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Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume 12, Issue 911, 21 January 1868, Page 3

A Young Man who carried a collecting plate after the service, before starting, took from" his pocket a shilling, a.s he supposed, put it in -the plate, and then passed ifc round among the congregation, which included many young girls. The girls, as they looked at the plate, all seemed astonished aud amused ; and the mau, talcing a glance at the plate, found thafc, instead of a shilling, lie had put a conversation lozenge on the plate, with the words, "Will you marry mc?" in red letters, staring everybody in the face. Sir John Young, tlie late popular Governor of New South "Wales, left Sydney on the 24th ult. by the mail steamer for England, accompanied hy the good wishes and regrets of the whole colony. Major General Sir Trevor Chute, commanding the Forces, had arrived iv Sydney, and was to administer the Government until the arrival of the new Governor, Lord Bolmore, who is expected there before the Prince makes his visit to Sydney. At the review held previous to Sir John Young's departure, in the Outer Domain, Sydney, the total number of Volunteers of all arms on parade was 969. The Boiling-down Value of a Horse. — The Tumut Times says : — "Now, when horses are almost unsaleable, and when sold from the pounds they realise the rates of from 6d. upwards, it may be satisfactory to their owners to hear that there is a prospect of their soon possessing a proper commercial value. One of our enterprising breeders upon the Murrumbidgee.in the neighbourhood of Gundagai, last week experimentalised uponafatbutotherwise useless horse, as to the profit of boiling down. After the process had been carefully carried out, he realised fifteen gallons of pui'e oil, which he readily sold afc Gundagai for 6s. 6d. To this is to be added the price of the hide, the value of the hair, the glue from the hoofs, and the bones for manure — all of which would be realised if the process was carried out in a large and systematic manner. With this fact before them, how long will our horse-breeders continue to throw away the prosperity within their reach ?