MISCELLANEOUS

Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume II, Issue 133, 15 September 1871, Page 3

MISCELLANEOUS

The wool interest of California is getting to be something immense. Last year that Sta'e produced 200,000,000 pounds, or 8,0J0,000 more than all the British North American Provinces, and nearly one-third of all clipped in the United States.

The Derby horse Marquis arrived at Melbourne by the Newcastle. The steeplechaser Dutchman goes to England by the Lincolnshire. The ship Joshua Bates put iu at Auckland leaky, with a number of Chinese for Dmiedin dying from dysentery. The men are to be landed on the island of Motuihi, and the ship discharged for repairs. The passengers will probably be forwarded to Dimedin, via Lyttelton, per Alice. It is understood iu Auckland that the San Francisco steamers will discontinue the coasting voyage to Port Chalmers, and the Nebraska is advertised to leave Auckland on the 13th for Sydney and Melbourne. The month's yield of gold in Auckland was 2:,6550z5, from 69 16 tons of stone.

Caledonian shares still continue rising, in spite of the adverse reports in the paper*. The present price is £L6O. All faith in the printed reports is lost, and the share market is disorganised. A new gold field has been opened at Tambaroora, N.H. W. Bismakck. —The story is told and widely believed, but we cannot vouch for the truth of it, that at the battle of Sadowa, Count Bismarck, who accompanied the royal armies, eirrieda revolver in his pocket for the purpose of blowing out his brains, if that battle were lost by Prussia.

A Uoyax Residence for Ireland. —Tiie ' Spectator ' says chat when the allowance is asked for Prince Arthur, it will be announced that he has been created Duke of Ulster, and will fix his principal residence in Ireland, fhe step is a politic one, as the Irish have long felt that they are regarded as poor relations by tbu Royal Family. Bee it.'—lie re is a fact for teetotallers to d\v<-ll upon. The bill of charges by the Midland Railway ■Company, lo Messrs. Bass and Co., merely for the conveyance of beer during three months, recently amounted to £33 01)0!