LOCAL AND GENERAL

The eldest daughter of the Czar, who is about to be married to her cousin, a Russian Grand Duke, will have a dowry of 2,000,000 roubles, and the revenues of 100 square miles of corn land. The Westport coal report for the week ending September 19 was 5746 tons. The fortnightly payment sheet at Denniston by the Westport Coal Company amounted to £2800, the largest yet made. Count William Bismarck, second son of ; Prince Bismarck, has resigned the presi dency to the regency of Hanover and will retire to Varzin. This is. the last of tht, Bisroarcks who held office m any part of Germany. Among many far-fetched reasons for the prevailing typhoid m Hobart, one doctor gravely asserts that it is imported from New Zealand among oysters, which are, he says, kept too long enclosed m packages, thus generating the disease. At the annual meeting of the Canterbtuy Commercial Travellers' Association on Satur day the report and balance sheet submitted nhowed that there was £140 to credit for the first year, and 140 members on the books. Mr Henry Brown's grocery store, m Colombo street North, Christchurch, was totally destroyed by fire at two a.in. on Sunday. The insurances are £100 on the building m favor of the Permanent Building Society; stock and effects £300 m the Standard office. But for the exertions of the ! brigade a large block of old buildings must I have gone. The revenue returns for the last fiscal year m the United States do not show the uaij&l abounding surplus. Whilst the revenue amounted to 392,470 ) 752d015., the expenses for the year were 3(j5,447,275d0K, which leaves the comparatively small sur plus pf 27,023,477d015., or only between six and seven 'millions' sterling. Why this falling oif? Because there has been a diminution of revenue and an increase m State expenses. Mf'J. & G°*f M- p -> wno is travelling through the colony m the interests of the evicted tenants Li ' Ireland, addressed a meeting m the Theitre Royal Wellington, on Saturday which was but poorly attended. At the conclusion of the meeting it was resolved that subscriptions list* be started and about £50 was subscribed, the Hon Mr Buckley and Dr Grace hew! nvj, the lists with ten guineas each.
