ODDS AND ENDS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 326, 7 December 1880, Page 2

ODDS AND ENDS.

A Norfolk man has invented a gas-metre with a price indicator attached, which shows in dol.s. and cents the amount due for gas.

It is proposed to hold an Industrial Arts Exhibition at Lahore, the capital of Punjaub in Dec,, 1880. Mr Longfellow’s new volume of poems, Ultima Thule, is just announced as published.

T 1 ie 100-tort gun mi experiment at Woolwich Marshes has fired a bolt nearly a ton >n weight.

The mallet used by the Prince of Wales the other day in laying the foundation stone of the new Cathedral at Truro, was the same one used by Charh-s 11. to lay the corner-stone of St. Paul’s.

The expenses of an “inquiry ” as to the proprielry of purchasing a farm for sewage purposes, near Hampton Court, Eng'and, amouuied to £20,000. The shorthand writers’ notes fill a volume of over 2000 pages.

’f’he Irish Royal College of Surgeons has lately severely cautioned it members against having any communication with homoeopathiats

Mr Mongredien’s “ Free Trade and Engglish Commerce,” which was issued some time ago by the Cobden Club, has just been published 5m the Roumanian language.

A marble tablet to the memory of G. Stephenson has been placed in the railway station at Tmin, to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the opening of the first railway between Liverpool and Manchester.

Jack Evermau, a bank burglar, left 5000dol, at his death, in Philadelphia. He made no will, and his natural heirs refuse to touch the money, because it is the proceeds of robberies. The legal question arises whether, there being heirs, the State, can take the property ? Professor Nordenskjold is about to visit St. Petersburg for tin purose pf scientific research in the libraries and museums there, in view of his proposed expedition everland to the mouths of the Lena.

At a late Ohio camp meeting the Rev Mr Harrison, the “ boy revivalist ” who made such a sensation in Talmage’s taber nacle recently, prayed that “ the closing hours of the meeting might put hell in consternation.”

Mr Ohartes Kent haq prepared for ira mediate publication a new edition of the works of Father Front, In the biography prefixed to it Mr Kent has brought to gether a number of well authenticated facts in regard to the life of the Rev. Francis Mahony, in relation to the inci dents marking the exemplary close of it at Paxis in the old wit’s well known home in the ‘entresol’ of the Rue des Moulins,