MISCELLANEOUS.

Te Aroha News, Volume III, Issue 120, 19 September 1885, Page 6

MISCELLANEOUS.

• Mail steadier Australia; brings £86, 760 in 'speciofrom San Francisco.^ r ;> <-t> ';; i >*;» i Over a thousand dogs registered in Auck* n 'land. •■ " '; - ■ . , . v.- . t si. ■" -t \V ' In France 5 it is libellous t6> over-state <a )[ lady's age. ' • '-' -' ,;> -.f trx | Professor Hugo, the, physiognomist, is ! making a successful; Northern tour. ' ': • - The forests of Scotland yield 10,000 deer annually. • ' ; *h f ■mo A bullet. travels a mile in: three and twotenths seconds. •■ < - >• > . ■ I In the Melbourne market, New Zealand oats have advanced by Id to 2df'per bushel. " > ■ ' ,"\ i William McLeod has been fined £10* and costs at Dunedia for carrying on soap-boil-ing'in the town. .„»..' • Dr. J. W. Dalziell has been appointed public vaccinator for Opotiki district. ,t * The late Thomas Emsley, of Burley, England, bequeathed £3,000 to the New Zealand Wesleyan Church. There are 52,000,000,000 letters posted throughout the world every year. South Canterbury Kifle Club is the only one in the colony which is armed with the new improved pattern breech-loaders.', , Sir William Fox offers to contribute £50 towards bringing Mr T. W. Glover, the temperance lecturer, to New Zealand. Hamilton Presbyterian Congregation have given a "call" to Rev. John S. Boyd. . Dr. DeLautour, Port Chalmers, has haii his collarbone fractured by a fall from his horse.