UNPUBLISHED.

Tuapeka Times, Volume VII, Issue 377, 29 July 1874, Page 4

UNPUBLISHED.

According to " Iron," the usual tests of musical ring, milled edgo, or even weight, are no longer reliable as tests of a platinum .alloy token. It i 3 produced so exactly reifm^ling gold as to deceive the mo3t experienced business men ; so close is the imitation that specimens submitted to the Bank of England, and put through the ordinary tests, were admitted to be perfect in form and weight. The International Congress has not been a success. The Governments of England, France, and Austria raised objections. Alderman Proctor, of Biistol, has given his mansion,- rained at L 20,000, at Clifton, as a mansion-house for future Mayors of Bristol.

Mr Lionel Levy, proprietor of tho Globe Theatre, London, presented the Duke of Edinburgh as a wedding gift with a dessert service of solid gold valued at 4,000 guineas. The effect of the new Government measure will be a great impetus to the Clyde sugar re--fining trade. The Greenock factories resumed work after a six months' stoppage: over a dozen houses commenced one morning. 30,000 men thrown out of work obtained employment.

An attempt was made to assassinate tha Prince of S.ixe- Weimar as he was leaving his London residence to attend the levee. He was fired at by an unknown assassin, who escaped. He had previously received threatening letters, as also had the Duke of Cambridge and Mi? Disraeli.

Captain Blethen, late of the Nebraska, is dangerously ill at Sau Francisco.

Mr Fechter follows Sothern to the Colonies ; also, Walter Montgomery's wife. The reet on which the Tartar struck is said to have been touched by the Nebraska and Macgregor. The eldest son of Mr Keesing, of Auckland, ha« died at Saa Francisco, leaving a large fortune.

'Mr Shaw, newspaper proprietor, formerly of Dunedin, has patented in San Francisco an improved type, which with ease allows type to be drawn out without injury to the matter in correction.