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Feilding Star, Volume VII, Issue 152, 3 June 1886, Page 3

A*teefcurer recently advertised a lecture for ladies over 25 years of age. The lee- " turer was promptly on haud, but the audience consisted of one person— The lecturer's aged grandmother. . A httlef irl very maeh exeiled, rushed intOtherperlor, which was full of c«m» 1 panyv^aiid .-eiclaipied: 'Mamma, just think ef it.' « Tiiiuk of what, darling f Onr*eat has get a whole lot of twins and I didn't even know she was married !' Yesterday it . was rumoured that the Hon. W. H. Reynolds. M.L.C, had aoeepted a sett in the Cabinet without portlolie. It was farther reported that before consenting to join tbe Government, Mr Reynolds stipulated that certain subotantiai measures of retrenchment should be .adopted, to which, it was said, the Government-agreed. The advance in the price nf Plate wool nt the Antwerp sales will be good news to growers. What has hitherto been the drawback to an advance in the London market, has been the bad state of trade 4»n the continent, and the rise at Antwerp is a sign that the depression in continental trade is passing away. If so it will not be long before we have to chronicle a enbstanial rise in the London wool mar* The population ef Rome if increasing at the rate of 20,000 per annum, and building sites outside the walls of the fity have become so valuable that the' •wners of some of the most famous of the historical villas/whiish have adorned its .environs ever since the middle ages, are jelling tbem and tbeir surrounding pleasure grounds to syndicates. These are putting up the estates into building " allotments, and the Roman suburbs will coon offer a painful resemblance to .the boulevards of Paris.