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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XV, Issue 91, 16 April 1880, Page 4

Commander Brydges of H.M.S. Wolverene, flagship of the Australian equa'lron was married to a neice of Sir Samuel Wilson afc Melboxirne on the 30th ultimo. .Ludicrous Mistake. — The Neiuhaven Journal and Courier recently had a curious trans103ition of two telegraphic items, which produced the following effect :— The. first item read — "A large cast-iron wheel, revolving 900 times per minute, exploded in that , city yesterday, after a long and painful illness. Deceased was a prominent thirty-second degree Mason." This was followed by the second item, whicb read — " John Fadden, the wellknown florist and real fistate broker at Newport, R.1., died at Wardner and Russell's sugar-mill at crystal Lake, 111., on Saturday, doing SOOOdol damage to the building, and injuring several workmen and Lorenzo Wilcox fatally." According to tbe Russian paper YRasvst, the total number of Jewish farmers in Russia is now probably. upwards of 100,000. In the year 1858 there were were 28,331 Jewish agriculturists enumerated in the Kingdom of Poland. In' New Russia tbere were in - 1859 35 agricultural colonies, with a Jewish ' population of 26,396, occupying an area of 205,603 ''desjatines. Iv the Governments of .Kiev, Volhynia, and Podolia, there existed in 1869 56 colonies, whose Jewish population .numbered 20,665 persons. Besides those above mentioned, there are isolated colonies of Jewish farmers scattered in other provinces, especially in Little aud White Russia, j the Caucasus, and Transcaucasia.