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Patea Mail, Volume VI, Issue 530, 8 June 1880, Page 3

The jockey Hawkins, who was injured in the Grand National Steeplechase, is in a precarious condition, and scarcely expected to recover. Monster Ironclad. —The ironclad Inflexible, now in course of construction at Portsmouth, is estimated to cost over £700,000. Her hull will cost in labour and material : alone £570,000, and the cost of her machinery will be another £150,000. Rather Mixed. —The N.Z. census returns are made up in a comical manner. Billiard table keepers and markers are classed with actors ;iso are bootmakers! 'A man whose occupation is unsavoury but necessary, is catalogued as ‘dealing in clay, eathenware, and glass,’ a cemetery-keeper comes under the head of 1 others connected with religion and a Turkish-bath keeper is, according to the Registrar-General, one of 1 others engaged in board and lodging IN— Chronicle. A Sunday law is being enforced in Louis ville city so vigorously that newspaper offices are shut up, and trackmen, firemen, and telegraph operators are restrained for the time from active service. The object is to make the enactment odious. The election of Scottish peers to represent the Scottish Lords in Parliament resulted in the choice of fourteen Conservatives and one Liberal; The new English Government intend to hold Austria to a strict compliance with the Treaty of Berlin, and will require the ultimate evacuation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, being in favor of the development and independence of nationalities. A tornado struck Marsfield,; Missouri, and levelled most of the.town. The debris immediately took fire in several places? and ilames coaid bo seen at half a dozen points by passengers on trains. Forty dead bodies had been taken out, aiid many more are supposed to be buried iu the ruins or burned. Champion Shot.— John William Oakden, 19 years of age, the champion 500 yards shot of England, has challenged any man in the world to shoot 40 shots, distance 500 yards, at a target 4ft. in diameter, with flinch bullseye ; or be will give 8 points out of 80 shots for. £250 a. side, and a 100giiinea challenge cup. He will give or take £SO for expenses to any part of the world.