MISCELLANEOUS.

Te Aroha News, Volume II, Issue 86, 24 January 1885, Page 6

MISCELLANEOUS.

S. Kohn, jeweller, Dunedin, is bankrupt. When a chimney roars it may be said to speak fluently. Those Godless schools ! Hon. Mr Stout is gazetted Minister of Education. There is great excitement in Napier over the coming poll re harbour loans. Why is the letter D like a wedding ring i — Because we cannot be wed without it. Practical Jokes — Those that are published and paid for. Since 1881, colonial loans raised in London reach to over £60,000,000. The draughts championship has gone to Christchurch. Professor Hugo is not a German, granny ,• he is a Dane The proper bar for loafers to frequent— The crowbar. French fishermen catch £4,000,000, worth of fish a year. The tourist traffic to Rotorua via Cambridge, is increasing daily. There is a firm of female architects in London which does a flourishing business. Fiji has 110,000 natives and 3,000 Europeans, Steamer Arawa takes 5,000 frozen sheep from Wellington. A home for female inebriates has been established in London. W. Kelly is erecting a brewery at " lovely Rotorua." The full Cabinet will consider the restrictions on grape importation. There are about a million natives in New Guinea. More stoats and weasels have arrived in the colony. New Zealand is offered Fiji instead of Samoa. No offer made for the wreck of the steamer Star of the South at Grey mouth. Hon. Mr Buckley will shortly visit the charitable institutions at Napier, Wanganui, a»i New Plymouth. English strawberries, brought out in the freeing chambers, were one of the delicacies at the lunch on board the Arawa. Joseph Densell, a labourer, took a feed of tutu berries the other day at Christchurch, and is now in the Hospital dangerously ill. A writer to a Wanganui paper attributes the spread of erysipelas in that district to the circulation of dirty bank notes. A Cabinet Council on the West Coast Railway was held on Saturday at the Governor's residence at Christchurch. The German Admiralty considers 150 torpedo boats necessary for the defence of the German coasts. For her West Coast trip, the Tarawera has had her 'tween decks fitted up as a theatre. The carpenter of the s.s. Rotorua has lost the forefinger of his right hand at Nelson, by being caught in the cogs of the windlass. There will be q^total eclipse of the sun on 25th September next, visible in New Zealand only. Wanted to Kno n. — When they make an oyster-bed, do they use a sea-weed mattress ? Have the courage to ao without that which you do not need, however much your eyes covet it. Courtship is defined, by a man who pretends to know, as " the skirmish before the regular battle begins." Un the Queensland border seven weeks suffice to enable corn to spring from the dry seed to a height of 7 feet. Three men arc in custody at Wellington for stealing £37 from Captain Hudson, of the barque H. R. Luhrs S. W. Palmer and his wife have been committed for trial at Christchurch for sheep stealing. " Ah, isn't she a duck ?" cried an admirer, as the doctor's daughter passed. "No doubt, '" replied a mean wretch ; " her father is a quack." "Good-bye; here goes!' was the farewell exclamation of the man Savage, who drowned himself at Cambridge the other day Alfred Morgan, \\ ho had luncheon rooms at a recent Wellington fete and supplied beer, has been fined £10 for selling without a license. "Civis" of the Otago " Witness" has been "had "by a professed admirer, who got him to publish some laudatory lines, which in acrostic form read :—": — " Civis is an ass !"

no iutenlion to misappropriate, am lie could not therefore convict the prisoner, still he was bourn! to say prisoner's own admissions connected him with the matter. Same v. Same, charged with maliciously attempting to set fire to a stable situated at the premises of the Hot Springs Hotel, Complaint withdrawn Sara* v. Same. Charged with threatoning to revenge himself on informant by domgr injury to hi« property, and suspicion tit at the person charged did make ;ui attempt to burn dovru a stable in the occupation of informant.Sergeant Emerson staled that as accust'd's brother had arrived, and was willing to take him home, neiluer he nor Mr Wvston had any wish to proceed with those two charges. his Worship said he could only con-, sent to a withdrawal on being satis6ed that no injury was likely to occur in consequence. Mr W. H- Hawkins then undertook to take hie brother away Wednesday morning, and to go right home with him to New iSouth \Vales hy first steamer, leaving probaL! j Thursilay. His Woi-ship thereupon formally adjourned the uff.ur for a fovtniyht, to see if this, promise was canied ont, and added that accused's actions had been so very extraordinary lately that it really looked as if he were not responsible for same.