MISCELLANEOUS.

Oamaru Mail, Volume I, Issue 274, 9 March 1877, Page 4

MISCELLANEOUS.

ax Ama> various. A aurvivor of the turtle of Trafalgar, Wtm«d Nathan Grant, died in the Geelong Benevolent Asylum on the sth instant. He woe 98 years of age. AX EHMIWSB CATCtOff. They are preparing a cannon at Crcuzot which ia so large that the Woolwich Infant could cormjnientiy oe cradled in it. This ia to he ode of the prize French exhibits at the great bazaar of international amity inm& ttmtmtTOH or TBE PAST. The Dublin pnpors announce the death by iuieide of Mrs. Margaret of Stradhruke QiJl, near Btackrock. The deceaaed lady, who was forty years of age, was the widow of the late Captain Vaughan, R.N., whose services daring the Crimean war attained for him the highest distinction. The coroner's jory have returned a verdict of " Suicide while laboring under temporary insanity." StJWAT-eLOMStt. The house-to-house ennvass of the town■hip of Katharines, on the Sunday-closing question, was completed on December 23. voting papers were left with the head of each family as far as it wat practicable to do aoy and on the papers being counted the following was found to be the result of the votes!— For Sunday-closing, 3350 ; against, 192; dectined to vote, 466. The population of the township in 1871 was and from tha above figures it will he seen that 4268 families have been accounted for. tuk .wuwew otr vfAtm* wLL&cvxoit. The London correspondent of the Man* cheater &iuwdUm status that the attains receipts arising from the exhibition of the Prince of Wales' collection at the Indian Museum and the Museum at Bethnalfceeii are,, at the desire ©f the Prince, to » devoted to the creation and endowment of Indian art-scholarships. The sorn amounts to over £4OOO, and the scholarships are intended to encourage qualified native students to complete their studies in England. FVt StfOAft. A Southland contemporary says : —" We were shown yesterday afternoon at the office of Messrs.. Martin, Maittand, and Cow, the finest sample we have yet seen of Fiji sugar. It was one of pale yellow crystals, very bright, and judging by the taste, of great saccharine strength. It was from the plantation and milt owned by Messrs., Maitttand Brothers in Fiji. There are, we understand, about 80 tons of it ready for shipment, part of which will be sent to this Colony, and part to Melbourne and Sydney. a cstn&fc. err. The Hawea correspondent of the .Ptttevt Mml says that that township is replete with Ev«ly rumours of one sort or another. One of them details horr a pretty widow, whose husband has been dead several years, received a beautiful bouquet the other day.. The gentleman who sent it has been flying round her with an earnestness worthy of a store keepers clerk, and it was with extra delight that he saw her pass his store that evening with the bouquet of How era in her hand. "1 am SO* pleased to see you with them," said he, ana a thousand little Cupids dimpled in hi» smile. " Yes," she replied, "it was very kind of you. I always knew you liked him. lam taking tliern to his grave.'* TSffi AWERKWJf SU.UtOJf. Th# last lot of American salmon, numbering between TWO and 800, will t>© liberated in the north branch ot the Waimakariri (says the LytMhrn Timrs\ This will make a total of about 37,000 turned out, and they have been distributed among the following rivers : —fJurunui, Ashley, North Branch of the Waimakariri, Avon, Jrweß, little Rakaia, ©pihi, and Waihi. It is worthy of record that not more than 30* of the salmon died while in the gardens, tut owing to the others not being liberated until they had become rather too old, a considerable number, say about 10 per cent, of the whole, died during the S recess of removal. There are still many »the gardens, but the Curator will be unable to> catch them until they are much larger. Some of them are now four inches in length, and when it is considered that it is not three months since they were hatched out, they must be deemed to have grown very fust. eomo.u ocm-fcctEM. Beading a delightful book about British Sttrmah the other day (says a writer in the 0 rr.Tf Himv A>yiun) r I came across something which I commend to all those who happen to be in, or may at some future time be in, conjugal difficulties. When, through " incompatibility of temperament," as Dickens described his matrimonial differences, or any other cause, the house gets too hot for hnsband and wife to live longer together, the Burmese act sensibly. They don't kick up : vows or scandalise their neighbours, they dent rush off to lawyers and generally , make foots of themselves, but they dt> this :—Each gets a candle and places it on th* floor; then, both candles being lighted, the husband and wife sit silently watching until one or other has burned ; out., The owner of the drat extinguished ; Candle, he or she, then packs up his or i her things, and clears out, and nothing ; ttore m said about the matter. As, how- i ever, the candles are of a very rottgh j manufacture, and not exactly of the same . dimensions, there ore opportunities of I ■heating which, ] regret to. leant to learn. : the Burmese women appear to know el ihuut.. Now, best Neva Sdearrncs being exactly alike, the Burmese plan of settling fifficukiea here would be somewhat ex- ' riiting •• the candles got down to the last! btfunfe. [