MISCELLANEOUS.

Oamaru Mail, Volume I, Issue 268, 2 March 1877, Page 4

MISCELLANEOUS.

iotui**bt,b movtustat ok tarn mi or a emu. The Bordtr JPoat of the 10th instant relate» :■—** In fast Saturday's isaae we reported the !©#• of a child ag«d three yeturs tad a half, the son of Mr. Peterson, bnoir, of Talgarno, Upper Murray, who had left his father's house and got lost amongst the ranges. Since then the distracted fatter and numbers of the neigh' boars have been nearching for the little one day and xtight in rtl'iys, sometimes nearly 160 horsemen being in the bash at once. All hope of recovering the little one alive was abandoned, bat still the search wot vigorously prosecuted. The first trace was discovered on Thursday last, seven days alter the child was lust, when little footsteps were found in the bed of a creek. These were carefully followed up, and eventually the party came upon the little one, who was in the act of taking a drink of water from the creek by means of an old sardine tin. The spot where he was found was about four mile* from his home. On being asked wuere he was going, he replied that he was going home, bat tie couldn't find the way. He further stated that he had subsisted on grass. JSatween the spot where he Wja found and his fathers home runs a steep and rugged range of moantain. How the child, three years old, could have crossed this ratter and wandered about for seven days wish nothing bat grass and water to subsist upon, seems too incredible to be true." 9AX.au>!* ts TASItAJftA. We learn Erom an exchange that a gentleman writing to a friend in LiUtnCeston on the 26tii ult. , as to tiie acclimatisation of salmon in Tasnianial* waters, states as follows:—" You may well say * the glorious success of the salmon/ On Saturday last 1 saw hundreds of ttie migratory species in the Uerwetit, betow Kew Norfolk. Sometimes ten or twelve were oat of the water at once tub ranging from eighteen inches to two feet six inches ini le. gtli, while numbers of targwr fish only matie great curves in t,.e water without Snowing themselves. A mile of the river was alive with them. Of course 1 cannot say these Were salmon,, bat I do say most positively they were not trout, and could only be salmon, or saltit-ti trout, or both. It is the tirsC time 1 have lighted on chem in numbers, and I could have imagined nothing like it." BtfJtm* OffOK —SO trt'RtftEß. TERut-SfS* ACTIOS# REQCtJEUGD. An American paper states that a young scapegrace, who- had left his fattier a house in this city under a cloud, and had exhausted lus credit in Virginia City, Nev., telegraphed recently to his father to this effect: —" Your son Walter was killed in the Consolidated Virginia this morning by a falling cage, W hat shall we do with the remains f" In response a telegraphic order tor 150 dots, was received, with the laconic request :— '* Bury them." The young seamy. took __ the money and had an elaborate- spree. When he was in a condition for writing he sent by mail to his father the following note " I have just learned that an tniaitious scoundrel named fiurker sent you a fictitious account of my death, and swindled you out of 130 dub. He afao borrowed 85 dots. from me, and left the country. I write to inform you that I ant yet alive, and long to see the oti paternal roof again. I ant in somewhat reduced circumstances, the accumulation of the fast five years having been tost—a disastrous stock operation—and if you would spare me 2W> dots. 1 will be ever thankful for your favor. Give my love to> all." A few days later the young man received the following :—" My dear Son,—l have buried you once, and that's an end of it. I decline having any move transactions with » corpse.—Yours in the flesh, F.vrffeLK." ecatoes storm k* qceesscaseu The following: particulars of a remarkable storm which took pta.ee in the neighbourhood of Albert liiver* Queensland, are sent by a correspondent to the Bri»b<tm Coui'iar" The day was very hot and clear, but towards three o'clock a bank of clouds was seen rising very rapidly to the si nihward. Liter on the sky assumed a pale green colour, and the clouds hid a nasty lumpy appearance. The storm came up from the south-east, quite an unusual occurrence, as they generally come from the west or west-soath-west. The commencement of the storm was heavy, and after it had been on a abort time a groat roaring noise was heard, which completely deadened every other sound, and before we could realise what it was, a perfect hurricane was upon us ; it drove the rain right through the houses, and left not a dry thing in the places. It lasted about five minutes. After the atorm an awful scene of desolation pre- | aentcd itsalf. Th« trees were ly'nr in hundreds; what were not upturned by ; the roots were broken off short, midway j between the ground and the branches. Perfectly sound trees were broken off thus ; in great numbers ; in fact, as many were treated in this manner as uprooted. ; Scarcely a tree is left whole, being partly, if not altogether, decapitated. The scrub on the! banks of the creek was levelled, as if it had been felled, and the crossings of the creek and the road are completely blocked. The heavy part of the storm waa quite local ; it seems to have come right down the mountain, and was only about a mile wile, and travelled for about 1 that distance. Though all these trees were falling, and buckets and billies were beinij blown yards away, yet not a sound waa heard except the continual roar of the itorm and thunder. Lower down the ' creek, they had a thunderstorm and strong wind, but nothing extraordinary,, and | could scarcely believe that there had been { Mich a storm «o near.'* '