ARRIVAL OF THE VICTORIA.

Tuapeka Times, Volume VII, Issue 382, 15 August 1874, Page 3

ARRIVAL OF THE VICTORIA.

Auckland, August 12th. The Victoria arrived here to- day from Sydney. We ; give the following additional items of news brought by the above vessel. Syjxney, August 4th. The steamer City of Adelaide has been again chartered for the San Francisco Mail Service, and will leave Sydney for Auckland on the 35th inst., to convey the outward mails. The Tartar, now. on. her way from San Francisco, is to be sent to China. The Cyphrenes will be the next through steamer. The liberated bushranger Gardener has been sent to Hong Kong. The A.S.N. Co. has declared a dividend of 12J per cent. Brandies are very dull, their high price increasing the consumption of whisky. Bulk ale steady and in better demand: Teas are moving quietly with no improvement. Breadstuffs and feeding grains are not so firm. Melbourne, August 3rd. It has been finally decided to accept the services. of Mr. Kamsay, as Post-master-General. Kingsbury is a strong favourite for the Hawkesbury guineas, and Dagworth for the- Handicap. The Government Astronomer thinks that t c comet cannot be Coggia's. The markets are dull. Quarter sardines for export, 5s 3d in bond. Eight thousand cases of Devoe's kerosene were placed at Is 4d and la 2d. Adelaide August 3rd. Flour is dull at from £12 to £13. Sales of wheat have taken place at from 5s to 6s o|d afloat. One hundred and thirty men have been thrown out 'of employment at the Moonta mine. This has caused great dissatisfaction., Tasmania, August 3rd. 1 The Colonial Treasurer estimates tho revenue for 1874 at £2G5,000 ; and for .1875 at £311,000. The expenditure on public works is. estimated at £160,000.

A Wonderfux Baby. — The Glasgow, (Kentucky) "Times" says: --Our town has been for the last two' days" unusually excited over the arrival of the child wonder in the person of Dero Edward Chambers. Dero Chambers was born in, Barren County, on Skegg's Creek, on the 11th day of August, 1871, and at the time of birth was characterised by nothing unusual to ordinary children. When about three months old he began to fleshen, and soon began to attract serious at.tenii.on of his parents and immediate friends. Ilis. accumulation of fat has been uninterrupted, and now he exhibits an obesity of huge aldermanic proportions. We visited him yesterday and made a careful examination and measurement, which we give to the curious public. His -parents are the reverse of their infantile representative so far as physical proportion is concerned. The father, Smith E. Chambers, is a delicate spare-made man, of not vigorous look, and weighs 127 pounds ; the mother is small, delicately built, and weighs 144 pounds. Dero the young giant, stands in perpendicular measurement 37 inches. The measurement around the wrist is 10| inches, and above the elbow 16£ inches. The leg around the calf gives a circumference of 18 inches and. the thigh the enormous length around of 28|, while the hips take full 48 inches of tape to circuit their hugeness. Around the waist he, shows a girth of 42 inches. His avoirdupois pulls down the scales easily at 118£ lbs. The child is quite intelligent ; can walk with much easier -locomotion than his ponderous, unshapely form would indicate, and enjoys very good health. ' '