MISCELLANEOUS.

Pelorus Guardian and Miners' Advocate., Volume I, Issue 6, 11 February 1890, Page 3

MISCELLANEOUS.

A private letter received by a gentleman in Willingtim states that one of the Dent known flax-millers in the Auckland district has been making a profit of £2O per week for the past nine months. His mill, though not the largest in the colony, is one of the most complete, and the dressed fibre commands the best price in London. For kissing a servant girl at Inglewood, a commercial traveller, named Arthur Williamson, was brought before the New Plymouth Police Court last Saturday, aud the charge being proved, ho was lined £ls, in default three months’ imprisonment. Tne flue was paid. A soldier of a cavalry regiment daring the Crimean war was brought up

for stealing bis comrade’s ration liquor. He wa's an Irishman, and his defence unique :— 4 ‘ I’d be sorry indade sur to be called a thief. T put the liquor in the same bottle, and mine was at the bottom, and, share, I was obliged to drink his to get at my own. Och ! sur, ]’d scorn to be a thief!” We donjt know whether this very ingenious defence got him off or not. 1 The task of providing refreshments for the children in the Basin Reserve, Wellington, on Jubilee Day was not a very light one, and it may interest oiir readers to know something of the quantities of the materials used by Mr Godher, the* contractor, for that purpose. In the eatables there were used, 4.101 bs of butter, 4601bs of sugar, SOOlbs of currants, 7201bs of flour, and 4,160 eggs. The lollies distributed weighed 975!bs.— N. Z. Time).

Fifty tons of railway tick'ts are annually issued by the London and North-Western Railway Company. The truth of the following laughable incident is vouched for. Two visitors to the Exhibition who had evidenty come from the country were inspecting several samples of grain and wool which had been placed in the Eastern avenue, when one of them caught sight of a ijatin motto which surmounted the trophy. He drew his companion’s attention to the inscription, which was Fortune sequatur, and the pair vainly endeavoured to discover the meaning of the mystic words. Explanations were given, but rejected as inappropriate, but at last one of the mystified was inspired and their troubles suddenly ended. Turning to his companion, who was puzzling his brains to solve the problem, he exclaimed : 44 1 have it, Jack 1 What fools;’; I know] what] tlife' blessed thing means. The men who printed the thing has made a mistake. It should have been 4 Fortunate squatter,’ but he didn’t know how to spell it.” Notwithstanding-] the police- order provisionally prohibiting Salvation Army meetings, a number of Salvationists assembled at Geneva on Sunday, Nov. 10. The police were consequently called out to disperse them, but in affecting this met with considerable opposition.

William Robinson shot his wife and himself ,at Nevycastlerpon ;Qhristinas Day, and are now both spending their holidays at the hospital, An American paper has the following 4 - A German doctor has made an .alarming;discovery- about .cancer. The disease attacked a tame rat in his possession, and, having no qualms about vivisection, he tried, successfully, to inoculate two others with it, they taking the disease ip its malignant form.” ; ‘ ;

Assaults and outrages by larrikins in and around Melbourne continue. A constable at Northcote, who was arresting a brick carter for obscene language, was set upon'by two mates who treated him very roughly. Finally they pushed him through the window of a draper’s shop. Tue constable had lost his helmet, by-.this time, and his clothes were so mU'ch' covered with the dust that the draper and his assistants did not recognise him, and promptly threw him and his prisoner into the street. This mistake-encouraged the larrikins, who renewed their attacks upon the constable till at last he fell fainting from exhaustion. The arrival of another constable put an end. to the disturbance, the roughs' clearing bat.