Japan.

Waikato Times, Volume XVI, Issue 1344, 10 February 1881, Page 3

Japan.

Twenty-four lires have beoa lost by the •wreck of a iinall steamer.

Election day in San Francisco deserves a word of notice, as being the very quietest ,and moab orderly day of the year, says the American correspondent of the Auckland Herald. No liquor is allowed to be sold, and as you walk along the streets there is nothing to be seen except closed shops and a group©! quiet men at every second corner, with a little table on which lie the election tickets. You wonder where the voting is going on, when a face appears at a email window, and you see men walking quietly and inobtruiively through • an open door, where, in a room used for «the occasion the votes are recorded. No drunkenness, no riot, no sound ; it is as though a huge national funeral was in process of celebration. In fact, the election l*w of this State is the best in the United States, and the polling in the, different wards in an immense improvement on the grand husting system. • The average life of a Sheffield fork•grinder i£ only 29 years, but, that of the dry grinder of sickles is 38 years. For ever/ 70,451 tons of coal dug up in Prussia the life of a miner is sacrificed ; and in • EagUnd there is ' one life lost for every §9,i19 tons raised to the outface,