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Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume III, Issue 196, 29 November 1872, Page 3

From the report of Otago Lunatic Asylum presented to the Houso, which is-unusually full, and has several interesting tables attached, :we learn that, during the past year, 54 males and 17 females wer-r admitted, most of them personsabout middle age. The list of occupations affords some curious results. It is as follows :• —2 bank managers, 1 barber, 1 bottle gatherer, 1 carrier, 2 carpenters, 1 chemist, 1 clergyman, 8 domestic servants, 1 draper, 4 farmers, 1 farmer's wife, 1 gentleman, 1 grocer, 6 housekeepers, 4 hotelkeepers, 12 laborers, 1 laborer's wife, 14 miner?, 2 ploughmen, 2 sailors, 3 shepherds, 1 schoolmaster 1 storeman. Another table gives the " Social condition of those admitted during the year." Of the men admitted, 33 were married and 12 single. Among the women, however, this result was reversed —lO were - married and 4 were single. The Dacotah is expected to make the passage from Californiaan 22 days, arriving here on November 28th. She willbring a large number of "passengers, including Chiarini's Italian Circus, consisting of 50 performers and 50 trained horses. They will visit Auckland, Christ-, church, and Duuedin, and proceed thence to Melbourne.

The " Alsatian -giantess, -who lias decided to remain French,": is the newest patriotic prodigy at the French fairs.