ENGLISH EXTRACTS.

Southland Times, Issue 1149, 18 October 1869, Page 3

ENGLISH EXTRACTS.

A new claimant for the Breadalbane Peerage has appeared in the person of Major-General Simon Fraser, late Colonel of the Royal Marines. General Eraser rlaims to be descended from the royal houses of Bruce and Stuart. Manny Hunt, 27 years of age, a housemaid in London, has drowned herself in the Serpentine. She had been keeping company with a guardsman, but no cause could be assigned for the suicide. The Edinburgh correspondent of the ' Morning Journal ' gives currency to a rumour that Mr Moncrieff, the Lord Advocate, is about to be appointed Governor of North Australia. The Highland and Agricultural Society's Show, at Edinburgh, was brought to a termination on 29fch July, with a success exceeding the most sanguine expectations of those engaged in promoting it. The total sum raised during the three days has been £4049, being £2473 more than was obtained at the show in Aberdeen last year, and £1044 more than was realized at Glasgow in 1867. A match of cricket between eleven players with one arm and eleven with one leg was played at Cokhes me. During the whole day the one arms had the best of it. The result was — One arm, Ist innings, 36 ; 2nd innings, two wickets down, 43. One leg, Ist innings, 29 ; 2nd innings, 19. S ome fun was created after the match by some walking matches between one-legged competitors. Dr Cowie, the recently consecrated Bishop of Auckland, New Zealand, was married on July 20 to the daughter of Mr William Webber, of Spring Grove, Hounslow, and grand-daughter of the late Sir Thomas Preston, Bart., of Beeston hall, Norfolk. John Eoberts, the Billiard Champion, is a bankrupt iv London. He ascribes his failure to losses on a trip to America. | His debts are £1429. Trout in the river Wye are becoming scarcer every year, owing to the great increase of pike. A very short time since Mr W. Stephens, of Hereford, who has a fishery, caught 200 pike, and in the mouth of one he found seventy-seven fry an inch long. Some of the Canadian and United States newspapers are again writing that the Nova Scotiaus intend to " cut connection with Cauada and Great Biitain, and join the States." The Great Britain had a narrow escape from destruction by fire on her voyage home. The quantity of beer annually produced in Europe is estimated at 1,000,000,000 gallons.