SCOTTISH NEWS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 2378, 5 July 1892, Page 4

SCOTTISH NEWS.

A new departure in the matter of marriage breakfasts has just taken place. The bridegroom was Colonel Marryatt, of the Manchese Regiment, Kinsale, and the bride, Miss Caird, of Finnart, Loch Long. The wedding party taavelled in a special train to Edinburgh, where the ceremony was performed in the Cathedral, and they then resumed their journey in the train, where the wedding breakfast was laid eut in two saloon carraiges, and was partaken of as the train sped on its way. Gas-lighted buoys are shortly to be substituted for the existing buoys in many parts of the Firth of Forth. By day they will exactly resemble the present ones. Larbert Junction, the bugbear of railway travellers, is being provided with a new station. The platform will be 1100 ft long. The personal estate of the late Mr T. H. Cox, of Dundee, has been sworn at £435,000; that of Mr Robert Colville, of Musdale, at £OI,OOO ; and that of the late Dr Dittmar, Professor of Chemistiy in Anderson’s College, Glasgow, at only £1948. A collier went into a barber’s shop, at Whifflet, the other day, to get shaved. While waiting, he became sick, fell backwards from his seat, and broke his neck, dying in a few minutes, like Eli in the olden time. Edinburgh Castle Rock has been rid of a long-endured disfigurement by the removal of the hideous drains on its southern face. The Dundee sealers’ season has now closed. The total catch was 84,000 seals, taken by three vessels.