MISCELLANEOUS.

Mt Benger Mail, Volume V, Issue 261, 13 December 1884, Page 3

MISCELLANEOUS.

The survey of the Waikaia Bush road has been commenced. It is expected to t>e completed in twelve months' time, and that the cost will not exceed £2OOO.

The jury at the inquest of William Meldrum,who was killed in the Nenthorn affray, have returned a verdict of wilful murder against Lawrence White, Thomas Crowley, and Charles Fitzgerald alias Ganett. Fitzgerald, up to the date of the inquest, had not been captured by the police, but was seen on the road to Clarks Flat on the sth instant.

A Wellington telegram states that Mr H. Welsh, a farmer of Opaki, met with a serious accident at Featherston on Satur day night. As the train was leaving he attempted to pass from one carriage p'atform to another and fell, the train passing over him. He has since died.

At Auckland, on the sth inatsnf, John Tajlor, a greengrocer, attempted to commit suicide by taking hudanntn. He had lost heaviiy in firming operations in Taranaki, and his bsses affected hi* health.

W. T. Tyrell, William Peacock, and John A. Cotton have been committed for criminally assaulting a woman under circumstances of extraordinary brutality at the East Town Belt, Christchurcb, on the night of the Ist instant, The following telegram has been received from the Agent-General, under date the 3rd instant:—Post office notices have been issued announcing alternate fortnightly mails by direct steamer. No farther matter will be sent via Brindisi unless superscribed. !

An exchange says:-They have some very peculiar ideas and people up Taranak«' way, as a woman *ho had invited her daughter to reside under the maternal roof during the period of the daughter's approaching confinement sued the lattar's husband forLls for tending that person's wife during her confinement! It was the old story—a family quarrel and a washing of dirty linen in public-and resulted in a verdict of L 4, less defendant's expenses, which came to mere than the, award.

Easily Proven.--It is easily proven that malarial fevers, constipation, general debility, nervousness, and neuralgic ailments yield readily to this great disease conquerer, Hop Bitters, It repairs the ravages of disease by converting the food into rich blood, and it gives jiew life and vigor to the aged and infirm always. See. At the hearing of election petitions at &eefton last week to inquire into the elections for three Ridings of Inangahua County, the R.M. ruled that the action of the Returning Officer was irregular in not allowing others than those on the roll to vote by virtuosi miners' rights. On this ground the elections were declared void.

Here is a curious and amusing story about Mr Black, the novelist, which be might have incorporated into one of his novels. It would have filled a volume easily. Condensed it assume at his statement :—Mr Black being on a ramble near Dunollie Castle suddenly took it into his head to have a swim. He took oif all that was necessary, &c, and pluoged in. Ai he was returning to where his clothes were, judge his horror on seeing a young lady Bitting down on a boulder, reading, from the appearance of the binding, one of his own novels* M> Black coughed, ahem'd, &c, but all to no purpose; the fair one still kept her eyes upon the fascinating page. After the lapse of nearly half an hour a man came up with a gun, and, seeing Mr Black's head bobbing up and down, exclaimed, ■• Hech 1 a seal!" and brought his gun to his shoulder. This was too much for Mr Black's nerves, and, roaring out, "For heaven's sake, don't fire! I'm a real man!" he tossed propriety to the winds and ran for it. The lovely young lady was round the corner like a flash of lightning.