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Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume III, Issue 185, 20 September 1872, Page 3

Abetter frota Fiji, in the Hamilton (Yie'toria.) Spectator, contains the following :- — i 4 Young ladies here, are at: a ■premiiin,' and at least fifty could find excellent husbands ; for many a planter would gladly welcome English or Colonial girls, and give them comfortable homes. I know many in the Colonies—did they but know,"as I do. the advantages and comforts of a Fijian home—would soon be here. Grefc some of your, friends to publish these facts." -•■■,-'

Specifications- are at present in the Lands of several Clyde ship-builders for a vessel to be built for the National Steamship Company, to run betwixt Liverpool andxVew York, of dimensions only second to those of the Great Lhastern. Her length is to be 576 feet oyer all; and she is to be of 50 feet beam, and 35 feet in depth. It is expected that the great steamship will make the voyage from port to sort in seven days.—' Glasgow Citizen.' The bui-nt district of Chicago now abounds in half de.td-and-alive trees. the sides which fronted the £re being dead and charred from tho roots ud, while the opposite sides are full of sap, rnd the branches green with leaves.