Miscellaneous Items.

Manawatu Standard, Volume X, Issue 1461, 22 September 1885, Page 4

Miscellaneous Items.

The N.Z. Tim.es says :— A meeting df the shareholders of the Welcome (Terawhiti) Gold Mining Company (Limited) was held last Friday evening at the offices, Lambton-quay, Mr Isaac Plimmer occupying the chair. It was resolved to register the Company under the title of the Terawhiti Welcome Gold Mining Company. A set of ruleg and regulations were laid before the meeting and were adopted. The following gentlemen -were elected as officers :— - Directors, Messrs Dowsett, Plimmer, Sloan, Mace, and Finlay ; auditor, Mr W. Bishop ; General Manager, Mr W. McLean For seven years -a 1 • New Hampshire mechanic made, a circuit of half a mile twice per day rather than pass a powder lnastazine. The other d'.iy he learned that it had been empty for eight years. The longest span of wire; m the world is used for a telegraph m India over the river Kistnih, between Bezorah and Sectanagrum. It ' is more than 45OJOrt long, and is stretched between two lulls, each of which is 1,200.t high. The English-speaking! York bakeis w^rk li hours'.on five-, days a week and 16 or 17 on Friday ajid. Saturday morriiiipr, when' a double "batch of bra .id is bake. The Germ m baksrs" work 17 hours five days a week, and 20 h:>urs to make the double, batch.; .The. pay of a forem m is from lSdols to 20Jols a- Wii.elc, "a se jond hand from KXlols to 12dols, and of a third hand from BJols to lOJols.; :' ; . •: Velocipedes of every kind have been expelled ,^roin the streets of Berlin by an ordinance of the police, the legality of. which Jjias. been upheld by the Prussian Court of Common Pleas, to which some owners of bicycles and tricycles appealed. During the proceedings at the Gospel Hall, Bulls, on Wednesday evening (says the Advocate), some larrikin outside threw a handtul of stones against one of the windows, fortunately without breaking it. We cannot speak too strongly of such disgraceful conduct, and we are glad to learn that the committee have resolved to prosecute the first person who is detected. The KiMkihi correspondent of the New Zealand Herald, says that • the Maoris refused the offer made to them by Government. £LOO per mile, for making the road from Porotorau tunnel to the hhad of the Wanganui River. The work has now been let by Government m two, three, and five mile sections to Europeans, small contractors who had been ,working on the surveys. These men are employing European labor chiefly, and paying 10s per day wages. Amongst .them are some old Thames I miners, who have an eye to combining gold prospecting with regular work. A singular circumstance, which is well worthy of being recordevl, is herewith related (says the Auckland Star of the 10th inst.)for the benefit of all interested jin the progress of the temperance cause*, and also a good example to topers, both old and young. The. Ponsonby Rowing Club held its annual meeting at the PonBonby Club Hotel on Tuesday evening. There were about 25 members present, including the proprietor of the establishment, (and after business was transacted the usual finale was announcod. The order was ' given, and when the drinks were served it wasjdiscovered, amidst much laughter and astonishment, that there was only one solitary whiskey m the lot, the balance being strict teetotal beverages — the worthy host, evidently guided by good example, being himself atnougst the " soft stuff." We commend the incident to the careful considerat'on of other rowing clubs as being a most creditable departure from the u^ual custom. ■ Four hundred builders' workmen at Odessa struck for higher wages recently. The, thing was unprecedented m Russia, and. the police actually refrained from interfering. The men were getting from Is ,tp 4s per day, and their hours were only from 4 a.m. to 8 p.m., with a clear hour for dinner. Some people never know when they are well off. In Queensland the leminine of John Chinaman is Nanny. Horse steaks ara still s ild m the markets of France and Germany. They fetch 4d per lb. A return was laid on the table on Thursday night, showing that the estimated cost of extending the W«llin<rtnn and Master ton Railway to Manricevi'le, m addition to existing liabiliti^p, would be £20,000, and that of an extension to Ekefahuna £60,000. Proclamations appear m the Gazette constituting the town districts of Danevirke and Ormondville, County of Waipawa, and extending the boundaries of the borough of Lytlelton. The following names haTe been added to the list of officiating ministers under the Marriage Act: — Roman Catholic Church, llov Raphael Wissell, 0.5.8., and Church of Christ, Rev C. A. Moore. . The following: patents have been applied for :—W. B. Rickman, of Cl-r---kenwell-road, Middlesex, for apparatus for lighting railway trains and trumcam by gaß, and for lighting by gas floating and attached lights ; W. R. Bnker, of Chicago, for improvements m harvesters ; A. M. Chambers and T. Smith, of Chapeltow.n, Yorkshire, for improvements m Coke ovens ; J. B. Blaikie, of Auckland, for invention for cnt'insj and horinsf roofing slntes ; T. A. Twiiiam, of Dunedin, invention for steadying and preserving telegraph or other poles or posts m the ground. The football mat^h. Past v. Present Colle.e'ians, was played at the Newtown Park (Wellingtons on Thursday aft»rnooti, and resulted 'in a win for the former by three goals and a try to a try. Mr J. W. A. Marchant, commissioner of Crown lands, notifies m this isaue the sale of Roetions m the Hunterville township. 98 vJHngfo sections nr© to be sold for cash, and a immbftr of small farm sections are offered on both the cish and deferred payment system?. Applications.are receivable up Mil the sth October, either at the W*Uinsrton office, or at the Temperance Hall, Marton. The township of Hunterville is likely to prove one of the most important and prosperous of any on the trunk line, having a good back-eround, and wo would advise those who are desirous of taking up small farm sections, to take advantage of the present opportunity. Extensive extracts from the recent numbers of the Pall Mall Gazette were sent to America m a cable despatch of some 6,000 words. It was sent to a " syndicate " of daily papers, one m New: York, on© m Philadelphia, and several m the West. Two of the Western journals published it m full ; the Philadelphia paper began it, and then stopped it ; the New York Sun published all of it m three instalments ; one Western paper announced its receipt and said it was too foul for its readers ; it was offered to all the New York papers, but only the Sun used it. The Baroness Pritcha. who has lately figured m a social sensation m Biarritz is'the daughter of an English mm and a Siamese womnn. Shi was expelled from Sfnin by tho Kiner, and collected £20,000 damneres from him thf>refVv by the aid of'Enarli.sh influence. Having: run through that sum, she B«ld hfr«flf to tlm King of Cambodia as a slave for £800. I