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Temuka Leader, Issue 323, 30 November 1880, Page 2

An English paper says u At a saleof Mr J. W. Kirkham’s Lincolnshire long- wool led shearling rams the other da}' the top figure of S 5 guineas was paid by Mr Allan for a ram destined forNew Zealand. The average for LIS 8s 3d. , , ' ! - With the heading “ such is life,” an Auckland paper gives the following : Mr James Pemberton, the winner of the * first prize in Abbott’s Lsooo sweep on the Melbourne Cup r is a gum digger at Whangarei, He spent his last Lsin - tickets, and then bartered the winning number to Mr Davis, of the Karaoa ■ Hotel, for two drinks. Whether Mr! Davis, intends to stick to it has not ; as-1 yet transpired, I A coloured urcaeher remarked “ When I God made die fust man, he set him np-H agin de fence to dra. ” ‘ Who, made the.B fence? ” itevrnpted an eager listener,* “Putdat man out ? ” exclaimed coloured preacher. Such questions dat’el chstroy -all de theology iu world,” ■ The Melbourne Argus says r—We* understand that it is the intention of the ■ New Zealand Loan and Mercantile'* Agency Company to adopt during the* ensuing grain season the system which lias proved so satisfactory to constituents in New Zealand, viz, open up the London and the option to every one of their large or small, of selling their either here or in London, for market a preference may be shown. The Russian Golos has,, an articl^H upon Afghanistan, concluding- with following remarks — r * The recent operations of England in Afghanistan to a close the great scheme for erecting ■ a series of buffer States between India H end . Turkestan. B has completely* .failed!, particularly the portion for its. object the preservation of Mem* England has discovered, to her coast* that she cannot count upon Afghanis tail* as an ally. She will consider hersel* happy even if she .can retire from the* country preserving the ‘ outer aspect a conqueror. Such a covert is absolutely* indispensable ; otherwise , she lose the whole of her prestige vjn it is at present impossible to foretell final results of the Anglb-Afghart 3iet. One of them, we belive, will the complete independence’ of stan of England . The pride of aepple is such that England - ibunt upbn Afghanistan, a# a future if India.” 1