More railway vagaries ! Last week (says the ‘Tuapeka Times’) a well-known Tuapeka farmer sent thirty-eight prime sheep to Burnside. Upon this small consignment he paid 35s railage, or nearly Is per head. The sheep when sold brought 6s 3d each; but, after railage, commission, and other expenses were deducted, the net return was only 6s a head, A few years ago these same sheep would have brought double the money. It is simply monstrous that the public railways should be allowed to go on robbing settlers in this barefaced manner, for any profit in produce nowadays is mainly eaten up in freight.
A prodigious calculation has been made by a German arithmetician, who has shown aggregate number of combinations in v the game of dominoes to be 284,528,211,840. Two players, playing four games a minute, would only exhaust these combinations in 118,000,000 years.
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Evening Star, Issue 7233, 8 June 1887, Page 3
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