THE LATE LORD FREDERICK CAVENDISH.

Waikato Times, Volume XXI, Issue 1723, 21 July 1883, Page 4

THE LATE LORD FREDERICK CAVENDISH.

♦— 1 1 >Thb Bradford Cemetery Company hiiv just completed, on behalf of the tenantr, ,of the Duke of Devonshire on the Boltoi ! Abbey estates, a memorial cross of th late Lord Frederick Cavendish. Th .cross, whichis carved ffom the fine whit freestone obtained at Bolfcon woo< quarries, has been erected from design prepared by Messrs Mawsou, architects of Bradford. '< It consists of five pieces— namely, a base about 7ft square and 2fl thick, formed of one solid block, t pedestal about ,4ft 6in high by 4ft square 'an ornamental shaft, the cross proper and a cap or finial ; and now that thi different, portions have been put together the design is seen to be very harmonioui and effective. The cross and shaft an very richly carved with the curious inter lacing patterns peculiar to Runic remains this portion of work having been per formed by Messrs Earmer and Brindley the sculptors, of London, who did th< carving and figures on the exterior o; the Bradford Town Hall. On tin pedestal is the following inscription ii Runic text : — To the Beloved Memory of Lord Frederick Charles Cavendish, Son of William, Seventh Duke of Devonshire, and of Blanche Gedrgina, his wife. Born November 30, 1836. Ho -went out as Chief Secretary to Ireland " Full of love to that country, " Full of hope for her future, " Full of capacity to render her service," And was murdered in the Phoenix Park, Dublin, Within 12 hours of his arrival. May C. 1882. " The Lord grant thee thy heart's desire. And fulfil all thy mind." The text of the inscription was decided upon by Lady F. Cavendish, widow oi the deceased nobleman, and LadyEgerton, his sister, while the lines quoted are words naed by Mr Gladstone in communicating the sorrowful news of the assassination to the House of Commons on the Monday after its occurence. The cross is to be erected on its permanent site at Bolton Abbey, the place selected being at the edge of the Abbey burialground, in a romantic spot beneath the shade of one of the magnificent sycamore trees for which the Abbey is famous. Tunes.

Churcii-bcildivg in the United States has averaged one hundred new edifices every year since] BoB. The House of Lords is composed of hereditary land-owners, who collectively ewn 14,258,527 acres of land, whose collectively incomes are £14,000,000. Two Pints.— Scene— Public-house parlour dramatis pn-xonm— Benefit Society Committee. First committee - man, angrily: " I rise tae a pint o' order," Second committee man,, " drily" : M I rise tae order a piut." A Gheat loan collection of Indian jewellery, to which native Princes will be asked to contribute, will form one of the attractions of the International exhibition at Calcutta. Tiik radical party in Italy are endeavouring to organise an agitation against the bill granting an allowance to the Duke of Genoa on his marriage. The General Working Men's Society at Milan has signed a protest against the bill. A Sheffield lady has intimated to the weekly board of tho Sheffield Infirmary her desire to present a nutn of £10,000 for the purpose of sending convalescent patients to a sanatorium at the seaside or elsewhere, as the medical gentlemen may decide. Puiloi.ogi.sts says that the " Eenty, meenty, minety mo" and "Eeny, moeny, mony, mike," -which children use in counting in some of their games, and which are commonly considered gibberish, are in reality the sole survival of the language spoken by the earliest inhabitants of the British Isles. The Yankees out-done !— The Hochi Shin bun contains accounts of a wonderful adventure it says happened to a hunter named Chotaro, living at a placed called Nakatnua Kubikitgori, in Nugataken. While out hunting one day in the mountains in his neighbourhood, he perceived an enormous spider struggling with a bear it had entangled in its web. Astonished at this wonderful spectacle, he fired his gun at them, but luting only the bear, the spider escaped, The paper mentions that the people of the neighbourhood are very much frightened, so after the snow melts it is the intention of the hunters to assemble and try and destroy this dangerous insect. Chahl&s Readk, as everybody knowa, is a firm believer in scrap books, and hai an immense number of newspapers clippings, properly indexed, from which he obtains much of the material for his | stories. Rev* Dr Talmage finds many illustrations for his sermons in newspaper articles, and Henry Ward Beecher has trunks full of old papers. The late President Garfield drew many of the ! anecdotes and incidents with which h« graced his speeches from a large collection of scrap books, and Girardin, the French editor, probably carried the aystem to greater perfection than any other man, having whole rooms filled with index clippings. A Corbespondent of the Lyttelton Times writes as follows of mildew on frozen meat t—"lt — "I must still hold to my opinion that the cause of mildew is the want of ventilation in preparing the m»it. I wan at Belfast at the time the n"n»t sheep was killed, and will recount the method of working. The sheep, as soon as killed, are passed still hot and streaming into the cooling room, a room destitute of all ventilation — in fact, every mean* possible* are taken to prevent it — and then are him? as close together as possible without touching. The first sheep killed have some chance of the heat passing off, but ma soon afl the room is, filled, or the day's work done, thedoors are olosed and all chance of ventilation out off except the cool air blown in by' the engine. Now, with 400 or 600 sheep fresh killed and hung in a close room, the amount of heat and Bteam must be considerable, and it is at this time the mischief is done, and seeing that ©nly part are affected, does not this point to those last sheep as being mildewed ? The carcasses should be hung in a free current of air for at least an hour before ' being placed in this room." ■ . Rats and Mice.— lf you wish to destroy them get a packet of Hiix'sMagic Vbkmin Killkr in packets, od, Od, and Is, to be obtained of all storekeepers, or from'T. B. Hill by enclosing an extra stamp. ' ' Buy the best sewing machines, packed in boxes, carriage paid. ' Home 'Shuttle, £3; White, £3 10s; Wertheim, J£±10»; Frister and Rossman's, £1 10s ; in walnut cover, £5, Knit-ning-maebmes, £7; Sjngcr'sy Howes,, Davis, Jones', Standard, and all tho better classes of machines in stock. Cash, or deferred. D. S. Chambers' Wholesale 1 and Retail Machine Depot, 70, Queen-street opposite tho B«nk of New Zealand. ' - mM- ' <r i > Lifjb in .the Bush— Then, and <Now.— ■ It is generally suprioscdihat'iti the btish^hate to put up -with many discomfort*"and? privations in the shape ot food. !><Fonnerljr;ir was so; but now. thanks to T. >B: Hilt, i»ho' f has himself dwelt in the bush> \( food'dbes con»ist' 'chiefly of tinned meats his Colonial Sauck gives to ' them a niv'st delectable 'fiavpur, making them as well of the plainest food moit enjoyable, and instead ' as hard biscuits and indigestible damper .'his' Improved Colonial BA'iaNOi PoWDKß 'm»kei the very best bread, scones, cakes, and pastry far superior/ and leaven. Sold by all storekeepers wh» canlobI tain it front any merchant in Auckland!. J* ■■ „ yo'u^iU^d6%em%rniBK|b l ufpiouBe > from Garlick and CranwelPs. They have «ovr the most pp r rap]etejiFiirnishiniE: Warehouse' ln; Auckland, . («fnjtu*B^«w;ffl\aaaaWLmi6»l ( «fnjtu*8^«w;ffl\aaaaWLmi6»l M;rqag,-rtnd Cheap, /TKoy bV© T ?P?»try C Jrpcti