MISCELLANEOUS.

Inangahua Times, Volume II, 14 November 1881, Page 2

MISCELLANEOUS.

« The trade of London exceeds that of j any other seaport in the worH. j There are 2000 men in the mountains of California prospecting for gold. It is propped to hold an exhibition in Ireland of wool grown in that country. During the last ten years 48.619 dwelling houses have been dismantled in Ireland. The Hon. Lewis Wingßeld. a vivacious contributor to several Lon* don periodicals has been masquerading as a lunatic, it is said, in several Knglisb madhouses with the view of exposing the evils of such places in hi* forthcoming story, ' The Haven of Unrest-' The Book of Common Prayer,, translated into the language of the Mohawk Indians in 1715, is said to be one of the rarest books in the United State?. It was subsequently re-pub-lished, and a copy of the 1787 edition i^as recently sold in New York for more than its weight in gold . Sarah Bernharlt's tour through the United States has been a great financial success. She gave 162 performances, which produced £64,000 of which her share was £39,280. This is said to be the * most successful dramatic venture 'ever made in the United States. Prince Albert Victor, eldest son of Prince of Wales will shortly receive his commission tor tho army. A fisherman has found a place in Loke Erie ivhere he sounded with a line two miles long and could find no bottom. Tho profits of one great beer firm are £27,000 a year, aud of another

beer potentate £40,000] a year Ipps owing to Mr Gladstone's new malthas arrangement. Lord Chaderboye. Lord Dufferiu'a son, Las just beaten Byron's Leancier swim from Sistus to Abydon. He swam across from Therepa to Biekos in little more tban an hour. The trustees of the Burns Monument at Ayr have, the Scotch papers say, completed tha purchase of the cottage and four acres of land fenced by the poet's} father in the year 1756. The cottage, which will no longer be used as a public-house, will in future be open to v ; sitors for a siDall charge. The purchase money for the whole property was £4000. The speed of all the trains on the Victorian railway is to be increased in future, and altered time-tables will bp at once prepared. The traius will probably be ruu at forty miles per hour, being an increase on the present speed of nearly twenty- five per cenf. The Welsh people accorded a very enthusiastic and kindly receipted to I Madame Patti the other day on her return to Craigyaos Castle. Madame Patti has endeared herself to her simp* le neighbours by many acts of kindness. drovQ»froJX]u£i£a^&aJUi»JttAJil&'«£tt^ her arrival was announced by repeated salvoes from miniature cannon on the surrounding crags Near the entrance gate a banner spanned the road, bear* ing the inscription, * Let the hills resound with welcome to the Queen of Song!' Madame Patti, who is at present entertaining a distinguished company of visitors, will, j understand stay at Craigynos Castle lor a couple of months, and will leave for the Continent late in October.