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Dunstan Times, Issue 957, 20 August 1880, Page 3

MISCELLANEOUS. Tlie Aconcagua, steamer, belonging to the Orient line, is the floating convent of the servieo, as on nearly every trip a lar.c shipment of priests and nuns is made in her from London to Australia. On the last voyage (says the Sydney Evening News) she brought six ty-sevon Sisters of Mercy, thirty-one of whom were for Queensland. One of the number was missing soon after the vessel anchored, and search for her proved unavailing -she was in fact, nnn est inventus. A letter was received by the Lady Superior stating that the young noviciate declined to make any further vows. Another of the young ladies, said to he worth L 70.000, belongs to the Brisbane continent. She will be a rich bride for the Ohureh. The people of Ireland seem to be still “going with a vengeance,” to use an oftquoted Times newspaper expression. Emigration continues *o he on the increase, and the natural result has been a further material reduction in the number of the population.' At the end of May this year the population of Ireland, according to a correspondent of one of the London papers, stood at 5,3G3,59'J. Before the people of Ireland began to go " with a vengeance”