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Thames Star, Volume XI, Issue 3570, 5 June 1880, Page 3

On 31st March last the amount of outstanding debentures and funded stock of New South Wales was £14,917,4191952 d, on which was payable an annual total interest of £687,48115s Bd. Thb English Press.—From the Newspaper Press Directory for 1880 we extract the following on the present position of the newspaper press :—' There are now published in the United Kingdom 1835 newspapers, distributed as follows: Fngland (London 364, provinces 1065), 1429; Wales, 65 ; Bcotland, 172; Ireland, 149; Isles, 20. Of these there are 113.daily papers published in England, 4 in Wales, 20 in Scotland, 17 in Ireland, and 2 in the Britieh Isles. On reference to the edition of this useful directory for the year 1851 we find the following interesting facts— viz., that in that year there were published in the United Kingdom 563 journals. Of these 18 were issued daily—namely, 13 in England, 2in Scotland, and 3in Ireland. But in 1880 there are now established and circulated 1835 papers, of which no less than 156 are issued daily, showing that the press of the country has more tban trebled during the last thirty years. The increase in daily papers has been still more remarkable, the. daily issues stand* ing 156 against 18 in 1851. The magazines now in course of publication, including the * quarterly reviews, number 1033, of which 289 are of a decidedly religious character, representing the Church of Englano, Wesleyans, Methodists, Baptists, Independents, .Roman Catholics, and other Christian communities.

Amusements A C A DEMY OF MUSIC. POSITIVELY FOB, ONE NIGHT ONLY. THIS EVENING, SATURDAY, JUNE 5. ABE HICKEN, Champion Boxer of Australia, THE CHAMPION BELT OF AUSTRALIA will be Exhibited in the Hall daring the evening. Doom open at 7.80 j Commence at 8. Admission 3s, 2s, and Is

Wanted WANTED COLUMN. AdtbetlßßMlßNTß not exceeding Foubteen Words in this column will in future be charged One Shilling- per insertion if prepaid. . ■ WANTED— 8d per lb for Cheese, Is Butter, 3d to 6d Apples, Id Fowl Wheat, and 4s to 5s per cwt (or 201bi to 25lbs for 1b) be«t Potatoes at 72* Wm. Wood's. WANTED to Sell from 1 to 10,000 Tons of Raw Hematite; do., from Ito 100 Tons of Dressed Hematite.—F. Bbnwbtt and Co., Thames. . . . . WANTED KNOWN—WASTE PAPER for Sale at the Evening Stab Office. Services PfiESBYTEBIAN CHUfiCH. rnO-MORBOW (Sunday erening) the Rev. JL S. J. JSsUih will deliver a Lecture on " Parents and Children—their duties to each other." 718 jp£ Tenders

NEW ZEALAND ROADS. PIAKO~COUNTY. WAIHOtT BRIDGES CONTRACT — CAMBRIDGE ROTORUA ROAD. Public Works Office, Auckland, Jane 3,1880. WRITTEN TENDERS will be received at this Office up to noon on MONDAY, June 21, 1880, for the above contract. They must be addressed to the Hon. the Minister for Public Works, Auckland, and marked outside " Tender for Waihou Bridges Contract." Plans and specifications can be seen at the Public Works Offices, Auokland, G-rahamstown, and Wei* lington, and at the Police Station, Cambridge. The lowest or anj tender will not necssmily be accepted. By command. (Signed) JamKß Stewabt, 723 District Engineer. Thk difference between a Q-ent and a Gentleman ."-The Gent turns up what he has for a nose and says, Ob, Ah. The Gentleman walks into McGowah's and says, Mao give me a pound of )our Tea, and send for orders erery week.