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Lyttelton Times, Volume LVI, Issue 6499, 26 December 1881, Page 6

More than 2009 Mormon converts have left Liverpool for Utah during the past summer.

The National states that Bismarck recently entertained a prominent Jewish manufacturer at Vanin, at which time the Prince declared he decidedly approved the Judenhitse, and would never entertain a pro* petal to curtail the constitutional tight# of the Jew*. The Chairman of the Committee of Wave and Means of the National Qarfleld Memorial Hospital recently received a letter from Mre Carfleld, in which she eeyei—“ I regard the project m a grand tribum to the memory of Oeuera) Garfield, and one which would ho to him most gratifying." The increase of the business at the Chicago I’oit-ofll”* ie marvellous. For the fiscal year 1879-80 the total amount of mall matter deposited in and sent out from tbi* Po#t-otll«e wa58.6fi5.292 pound*, and 80,731,519 piece* I for the fiscal year 1880.81, the amount w#» 8,471,581 pounds, and 130,837,505 pieces. The deposed Zulu King is about to receive a remarkable present. It is a concertina, and the instrument is to be intrusted to the care of a missionary about to sail from London (or the Cape. Oetowayo is gradually brooming more civilised, and he is said to have donned a silk hat and part of a many-coloured bathing suit. It ia stated that Abdul Kuduo Khan has written to the Ameer announcing that he captured Herat after a battle outside the city, during which the Herat infantry deserted Ayoob Khan. Abdul Kuduo ie said to have occupied the city without resistance. It is also stated that the Ameer ordered the illumination of Candaliar on receipt of the news, and announced the restoration of peace in other part# of Afghanistan.