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Inangahua Times, Volume V, Issue 11, 19 December 1877, Page 2

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A new opera-house, which will accom" modate 2550 persons, has been opened afc Leicester. The total number of coal mines in Eng* land and Wales is 2653, with an annual rental of £3,393,696. Up to the end of September, more than £10,000 were subscribed in Glasgow to the Indian Relief Fund. A new school ia Lumgdca street, Glas *

qow, which has been erected at a cost of | £10,000, has been opened. The revenue of the Clyde Trustees for the year ending June 30tb, amounted to £208,732, being; an increase of £13,205. us compared with the previous year. The survivors of the Balaklava Charge celebrated the event by a banquet in London on October 25th. Lady Crdigan presented a munificent donation towards the expenses of the banquet. The Walker Art Gallery at Liverpool — a building, erected by Mr Walker, tha present Mayor of the town, at a cost of £43,000, and presented to the citizens was opened ou the 6th September by Earl Derby. During; September the officers of the Fishmongers' Company seized no less lhan 58 half tons of diseased fish at and near Billingsgate Market. The fish numbered 218.010, of which 100,891 arrived by water, and 27,119 by rail. The effects of a severe senson and of the depressed trade are shown in Dr Handeock's report upon Savings in Ire-' land. For the first time since the unfavourable season of 186-1, the amount of deposits and cash balances in the Joint Stocks Banks has decreased, and that by the serious sura of £69.000. There has also been a decrease of £311,000 in Go* vernment Funds and Indian StocK on which dividends are paid at the 13ank of I Ireland.