Miscellaneous Items.

Manawatu Standard, Volume X, Issue 1457, 17 September 1885, Page 4

Miscellaneous Items.

The action Sawkins v. Faulknor is set down for heating on the 22nd inst. It is a cast; brought under the Municipal Ci'r{u>ratioiiß Act. Sawkins, the infi.r---m r, seeks to recover the sum of £100 from Mr Faulknor on the ground that the latter voted as a councillor while a hill for work done for the Council remained unpaid It i« understood that t- c groufi.lH upon which the informer takes action are, strictly speaking:, m contravention of the clause under which the. el inn is made, hut the circumstances ■ o not appear to be those cohtrmplatid vf,heu the Act was passed. It seems that some months ago the Municipal water-cart received damage while being driven round the town, and th» driver of the cart took it to Mr Faulknor's coach works to be repaired. The repairs came to about £1.. Should the action be successful the informer will get thu £100.— H. H. Herald. The Educational Institute of Wellington has adopted the following resolution :— " That m the opinion of< this institute the appointment of teachers should rest solely with the boar.l, and on no account be entrusted to committees, apd that a copy of this resolution be forwarded to tho different members of the institute throughout thu Colony, and be submitted to the conference at Dunedin m January next for discussion." Out <»f every 100 men m New South Wal-s, 63 will bo found to be nativeborn Australians ; but of every 100 criminals, duly ?5 are of colonial birth. England and Wales contribute 27 per cent, of the male' criminals, and Ireland 22 per cent. ; Scotland only contributes but 7 per cent. Few men are blessed with that coolness which could permit /them to wittingly sleep unconcerned over a rolcano; yet there is a man at the Hot Likes who does so. Referring to this individual, a correspondent of the Auckland Herald writes: — " The mud volcano under Mr John Duncan's house again came m active play on Monday night; Attracted by .'the spluttering' sound, I proceel»d to the spot,, and. found the proprietor m nV'way disconceruen, calmly vie.wing the wierd-like spectacle by candlelight. It continued to belch up boiling liquid mud for about Un minute^: and after, raising the temperature of tho cottag* to a comfortable sleeping decree it quietly subsided, and John retired to rest." John must have stronger faith than most men. Mr M'Whinnie, an importer of stock has sustained a very Rerious loss m the death of an imported Clydesdale stallion which cost him JJ7OO m Scotland. It appears the horse was beinfj siting m a box on to the s.s. Wakatipu, at Sydney, when some of the gear gave way, the consequence being that the ehtira fell down the hold and sustained injuries which resulted m his death after the steamer had b"en at sea about .ten hours. : The. horse and two other stable companions were shipped for sale at Lyttleton. : — Past: ■ - A fall, true, and particular history of , tlie friendship between the Grand pake df Hesse and Mme.De Kalomine, (says the IXtiXiier Tekgrapfi)? with the story of their marriage, and a complete account of the subsequent divorce case, will he published m Leipsic shortly. The work has been compiled by the principal legal'; adviser of Mme. De Kalomine, who considers that his fair client has been treated with great harshness and injustice. It is expected that there will be some revelations which would be peculiarly distasteful to the English Court. The London Medical. Press' says that the fact has at length been made abundantly clear that trichiniosis is contracted mainly by those who consume pork' derived from the mere carnivorous wild swine which abound m forests. Persons whose pork diet is derived from animals carefully fed on the large dairy farms do not suffer from the affection. •