There is much distress in Bedfordshire among the straw-plait workers, by reason of the extinction of bonnets. At a meeting in Dunstable, it was agreed to present the Queen and the Princess of Wales with a straw bonnet each, in tbe hope that by wearing them the trade in straw bonnets might revive. Bombay Cathedral is now lighted with gas. The sparrows that frequent the place found the burners very convenient to build their nests in, aud when on the first two Sundays the gas was fully turned on, the materials composing these nests ignited, and there were tor a few minutes three or four small conflagrations that for a time looked dangerous, more especially -as several sparks fell into the pews immediately under the burner.
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Southland Times, Issue 1092, 18 January 1869, Page 3
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126Untitled Southland Times, Issue 1092, 18 January 1869, Page 3
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