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Waikato Times, Volume X, Issue 786, 30 June 1877, Page 5 (Supplement)

The Austrian Ambassadors at Constantinople have remonstrated against the proposal of the Porte to form a Polish Legion. We are happy to state that Capt. Pallant, of the schooner Mora, -who was injured at Hokianga by a log falling upon hint, and m now m the hospital is doing well. _ The doctors now pronounce him m a fair way of recovery. A . correspondent of the; "New Zealand Times "points out that while on. some, of the colonial railways a porter receives 7 s per day, or £109 11s per annum, the salary of a station-master is only £IQQ. At Christchurch a man named Catcjiou has been ' caught iv ' the act of passing off \is sovereigns a peculiar kind of ,vost buttons, fromj which the shank had he en, carefully filed, i • ■■• ' At a performance given by Madame Simonsen at Hpbart Town the audience Avere astonished by the sudden appearance on the stage of a total stranger, who attempted to sing "You'll remember me," broke down, was hissed, persevered, went oil" amidst applause, and declined to accede to a vociferous encore. Madame Simonsen then came forward, and explained that the gentleman was a commercial traveller who had wagered that he would sing m public and won. At a further stage, a maniac m the pit yelled out during an interval m Norma, "My heart is m it ! My conscience is pricked !" He fought like a tiger, beating off those who attempted to remove him, drove the orchestra on to the stage, set the women screaming, and was only ejected after a free fight. }

! Dininkennfes i'^said to be seriously on the increase m Wellington. "'••' ;Tfyti'Lp,nd Board of Otago luw discovered iliat the Dummy systems, is being practised tp evade the' Land I ! Act. ■ '■■•■■ ' : Cfb r rh t *.v4li milist bea tilce' place for a poor nutii^b' rea'd''is" 'there' ' iifVeon pence per 41h ■ .Tlui. hqai,],. oi the iV^C-unia firm of the Ilotkclii h Ih . .Lia.-i , .an. annual' iuou-r.e of sixty uiilHoj) ih>;;.his, about .uj',UO:),CUO, or about .^iri.'JJOpci-.da;,-. ; Ki-iHi! ii Hi ;•. s !iiiu.n(. «-r(.'o'jiifly laid before tiio.llo;;- c bi : .i-'oiiuui'iis- 1 . it ;:;;]Hv.rs thrttthototal r-rowu ■cxu^im* ■ ai tiie Tichborne prosecution animmt'M'i. to ■£{'••) ,(H : A. The in'couio flnrii!^ K-i'/r; oi' ihc r'nited Pn^bytorhifi .1 'huica iri S'.-nthuid i'ur mis-'sinnlfr-y ;),!!■/! oia -r- Ln. i liv':\(ili-iil; purposes was /bvf'V'.{;K';-i,(XX ' ; '■• ri.--i, ' '-...A 1 proclamation 'inaK'nw Zealand ( Jazettc of^ June ,7Ui .authorises Mr E. Fairbui n, surveyor,'' to. lay ! down 1 roads tlnou^ii certain , f blocks at, ivoliini, Waikawau, Pinna, and " T.:iriapu.a, tlic '. I'rriV.iiicJal District of .■Auckland; ■ ' : The Bay. of Plenty ' ' Times" states that ■Mr,J.' A. Wil.so.nis about to commence active „pp«L:atjons.iu the sulphur. fcvade at White lalaiid. ; .He. intends to, employ .sailing ves.sels.to remove., the presto the reiiuery, which .will 1/e sitta'afe .cithfir. at -Auckland or Taurangaf i- „- :,,.; :; , ••.,;: . '•' The Wellington Chamber of Commerce recommends the reclamation of land and the extension 'of the railway to the present wharf. It has also relegated to Mr Johnstone, M.H.'R,- the duty of bringing under the notice of Parliament the necessity of legislation: iiv the matter of bigs of sale, to prevent defrauding of creditftr^T " . At , Sedgloy, when a young man was being, buried m the, parish churchyard, a publican named .Budge came forward and ,puured a bottle .of spirits on the grave, saying that- as, the deceased had been fond of spirits Avhen m life, he should have some now he was dead. For this he was lined 2ys, the,. charge against huu being that of desecrating the eliiirchyanl. : ' It is surmised that tiie Russian squadron, 'Which loft >Sau l'Yaiici.sr-.o under wealed orders was to proceed to Vlndiuo.stok m Kamschntka, and ;vi:r>loiir of pi!o!ial)iiity is given to this, as the wives of the 'officers "have taken passage for -Yokohama. The British India office, however, believe the squadron, has been ordered to the Persian Gulf, to be ready to prey on British India commerce m the event of England declaring war against 'Russia. '• ■ ' ' It is stated m. the American papers that Von Moitkd, m a letter to a brother officer, paid' that his went spoon]) as to the military preparation's/ 1 iv France was intended as a cold 'shower bath, for that country, and to shew that Germany wax fully aware of the designs of /Era nee. " Tlie visit of the Emperor, and German. Minister of War to Alsace 'and Lorraine' is supposed to have 'been for the' purpose of /adopting military measures corresponding -with those on the . French side. • -.The following advertisement, which appeard m a recent issue of the Nelson •' ' Daily Times, ".offers a, good opportunity to bachelors :— "i Matrimony.— Rita and' Muriel are twp friends, who .desire to correspond (with the object ; of marriage) with two gentle-'nianly-lpoking , ; diirk, young men, possessing .moderate . iuepnies.. , Muriel isc nineteen, dark, and considered ..handsome; fond of home. ...Ritaiii eighteen., warm-hearted, and | very aJfectionate ; i.s oi middle height, with 'blue eyes, ami fair. hair. Will exchange ' >cartes 7 de-visite. Address : Box No 5G Posto'flice, Nelson." • -. • A .sad accident happened at Waimate, near Oamaru, to that favourite actress, Miss Kessie Vivian.. She was undressing from the part of "Venus m Paris," when her long flaxen wig caught lire. Six other ladies' Vere present in 1 the room. The screams of the unfortunate artiste were awful. Mr Hooper, her husbaud, rushed into the room, but by that time a lady had , poured a bucket . cf Mater over the burning mass, aud so put ihe-fire out, but not before Miss Vivian was very much burnt about tlie shoulders, neck, hands, and arms. r.. The right one was worst. She has 'been very ill since, but it is expected that with a little care she .will soon be fully recovered. A curious and distressing case has recently been under the consideration of the police of Moscow... A Russian peasant, with his wife and four children, were travelling m a sledge along the banks of the P/uth, when they were pursued by a. pack of wolves. The peasant urged on tlic hordes as nruc.li as he .could, but soon perceived ., tlie horrible fact that the wolves were i"ast gaiijnig upon them. At the moment when tjie sleigh was surrounded by the ravening. .beasts, the man seized one of the childern, .threw it m the midst of them, and .while the wolves were struggling over -.their. prey. he.. hastened on his horses and gained ground, Four times the wolves came . iip with the fugitives, and . four times the liorrible, sacrifice .was , compief cd. At last tlie peasant and his wife, arrived at the nearest village, leaving; .behind them the bones of tjieir four children. In the bittr;jfless of her despair, the mother infornie^.'igainst her husband, but the Judges, considering that, if. the peasant had not resigned himself , to the, horrible sacrifice, he would not only have lost his children, but also Ms wife, acquitted the prisoner. . . The "Duneden Star" has been severelycriticising Mr Walker, the trance medium. Our contemporary says : — " Walker speaks i-apidy arid 'fluently, but has a sing-song delivery,' varied, when he wishes to make a point, by an inflection of the voice after the style of the conventional stage villain." He has a slightly provincial pronunciation^ which is strongly suggestive of a youthful Chadband, for his delivery is unctuous m the extreme, and he speaks of " terewth," " tcrew," " of-ten," " h-him," ' ' Rer-ome," "pe-rove,"' : Tcr-omas," " ter-ans-gcr-ess," and the like. This is of coxirse affectation, and need not be Set down as due to a : faulty education ; but "noo" for "new," "assoom" for "assume," and " sorrer" f or ;i " sorrbw" favor the idea that the medium has not had much money expended on hnn m school fees. Altogether, frpm the quickness with which he gabbles through the lecture and the occasional stumbles, quickly ' rectified, any impartial hearer would form the opinion that the discourse had been' learned oil'by heart,and perhaps delivered scores' of times before. There was nothing particularly beautiful ' iii the language used or the ideas expressed, and fora communication froth a spirit m ; spirit-land itwas sadly lacking m particulars cbncci'iiing' the 1 migration of souls from the physical world 'to the spiritual world. ■ The' ■.•"following;; amusing paragraph, • evidently .penned by an easily recognisable dine Roman hand, appeared ,m a recent issue- -of the "Guardian": — "We have much .pleasure m. correcting, an error into .which we .were led,; an our yesterday's issiie m supposing .that tlie spiritual band, which surrounds Mr Walker is able to lecture on only thirty-nine snbjects. . We are informed that they can lecture on an -infinite variety of subjects, and that thirty- ' nine subjects were merely those collected together by the Committee as suitable to be suggested for -the exercise of the talents of the little band that waits on Mr Walker. If, therefore, we have hurt the feelings of Rev. Dr Stewart of Spirit Land, or Dr Neald, or the other able and talented spirits who have kindly visited Dunedin m company with Mr Walker, we desire to express our very great regret ; and, j n making the amende honorable, to assure them that avc had not the slightest intention of disrespect, and fell into the error merely from being .misinformed o n Q ■ subject."