EXTRACTS.

Westport Times, Volume II, Issue 320, 10 August 1868, Page 3

EXTRACTS.

Accident at a Tiger Hunt.—A correspondent of the Delhi Gazette, writing from the Nagode on the 2nd inst, says : —" Colonel Alexander Bagot, accompanied by Lord Downe, wounded a tigress in the jungle near Nagode on the 18th ultimo ; she took refuge in a nullah, and Colonel Bagot was in the act of aiming, when she sprang, knocking down the colonel, Lord Downe, aud a shikarrie, and seized the colonel by the leg below the knee. Lord Downe's trousers were torn by the animal's claws, and he received a severe blow on the back of the head from contact with a stone. The shikarrie was unhurt. A Ghoorka sepoy who was by with a t*pare gun shot the tigress. She then, releasing the colonel, took up another position and was preparing for a second spring when she fell dead. 2S"o bones were broken, and up to this time the colonel has been going on well."

Rich as the soil of Rome may reasonably be expected to be iu relics of ancient art and architecture, the recent discovery of the ancient Roman wharf denominated Emporium, and immense quantity of marble of different qualities deposited there, has surprised as well as interested antiquarians. On a length of the wharf now excavated for rather more than 50 yards 493 blocks have been already discovered They are of the qualities known at Rome as Africano, 30 ; Bigio, 10 ; Cipollino, CO ; Portasanta, 10 ; Gaillo Antico, 140 ; Alabastro, 20; Granito della sedia, 6 ; Porphyro, 2 ; Rosso Antico, 8 ; Serpentino, 200 ; Spatofluore, 6 ; Yerde Antico, 2 ; Broccatello, 1; Breccia Corallino, 1; and Greece bianco statuario, 2. As to small fragments they are almost numberless, upwards of 4000 having been already assorted, and visitors find no difficulty in carrying away specimens, which hey get cut and polished in the marble shops of Rome. The heavy strong tribute exacted by the Csesars from the subject provinces of Africa and Greece,' and unemployed in the Pagan fabrics of heathen Rome, has reappered after an immersion of 18 centuries, in the muddy bank of the Tiber, and will furnish material for the renewal of the variegated marble pavements of all the churches in Rome for centuries to come.

Two suicides arereportedby contemporaries. In Dunedin, on the 23rd ult, a man named Henry Mahen hanged himself at the Universal Hotel, Maclaggan street. Mahen was staying at the° public-house, and at one o'clock in the morning he was lying on a sofa in the diniu groom, where he had been in the habit of sleeping, as ho was not able to pay for a bed. At seven o'clock the landlord found the

poor fellow hanging by a piece of thin cord, which had been knotted to the balustrade of the stairs. He was quite dead. The deceased was about fifty years of age, a native of Jersey. He was sober when he was last seen alive; but during the last two months he was t'iree times in custody for drunkenness, —ln Christchurch, on Tuesday, a young man of twenty-four or twentylive years of age, lodging at Uncle Tom's coffee-house, in. High street, was discovered lying on the bed with his throat cut, and a large pocket, knife by means of which the wound had apparently been inflicted, lying on the floor by the bedside. Medical assistance was at once procured, but the wound was too severe to render it of any avail, and the man died about an hour afterwards. He was a native of Tasmania, and had been several years in the Province, but had no relations here. He was a stock driver, lately in the employ of Mr Grigg, to whose service he was about to return, and was much respected as a steady and industrious young man. The cause of his committing suicide is by no means clear since, although evidence was brought forward at the inquest to show that he was somewhat depressed in mind just before tie fatal/jccurrence took place, yet he does not appear to have been in embarrassed circumstances, nor suffering from any grief which would be likely to induce him to resort to so extreme a mode of relief from his difficulties. The jury however, at the inquest returned a verdict of " Temporary Insanity." The laboring classes throughout America continue to make numerous " strikes " for higher wages, and generally with success. In some cases these demands are made for the restoration of wages, from which a percentage was taken during the dulness of business last year. Some classes of mechanics in New York are now receiving 4 dols. 50c. and sdols. a-day, and as a general thing their Trade Unions are so well organised that they can force employers to pay increased rates when demanded. The American working-man shows a bitter hostility, however to his fellow-crafts-men from abroad, who are now immigrating in large numbers to the United States, and who always underbid the native laborer. The Trade's Unions seem to be quite as much opposed to these as to the employers. A savage assault was committed at Blanket Plat, Daylesford, on 19th July when, during a public house row, an Italian named Permoni struck an inoffensive man named Deripas on the face, forcing in one eye and bursting it. Prisoner is of course under arrest.