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Globe, Volume II, Issue 147, 23 November 1874, Page 4

An old lady lately refused to let her neice dance with a young graduate, because she heard that he was a bachelor of arts, whereby she understood him to be an artful bache'or. " Kin* Macintyre, an Australian potentate died lately, near Manila," the Sydney Umpire reports, "in the bosom of his family, at the—for a native—advanced age of 60. He was an acute, powerful, and despotic old fellow, but greatly liked by the whites, with whom he frequently held friendly communion. He was also much deferred to by neighboring tribes in matters affecting their welfare or diplomatic relations, and envoys from neighboring 'kingdoms' would frequently wait upon Macintyre with questions for his consideration more weighty than their habiliments. The old chief, on two occasions, saved the life of a squatter named Hoskisson, and was in consequence a full ration pensioner of the family." . The last Suez mail brought (says the Daily Times) from the liquidators of the Bank of Ota go in London another pound per share to be paid to the shareholders, which now makes £8 10s returned to shareholders out of £lO paid up. Looking at the market value of the Bank of shares in the years 1867 and '6B, at very little over £4, shareholders ought to be very well satisfied at the result of the liquidation; and these facts tell sufficiently of the value of the management that has brought about such a result without any further comments from us. We know of no other bank or public company wound up under similar cirrnmstances that can claim such a favourable finality.