ODDS AND ENDS.

Temuka Leader, Volume 2, Issue 157, 25 June 1879, Page 2

ODDS AND ENDS.

J. Milton Turner, ex-Minister to Liberia is making speeches in Missouri in opposition to the proposed emigration oi coloured people of that State to Liberia. An American paper says :—The Cana dians did not yell for " protection" until they learned that- their New Governor! General Lome, wrote spring poetry. j In Austria Hungary eveiy newspapei appearing more than twice a month ha! to deposit caution money if politics art treated with. j Governor Fremont has issued a proj clamation for a lottery in support of th<! public schools of Arizona. There are t<j be 12,000 tickets at 5 dols each. Engineers of steamships have found that the best lubricants are glycerine foj the cylinders and castor oil for thi] bearings. When the castor oil is usetj the bearings seldom become heated. j The money left by Patrick Coadj Buckley, about which there was so mucjj litigation somefoears ago, in Victoria, ha] been successfully'claimed, by seven rek| tives. j A woman in Loudon has paid 200 fines] for drunkenness. Poor thing ! And yej they talk of London charities*, aqd thi] good people always looking the unhappy. '■ j Twenty-five native students gave in their names at a meeting recently held ii| Calcutta as " willing to sign tKte jdedge.'j not against liquor drinking, bub againsj early marriage. ' f A prospectus has been issued at Shangj hai of a cotton mill which is to have eight hundred I< oms and other machinery, (<j be worked by Chinamen who are to bej educated by the importation of Englislj "hands." | I A charter lias been granted for aif elevated road in Chicago ten miles longj Speculators are said *o be behind thij road, who want to give value to lanrlj n South Chicago, i The Independent Order of OddfellowsJ lodges in San Franeisco are unusuallj large. With twenty-four lodges there are over 5500 members. j The wife of Major Buttler, bettei kno ivn as Miss Elizabeth Thompson, the. painter, witnessed the departure of thij 17th Lancers, and took a sketch of tin scene. j The British taxpayer may be interested to know that the expenditure which iK now being .incurred in Natal on account ; of the war amounts to about £250,000 a ! month.