MISCELLANEOUS.

Te Aroha News, Volume III, Issue 118, 5 September 1885, Page 6

MISCELLANEOUS.

One of the outcomes of the recent bootmakers' strike at Melbourne was the for* mation of a Bootinakei's Co-operative Society. A factory is to be opened in a few days. The German Government has discharged all women who were employed in its postal, telegraph, and railway service as clerks and in other capacities. The Haylands and Whiterock stations in North Canterbury, comprising about 7,180 acres of freehold, 4,600 acres of leasehold, and 2, 600 sheep, was sold' by auction yesterday, for £28,000, to Mr Duncan Macfarlane. The deepest gold mine in the world is said to be the Eureka in California, which iB down 2,300 ft., or 500ffc. below, the level of the sea. The deepest silver mine is the Mexican, on the Comstock, which is down 3,300 ft. Owing, it is said, to the opposition of the Triumph, the Union S.S. Company have been carrying passengers from Napier to Sydney at fares of £6 for saloon and £4 for steerage. A Kanaka met with a horrible death at Bundaberg, Queensland, last week by falling into a ' clarifies containing boiling juice at the Windsor mill. An ex-member ofaDunedin Good Templars Lodge has just recovered £10 and costs from a "brother" for libel — the offence consisting in publishing the expulsion of plaintiff in the newspapers.