu Mounted Infantry, died from effects of a kick from horse. Military funeral accorded him. P. Hoare and F. Davis suffocated on cutter Tamaki Packet, at Ngunguru, Auckland, through inhaling carbonic acid gas. Native Validation Court (Judge Barton) doing very beneficial work. Titles to 9 blocks, of varying values, been validated.

Bill introduced by Colonial Treasurer provides for Govt audit of a Company’s accounts on petition of a given number of shareholders. q'he other day a country newspaper described a certain popular vocalist as a * terror ’ instead of a * tenor !’ The editor has gone for a trip. Palmerston Branch of Underwriters’ Association recommend that enquiry be held into the origin of every fire, whether circumstances are suspicious or not. Huddart-Parker’s Coogee completed her 300th trip between Melbourne and Tasmania. Since initiating the service she has travelled over 166,000 miles, without hitch or delay, at an average speed of 15 knots.

Wbat Egyptian bondage, do you suppose, was ever so cruel as a modern English iron forge, with its steam hammers ? What Egyptian worship of garlio or crocodile ever so damnable as modern English worship of money ?—John Ruskin. Lovell & Christmas, London dairy produce merchants, presenting Egmont Agricultural and Pastoral Society with 50-guinea cup and £lO cash as prizes for best cheese —the cup to go to successful factory, and money to cheese-maker. ‘ American politics are so corrupt,’ said the Rev Dr Talmage to a deputation of Prohibitionists at Dunedin, ‘ that there is the one satisfactory feature about them—that they are putrefied till there is no more power to corrupt. The two great political parties,’ he added, ‘ are afraid of the rum jug." Gaming and Lotteries Act Amendment Act provides that:—‘No action shall be brought or maintained in any Court of law for recovering any sum of money or valuable thing alleged to be won by way of stakes, or prize, on any event or contingency of or relating to any horse-race, or other race, fight, game, sport, or exercise. In Tancred Disraeli describes the popular opinion of what the Darwinian theory really is. ‘ But wbat is most interesting,’ exclaims the young lady who is describing the doctrine of evolution, ‘ is the way in which man is developed. You know all is development. The principle is perpetually going on. First there was nothing ; then there was something; then—l forget the ne xt—l think there were shells: then fishes ; then >ve came. Let me see—did we come next? Never mind that: we came at last. And the next change, then, will “be something very superior to us—something with wings. Ah ! that’s it : we were fishes and I believe we shall be crows 1’

No science can claim so many disciples as meteorology. There is scarcely a corner of the world, inhabited by civilised man, in which the temperature is not recorded and the rainfall measured. Indeed, the thermometer and the rain gauge are the instruments by means of which the first continuous scientific observations are made in most parts of our globe. Meteorological observations, therefore, rapidly accumulate, and the volumes containing them have almost become unmanageable, both as regards number and size.— Nature.

We hear on all hands that money is decidedly easier. The other banks -were husbanding their resources for months past lest they should be called on all at once to save the Bank of New Zealand. Now that that has been done for them, they are able to let their customers have more accommodation than they could a week" ago. The insurance business is as good a test as any of the general state of things, and it is found that people who could not be persuaded to effect insurance recently arc effecting them now.—Wellington Press. The devotion of birds to their young is one of the most beautiful sights of nature Mr George IL Mackay contributes to The Auk, a scientific quarterly, a striking instance. With a friend he w r as shooting in Minnesota one Autumn day, when they slightly wounded an immature sand hill crane, which with several others, was resting on the prairie. At the report of the gun the birds all took Hight except the wounded one and another, which was almost certainly its parent. The injured bird made several attempts to fly, running

to get a start, —and finally succeeded in rising some ten or fifteen feet from the ground ; but it could not sustain itself, and the parent bird, seeing this, placed herself underneath it, allowing it to rest its feet on her back, both birds continuing all the while to flap their wings. In this way she actually succeeded in bearing it off to a place of sifety, and the hunters, it is pleasant to say, would not follow. We have heard of men, rough commonplace beings, who could brave Arctic or Torrid wastes in severest cold or heat, in hunger and thirst, so long as they were cheered by the companionship of their fellows. Our first real hunger is heart hunger. Prisoners denied human companonship have sought comfort in the affection of a bird, a mouse, or even a spider All true natures must have some one or something to love. And although the love of youth is charming and picturesque, the love of old age is radient with beauty. To see two human creatures who have weathered together in closest communion all the storms and ills of life, battered and deformed by time, yet able to look into each other's eyes with a love surpassing that of their first affection, is a sight grander than any other the world can show. For it reveals to us the depth and purity of marriage as it should be. —Lady Cook, in the Westminster Review.

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