The Tuapeka baby crop for 1873 is very unsatisfactory. The returns show a less number of infantile advents than those of previous year. Maeeiage of the Empeeoe or China. —The Emperor of China was married at Pekin on the 16th October. There was no public ceremony outside the Palace beyond a procession to bring the bride thither, and the whole affair passed off very quietly. New Zealand Stonb in Yictoeia. — The ' Bruce Herald' learns that, at last, the Kakanui sandstone is about to be introduced into the Melbourne market, this really excellent building material having been adopted for the erection of the new Scotch Church, Collins-street, Melbourne (Hetherington's), the contracts for which amount to nearly £20,000. Mr. David Hunter, of Dunedin, has contracted for the supply of 20,000 feet of the best Kakanui stone.
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Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume IV, Issue 208, 21 February 1873, Page 1 (Supplement)
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134Page 1 Advertisements Column 1 Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume IV, Issue 208, 21 February 1873, Page 1 (Supplement)
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