MISCELLANEOUS.

South Canterbury Times, Issue 7080, 28 February 1893, Page 3

MISCELLANEOUS.

England’s imports and agricultural products were larger in 1892 than in any previous year. The imports of frozen mutton reached 84,998 tons, and of beef 104,981 tons, of bacon 194 000 tons, and 62,000 tons of hams. One would think it would pay better to bring some of our cheap corn to market in the form of hams and bacon, to say nothing iof beef, mutton, milk, and cheese. England (imported in 1802 109,100 tons of butter. I 65,200 tons of margarine, 111,640 tons of 1 cheese, aud more than 11,000,000 of great j hundreds of egas.

There appears to be a Blackness of work in some parts of Belgium on January 19tb, a crowd of unemployed belonging to Brussels formed a procession and marened through j the principal thoroughfares, singing the Maratilbiso and displaying a largo placard, fastened to a stick, with the inscription, “ Work, and our rights ! No alms No disturbances occurred. The unemployed intended to repeat the procession every day. It has been stated at Home that the storm in the tea-oup in Cairo was due not to political intrigues but to the “ advice ” of some young iellow-students and a tutor of the youthful Egyptian Prince. These young persons have been his companions since ha returned to the land of the Pharaohs. It would be a pity to deprive the lad of his companions, but the latter will probably be given to understand that their next essay in I politics will result in tbeir return to colder climes.

The tribunal at Vienna acquitted a workman who was brought up for trial on the charge of having at a meeting of the unemployed advocated the plundering of victuallers’ ohops. The judges wore induced to take a lenient view of the ease in view of the piteous tale of his own and bis family’s sufferings unfolded by the prisoner, who, in a broken voice, narrated that be had bean for many weeks without employment, that his wife and three children were starving, while his fourth child bad actually died of hunger. They all dwelt, ho said, in a miserable single room, some four to five feet square, where they slept on rotten straw spread on the floor, their only food being the bits of bread which they managed to pick up.