MISCELLANEOUS. .

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume II, Issue 114, 17 December 1873, Page 3

MISCELLANEOUS. .

Mr. Bruce’s new title is Lord Aberdare.

The largest salmon caught in Scotland this year weighed 64 lbs. Father Hyacinthe has been celebrating mass in French at Geneva.

A new town hall has been built at Bradford, at a cost of £lOO,OOO.

The river Cam is reported to be in a condition " very suggestive of typhoid fever. The Welsh Eisteddfod dates back from nearly 1,000 years before the Christian era. The revenue returns of Cape Colony show a net increase on the year of £278,683. The new monument of Victory at Berlin is considerably higher than the Vendome Column. A London Magistrate lias decided that tossing up half-pence in the streets is not gambling. The collecting-boxes placed in various ports of St. Paul’s Cathedral have been broken open, and the contents stolen.

Owing to the almost total prohibition of gambling at Spa, the visitors to that place have this year decreased from 18,000 to 8000. A band of brigands, commanded by a woman only 20 years of age, and of great beauty, is committing great depredations in Calabria. The highest prices yet realised by shorthorn cattle was at New York Mills, Ncur York, 14 of Mr. Campbell's Duchesses realised in round numbers 40C0 guineas each. Four of them were taken to England. The Stock Exchange Committee hare ordered the 5 per cent., Debentures for £500,000 issued in July last by the N.Z. Government, to be quoted in the official list.

The action of the colonies in prohibiting the exportation of cattle would seem to be justified from the fact that the cattle disease continues to reappear in several districts of the United Kingdom notwithstanding that energetic measures to stamp it out have been adopted by the local authorities. We are told that fresh outbreaks have occurred in Warwickshire and Northamptonshire.