FROM OUR EXCHANGES.

Temuka Leader, Volume 2, Issue 121, 15 February 1879, Page 2

FROM OUR EXCHANGES.

There is a waggish farmer in the Hntt district who objects to pay the land tax. When a form was sent to him to fill up with various particulars lie put down tiie value of his land at £0 Os Od, adding, under the head of t; Kemarks,” the explanatory observation. “In the present state of the labor marked.'''

dysentery ami diarrhoea being he*' prevailing ailments. Typhoid fev< r 1•. • "appeared in the hospital. The C-y G’ouncil intends taking up the question of puri - fying the city water. Major Brown, Civil Commissioner, has paid the Ngatimaru natives a deposit on a block of land, estimated at 100,GUO acres. The Auckland cricketers sent tire following cable message to Lord Harris, paid for by shilling subscriptions The Auckland cricketers sympathise with you re the late assault, and oiler a cordial i,y—-■ citation to play here. , The strike of engineers has commenced in London, and 2000 men have turned out of 18 leading firms; A farm near Auckland produced this year an average of fifty-five bushels of wheat to the acre. At the animal meeting of Iho Christchurch Tramway Company on oaiurday, the Chairman stated the timber repaired was now delivered, and the rolling; stock would be shipped within three months. The tramway is expected to be completed within a year. The additions to the Kaiapoi woollen mills are now complete, and the new machinery will all be erected and at work in a few days. The Company will then be able to turn out any kind of tweed that may be required. A lad named Higgins met with a dreadful accident on Tuesday. He was working a Samuelson’s self-delivery reaper in a paddock near the Thqrndon Junction, and accidentally fell in front rf the machine. The guiding-rod was driven into his side near the hip, and came out near the neck, perfectly impaling him. Great difficulty was found in releasing him, and he died in nine hours in great agony. The Dunedin 1 Herald ’ condemns the action of the Government in deciding to carry out the capital sentence in the case of Walsh, the Waikawa murderer, after the delay that has taken place. There has been an eruption of mud at Salinclfa, at the foot of Mount Etna, which is regarded as an epilogue to the numerous shocks of earthquake recently felt in Catania. Numerous craters were formed, which discharged torrents of thick and heated mud, propelled by gases formed of carbonic acid, hydrogen, carbon, carburet of hydrogen, and sulphuric acid. Particles of hydro-carburets. constituting a kind of petroleum, were also observed. The returns of the Australian goldfields, lately published, show that in New South Wales during the year there was a falling off in the yield of 30,000 ozs., valued r.c L 112,000. But in Queensland the yield of gold had increased by 30,900 ozs. In N. S. Wales the total yield was 97,500 ozs ;in Queensland, 3-73,200 ozs. In the latter colony the average yield of gold per individual was 20 ozs 17 dwts, valued at L 72 19s 6d, a totally inadequate remuneration for the labor and hardship endured and skill employed in the undertaking. We understand that there are about Tiree Chinamen to every European, and under the circumstances John Chinaman’s lot as a digger need excite no envy. The extraordinary rifle-shooting of Mr Joseph Partello, a clerk in the War Department at Washington, is thus recorded by the ‘ New lork Herald ’ On afternoon of the Ist October, during practice trial at the target ranges of the Columbia .Rifle Association, lie achieved the extraordinary score of 224 out of a possible 225. In other words, ho made at the three ranges of 800, 900, and 1000’ yards, 44 out of a- maximum of 45 bullseyes The actual record was, first, a string of 15 bullseyes at the 800 yards range, which he followed up with 12 bullseyes at 900 yards. The next shot was a ‘ centre,’ but the marksman at once recovered his extraordinary skill, finishing the 900 yards with two bulls eyes, and completing his record by an unbroken string of 15 bullseyes at the 1000 yards.” Some of the American religious journals have taken tire “ poodle ” question in hand, having commenced a crusade against the “iniquity.” As there are one or two ladies in this colony that indulge in that luxury, perhaps they would like to' hear what these religious papers say on the subject; The Richmond ‘ Christian Advocate’ (Methodist) in a late number declares that a “bunch of animated doghair as big as your fist leading a great fluffy woman along the streets by a dainty-colored string reverses the theory of Darwin, for the frizzle-faced is the superior animal.” The ‘Philadelphian Presbyterian ’ opines that “ if the Queen of the Pharaoh’s had lived in this age, the baby Moses might have shrieked until his face was as red as a cherry, and if he had been offered to her favor she would have said, “ Pitch him back to the alligators ; I would rather have a tailless poodle with a blue ribbon round his ears.” Professor Huxley lias been speaking recently at Manchester on the subject of the decay of nations, in the natural decadence of which he did not believe —that theory, he was inclined to think, having been invented by cowards to excuse knaves. So far as the old English stock was co.icerr. d, bis belief was that it bad as much vitally and power as two centuries ago, and after pruning and weeding there would be products as good as there were before. The weeds he recognised were three—dishonesty, sentimentality, and luxury. Somebody says that the woman who runs into a neighbour’s because it thunders and screams at every flash, will; when she goes home and finds the fire low, hurry it up with kerosene turned on from a gallon can, as calmly as a doctor giving a baby a spoonful of narcotic soothing syrup. The absurdity of the new regulations, which make it imperative that all Courtfees be paid in stamps, has been very well exposed through the Press. Au instance of the inconvenience created by this last piece of red-tapoism came under our immediate notice yesterday, when a party lodged an application for a bottle license. The fee to he paid is 2s 6d. On applying to the postmaster for a half-a-crowu law stamp, or law stnnqis to that value, ho was informed that neither half-crown stamps or sixpenny ones were issued. The question then arose, How is the to be paid ? There seemed to be n# 1 getting out of making a present of sixpence to the Government, and paying the half-crown with a three shilling stamp. But before doing this, the applicant procured a two shilling stamp and six penny duly stamps, which he presented in payment of the fee. The six duty stamps, which were at first objected to, were only accepted after the postmaster had endorsed t!m f flowing certificate on the application : ‘ No half-crown or sixpenny law stamps have be n issm-d to me. F. Falck. ! ‘---‘ Tuapeka Times.’

A Canadian clergyman wr, , urn lung -mmc called upon by an Irish girl, who inqmifi bow much lie asked for “ man-ying anybody.” He replied, “ a do Lr and ahalf;” and Biddy departed. A few evenings later, on being summoned to the door, he was accosted by the same person with the remark that she had come to be married. “ Very well,” said the minister ; but perceiving with astonishment that she war, alone, he continued, “ Where is the man'?”—An expression of disappointment and chagrin, too ludicrous to he described passed over Biddy’s features as she eiaculated, i£ And don't you find the man fora dollar and a-halfl”

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