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Globe, Volume II, Issue 170, 22 December 1874, Page 4

A statue of Wilson, the ornithologist, has this week been unveiled in Paisley, his native town,

Charles Mathews, the comedian, brought up his son as an architect. When asked what profession the young man was intended for, he replied that he was to draw houses, as his father had done.

The following paragraph appears in To Waka Maori of the Ist instant: —" Tamihana Aperahama, of Kaipara, Auckland, has written us a long letter on a variety of subjects. He has heard of a case of witchcraft somewhere north of Kaipara, and he is very indignant inconsequence. He thinks all sorcery should be suppressed by law, and sorcerers arid magicians punished severely. In the d?rk ages gone by the pakehas thought so too, for magicians and sorcerers were common amongst them then as they are no\v amongst the Maoris. But in these days of enlightenment such imposters are only laughed at because it is known they have no power to injure anyone. They please themselves, and harm no one."

The Atlientenm states that, in memory of Dr Livingstone, the name of Livingstonite has been bestowed upon a new mineral by M. Barcena. The substance occurs at Huitzuco, in Mexico, ana resembles in physical characters the well-known antimony glance, from which it differs, however, in chemical composition. Analysis has indicated the presence of 10 per cent of mercury, and the mineral is probably a double sulphide of mercury and antimony,