Explorations are being carried on at Aden to obtain a supply of water from artesian wells. Some sinner has stolen the thermometer from the Fond du Lac Reporter office. That paper informs the thief that it will be of no use to him where he is going, as it does not work higher than 313. Mr Rofi, of Greymoufh, the inventor of a machine for weighing vessels and their cargoes (noticed by us some days ago), has been offered in Melbourne .£2,500 for a fourth share of his invention, It is said in an official report on Education that throughout the whole of India only 1,090,000 children attend schools, of whom 166.000 are taught the English language. In Kentucky, a man wants 10,000 dollars damages from a newspaper which published a first-rate obituary notice of him befoie he was dead.
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Hawke's Bay Times, Volume 18, Issue 1077, 25 July 1871, Page 2
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