FROM OUR EXCHANGES.

Temuka Leader, Volume 2, Issue 156, 21 June 1879, Page 2

FROM OUR EXCHANGES.

At the banquet recently given in the North Island by Major Te Wheoro to Rewi, the toast of “ The Ladies” was responded to by Mrs Te Wheoro. If this example were to be generally followed by European ladies it would greatly relieve those bashful bachelors who on public occasions find it so difficult to respond with ready gracefulness to this toast. Concerning the numerical strength of the Native force now gathered at Parihaka, there have been many vague conjectures, in most of which it was manifestly understated. On this point the ‘ Wanganui Chronicle ’ says : —lt is estimated that there are now as many as 2000 well armed fighting men at Parihaka, a large number of whom are reckless daredevils, who would like nothing better than a brush with the pakeha. It is very clear that such a menace to the peace of the district cannot bo allowed to continue. The settlers should insist upon it, that, whatever happens, whether Te Whiti definitely pronounces for peace or war, Parihaka, as it now exists, must be broken up, A fearful scene, eclipsing anything ever seen in the most exciting melodrama, was enacted the other night in the Casti Theatre at Bernay. A gang of pickpockets got up a cry of “ Fire ” during the performance, and extinguished the gaslights. The audience rushed pell mell to the exits. A terrific crush ensued. Women and children were knocked do wn and trampled on in the dark. While all this was going on, the thieves, who had marked out their victims, set to work.

Pockets were rifled, watch-.-s stolen, and ear-rings turn off. A couple of the gang attacked the money-taker end made off with the receipts of the night. All the miscreants managed to escape before the police arrived.

Judging from a graphic, and what appears to bo a truthful, account in the ‘ Gazette Piemontess ’ of the Royal visit to Isa Bella (writes “ Atlas,” in the ‘World’), the Queen’s English is already suffering from her short absence from her own realms. It,wftS'ild, indeed, he too dreadful to think what effect a long absence might have. -Ifox-instance, struck by the beauty of the isle, the Queen is said to have exclaimed, “Oh, beautiful! Very fair !” Having gathered several leaves from the first laurel she saw, she handed them'to the “celebrated Scotchman Brown,” exclaiming, “To England all this!” A small gondola was almost filled with. leaves, branches, and flowers, the Queen remarking to her retinue, “Take care; all this is very precious.” After reading this verbatim report of the Queen’s observations, I am quite prepared for the remark marie by one of hexsuite, that he had never re nembered her in a happier mood. What may have also contributed to this state of mind was seeing plants “that are never seen in England, or only in a sickly condition in a conservatory. ” It. is not very uncommon (an English paper remarks, to hear of ladies being appointed as overseers of the pool’, hut a lady surveyor of x’oads is a decided novelty. The Buckrose division of the East Riding of Yorkshire is noticeable for its determination not to adopt the Highway Act, and in confirming the parochial appointments of surveyors for that division recently, at Norton, the magistrates appointed Mrs Ann Simpson assurveyorfortheparish of Kirbygrindaly-on-the-Wolds. An English paper is responsible for the following ;—“A curious case has just been tried at Berne. It was an action by a Paris hosier against the Rev Dabadie, an old Catholic priest and disciple of Father Hyacinthe, for recovery of the price of a pair of ‘ false calves ’ supplied to the defendant. It seems that the Old Catholic clergy have returned not merely to ancient dogmas, but to the fashion of wearing gowns looped up at the hack, and it is only natural that they should wish +o show their legs to advantage. The surprising plea put forward by the defendant was, that he had paid for his calves with a bottle ef claret offered to the plaintiff. The Swiss Court declined to accept this view of the matter, and ordered that the Rev Dabadie would have to pay cash for his fine legs.” The ‘ Cologne Gazette 3 publishes a remarkable letter-, written from St. Petersburg by its correspondent just prior to the attempt on the Czar. It describes the successive stages of the revolutionary movement. The secret confederacy, according to this authority,' now covers the whole of European Russia, and counts as many as 19,000 working members, not to speak of numberless agents uninitiated who yet have taken the oath of loyalty. It has agents in all departments of the State, and is well supplied with money. Its secret presses have been worked with diligent skill and ever-growing audacity. It has circulated everywhere bills, placards, and pamphlets of the most revolutionary character. “The army,” we are told, “ was deluged with them : the labourer found them in his pocket in the morning.” The revolutionary committee annoxxnced its determination to suppress the private chancellex-y of the Emperor, and to sweep away the court camarilla. A list of 200 names was published of persons whose dismissal was demanded. Underneath. was the threat to “shoot, stab, and murder” till'these demands were satisfied. A journal entitled 1 Land and Liberty ’ has since been circulated, a sort of official gazette, whose utterances rival the fiex-ce frenzy of the Reign of Terror of the French Revolution. Under the shadow of this übiquitous conspiracy, the imagination pictures ail society lapsing into a chaos of fire and blood ; but it should be remembered that, dark and ominous as are these facts, they describe only one phase of Russian life. Among all the nations of the East, without doubt the Japanese Empire is the most appreciative of European appliances and inventions. A short, time since the Yokohama and Ycdo railway was opened, and surveys were then ordered for a Yedo Kioto railway, which has also advanced some stages. By last accounts another line—the Kobe-Kiota was being vigorously proceeded with, and a tunnel of 740 yards had been successfully cut through, notwithstanding the very hard nature of the work. It was expected that the line would he opened for traffic in September, or even earlier under propitious circumstances. There is just one matter (says the ‘ Wanganui Herald ’) the Government should see to during the present ugly aspect of Native affairs, and that is the stoppage of all sales of arms and ammunition to the Maoris. The Natives have for years past in this district been allowed to purchase guns, powder, and shot, and liave received them at different times from both the past and present Native Ministers. So long as the Maoris have a grievance connected with disputed land ownership, it is simply dangerous to allow them to become possessed of warlike weapons and ammunition, as they at once become bounceable and eager for hostilities. We need not point out the crime of pakehas supplying Natives surreptitiously with arms and ammunition, and trust that no such dastardly conduct may again be indulged in, as there is no doubt but that during the last outbreak Natives were so supplied, and that certain Europeans made large sums of money by such nefarious dealings. Holloway’s Pills.— The body’s bul-wark.—Niue-tenths of the maladies afflicting adults depend upon a disordered state of the stomach. Holloway’s Pills correct the first symptoms of indigestion by acting healthily on the gastric juice, and wholesomely exciting the liver. They dispel flatulency in incipient indigestion, and overcome heat, distention, and pain attending more advanced or neglected cases. These Pills invigorate, and soon restore the dyspeptic from the great and sudden depression of strength always accompanying stomachic disorders or biliary derangement. They beget cheerfulness, vigour, and happiness. In rectifying disorders of the digestive apparatus these Pills prove themselves the promptest preventives of disease. Tixey raise a bulwark against all approaching maladies, and preserve freshness, health, and life.

A London special to the Melbourne ■Arbus’ amxomxcos thefailure forlAriGOiM of °Mr Daniel Tailenuan, _ v eil kin-wn throughout the Colonies for iris GUtnnsuiotic advocacy of .tho -iutroductxon wCimjnial presCiVrd meats into tlxo markets. In the early days of the Victorian goldfields Mr Taherman was an auctioneer on Max - yborongli, or as it was then called, “Simpson’s Diggings,” and will no. doubt ho recollected by maipy in New Zealand. -~ ■ , A (/?iriatts rincidl ately ogffffred at (says ' the Napier Telegraph.’) A. inpL-nained Pollard was digging a well, got to a considerable depth when he came to a bed of what he thought was coal. After sinking four feet into this he came up to dinner. He was being lowered into the well again, smoking his pipe, when a blast of tsinoke and flams came up around him, and scorched him very much. He was drawn up almost insensible, and was still ill from the accident a Aveek after the occurrence. If he had really pierced a coal seam, the explosion of fire-damp caused by the dropping of bis match is easily accounted for ; but this explanation is not sensational enough for some of his neighbours, Avbo maintain that Mr Polard has artificially penetrated to the region of internal fire, and Avho are nOAV awaiting the \mlcanic outbreak which should follow. The £ St. Petersburg Gazette gives the Hussian taxpayer a gratifying account of the cost of an nursery. The household of his Imperial Highness the Grand Duke Michael AlexandroAvitch, aged four months, is limited to lo people, of Avhom alone the English nurse receives 1143 roubles, and 18,125 roubles are alloAved for his Imperial Highness’ table. Considering the price of a pint of milk, his Imperial Highness must be well supplied, unless the accounts are still kept as in the days of tho Emperor Nicholas. To mention one of a hundred similar instances, it happened that the Emperor asked one day for some talloAv for application to a sore foot. Tears afterAvards a Minister of the Imperial household investigated an item of a hundred pounds of tallow Avlxich appeared in the weekly accounts of the Emperor’s personal necessities, whereupon it Avas discovered that for ten Avhole years this amount had been charged Aveekly. Had not his Majesty once used half an ounce 1