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Hawke's Bay Times, Volume 18, Issue 1176, 20 November 1871, Page 2

The Permissive Bill has passed both houses of the Victorian Assembly. The telegraph operators at Sanhurst have plenty of work fro do now, upwards of 1000 messages J?emg daily transmitted thither. The export of rabbit skins from Tasmania is assuming large dimensions. ,-£II,QOO has been subscribed towards the building fund of the Sydney Presbyterian College. The manufacture pf ice has been added to the local industries ofLevuka, Fiji. We (Evening Post) are sorry ?q learn that Captain Tucker, of the barque Oaiuille, is dangerously ill at Newcastle. For some time back he has been suffering from disease of the heart, but latterly he has been getting woive, and when the Camille left Newcastle tin's trip, medical men had given him up. Capt. Tucker has been running between Newcastle and Wellington for a considerable period, during which time he had made many friends, who will be sorry to hear of his affliction. We trust, however, that he will speedily recover, and resume his command of the Camille. At Sunderland an old man was summoned for 3|d under a local church rate Act. The amount was subscribed in halfpence in Court, and went to the rector as part of his stipepd. During the voyage of the ship Am bassador, which lately arrived at Hong Kong from England, the cabin clock, which could not be made to go, was struck by lightning, and thenceforth kept accurate time. The King of Burmah has gone into the drapery business. He forces the merchants to sell their goods to him on three months credit, and re sells them to them for cash. It is not surprising to learn that he is making money fast. The F. and Q. Company has 12,000 officers and men in its employ, 8000 of whoni are on their steamers and transports. The average number of persons on their craft daily is said to be over 10,000, besides millions of letters and packages for all quarters of the globe. A scheme is on foot for forming 180 miles of tramway in and around Paris. The estimated total value of the live stock in Ireland is £36,782,968.'

The United Methodist Free Church has 67,648 members and 315 ministers. The spa is encroaching pn the Yorkshire coast at the rate of 8 teet a year. It is estimated that 15,000,000 gallons of water are wasted in Liverpool every week A weekly journal for women, in modern Greek, is now published in Constantinople. The latest- accounts from the South African diamond fields state that they are looking up. Three elopements took place at Port Glasgow in a few weeks, recently, two being by one woman. At Bolton, England, a young man died on the evening of his marriage day by the rupture of a blood vessel. The death rate of Folkestone is less than that of any other of the leading Fjng]ish watering places. At the Leeds assizes a juryman fell asleep, on which the Judge adjourned the Court as soon as possible. Three steamers, each ot 5000 tons, are being built on the Clyde for the Inman line of Atlantic packets. The centenary of the birth of Beethoven was celebrated at Bonn on the 21st August by a grand musical festival. At Bangor, Ireland, a horse which lost a shoe while grazing, walked to a smithy of its own accord and got shod. A Liverpool optician has an announcement on his window that " the invisible wprld may be seen within for one penny." Since the adoption of the shilling te legram system in Britain, the telegraphic revenue has increased by from \ Jga'QQO'to £3OOO a month.