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NEWS BY THE MAIL.

One of the principal salesmen in the Q-raud Row, Covent- Garden Market, informs the Garden that it is impossible to offer any opinion ns to the quantity of home-grown fruit this year, for it has been ho scarce that throughout the whole season he has only seen aoout four dozen apricots, and other outdoor fruits are proportionately scarce. The discovery of two more planets is notified by Dr Peters, Director of the Lichfield "Observatory at Hamilton College, Ciinton, New York. The first one receives the number 122 of the asteroids, the second 123. The attempt of California to acclimatise the Cashmere goat promises success, the animal attaining a larger size, and yielding a finer fleece than in its native India. There are estimated to be 40,000 Cashmeres in the State, and the fleece, according to grade, is worth from 25 cents up to $1 25 cents per Ib. There were many English students, chiefly Oxford men, attending Dr Po'Jlingez^s recent lectures at Munich. Sir Charles W. Dilke is about to be-' come the proprietor of Notes and Queries, and the editorial department of that journal will, from the Ist of October, be 'placed in the hands of Dr Doran, F.S.A. Mrß Beecher Stowe is coming out during the approaching lecture season in America aa a public reader of selections from her own works. - The Rev Donald Macleod has been intrusted, it is said, by Messrs Strahan and Co., with the editorship of Good Words, in succession to his brother, the late Dr Norman Macleod. The potato disease is spreading rapidly in all directions in Alnwick and the neighborhood. Those in the fields are now beginning to suffer very much. We learn from the City Press that, in consideration of the present high price of provisions, Che Governors of the Bank of England have added a gratuity of 5 per cent, to the salary of every officer, clerk, and porter on the establishment, i The Islington guardians have decided i that in future, no beer will be supplied to paupers in the workhouse, except as a medicine in cases of disease or infirmity. The Metropolitan District Railway have commenced their new regime of economy by reducing tbe number of their trains from 14 to 10, and to run at intervals of ten minutes, instead of every two or three minutes. The Limerick bakers have determined to work no more by night after September 7. Ifc is regarded as probable that Father , Hyacinthe's marriage will be followed by i that of a large number of French priests, j many of whom are, according to -the Patrie, going to renounce publicly their vows of celibacy. The average number of priests in France who marry is, it | appears, not less than from twenty to thirty a year. A firm of opticians at Manchester have presented 1,500 pairs of spectacles for distribution to the poor of the workhouses. Brigham Young ia reported to have 68 living children. The annual produce of the sale in Paris of snails for food is computed at more than 12,000 franca. The Warrington Guardian announces the arrival of eighty Jesuits at Ditton Hall, near Warrington. The hall, a

spacious building, has been placed at the disposal of the Jesuits, for educational purposes, by Mrs Stapleton, of Rainhil!. The importation of coal from Belgium goes on briskly at Grimsby. The ex porters at that town give it as their opinion that the price of coal has now reached its maximum. Mr B. L. Farjeon, author of " Joshua Marvel " and other works, will write the fltory for the Christmas number of Tinsleys' Magazine. The title is " Bread and Cheese and Kisses." Mr William Miller, the poet, author of "Wee Willie Wiukie," and' kindred ; nursery gems, died at his residence in Glasgow lately. M r Bradford, the American artiat, has received a commission from Queeu Victoria and the M;irquia of Lome to paint for them several pictures representing scenes on the Arctic Ocean. The Athena&nm says Friuce Bismarck is occupying his leisure by writing his autobiography. Messrs Bell, Q-oodraan, & Co , W.dker Ironworks, Newcastle-on-Tyne, who have been working on. the co-partnership principle for twelve months, have made a profit of 21 per cent., of which 10 per cent, goes to the firm and 10 per cent, on the wages'earned to the men ; thus a man who had earned £50 in the year gets £5 dividend. The crops in Ireland, with the exception of the potatoes, are reported to be excellent. The Countess of Loudoun has replaced the sword of Wallace in Loudoun Castle, whence it had been taken by the late Marquis of Hastings to England a few years ago. Mr Mechi suras up the results of the harvest in a letter to the Times He says he is no alarmist, but he believes England will have to pay for foreign corn, in quantity and price, fifteen to twenty millions sterling more than, in a good wheat season. At the London Mansion House, on 7th September, J. Croft and Hannah Wilton, servants, were remanded on a charge of stealing bank-notes to the value of £L4O, I the property of the E.nperor Napoleou. j The notes were taken from Camden ■ House.

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Southland Times, Issue 1665, 19 November 1872, Page 3

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NEWS BY THE MAIL. Southland Times, Issue 1665, 19 November 1872, Page 3

NEWS BY THE MAIL. Southland Times, Issue 1665, 19 November 1872, Page 3

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