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Colonist, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 8102, 21 November 1894, Page 3

The directors of the Canterbury Frozen Meat Company have decided to make considerable addition and alteration to the works at Belfast. Since the end of last November 861,687 sheep and lambs have been killed at the wotks, making a total of 2,184,984 3ince the works began on Fibroary 16th. 1883. An impudent theft was committed in Gore the other day. A notorious light-fingered kleptomaniac '■ lifted " a leg of mutton from the larder of a local parson, and then sold it to another religious dignitary for the magnificent sum of eighteen pence — representing to the purohaser that he had just started in butchery business, and was celling cheap to parsons as he entertained a great respect for the cloth. The bait took, and with the subsequent three drinks the swindler was shortly afterwards seen rolling half seas over.

Dean Burgon once ended an ani^ mated sermon with : M And so Jonah was lodged in the whale's belly, where my dear brethren, we will leave him till we meet again next Sabbath." The Viotoria lily of Gniana has a circular leaf, from Cft to 12ft in diameter, It is turned up at the edge like a tray, and can support, according to its size, from 1001 bto 3COlb.

According to a complaint preferred before a North leland Education Board, a teacher who had the temerity to pnnish one of his scholars for disobedience was visited by the boy's father, who made the lad elrike the schoolmaster, and then varied the performance by chasing the. teacher all over the schoolgroand. The father, it is added, is a member of the School Commit' ee.

On Friday last (says the Auckland • Star ') a severe accident happened to Mr Kobett Crauwell (ol Garlick and Oranwell). He was driving a 4-inoh nail into a piece of wood when a nail sprang back, catching Mr Ctanwell fairly ia the lz*t eye, and iuflict' ing a ciroular wound right through the corner the siza of a threepenny piece, and lacerating considerably the iris behind it. The watery contents of the eye escaped through the wound with the jagged portions of the iris. Dr Wilking, to whom Mr Oraawell, applied for relief, does cot. consider the eye hoplelessy lost. The doctor adjusted some portions, cut away the extended portions of the iris, and by a most delicate operation, cut into the opposite eya lo the wound and removed a portion of the iris, which immediately sai the eye at rest Tins was a most difficult ihicg to do, the eye being in a state of soft; collapse from the loss of its fluid contents. After having done all that could be done for tbe present the rest must now be left to nature.

Plans for th Mokohino viaduct, on the Northern t.unk line, are being prepared. The work will cost £30,000.

At the Lyceum Theatre, Sydney, the other evening, Alex Brodie, aged 65, big drummer of the orchestra, while engaged playing in the overture, dropped dead. He was removed without the audience being allowed to know the facts.

A mother in London has gone to gaol for a term for bringing up a child &a a Jockey on boiled bread with pepper and salt. Tbe child was free from organio disease wheu the conrse of treatment was found out bat maoh emaciated and, of course, ravenously hungry.

Be liad come home a little late, snd she had delivered the usual feminine oratioD. He tamed on nis pillow and mattered, as he drowsed off — " Matches made in Heaven seem to me to have just as much brimstone on 'em ac the other kind."

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