MISCELLANEOUS.

Te Aroha News, Volume II, Issue 87, 31 January 1885, Page 6

MISCELLANEOUS.

To earn your board -Saw wood. Working in butter— training a goat. The maize crops at Opotiki look splendid. Might is right, but dynamite is wrong. The body of the third victim of the tunnel accident at Pukerau has been recovered. Sir Julius Vogel's health is still improving. A woman may not tell her age, but her age is loss considerate. It tells on her. Bird Grove bridge has been satisfactorily widened. A cable tramway, to cost £35,500, is to be constructed at North Shore, Sydney. Mr Stout personally has no objection to religious education being given during school hours, but thinks it unworkable. Mr Charles Bright, the Freethought lecturer, has abandoned the platform for the staff of the Sydney " Telegraph." It is said that of the 27 translators of the new version of the Old Testament, 12 have died during tho work. Captain Faulkner, of tho ship Warwick, is being sued for £15 damages by a sailor, whom he assaulted' on the voyago. A number of grave-fenc.es were destroyed lately by a fire in Devonshire-street Cemetery, Sydney. The Fire Brigade turned out and extinguished the flames. Advices from New Guinea state that the protectorate has been proclaimed another points than those visited by the Commodore. 3The Premier will shortly address Dunedinites in the Garrison Hall, and reply to various criticisms of his last public address. Between the Ist and 24th of the present month no fewer than 140 tourists passed over the Cambridge-Kotorua road in Cartor's coaches. Sensible Freemasons ! The Masonic Grand Lodge of Ohio have declared that selling intoxicants is a Masonic offence, and should disqualify tho offender for meinJJ bership of a lodge. Lord Rosebery believes that " a hostile Power could inflict the greatest possible temporary damage on Australia by an invasion, or a landing, or the exaction of a great fine in money." Justice Willes, in answer to the question what to do when you find a burglar in your house, gives the deliberate advice : — " Take a double-barrelled gun, load both barrels to the muszlo, aim carefully at some vital organ, and shoot him dead." Here is a holiday exercise in arithmetic for " our boys " :—lf: — If 4 dogs with 16 legs can catch 29 rabbits with 87 legs in 44 minutes, how many legs must the same rabbits have to get away from 8 dogs with 32 legs in 17$ minutes ?

A short time ago a man named Cleary was thrown from a horse near Napier, ana sustained severe injuries to his head, which necessitated his being sent to the Hospital. After partially recovering, he manifested symptoms of insanity of a violent kind, and the Hospital authorities caused him to be taken before the Resident Magistrate for committal to the Lunatic^ Asylum. The Magistrate, hpwever, considered that, aa the man's mania was due to the accident, the Hospital, and not the Asylum, was the proper place for him, and directed him to be taken back again. Certainly (says the local "News") the Hospital is no place for a violent madman, and we presume the Lunatic Asylum is no place for a surgical patient. What, then,iB to be done with the poor fellow? It is no use blaming anyone for making a shuttlecock of him ; that he haa no proper place to rest hia head is owing to the extreme rarity of individuals with heads both deranged and broken. Probably Cleary is the first sufferer of the kind in this district, and may be the last for many years. Tho official account^of the battle of Gakdul, as telegraphed by Lord Wolseley, and published in another part of this issue, puts a slightly different complexion upon the encounter. According to this, the British force was not taken at a disadvantage, but advanced in square formation to meet the enemy, leaving the camp baggage and camels behind. This is an important divergence from the narrative supplied by ■the newspaper correspondents; but the latter is so consistent and circumstantial that it would be wrong to hastily pronounce it untrue. Remembering thut official re] ports generally, and Sir Garnet Wolseley's in particular, are not famed for their strict adherence to fact, it is just possible that the imaginative "specials" have beaten Lord Wolseley in the accuracy as they did in the speed I with which they reported the battle. Readers will regret to learn that the engagement proved fatal to the well-known Colonel Burnaby, whose " lide to Khiva " showed him to be possessed of indomitable courage and endurance. Among our cable news to-day is a message stating tha"t the Cape Government have succeeded in apprehending the murderer of Mr Bethell in Bechuanaland. This may have an important bearing upon the settlement of the Boer difficulty in that region, as the refusal to deliver up the murderer formed one of the chief grievances. The United States Government are stated to bo urging on the Government of the United Kingdom the claims of Americans in Fiji. With regard to the recent dynamite outrages in London, we are informed that they have evoked the utmost indignation throughout Europe and America, and we have also the stereotyped official utterance to tho effect that " the police have a clue," which is very likely to prove a delusive one. News from Sydney regarding the prospects for the approaching match for the sculling championship states that all the scullers are in active training on the Parramatta River. A critic who recently witnessed Clifford's performances says that it is a pound to a postage stamp on Hanlan. Beach seems to be doing good work, but Hanlan has settled fairly down to business, and will bo very difficult to beat. The new steamer Tainui, which Messrs Denny [and Company are building for ShawjSavill's, is rapidly approaching completion. The owners expect her in London early in January. The "Northern Luminary" hears that Mr Allan McDonald contemplates " going " for Marsden, and Messrs Seymour George and Dargaville for Bay of Islands, and is convinced there is something in the wind. The Health and Industrial Exhibition lately held under the auspices of the Protection League at Sidney has not been a financial success. In Germany a man dare not cut down the trees on his own land without consent of the proper authorities, so zealous is the Government in preserving the forests. A servant girl named Eliza Ireland is in custody on suspicion of causing the recent fire at Leeston, Canterbury. Numbers of natives are dying of typhoid i fever in Awanui district.

In answer to Dr Kilgmr, the C •airman said the whole of the amounts due by asfoiHS h»vl en ' settled, except ( the current, accounts, and that in CtuVa estate, winch had been a dead loss. Tne manager also mentioned that the amounts due:b> ag«,tt.s wore £^00 leas than, those duo hint year, ami the whole of the sum* so due were secured. Dr Kikour, expresed satisfaction at tho arramcements with the agents, and Mr J. Read though the company was in a bettor position now than last year. The "etirimj directors, Messrs Dean, Marshall, and Townseml, were re-olected, nnd Messts Prater anil Fleming were re'fl])pointed auditors. A vote of thanks was passed to the Chairman, and the meeting adjourned.