CANNIBALISM AMONG WOLVES.

Te Aroha News, Volume I, Issue 29, 22 December 1883, Page 7

C A N N I B AL I S M A M ONG WOLVES.

" Hawks do not pifk out hawks' eyes,' •uy- an old proveib, the Fieuoh ofjimalen >f uhi li i-> tlvit u wo\vi'< do no! oat each other." Ol<l proverbs however, which .m only the rurlu irt-Moivilisntions of gu* mi Mjientilie unce^tuis, aicgcneiiiil> tuub>\cw|> ino;; and wolvofe do, «u> «i tti ith;r of fact •^oiAei-iini'S oai< e.iuli oliiui, oipjcially wliui. aey b^iv/ng lo (Jiiioiont rfp';cieh. T\\> tussian .sta^- wolves and a c(>inmon French ,yoU wore lately j;ul Lo occupy a ci^g \v julva'rf mftofi^euo ,ii- it w.' •> I" i\mis s"' •on for Dole. Soon afterwards teinh. ho^'li'i.r w.i- hc^rd i^nin^; frmu the wolvus cafTO. Tlio Lhruu o.imivoiii v.'o.e 011^, iged ii .'tiotfcal comliat, and all the ctroj-'U ot an cm ploytS «ont 1/> sepai.ito them were in \>nn The two Ku .->i in \volvos vjro in^oii i -i 1»io1 »io tt the heavy l>losvs winch raitioii upoj) them all iibsoi U'd -is f.hov were in thoir d^.idlj attack on thciruniorUituiteiTiciioh eoii^ouui Five hiimUos afterwards th«j hapless anima was dead : and whwithowona^ene tcaohd Dole nothing was lull, of him buL his boues — " Si. JunK^\-> 'i.\, < :o."

The following 1 picture of the present deploiable coinujcici.il condition ot" (Jin istcbnrch i« taken fioui n pn'vate letter of « Oantoilmry M. lf.lv. :— " (Jlirislchuirh i» full oi Mead bents' — bankmptetes cvot) day, ami the 'public' empty. Evcryliody ifa clianing; everybody i'oi' money, •irul it ,tr( nui-ill}' is <i ch.i^o in iium 1 Kcn-cs that one. Thobe who have yet thr ini-ani-s, ami no tics*, are leaving. CV.bfhiviujs oven floc^- nc>t {J;i^< J •>■ b.u'e living , one of my friendly (.•;ib-diivct.s sold hit; lioiko -uid cdh last week for JCCG, and a Ijialmlor at th.it. Me s<iys he eutmol make ii living at it, Act ho is u .steady man. B<>tnc of tiic auctioneers ft re almost slnrving. There arc about 100 offices to let in the town, and iioubCß to let and for bale in all dii ecliona."

The revenue ■»? the Suez Omul e\porienesd n f irtlier very rein (visible increase Ust war. ' n he annox 'd figu eshow thf tt >sir fvtuue "f (hw cm- 1' year by year iluring tlie ten yeors ending •with 1882 inclusive :— 1873, £915,8?/.); 1874, £094,375 ; 1875, £1,155.452 ; 1876, CI, 190.000; 1877. £1.311,093; 1878, ill^-JS/ViH . 387*3, XI, V -7,442 ; 1 -SO, ': 1 ,692, 1 i 9i 9 ;1 ,c, c SI , £2,' >59,i* I ; and 1 1> 82, The temporary check experienced in the rovenuo in !878 and 1879 wns duo to (i reduction of cKttius, wliicli appears, however, to have stimnI'ltf^'l l>usip(3s<! holwccn Biiti.sli India and the mother counlry This, at any rato, is the conclusion which I'hujincennq draw* from the hugely au^montcd enmities oi the csinivl in 1881 and 1882. The special corK'^pondcnt of the ' Leader/ in a iotlor to that paper, was witness oC the following incident, which he lu'licvcs to cojrcctly icprc^cnt the fcolitm's of th<* AnvMicaus lowaids Brit. (in :—/Vn: — /Vn English Cheap Jack, engaucd in auctionci'iing his *vaK lt « in «i San Franci^i-'o street, tuado u nasty allusion in cornice lion with her M-ij^st) '&• nfiinc, when an Antciican stopped out and said, " Look hevo, atianuor, you may talk about your QtK'eu as a Queen just as you have ;i mind to. hut as a woman we believe her to be ii uood woman, <iud good women have to ho alluded to respectfully hciv, now, don't yuu I'ort;ct it." Chcnp «Tm;k repcited the oJi.Vis.ive allusion, when our American fiiend sailed in and g-*ve the vendor of Unumuivgo\n wavos a sevcic beating with his lists, amid the appl-iusc of thu cro\> d A curious sentence was passed recently by Judjy Krckol, o(! the Distvi* t Ooutt ot Missouri. An illiterate man having been ennvif fed of n minoi t/ft'ence, he >\ms ordered by (lie Judye to bo detained in g.iol until he should bi 1 able to lead and write, and another olTonder, le^s ignorant, was sentenced to ho similarly imprisoned until he should have iustnicted the former |in tho=e valuable aits, li is stated that in ' thiee woekb the man le.ippeaicd able to ! wiite faiily well fioni dictation, a id both pupil and innstei wt-re <lisch.irqed.