MISCELLANEOUS.

Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume V, Issue 291, 26 September 1874, Page 4

MISCELLANEOUS.

-Mr. R. ~J. ' Creighton assumes the editorship .of the ,* New Zealand Times J at tho end of the month.

We have received from the Clerk of the Provincial Council, Minutes" of 'the Votes .and .Proceedings during the Session of •1874. , Mr. William Baldwin, of Pateroa Station,' Hamilton,' and Mr. A.G, Mathbs, also, of ...Hamilton, have been appointed sheep inspectors, without salary. • . A fearful - death is reported in one of the Hokitikia papers, Mr. J. Fitzsimmons, having been'gored 'to death, and" after-' 'wards fearfully mutilated by two wild bulls. The'deceased was a member of the Road Board, and-was highly respec-ted-throughout the'district:'" : . r

We understand that tenders will be soon invited for the erection of a bridge over the Waitaki River, in the vicinity of Maerewhenua', ' This work will connect

the provinces of Otag'o and Canterbury at a site about 18 miles above the present Waitaki Ferry.

A thunderstorm in London flooded' the streets. Several persons were killed by lightning. The Emperor of Russia has presented "£I,OOO for. distribution among the metropolitan chanties. After Bazaine's escape was known the rope >vas found, from the top of a precipice to the sea, stained with blood as if from his hands. Madame Bazaine has published, a letter stating that she" alone, with her cousin, planned the escape. "Bazaine is in Brussels. His extradition will probably be demanded. Some assert that the rope'was put over the rock ~with the view to mislead the authorities from the guards, through" whose connivance it.is believed the escape was accomplished. . . J. A. Froude, the eminent historian, is about to leave England on a visit to" the English Colonies all over the world; Mr." Froude will begin, with the Cape of Good Hope, and he will end with Canada. Mr.

Froude's absence from England will extend ovei-two years. " I have no doubt," says the London correspondent of the ' New Zealand Herald,' "that you will welcome Mr. Fronde'to New Zealand ere many months are over." An Essex-street lady, sitting in her parlor, and engaged in the dreamy contemplation of the moustache of the young gentleman who was to escort her and her sister to a festival, was suddenly awakened by an ominous whisper in a juvenile voice at the door, " You've got Ann's teeth, and she- wants 'em."

A bachelor one day set the table in his lonely abode with plates for himself and an imaginary wife and five children. He then sat down to dine, and as often as he helped himself to food he put .the same quantity on each of the other plates, and surveyed the prospect, at the same time computing the cost. He is still a bachelor.

The ' Hawke's Bay Telegraph' makes the announcement' that Mr." Holloway, it ia said, intends to have an interview with Tito Kowaru on his way up the West, Coast,' if possible, so as to be ena-bled-to tell his friends in England that he visited the rebel chief who in 1868 drove the Colonial Government forces from the district, but who has now' settled down and is cultivating the land. A triple suicide has just taken place at Vienna under sad circumstances. Three ladies, the eldest appearing to be the mother of the other two, took a bed-room in the Kummur Hotel. The next morning they went out for a short time, and on their return, after having taken a slight repast, retired to their chamber. Shortly afterwards several detonations were heard in that apartment, and on the door being •broken open, the three women were found on the floor, each with a pistol in her hand and their skulls fractured by the bulletts. Subsequently they were recognised as Madame Gyorey, the wife of a tradesman in Hungary, completely ruined by the late financial crisis, and her two daughters. No rings or jewellery were found on them, and the only property they possessed besides their clothes was a sum of 47 kreutzers in the mother's purse.