MISCELLANEOUS.

Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume IV, Issue 207, 14 February 1873, Page 3

MISCELLANEOUS.

: 120,000 Salmon'ova have been shipped per Oberon ; . • . , , The' " frantic bargain " season lias' fairly commenced among our local soft goods- dealers. The proprietors of each-.' establishment are offering unheard of bargains to their patrons and seem 'deter- , mined "to do or die" in their efforts to . secure a flow of custom. Competition, is>T the-s.ouliof J business r ,andjno'materfairiilias ' >vill object to reduced prices.—' Westporfc Times.' A family at G-reytown; Wairarapa, have had a narrow escape-from poisoning from eating-preserved rhubarb. Severe symp-uc toms for a time existed but ultimately;'they recovered, under the care of Dr. Welch. It is remarkable how people will persist in eating imported preserves of any-kind, when by a trifling expenditure of money and labour, they can ' pro- ;; duce' a'much superior:r 'article:' Extreme: , care should always ( be taken that the part' next the tin be notr eaten. . The acid pre'-' ■ serves dissolves the tin.;producing in 'some' cases a deadly poison. - , A despatch has been received by I)i\ •.Kirk, the Bi'itish:,consul. ;atij Zanzibar, ■dated November, which states that men and supplies sent to Pr. Livingstone •,had reached, him safely, and s that the . doctor hacl started, on,an exploration into the in- .. r terior in August. • - Lord .Ly tton,, the ..{celebrated- novelist,-, - •died-at Torquaj' after twenty-four hours; - ilkiess- during -which -he' had suffered ear-ache-and inflammations'He had just re- - turned, the* last proof of a new novel, and was preparing for an early publication. The- 5 Wakatip Mail' says : : —" We are gladi'to be in a position to record that the •local Building and Investment Society is - extending it's' business~'t'o : such "an "iextenl--that the Directors/find a difficulty in meetiog -the -applications -for- Joans, on first--class.- security. Investors must consequently be benefited by this demand for .money, and vrc have no doubt that, by the time the next annual "meeting takes place, the number of shareholders .will be considerably more' than what 'tliey" were last year. By the assistance of the Soseveral handsome residences have been, erected,, and a number of .of . land have been enabled,.to mak.6 it freehold'; therefore, those who wish to benefit themselves...should-take up shares ■in-:the Society, the result of which would be; that ithey -.would?;'benefit i those "who wish to become borrowers. YV"e under-" ? stand that a;feW;. meetings, back; less. tha-n £350 was received' by the'' Society " for fourteen paid-up shares. The holders: t - of such shares are guaranteed a* rate of v intevesv ; not less,than $ per cpnt.-per an? nurnj from the date of paying in. :A most,, lamentable biastwfarnacc > ex?-'■ plosion occurred at Carribroe Ironworks,-.' the property of the Messrs Merry & Cuninghanie Company'. ' While a number of" men ; were engaged attending to the outflow'of metal into-the pig-beS's/one' of'tlie' furnaces burst yrith terrific force, andf . belched forth a tremendous shower'of" red-hot coke. One nian,named^ e Callum, „ > who was standing directly in front : o'f the point of explosion, was.- b.uried ..in--. the molten. lava, and'burned a i skeleton. . Oilier- five . were also : frightfully burned, two of'who'm have since-. ~ died. ._ . _ . ...

Two Gals and a Mabe.-—IBj way of a " hint for womaa roters,'' a,story . about two American young ladies is l given. Driving in a buggy, on a plank road, tliey were stopped by a turnpike man, and: asked for the toll. •' How much is it? " demanded one of the misses..- "For a' man? and a horse/' replied the gatekeeper i;_ '•the'charge is..fifty cents.". Well, retorted the undaunted maiden, "git out of ihe wayjifoK jwe're two gals. Grit .up, Jenny." And away they went, leaving the tax-collector in mute r ment. T-heDunedin Echo to • ari an dit that Mr. Fish has ■ "commenced an action for libel against-pur daily, contemporary the ' Times"' ~" Nothing ' likelaw for .vindication of character and con-= duct. ■ ' " " - rB,tJiLDiN.G: i So i GiETTEs.—Building Societies "appear to be *-\all tUerage"" J in' Oalff-"-" aru just now. We -learn that s the Pro- , ■ visional''Committee of tlie' Permar^erit 1 So-' : " cietv have received applications for .upwards of 300 shares, and that share.s have been.subscribed for the Terminable.' * A meeting' of "those c interested in the latter is announced for tomorrow at 8 piin: ~' - : ' ' , - ' j'fiirc Charybdis brings the following later news from Fiji : —A loan of £25;000; has. been « - ■ negotiated in tryriney. Au establishment called the Bank of Fiji is torbe.g.fcaiTte.d in ;Levuko, with a capital of £IOO,OOO in £LO shares. One-tenth of the capital is to .be subscribed in. Fiji, six-tenths in Australia and New Zealand, ' and...th.cee-lonllis., are to bo held in reserve. Private letters' speak confidently of the pros pects of the. country.'. The exports for 1872 amounted to' £120,000, and the iraports 'co £lll,OOO. i France will pay G-ermeiiy tomorrow-,■ and 75,000.000 each month until May.