MISCELLANEOUS

Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume III, Issue 155, 23 February 1872, Page 5

MISCELLANEOUS

A telegram dated Christehurch, Feb 19, states that the Inter provincial fouroared race for £l5O was won by the Lyttelton crew. Orders-Lyttelton, 1; Kaiapoi. 2 ; Wellington, 3 ; Amalgamated Crew, 4 ; Endeavor, 5 ; Otago, 4>; Ilyssus 7. . • A la*e telegram from Auckland says that Caledonian shares heve fallen to £l4, and Tokateasto £2. All Nations shares are in demand at £5 15s.

Every cat in Paris is now taxed five francs per annum.

A famine is feared in India in consequence of the drought. Women are largely employed as bank clerks in Sweden.

Three Pnneeaseß are employed as public singers in Russia. A second crop of apples was obtained in Cornwall early in December. The peace strength of the German army has been fixed at 401,060 men. With three horses Baron Bothß hild won £22.230 in stakes alone last year. At Snangbai, a Chinaman, for murdering a mandarin, was cut into 10,000 pieces. The congregation of the Abbey Church, Paisley, have decided to introduce an organ The Londonderry estates of the Marquis of Waterford were sold lately in the Landed Estates Court. A considerable number of lots were bought by tenants. The entire amount realised was £234.;262. -

The great joiner—the lawyer. He can box a witness, bore the Court, chisel a client, floor all flats, nail the case, hammer the desk, file his bill, and shave a whole community Mahogany sawdust, flavored with coffee, is extensively sold in London as a " cheap breakfast powder." Two cases of cholera have occurred at Alexandria, and it is feared that the contagion will spread all along the coast. Considerable excitement is manifest.

Accounts from the Orepuki diggings are very satisfactory. A good many parties have set in on the beaches, and have good prospects. telegrams state that Caledonians are at £l6 10s; All Nations, £5 5s ; Pride x of Tokatea, 8s ; Thames, £5 158. Tokateas have suddenly fallen to £2, in consequence of a reported falling off in the yield. A 'Fiji, paper says: —" A few of Coleman's fancy mustard labels have been paid to the native tax-gatherer for dollar notes. The white man who paid these things to the natives as money deserves to have a mustard plaster applied to him by the Government Moral Health Officer/'

Rumors of the di-edvery of new quartz reefs aire cropping up daily in Westland.

At Levuka, a storekeeper advertises ropes and chains for securing houses against " the approaching hurricanes,"

At a native meeting lately held at Kirikiri, Auckland, a quantity o' beer, amounting to a gallon and a half for every man, woman, and child present, was drunk. 15,000 flounders and 1600 stingarees were also provided," and "ample justice was done to them." We are not surprised to learn that but little " speechifying" took place afterwards. The wonder is that any took place at all. , At Inangahua, the alluvial digging* have been deserted in the rush to the quartz reefs. Queer things are sometimes do/e at the Thames. The 'Guardian' reports, as a matter of course, a trotting race,; in heats, lately run in the main street it Grahamstown. ,

Coromandel is overrun with prospectors, and it is believed that neariy every " likely spot" has been tried. Levuka is in such a filthy condition that the" " principal Health Officer for Fiji," Dr. Riley, formerly of Hokitika, writes to a local paper sta' ing that an epidemic will inevitably visit the place unless steps are taken to prevent it.

A me MCA.N Acknowledgments. —-The American press comment in a grateful spirit on the generous liberality of Great Britain towards the sufferers by the Chicago fire and they are especially proud of the subscriptions by our Queen of £SOO, and by the Prince and Princess of Wales of £250.. In its own peculiar style the 'JSew York Herald' remarks that " This beats old Emperor Billy (of Germany) hollow. After all, the Queen does not forget that though kind words are more than coronets, deeds are better than words. What j about Francis Joseph in this matter,! and the Czar Alexander ? On the j whole, and we are proud to make the] admission, Great Britain has done well: in the matter of this Chicago sorrow. It does seem as if kinship meant something." The 'New York Sun' of October 16tu, reports the Rev Henry Ward Beecher's reference to the sympathy by Britain:—"The Queen of England, from her imperial throne, flashes an order to Canada to empty the storehouses of blankets and send them to Chicago. That touches my heart. There is more in those blankets to bind Canada and Great Britain to our hearts than all England's muskets and all her ships of war. In our late war there was some feeling aroused betwef-n England and this! country. She has touched the other' side of the chord now. The city of London gives one thousand guineas from its own treasury. Thank God, there is one city in the world that's got a thousand guineas to give—whose treasury is not completely empty. Churches and theatres combine in the noble work. God bless the theatres! The whole world is marching to one tune ; the drum stops, and the heart of i love beats, and that's the music we are marching to to-day.'*'