MISCELLANEOUS.

Inangahua Times, Volume VIII, Issue 1270, 13 July 1883, Page 3

MISCELLANEOUS.

• New Guinea is about the same size as New South Wales (which contains 809,175 square miles), nearly three times the size of all the islands of New Zealand together, and nearly three and a-half times as large as Victoria. The Christchurch Press says : — " Never were a party worse managed than the Ministerial party last session, and it ill becomes the Colonial Treasurer now to lay on them the blame, of disorganisation, disorders, delays, and shortcomings, which werß really due more to his defects as a leader < than to theirs as a party. We warn liim that he mnst mend his ways in this respect next session, else the last ] state of that party will be worse than ] the first. He and his colleagues have * great merits as administrators." The New Zealand Settler says: — " The cargo of colonial mutton ■which arrived in London by the { Sorrento in the early part of last ) month, realised 7fd per lb. The s average weight of the carcasses was *7Blbs.each, therefore each sheep sent IJonje sold for £2 7s If its value, , when the; Sorrento left Port Chalmers; haying been 16s 8f or 2f per lb. This means that good sheep arriving in good condition are worth nearly three J times as much as they are out here. * If the croakers want something to - gna,w at, let them tackle that little £ fact ■ t