MISCELLANEOUS.

South Canterbury Times, Issue 2606, 28 July 1881, Page 3

MISCELLANEOUS.

- -<*■ “ Land ’’ speaks of a market garden farm of 200 acres, not 40 miles from London, the rent of which has been reduced from 22s to 11s per acre. An adjoining farm lias been let on a seven years’ lease tree lor the first three years, "while during the remainder of the term the rent will be 7s per aero. Another largo farm with a good residence is let for £7O a year, ami the tenant relots the shooting for £6O. In the Midlands therein the same inclination to lot land for what it will fetch.

A death has occurred among the old Pitcairners, at Norfolk Island Dinah, wife of Johnny Quintal, and daughtei of George Young, who was son of the famous mutineer, died early in May. The funeral was attended by nearly everybody on (ho island. Two crows have built a nest in one of the two line plane trees in the centre of the city of London, inside the archway in St Paul’s Churchyard, The plane trees in question arc remarkable a-> the home each night of from 5000 to 0000 of the London sparrows.

London never contains more food thanis sufficient for two day’s consumption Were the railways to be cut off, in less than a fortnight it would be suffering from the extreme agonies of famine.