CLIPPINGS.

Waikato Times, Volume XXII, Issue 1827, 22 March 1884, Page 4

CLIPPINGS.

According to the Timaru Herald, Timaru is one of the humdrum places of the Middle Island. Qhkensiand planters grumble over flu- coat of importing their men. In Fiji the cost may mean anything from C2S to '£.34, with prospi c.s of un'imited. (iins from the authorities. Tub Suthei land Country Council are bitterly disappointed. They applyed for £36,000 under the Roads and Bridges Conduction Act, and have recevied £670! The American-bred Gerald, who has lately been put into training, does not appear to have mended his manners, and is still described as a " mad horse." Ovu column of advertisements in the Chicago Tiibune nets £3,000 per annum. Tne Mew York Herald gets £3,000 fo.-ita lowest price column, and £60,000 for its highest. The Tiibune gets £5,000 for its lowest, and £27,ooo for its highest. A planter in Fiji was recently fined £5 at the instance of Agent-General Anson for not providing his labourers with yams, although it was proved that at tim *s yams were unobtainable, and that there was other good food for the men. Fiji wants Federation badly. Mr Barxum, regarding the importance of a white elephant as the climax of his caieer, summoned several doctors to attest his sanity, and made and published his will, in which his estate is valued at £2,000,000. He makes many public bequests. His share in the show carried on under his name is valued at £700,000. Tin: progress of Christianity since the | beginning is given as follows : — Day of j Pentecost, 3000 ; end of the first century, 500,( 00 ; leign of Canstantine, 10,000,000 ; eiiihth eenhuy, 30,000,000 ; Reformation, 100 000,000; in ISS3, 430,000,000. Tokio, Japan, has twelve Presbyterian chinches. The Government daily paper ad\citises the Bible for sale. A large convocation of Buddhist priests has been called at one of their famous temples for the pui pose of abolishing the ancient rules forbidding the clergy to marry or to eat flesh. PohTAL cards were introduce<3* r by Professor Emmanuel Herman, of Vienna. They were first used in England, Germany, and Switzeiland in 1870, in Belgium and Dcnmaik in 1871, and in Norway, Russia, and the United States in 1872-73. DirratKvr woods hold different quantities of water. According to Scheubler and Hnitig, freshly cut hornbeam conto ms IS 6 per cent, of water j willow, 26 pei cent. ; ash, 2S'7 pel cent. ; birch, 30 per cent. ; oak, 3A"7 per cent. ; pine, 39.7 per cent. ; led beech, 39.7 percent. ;elm, 4i 3 per cent. ; laieh, 486 per cent ; and white DopLu, 50 6 per ceut. S. S nidi Tristan, ?. Blase, Corrie Roy, Thohfus, and Oomau are included in the entry for the Ascot Cup. The Duke of Hamilton, in addition to naming three, has one sealed up for nomination, while the Duke of Beanfoit has thice, Mr R. Jaidine two, and Mr Chaplin one. It is said that the Emperor of Russia intends to commence racing on a r ither extensive scale next season, and that he will iilso send some hoises to compete in England. The dncctor ot the Imperial stud*, Geneial Ila\aisky, has been m England and France lecently, and purchased iii the latter countiy a dozen thoionghbreds, which have been sent to Russia. A shßiotis pinic occurred last January in Wombwell's Menagerie, when it was e\lnbiting at Bolton, England. As Delmonico, the lion-tamer, entered the lion's cage, one of the lions escaped him, and bounded out among the people. The animal paced the tent, foammc, and the spectator rushed to the exits. Several people were trampled upon, and one woman, crushed against a cage, had her neck torn by the claws of a lioness. Esentnally the escaped animal was seemed in an empty barrel and returned to the cage. Emuiatixg the fame cf Miss Isabella Bird, who rede acioss the Rocky Mountains, an American girl of 24 has just completed a tour of 1000 miles, from Mihvuikee to Portland, on horseback. She left Wmconsiu in April last, and arrived m November at Portland, none the worse for her adventures, and a casual acquaintance with hunger and hardships of diverse kinds. "The romance of the tup and the desire to sec the country " were her motives for setting out on the expedition. These are good reasons, and a lide across a continent 13 likely to become a popul ir pastime among the adventuious gills of the Western world. Thk nomination of Field-Marshal HRH. the Prince of Wales to the Colonelcy of the Blueher Hussars, says the Ainiyand Navy Gazette, gives expiessiou to the feelings with which the tiaditions of the time when German and British aimies fought side by side under an English General are still regarded at Beilin ; but there is not any political significance in the act, and the position is punly honoraiy. The Prince of ■\Yales wears the beautiful uniform of the regiment (bluth-roth, an amaiinth or oiamoisio pelisse and tunic, vety richly trimmed with fur and silver lace, &c.,) when in Germany on State occasions, and at nulitaiy displays where the Emperor is present, and has certain lights in connection with the regiment, brt that is all.

A Curious Lottery for a Wikk. — The London Times of Friday, October 26, contains the notice of the death of Lord Concleton, at the ago of 78. " The Right Hon. John Vesey Parueli, Lord Congleton," says the Times, " was born June. 1805. His Lordship was thiice married— fiist 1831 ; secondly in 1883 to an Armenian lady, Khatoon, widow of Yooso of Constantine, who died in 1565. He succeeded to the family honours on the death of his father, in Jane 1842 Congleton is succeeded in the title by his brother. While in India two years ago I chanced to hear quite a romantic episode in the life of this peer, which possible mi«ht not otherwise find its way into pi int. Fifty years ago, in 1833, there weie at Bagdad, in Asia Minor, there young men, missionaries of a new sect, the Plymouth Brethren, if I am not mistaken. One of them was Francis W. Newman (brother of Cardinal Newman), a man who has distinguished himself for as pronounced tadicahsm in religious teachings as any man in England ; the other was John Vesey Parnell ; the name of the third I have forgotten. At a time when it became necessary to return to England, the sole result of their 1 missionary labors was a young and beautiful Armenian widow. It was impossible to leave her behind at Bagdad, as by her apostacy, she had been disowned by her friends. What to do was made the subject of prayerful consideration by the young men, and it was finally decided that it was the duty of one of them to mat ry her as the only means of rescue. They cast lots, and the lot fell upon John Vesey Parnell. After his marriage betook herto England, and five years later she became Lady Congleton, living, it appears, till 1863. The story is authentic, and the episode is noteworthy as an evidence of an enthusiasm which has few parallels in missionary enterprise. — Letter in N.Y, Sun.

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LIFK IN THeBTOH— f&Etf'AND NOW. — It is generally supposed that in the bush we have to put up with many discomforts and privations in the shape of 'food. Formerly it was so, but now, thanks to T. R. Hijx, who has himself dwelt in the bush, if food does consist chiefly of tinned moats his Colonial Sauck gives to them a most delectable flavour, making- them as well of the plainest food most enjoyable, and 'instead as hard biscuits and indigestible damper bis Improved Colonial Baking Powdkr makes' the very best bread.; scones; cakes, and, pastry far superior and "more wholesome than yeast or ( eaV«n., Sold,by,aU,«o/eJu>eners i who c*» W*