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Lyttelton Times, Volume LVII, Issue 6536, 7 February 1882, Page 3

The stables of the Atlanta Street Bailway Company, Atlanta, together with seven small buildings adjacent, were destroyed by fire on Deo. 10, A number of mules were burned to death. The vendors of hot chestnuts in Paris lease their stations by the year, or rather season, at prices varying from £6 to £l6. About 1000 persons are engaged in this business, and their average sues amount to Ss lid a day, or for the season of four months, a grand total of £15,000. A well-known Bussian statesman and reformer of the last reign, Dimitri Zamiatuine, at one time Minister of Justice under the late Emperor, has recently died. The deceased was chiefly known as one of those who initiated the reform of justice in Bussia, and valiantly defended that great measure against the attacks of its opponents. Letters received in Hartford, U.S., from the Chinese students recently ordered home say that on arriving at Shanghai they were sent to confinement in a remote part of the town, the Government’s intention apparently being to examine them as to their belief or disbelief of Christianity before they had a chance to scatter through the country. None of them had been much inclined to the Christian religion. Two hundred tons of rabbits are imported weekly into London. They are tame rabbits, reared by Belgian small farmers and exported by way of Ostend. A circular has recently been issued by a London market firm calling attention to this opportunity for English cottagers to go into the rabbit-raising business, which, it is claimed, ii very profitable.