FROM OUR EXOHANG.

Temuka Leader, Issue 171, 27 August 1879, Page 3

FROM OUR EXOHANG.

The 1 Fiji Times’ has the foil wing:--An outrage of a most fiendish cl -, '.roc , < r was re cent 1 v committed by a i'lpan < n his wife at Kandavi. ]t seems that he is of a very jealous disposition, and lately, on returning from a trip to Rewa, hearing that his wife had not conducted herself as she ought to have done, ho determined upon e most dreadful revenge He, with his wife, went out to the reef to fish in a small canoe, and just as she stepped into the water he drove a fish, spear into her with such a force that it snapped off, and had afterwards to he extracted by drawing the portion in her both* right through her. Not satisfied with tidy, he proceeded to hack the unfortunate woman about with a finite. and cut off her upper lip, both oars, and gave her some dreadful gashes m the face. She has so far managed to survive these painful injuries, and her ruffianly assailant has been lodged in the Rewa gaol, from whence he will ho forwarded to Levuka to take, his trial, and will no doubt, in duo course, meet with the, punishment such a diabolical outrage deserves.

Beaver. Fa., a suburb of Pittsburgh, lias an ehn emont scandal that outstrips the recent coachman escapade in sensationalism. One of the prettiest, ■wealthiest, best known and really accomplished young ladies of the town, left her fatin'.’? house and deliberately married a negro, who is a? ugly and ignorant as he is Mack. For some time past Am;; Meson, only twenty years old. base’ . a her parents . a great deal of trove- .• bv her reckless. wayward conduct ; but being an only daughter she was spoiled by indulgence. Her father is United (states .storekeeper in Indiana Comity, but. lives in Beaver, and is wealthy. Her uncle is ex-Chief Justice Daniel Agnew, of the Pennsylvania Supremo Court, and the family is really one of tin' best in that part of the Stale. She had quarrelled with her parents on TTeducsday night, and early on Thursday morning she left her home and met George Jones, a coarse, illiterate negro coal-digger, by an appointment she hud made 1 y some unknown means during the night. At -5 o’clock in the morning Jones . and an either negro, accompanied by Miss. Mason, went to Rochester, about a mile from Beaver, and hurried to the bouse of a colored clergyman, who married Jones to Mff-s AUson in the presence of a emtplo of white men who -Were calt-ed in to act-as witnesses. The coupie then took the m-xt train back •to ' Beaver, where Jones lured a room m a small bouse, which has only : throe rooms in it, two of which were already occupied by ncgi’o families. Tbe reckless girl sent lionv- ffr leer trunk, riiano, and some of the ornaments train her ro.>m, and tni? whs the first intimation Imr mother had of the marriage. An American paper says: — £ * In Colorado there is'a 10 acre field which is no more imr less than a subterranean lake covered with s.-Jl about 18 inches deep. On tlm soil is cultivated a field of corn, which produce:; 80 or 40 bushel? to the acre. If anyone will take the trouble to dig a hole the deptn of a spade-handle, ho will find it fill with water ; and, by using a hook ami line, fish four or five inches long can he caught. The fish have neither scales nor eves, and are perch-like in shape. Tire ground is a flack marl in its nature and in all probability was at one time

an open body of wafer, on winch was accumulated • vegetable matter, which, ha* been increased from time to time until now it' has a crust sufficiently strom/ and rich to produce fine corn, though it has to lie culfivated by hand, as it is not strong eiiouch to boar the weight of a horse. W Idle Harvesting, the field hands catch great strings of fish'by-'punching a .hole through the earth. A person rising on his heel and coming down suddenly can see the growing corn shake all around him.- Anyone having tlie-’gtrength to drive a rail through this crust will find, on releasing it, that it will disappear altogether. Hie whole section of country surrounding this field gives evidence of marshiness, and the least rain produces an ahundanc of mud. But the -question comes up, lias not this body an outlet ? Although brackish, the water tastes very fresh, nml is evidently not stagnant, lot those- fish arc 'eyeless and scalelcss, similar to those found in oaves.” The following characteristic story is told.by the £ Arrow Observer’: —“ Mr G. B. Dougins has been greatly exercised in his mind over the fate of ■the box of quartz specimens sent by him, as reported by us, many weeks ago for'the ’Sydney Exhibition, to -the care of Mr G. Grant, Dunedin, nnd a considerable amount of telegraphing and writing was incurred in consequence of -their non-arrival ns addressed. A little light has now hceu let in. When the box 'was laving at Mr Ho top's agent for the, s.f:, iMoiinhunccr, for despatch j bv ihrsi" vessel, Mr Henry Manders ■happened t,o get his .< hcagle hi’ on it, and sirmgii sway [lasted one of his own . keck, as rh end. my of the. Queenstown Commit!-c b-r the S. T. H. over Air. IGiighoA-, jahel. Gobi, very! 'Whether the specimen?, inr-endeii to iousiratG ihe. rcaoui’cc.-j os the r\stow di.si-ru'i., v,ili ever tirr’v * and b” exhibited at f-’yclney, y. o> .; i■. ■- bib WO ram'lOt help fhiiiking that, w],m-v.-r motive induced it, Mr fia.n'h'r.-r.' corn!net- was highly j-1 1 ;dtlid-e:i!■ ar rviU too utile vo’.um man. ' B too vcruicl- ou the U ,e; he- p -AG.—-bom City i.doiirnab’ i! ihi lull ■ collar and too lem-ii • : . m.-m." G y ,|p !ig ’/:•!!« t. oe tie' average be’, a- oi il; e . iit. ah a Gv-ning ‘ korm.'

Rome of the touchiest foes that Enghii'd lies encountered among barbarians are the snout childion of civilmaF-m— -thoM." vi;- of New Zealand, lor ina!C'. and m w lee Zulu Ivaftiis, ■which latter people have been considerably under Protestant missionary influence, including t i;it of the notorious JTshop Colcnso, of Natal. Both Maoris and Zulus are comparatively “ superior races,” and the .effect of Protestant evangelization would seem to be a spirit of independence, which eventually turns to their own d isatß outage. Drunkenness and war too often follow in the wake of the gospel which, nevorthe--less, they persi t in calling the gospel of Jesus Christ ! The Gympio coach has been stuck up by au armed man. who took a quantity of jewellery, which was afterwards recovered, but the man has not yet been arrested.