PROVINCIAL AND GENERAL.

Tuapeka Times, Volume III, Issue 170, 11 May 1871, Page 7

PROVINCIAL AND GENERAL.

Wo take the following from a Canterbury contemporary : — We are informed that on Sunday last, at Glenmark, Mr. Fuller, assistant to Dr. Haast, discovered the skeleton of what is supposed to be an eagle now extinct. The skeleton will shortly be displayed amongst the other collections at the Museum. A contemporary understands that the widow of the late Rev. Thomas Burns, D.D., intends returning to the home country with her two unmarried daughters, for a stay of two years. Turning from the enormous figures of the live stock required to revi'tual Paris, we observe by way of contrast that the " Taranaki Herald " notes, as an interejting fact, that a butcher in New Plymouth lately lulled two bullocks in one week ! A co-respondent of a Wellington paper gives the following probable solution of a puzzle : — I perceive in the English telegrams published by I you to-day, that New Zealand wheat ! is quoted at Rotterdam at 45s to 565. From previous remarks on the same ! subject in colonial journals, I am under the impression that it is actually supposed that the wheat in question is the produce of this colony. One naturally asks how our wheat should get to Rotterdam? There are two Zealands, or anglice Sealands, in Europe— one is in the province of Holland, the other in the chief island of Denmark, celebrated for its wheat. New Zealand wheat, in the Rotterdam market, means the new wheat — the wheat from the last crop of the Danish Island of Zealand, not wheat from tho Antipodes. The London correspondent oi the Melbourne " Argus " says : — The recent postal changes, as they affect the transmission of magazines and newspapers to the colonies, are producing great discontent and loud complaints, both at home and abroad. Registered periodicals, w'uch we used to send for Id, and then for 2d, cannot now, according to the latest regulations, be forwarded under 8d, — a monstrous find on international kindness. And even then, if posted more than seven days beyond date, they are liable to confiscation, or the imposition of a heavy penalty. Remonstrances are already reaching us from the Australian colonies, and it is to be desired that the colonial people will, either through their several Goverments or by public memorial to the home authorities, make their dissatisfaction with this new hardship emphatically known. Mr. Edward Barber, the proprietor of the Union Hotel at Hamilton, and who was also a mail contractor, left that place on Saturday last with the mail for Linburn, and was found on Saturday night , at about eight o'clock, lying quite dead on the road between these places, having been thrown out of his buggy. The deceased leaves a wife and two children, the latter of whom, till the receipt of the news of the accident, were attending the High School, A second newspaper has been projected at Levuka, Fiji. A paragraph recently appeared in one of the Victorian papers, stating it as a singular circumstance that a woman could be seen breaking stone metal in company wtih her husband. That a woman should claim equality with her husband in this rough work is not after all a rarity. In this " laud flowing with milk and honey " we ( " Bruce Standard " ) have noticed two similar cases. Not a hundred miles from East Taieri, on the maiu road, a grey headed woman nay be seen using the stone hammer with a heartiness and skill which would do no discredit to the oldest male hand at such a kiud of work. Either her love of money must be intense or her necessity urgent to induce her to adopt such reputedly unfeminine employment.

A bachelor says all he should ask for in a wife would be a good temper, health, good understanding, agreeable physiognomy, figure, good connection, domestic habits, resources of amusement, good spirits, conversational talents, elegant manners, and money. He does not say what he has to give" in exchage for all this. Fanny Fern gives her views about women barbers thus :—": — " There is no man who would not rather be shaved by a. woman than to have a great lumberinor man pawiug about la's jugular vein, and poking him in the ribs when another man's turn came. I don't say how his wife might like it, but I am very sure he would ; and as to his wife, why— she could shave some other man couldu't she ?"