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Lyttelton Times, Volume LVII, Issue 6507, 4 January 1882, Page 6

The official report of the census of the territory of New Mexico shows a population, in 1880, of 110,225, of which 108,721 am whiter, 9700 Indians and half-breeds, and 56 Chinamen. There are 9427 more males than females. On Nov. 12 the land of a hill on the south side began to slide to the valley on Walworth Bun, Cleveland, C. 9., below, and steadily continued to slip, until at noon on Nov. 14 five acres of earth deposited in the ravine damming up the stream and entailing a loss estimated at. £IO,OOO, and threatening tc increase. The slide was caused by excavating for the New York, Chicago and St Louis railroad. M. Faure, Bonapartist Deputy of Gere, and a military critic, who recently returned to Paris from a visit to Tunis, publishes statistics showing that since the commencement of the Tunisian expedition the French troop*, varying in number from 26,000 to 35,000 have had from 12,000 to 15,000 on the sick list. The deaths from ' diseases have been @OO, typhoid fever being the cause of 85 per cent, of the 'mortality.