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Lyttelton Times, Volume LVII, Issue 6511, 9 January 1882, Page 6

A new gunboat has been launched at Nuochang, Miao, China. This is the ninth vessel that has boon launched at Kiang-nan Arsenal, two frigates, four gunboats, one sailing-ship, and one iron-clad having been successfully floated from there. In arranging the affairs of the late Earl of Airlie, who died in Colorado recently, it comes to light that his estates, extending over a considerable part of Forfarshire and stretching into Perthshire, yielded a rental of about £1:6,000 for the crop of 1879, representing an increase within the last twenty-(lre years of about £IO,OOO. This was due to the reclamation of Jond from moor and to the large amount expended in building, draining, and fencing operations under agreements entered into by proprietor and tenants at the commencement of the leases. In September there wore ftationed in England and the Channel Islands 11 regiments of cavalry, 41 battalions of infantry, 11 batteries of Boyal Horse Artillery, 68 batteries of field and garrison artillery, and 22 companies of Boyal Engineers. lu Scotland the total establishment ia represented by only one regiment of cavalry, two battalions of infantry as many batteries of artillery, and a company of Boyal Engineers} while it ia still deemed necessary to maintain in Ireland six regiments of cavalry, 25 battalions of infantry, three batteries of Boyal Horse Artillery, eight batteries of field and garrison artillery, and throe companies of Boyal Engineers, or about 30,C00 men.