Untitled

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume VII, Issue 306, 24 December 1872, Page 2

Astronomers in Europe have predicted that about this month may be expected a large fall of aerolites. A Firm of opticians at Manchester bave presented 1500 pairs of spectacles for distribution to the poor of the workhouses. Despatch. — They do business with despatch in Texas. A man in a certain neighbourhood who had a valuable mare, received the following by telegraph : " Mare here, come get her. Thief hung." There are 126 breweries in Victoria, and the beer brewed last year amounted to " the enormous quantity of 13,061,145 gallons, or an 18-gallon caskfull for each man, woman, or child (teetotallers included) in the colony." The capital invested in plant and premises is £470,000. An Awful Sell. — A lady-like person who was detected stealing a pair of silk hose in a Boston store, burst into tears when approached by one of the proprietors, and offered a V 2odol, bill. After quietly censuring her, he charged her only/ the, regular' price of the; hose, 'and handed hack the; change.. Too late he discovered that the 2Odol. bill was countejrfeit. >