MISCELLANEOUS.

Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume V, Issue 296, 30 October 1874, Page 3

MISCELLANEOUS.

Several.Carlist battalions-have surrendered. The Basque- towns, which are considered strongholds of' Don Carlos; are demanding peace. Some persons are capable, of making great sacrifices, but few are capable of concealing how much the effort has cost .them, and it is this concealment that constitutes their value. -V

- Some singers at a conceit were somewhat startled the other evening; by findin or .-that the selection," " When wearied wretches sink to sleep," ■ had been printed on the programme •" When married wretches," etc.

- A lively . young-messenger boy in the telegraph department, Hokitika, has been found guilty of destroying messages -to save himself the trouble of delivering them * Ife used to affix signatuies to the • receifit forms himself. Through one of • these frftak? thirty-eight immigrants .were iarkled at Greymcuth -instead of Hoki:tiW:- ■ " . '

.StkvTSOKES paying a. vi&ii to Dunedin are often'af. a loss to know whafiß the bestestab- ' HahniMit to visit for fcho purchase of dvnopry and-clofchioy. Herbert, -Hayries, and Co. offer •special'advantages to the public that can be met with" nowhere else in the city." . They t keep-at all timeß the largest and~best-assorted ''.stock of every class of imported ' direct fioni' the* leadirp ■ manufacturers and -warc--hbtaemen'ut home, which,-being bought entirely upon cash terms,' they aie enabled to , offer goodß of such sterling value as cannot be equalled by any other' house in the' trade. 1 Every article in stock is marked at a fixed price /or ready money, from' which uo abatement .*8 ever made, so-that the most inexperienced iViy their goons at the .same prices as the "Their terms are—net ,caBU, without •lyrod -ctions of aDy kind.— Advt. •'» \ * "'■ -