MISCELLANEOUS.
It is proposed by the National Agricultural Union to found a colony in Queensland with 10,000 able farm laborers. ■ The East End and West End parishes of London are contracting for Australian meat for the workhouses. Blondin is about to sail to Australia in a ship for Adelaide. Mrs Bladen Neill takes a quantity of silk worm eg£9 to Sydney, after investigating the mode of rearing the silkworm in Italy and Switzerland. The marriage of Miss Edith Wentworth with the Bey. Chirles Dunbar, nephew of Mrs Lowe, has attracted notice. Mr William Shand suggests the profitable transport cf fresh meat from Australia to Britain by means of cold. Professor Gamgee declares that neither live animals nor unpreserred meat can be trausported so far. The Boston Musical Jubilee deficit was 210,000d01. The Pope has refused to interfere on behalf of the Galway priests. He declares he will not leave the Vatican so long as he is able to govern the Roman Catholic world therefrom. Mr Spurgeon is ill in the South of France. Dr Underbill has been elected president of the Baptist Union. The Emperor of Germany conferred the Order of the Royal Crown on Mr Hepworth Dixon. A survey for a railway from Tripoli to Bagdad has been ordered by the Grand "Vizier.
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Southland Times, Issue 1681, 27 December 1872, Page 3
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214MISCELLANEOUS. Southland Times, Issue 1681, 27 December 1872, Page 3
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