MISCELLANEOUS

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3655, 6 November 1890, Page 2

MISCELLANEOUS

W J VnJerfyinkeletejn, in* trod iced info Australia the rabbits which have been for years the pest prid tliodeepair of that vast country, is still living in Melbourne, broken- - hearted and "peary pi life because of tj)o anguish Tjvliiph great pusta|[o "x> has brought .. 'V. ; According to the Allahbad PioneeK, fho largest reservoir or artificial lake in tho world is the greatest tank of Dliebar, twenty miles southeast of Udiapur, Rajpootana, "which cavers an area of twenty one square miles t The masonry dam is 1;000 long by 75 feet high, 50: feet wide at the base/and 15 at the top, j The breaking Out of injjiienpa jj} Iceland b'as 'jSpped' jj ppnsi'd'erablp panic, as the consequences there hav«» been serious. Of the inhabi* / 'jL lants in 18i3, 2000 died of tjie -|r influenza, andlii 1876, 1500 person's ' V--were carried off by thp cape disease, k ponpession jias been granted }o v cjyil engineer apd a jirpi ' |n Pjesdpn, authorising thejp fj) ■ establish a petforjc pf jjablep fop pijr. poses of trangmissio|i of poyer 'ap(J ' eipclrip lighting direct from.some ctisj in ipea through: }6O industrial. towns ip Saxony to Presdca, - ■ Henry Waldo and Miss Florenoe Hoffman were drowned inan American . take, near Tacoira, op August 13th, , / while fishing, ; The boat was upset ■ and Waldo kept on the surfaoe with Miss Hoffman until exhausted, , when' they sank in each other's arms. They ' were betrothed, .. . - " :■ •• The fastest renular train in the United States is tbjit, on. the Baltimoro'and Qliio.jielwecn JVashington and Baltimore. The rate o£ speed ia - fifty-three and one third miles aq hour, -

... The .National Asaocifttiohof \4k and Irish Millers ' report a, decided T increase in wheat productions in Bustia, Boutnania, Austria and •< Hungary. They thiak that America is approaching the time when slio inust considerably inorease her wheat ■acreage or ceaso to be a wheat exporting country, suah will be the, home demand,