It is a curious circumstance that there has been during the-past year a decrease in the gold yield of the three principal gold-producing Colonies of Victoria, New Zealand, and New South Wales. In New Zealand the yield of gold for last year was 376,358 ounces, or nearly 129,000 ounces less than that of year. Still this yield, reduced as it was, was about 139,000 ounces "more than the produce of New South Wales for-1874, which also exhibits a considerable decline as compared with its own former returns. The same thing is observable in Victoria, though to a less extent proportionally. While both New Zealand and New South Wales exhibit a decline of almost "one-fourth in each case, Victoria, whose production is considerably larger than both, shows a falling off in th e p:ist year of only about one-eighth. Another cake of 712 ounces was brought into Cromwell on Saturday last flom the Cromwell Co.'s claim. It is said this was the outcome of something less than 206 tons of stone. Warer of late being scarce, the company's battery has not always been working up to full power, otherwise the cake would have been considerably increased.
One day we were walking along the esplanade at Clifton, when who should Nvro spy, limping on in front of him, but an old sailor with a,wcoden leg. At the tree leg Nero cocked his eye at once: " Such a nice sizeable _bit of timber ; " thought Nero; " I couldn't be expected to resist that." To think is to act with a dbg, so he got hold of the poor man's timber toe on the spot. - Tn vain the sailor kicked and danced on his remaining extremity;. Nero only pulled and "held the faster, growling, hot without considerable difficulty I at last got the dog to quit his hold. The whole scene was most ludicrous, es - pecially as the; sailor, wh6 was Irish, began to harangue the mob from where Nero had seated him on the pavement. " Och! murdherin' devil of a dog ? Sure it's the best leg-of the whole lot of the two of them. Nearly bitten through it is, too, entoirely. JBy the rock of ages, it's meeself that'll be having the hydraephobee . ■ i Ileie I gave the man a shilling , and left him preaching.—From the ' Fanciers' Gazette.'
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Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume VI, Issue 323, 7 May 1875, Page 3
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