MISCELLANEOUS.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume X, Issue 3392, 21 December 1889, Page 2

MISCELLANEOUS.

Queen Victoria,' a London gossipor. hears, wciuhs now ono hundred and ninety three pounds. Chauncey Dcpew says in an interview in London" that England has not been so prosperous for ten years past 1 "

DrTalmage holds that three-fourths of the succesnful nieti of the day owe much uf their prosperity to the wife's help. The last of Lord Onslow's live stock has been sold at Clandon Park, some,of the Suffolk horses fetching very high prices, Eight hundred and thirty-six jounces of gold, the result of the icrushing!! at the Morgan, gold mine, near Dolgolly, during the month of August, wero sent to.London, A project is on foot to make llilfoid Haven a rival port to Liverpool, the experiment being begun by the City of Rome belonging to the Anchor line, New York.

Mr W. S. Caine says he ,has been assured by General Roberts Uwt if the Indian army were composed of toetotnlleis it would be able lo meet ,iny foe double its numerical strength. Messrs Simon and Co have successfully launched at Renfrew the Francis Henty, a twin screw dredging stoamer; of seven hundred tons, which has been ordered by the Victorian Government.

'Sister Emiua, the nurse whose skill ! mid care are credited with the restoration to health' of- Lord Tennyson, recently published an interesting volume entitled " Recollections of & Nurse."

The memorial erected by the Queen in Paisley Abbey over the graves of the members of the House of Stuart is completed, and the inscription states,that "This stone is placed here by their descendant, Queen.-Victoria.." ■ ..; ; :

. The great horso Ormonde is to be followed to Buenos Ayrts by one of the finest of the Queen's bulls at •Windsor. Favourite is his name; ho is of the famous Court flouso breed;sand ho latelyi took; the first prize at the Windsor 3how. L ' '"' '' ■ The large estates of the Gordons of Ellon are jand were put up for sale at Aberdeen at £loo,ooo,ibut were ,not /Bold.: s Tho properties have been in the possession of the Gordon family for several hundred years, but agricultural depression and.bad tiih'M have brought them to the hammer. ;' A Now South Wales judge docided the other day that tho Supreme Court had lio poser to admit a barrister to prablfco, M & eoMdi. ■