MISCELLANEOUS.

Inangahua Times, Volume II, Issue II, 10 November 1880, Page 2

MISCELLANEOUS.

Says the London correspondent of iht Daily Post, Jersey : — About sixty of Uie Jesuit Fatltrrs who were recently ex« pelled from France are in London. Thej arri7ed in town a'tnost destitnte, bai were carefully looked aCef, and tlieii hotel ns rrell as ether espenscs paid bj their English brethrpn of the same ?ociefv, of vcbom seven or ci-jht belong to tbe Church in F*rai s!reet. Tlie.'c refugee fatbers report that their actual or about' £120,C0Q sterling. So soon a? they get tbeir new o^l!e?e 'Q order, not less tban 300 French families of the up-per-middle and upper classes will send their sons to them for tuition- In tbe meantime the applications from France for entrance to the three English colleges of Stonyburst, in Lancashire, "Beaumont, near Windsor, St. Mary's near Chesterfield, as well as to Oscott, TJsbaw, ard other Catholic colleges in this county are very numerous. Minnesota will produce this year fifty> three millions bushels of wheat, besides an enormous quantity of other cereals WJiat a splendid record those fi^aies make of the enterprise and industry of a Slate only twenty.itvro years old. — .New York Tribune. Tbe latest news to bnnd from the Temora gold fi^ld is the following telegram to the Melbourne A 39 :—'• another 12 ounce nugget bas been discovered h j re and OLe bucket oc stuff yielded eight ouaees. A party of diggers are reported i io i>ave obtained 109 ounces of gold for one weeks work.— We quote the following from tbe Temora papers received yester-. I day ;— -A peculiar incident brought a I nu^efc of 24 ozs. 12 Iwt. to light in I Murray and Meuvn's prospecting claim. Mr. W. J. U.fferan, nephew of Mr. P. Hefferan, of Cieir Kills, wishing to see one of tbe shareholders went down tlte shaft, nnd upon meeting Mr. Murray j-'eularly said thnl. be cu^ht to have tiie first nugget he found in the claim. Tbe demand being just aa jocularly granted, Mr. Heflevan proceeded to examine the luce, aad no don s >t vrry much to his sur* prise, picked out the Welcome little stranger. Sfeidy Work is procc-cdin« all alon^ the lines of leads, and the heaps ol washdirt are growing: apace. At a very moderate computation, tbere are at legist 10,000 loads at gras3. which estimated nt only sJwt. per loud, represents 25 000 ounces, or 11 capital oF nearly £100,000 lying dormant;