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Evening Star, Issue 3383, 23 December 1873, Page 3

The potato? crop, on which a great portion of the German population depends for food, having failed in many district*, the Minister of | Commerce has been petitioned by several provincial authorities to order a reduction in the railway tariff for the conveyance of the muchneeded article of consumption. Great Fire at Berlin.—A fire, which broke _ out on October 27, causing the almost total destruction of the steam saw-mills at Weidendamm Bridge, ranks with the most terrible conflagrations which have occurred in Berlin for many years. Only the outer walls of the buildings were left standing. The loss of property, most of which was insured, has been estimated at not less than 95,000 thalers. The military conventions between Prussia and the Thuringian duchies and principalities, by virtue of which Prussia holds military supremacy in those States, expired on October 1, Negotiations have been opened by Prussia for renewal of those treaties, but several pf .the duchies have raised objp£t'^ ns i based mainly upon the refusal pf the German War Office to suffer officers 'stationed in those countries to be subjected to local taxes, as the law of the land provides they shall.

Late Advertisements. pRINUESS THEATRE. TO-NIGHT (TUESDAY), DEC. 28. The sensation play entitled THE WOMAN IN WHITE. Uura Fairleigh j Mia(J Tilly Andrews A.nn Cathenck \ J Marian Mrs C. F. Searle Concluding with the Screaming Farce of WHITEBAIT AT GREENWICH. John Small Mr J. P. Hydes Christmas Eve, JOHNNY HYDES’S BENEFIT. A Dinner for Everybody on Christmas Day. WANTED, good (carpenters. Apply sharp, 'G. 0. Clayton. Builder ; or at P. Dayman’s Stores, Rattray street. WANTED to Purchase, Steam Engine and Boiler, about 4h, p. A. and T. Burt. WANTED Known—s,o9o Dolly Varden Hats, for the holiday season, Is each ; also 6,000 ditto, 9d each, at A. andT. Inglis’s. WANTED to Rent, a Three-room Cottage. Address “J. W.,” Post Office. WANTED, a Young Man to assist in kitchen. Criterion Hotel. CHRISTMAS DAY EXCURSION. TIHE p.s. GOLDEN AGE ' will leave ttye Wharf at . id 8,0 a.m. on Thursday next, fbt portobeßo, Port Chalmers, and tRe Kaik, returning to the Wharf at 6.3()p.m. Return Tickets, 2a 6d. BOXING DAY. A GRAND Tomperapce and peatival wijl V* hMR (by kind permission of tbp owner) pn the Grounds of W, Barr, Esq-. Kaikorai. Special Amusements apd Sports will take place. A distribution of Prises will be made by the Committee. The Provincial Brass Band will play during the day. Vehicles will run to and from Mornington at Is fare each way. Admission, Is ; Children, 6d ; under ten years free, if with parents or guardians. CHAS. he LONGUEVILLE GRAHAM, Secretary. WANTED, a good Plasterer ; wages, 15s a day. Apply, 8 o’clock, Bull aud Mouth Hotel. WANTED, a Nurse Girl, about 15 or 16. Apply Mrs A. C. Begg, Roslya. TO CARPENTERS. TENDERS are invited for Repairs to Cottage at Yauxball. Apply j. M, Jener, R, Wilson and Co., Bond street.