MISCELLANEOUS.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 3, Issue 693, 15 February 1881, Page 2

MISCELLANEOUS.

~ . Newspapers are printed in ten different foreign languages, including Chinese, in San Francisco. I Moody and Sankey are .reported to 9 have seriously shaken the Salt Lake polygamists. The revolver mania, hitherto considered e a peculiarity of America, is fast spreading j in Victoria,' A nugget weighing 201oz 16dwt, worth ' over £BOO, has been found near Ihglewood Victoria. I Offenbach was a masterly peformer on the drum, which he learned while he was at Cologne, j It is claimed that the diamond drill at Kingston, Victoria, has developed the 9 largest gold field ever known in the ■ Colony. A lad named George Fitzgerald, 13 years old, while rabbit catching at 3 Koroit Creek, Victoria, was bitten by a : snake, and diod in the hospital, in spite of i all remedies. A statue of tho goddess Minerva, by Phiddias, whioh has been buried for centuries, has been discovered at Athens. » Mr Litile, of Benalia, has a horse -3?j years of ago, which in the old days used ■ to do the distance between Benalia and ! Melbourne, 121 miles, in a day and a half, and which even now can trot eight 1 miles within the hour. Only six candidates out of .771 passed , the Melbourne matriculation with credit, and of those one half were women, Well 1 done the sex, Two Wosleyan and one Congregational I minister wore ordained Church of Eng? land clergymen by Bishop Parker on Syd--1 neyon the 31st ult, Mrs Bowon, widow of the bravo Constable Bowon who fell in tho encounter .with the Moonlight gang, has taken the [ ' Bay View Hotel" at Double Bay, Yio toria, The Levuka native police aro not ' renowned for being tender-hearted. They took a sailor to the lock-up ihstead of to the hospital, and left him there till ho died. No inquiry hasjyet been held as in the cause of death, as it might oxpoao a case of ill-treatment. Who would bo a sailor! » Thorois at present in the Paraimjtta Benovolent Asylum an old blind man who thirty years ago was worth quite £30,000. Gambling and drink were the factors of misery. He was an old associate of the celebrated " Bill Nash."-. The Dead Sea is so named from no living object-being found in it. The question of fortifying Copenhagen is now being very much discussed in Den mark, A man-eating tiger, .whiclfhas killed 50 persons during the last three years, was recently shot at OhaVata. The Baroness Burdett-Ooutts, in ameliorating the condition of the poor and deserving fishermen of the United Kingdom, has expended £IOO,OOO. At Liverpool recently a young lady WhS ' fined 5s for refusing to keep to the right when descending one of the approaches to . the landing stage, 800,00Q,000 of bricks annually, taking the ayerage of the past five years, are used in London within a radius of four tir five miles from London Bridge. ••• : '■''■{■ it. A Mr Osborne, a.Methodist preaoherV". Madras, has been erideayoriog.to gairi'fP 1 himself notoriety by deojairajng against the use qf wine, denouncing • it even in the H.oly Communion. James Mills s , lato chairman of the NorthernOountiesof England Insurance Company, died recently in Salford Hundred prison, while undergoing six months' imprisonment for participation in the . insurance frauds. When Messrs Elder received a cheque for the balance of the contract prioe of - the Czar's yaoht Livadia, they also received a bonus of £40,000, owing; to the high rate of speed attained by the yacht during her offioial trials. v The design of the medals which are now beliig distributed for the reoent operations in Zululand is the Barneys for the Caffre wars, 1850-l,'elftßps beingiadded to mark the several -stages of the campaign for •vhioh.the decoration is aocorded, -;,; . Dr ; S. Gibbon; medical officer of health •■• for the Holbor'n district, in. his -report fop ■'.- the ■ pt'year. 'states' Cfiat whatever may • be the oauaei there i« no-doubt bat that ti - 'i Jew'sjiifwn average,' ■'s

KEJnNHCKNCEB OJ WJUiLWuiW.-ln the .'■'•• 5 °" 1845 » worthy citizen pjoaded his way -- ■ with some difficulty through fom and ti-treo to io Aro Hat boing in search of the s«rvoyr s opeg which had' been driven in at the corner of what is now Cuba and Dixon streets, Upon this spot was oreoted a small house, in which a very successful drapery ~ business was carried on by two ladies of remarkable talent and energy, who have long siuco retired from the scene to the land of -their birth—' ."Land o' the mountain and the floods . Land of brown heath and shaggy wood. In the year 18G6 it.passed into the hands of Mr Jamrs Smith, the present proprietor. • who gave to the premises the appropriate name of Te Aro House, and under whose management business has steadily progressed with the.rising fortunes of the city, until at length it was found that a considerable enlargement was ..necessary, and the . result was, TeAio House, as at present, • one of the most complete and Extensive Drapery Establishments in the colony ol New Zealand, The jeneral Drapery occupies a large space, being 49 feet by 25 feet, amply sufficient for all Manchester goods, . Fanoy Dresses, Silks, Gloves, Hosiery, • Ribbons, Laces, do. The Men's, Boy's, and Youths' Clothing Department measures 24 ;-j ■ feet by 14 feet, and has attached a comfit- _ fitting-room. Carpets ■ and Household -furnishings have a similar space allotted to . ~. them. The' Show-room for the Balo of MilMantles, Jackets', Costumes, Ac, is •"'a very spaiiious apartment, elegantly fitted " up, and beautifully lighted from the roof, ' and measures' 39 feet by 22' feet. The stock ''of goods % at air times large and well " selected, and patterns are forwarded post free on application.; A 'special feature at Te Aro House is the Order Department, and very careful attention is paid to the wants of Country Rcsidonts. Allordersaro executed under the immediato supervision of the proprietor, and securely packed and forwarded tn their destination with. that promptness and despatch which have always distin giiished To Aro House, Cuba-street, Wolling on.—fADVT.I