MISCELLANEOUS.

Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume II, Issue 139, 27 October 1871, Page 3

MISCELLANEOUS.

Late news from Fiji by the Defiance state that the Tanna natives have killed and eaten Mr. Grrutt, planter. Mr. Grrutt, we believe, was at one time in the employ of Messrs. Dalgety, Rattray and Co., ani subsequent!v in that of Messrs. Harris and Co., Dunedin. The captain and crew of the Margaret Jane bolted with her, leaving the owners on shore.

The report of the Committee en Clarke's land purchase at Moa Flat, has been pres- nted. It recommends that it should be advertised throughout the Province that the sale is supposed to be illegal, and that petitions to both Houses might assist iu quashing the sale.

The "Rev. Mr. Bailey, of Sydney, hai been committed for trial, for marrying persons under sure.

A lons discussion took place in the Assembly, on the 20th, on the homrariutn to members, and innumerable proposals were made on the subject. Mr. Maeandretf proposed that itshould be totally abolished, and Mr. Mervyn that members should receive £3oo* a-year. A proposal, by M.\ Reynolds, to remit the whole matter to a Select Committee, was carried.

At Christchureh, a few days ago, a cabman laid an information against a publican for selling him drink on a Sunday, and the publican was lined £5 ; the publican then laid an in formation against the cabman for procuring the commission of the offence, and the Bench fined the cabman, £5. A new shaft is being made for the Caledonian mine pump, and in the meantime work is stopped Mr. Martin Sholl reports that the main reef has been struck in the Shotover low level, and looks promising, being fall of mineriK Great excitement prevails. If the reef should prove payable, it will give a new future to all the claims on the Kuranui Hill. Caledonian shares are oifered at Thames at £22, Shotover at 17s. 6d., All Nations, at £5 5&., and Tokatea at £4 10s.

A. Thames paper hears that a number of young men at the Thames and in Auckland have enlisted in a corps to serve for a certain time und?r the (tovern i.eut of Cak>ba<i at Fiji. It is said that each volunteer will receive a substantial grant of laud.

A mile race came off at the Forbury rice course, Dum-din, between Mr. Hutton's g m Pilgrim and Mr. Pritehard's bay horse Thorney, the former winning by nine lengths. Time, 2min. 25 sec.

Two pure-bred racing fillies have lately arrived iu Dunedin. The one is a chesnut filly born in Otober, 1809, by Scud, out of Evangeline (Malabar's dam). Kvangeline is by Towton, out of Gallopade, by Sir Hercules, out of

Nora's Aeinah, imported from England, got by Plenipotentiary. Tnia filly is nominated lor the Canterbury Derby. The other filly, winch is a bay, was bora in Xovember, J.BG3, and is by Scud, out of Gipsy Queen. The latter is own sister to Zingara, and the dam of Gitana and Zigzag. Uitana is the dam of Backbiter. The ' Liverpool Courier' has the story of a gentleman, formerly a commercial traveli.-r in Australia, wh,. ywra ago was lost iu the woods and found shelter in a.herdsman's-hut, where the herdsman, in the coucho - of conversation, declared that he wa* the son of a ; baronet. Tiie gentleman subsequently , returned to England, and when the | Tichborne case was being heard, he ro- | cognised the claimant an the herdsman iof Australia. Ho afterwards had an | interview with Tichborne, and it id naid ; he will be a witness for bim wieu the ; case is resumed.