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Clutha Leader, Volume I, Issue 22, 10 December 1874, Page 7

The police are after the boys who put this sign on a young ladies' seminary — " Domestic Sewing-Machines Inside.'' Four wars within the last fifteen years have cost Great Britain upwards of £1(1,000,000 sterling*, fhe Persian expedition cost £9,00,000. The outlay on the Chinese war amounted to £16,114,000. The New Zealand war, which did not extend beyond the year 1866, was covered by £765,000 -'and the Abyssinian war entailed the expenditure of £8,000,000 or £9,000,000.

Masonry in 'Germany. — German^ possesses at present 325 Masonic lodges, with altogether about 30,000 members, trader eight German grand lodges of different rites, 'of which three are at Berlin, and the others are those of Saxony, Hamburg (the oldest in Germany). Frankfort-oh-the-Main, Baircuth, and Hessen.

The Tallest, Shortest, and Stoutest M. P V are all Irish ■.members. .Mr O'Sullivan, the member for Limerick, is the "tallest.. Drogheda has sent the, smallest man, Dr Leary, and the most bulky is The O^ornran-, member for Waterford, who Is isaid to. be a stone heavier than the Claimant was.

The * friend of India ' says — Corporal Alexander Rhino* j~a piper belonging to the 92nd Gordon Higlanders, and who, in' the train oi* Sir Douglas Forsyth awoke spine weird echoes near the Roof of the World, receives deserved praise from his late 'commandant. Sir Douglaß wishes him good-bye with regret—a regret fully shared by the large native following wno have ; been immediately under him, and with whom, without exception .he has rendered.himself most* deservedly popular through unfailing consideration and good manners.