MISCELLANEOUS.

Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume VII, Issue 379, 16 June 1876, Page 3

MISCELLANEOUS.

Another breach of promise case has been settled. A well-known hotelkeeper, who did a rather smart piece of work in marrying his barmaid on the same morning that she was engaged to be married to another, thereby "couzening" the said "another" out of his equitable right in and to a Substantial young lady, has elected to pay £l5O for his freak, and the "another" has foregone all claim to the remaining £BSO, at which he had first assessed the damage to his feelings.—'Star.' Ihe plaintiff is well known in the district.

At the Oamaru Licensing Court on an application for a bottle license at the Ivakanui Mouth, Sub-Inspector M'Cluskey objected to the license being granted, on the ground that it was not required. He was proceeding to explain and urge the objections, when Mr. O'Meagber objected, saying that the Inspector had no locus standi under the Act, and therefore ho coulc! not urge his objections in Court to the license being granted ; in fact, according to the Act the Police had no power to make objections, further than sending in a report to the Eench on the application being made. A long argument took place on this point, during which Mr. Hislop referred the Bench to a decision by the Court some 12 or 18 months ago, when the Bench ruled that the Police had no power to appear in Court and urge objections to bottle licenses being granted. The hearing was adjourned.

At the .Resident Magistrate's Court, Oamaru, Henry Money and Arthur L. Llyod, two well-known characters to the police, were charged with stealing from the house of one Ann Paul, at Oama.ru, on the 6th inst., a purse containin; 1 ; four one-pound notes and a half-sovereign. Conclusive proof as to the committal of tbo robbery was given, but the Bench, not considering the charge substantiated, dismissed the case. One pound a week is offered to men in the Wairarapa district, Wellington, to shoot rabbits. Dr. Franz Zeller, of Germany, has discovered that caustic ammonia is a certain cure for rheumatism. One drop acted instantly upon the nerves affected.

The Russell correspondent of the Auckland ' Herald,' in describing the Governor's visit to the Natives, writes: "After other loyal speeches had been made, the then led forward, and addressed his Excellency thus—' Welcome the Governor, under the good providence of the Almighty, and may you live for ever.' He then kissed the hands of the Governor and Sir D. M'Lean. Sir Donald M'Lean. '"Were you not introduced to Ki&o- George the Fourth in England?' "Waikato: 'The Prince Segent. Tbat'a the man.' Sir Donald M'Lean: ' Who else do you recollect P ' Waikato: ' Queen Charlotte.' Sir Donald: ' They are all gone now, Waikato.' Waikato: 'Yes, they are all dead, and i am too much old—l am near dead too. They won't find much fat on me.' Sir Donald • ' Did you dine with the King ? ' Waikato : ' Yes, the King was very kind. I dined there two times.' Sir Donald M'Lean: * Did you go to Windsor ? ' Waikato ; ' ies, I went there to dine.' After shaking hands all round, the Governor took his departure, amidst loud cheers from the Natives." .Fashion is well known to be a fickle goddess, but her latest humor, as followed by her votaries in Paris, seems outrageous. The correspondent of a contemporary says : proached the Jewesses with being the ruin of Israel, because they had a weakness for ear-rings—for the gold of Phoenicia and the pearls of Ophir. If the Prophet could only behold the earrings of Christian daughters to-day! Pendants are the models of Zoo gardens, or the utensils of a furniture bazaar ; monkeys and milk cans, lizards and lustres, tortoises and tables, fire irons and finger glasses. At the Minister of War's last evening party a lady appeared with a pair of Woolwich Infants, in gold, in her ears —the powder fortunately was confined to her face. The Minister of Marine can now expect ram-frigates, and he of agriculture a pair of prize oxen, or a couple of fat hogs.

The following advertisements appear in the Melbourne 'Argus':—"Two Thousand Three Hundred Pouuds lieward.—The Eight Honorable Lord Rivers, Guilford Onslow, Esq., and William Quartermaine East, Esq., promise to pay to any person producing Arthur Orton in London (son of the butcher in Wapping), nnd establishing his identity to the satisfaction "of the Government, the sum of £62300. N.B. —No place so safe for Arthur Orton as Euglaud until he proves his identity, on doing which a judge's order will be given of protection." "Twenty Pounds Reward—Guilford Onslow, of Eopely, Hampshire, promises to pay the sum of £2O to any person who will forward him a copy of the Port Phillip ' Herald ' newspaper of the month of July or August, 1854, containing the account of the arrival of the Osprey in Port Phillip harbor with the shipwrecked craw of taw Bella on board, as published in the ' Herald ' newspaper of that period. A quartz-crusher ie now being con-

structed by Messrs. Forman, of the Yarra Boiler Works which proposes to reduce the stone by a method bo different to that to which we are ar- ; customed as to render a somewiiat detailed description cot out of place. The machine, which is the invention of Mr. J. B. Jiyder, £is in principle not unlike the ordinary .stonebreaker, although in its details it' is altogether different. Thus, it has % fixed jaw at each end, the central jaw heing in one piece common to both the .fixed jaws, and moved by a pendulum motion, which closes each pair of jawsf alternately when each extreme of the beat is arrived fit. At the one eD<s the stone is taken in, as large-sized rubble, about fourteen inches by nine inches,

which, a.s in the ordinary stone-break-ing machine, have vertical grooves, with the addition, however, of three horizontal grooves at the bottom, from which the stone will pass reduced to tbe size of peas, when it is taken up by an endless belt and discharged into a hopper, which feeds the second pair of jaws armed with horizontal teeth, and it is believed that it will pass as line as the finest flour. One of the principal agents relied on for the re-

duction of the stone is rapid motion, and for this purpose it is intended that the machine shall have a speed of from 400 to 500 revolutions a minute, and to meet a suggested difficulty, that under this rapid motion the faces of the jaws will noon wear until they are no longer effective, there is .1 provision by wh'ch they can be continually kept in adjustment. It only remains to be added that the machine, which occupies a space of. about six feet by five feet six inches,, will weigh about ten tons — the largest piece weighing three tons—and that it is expected to crush three tons per hour, with a motive power of fourteen horses. One great advantage claimed for this machine over the ordinary stampers is/that the use of gratings with their accompanying expense and delay, is avoided, and that the maolrine is equally available for wet or dry crushing. The pioneer machine is intended for a quartz claim at Adelong, New South Wales.