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Lyttelton Times, Volume LXII, Issue 7386, 31 October 1884, Page 3

London, it is stated, consumes on an average 145,000,000 gallons of water a day. In Tangier? they punish thieves by cutting off the hand they have least need of and such a thing as kleptomania is unknown. It is said that, according to a recently prepared return, there are not more than 800 females employed as barmaids throughout Victoria. The 100-ton gun at Gibraltar, recently injured by the bursting of the shot before leaving the gun, cost the English Government X Ui.OOO. Hereafter, the bodies of yellow fever victims in Havanna are to be burned. It is stated that long after burial the disease germs remain active. It is stated that in consequence of the increased consumption of alcohol in Switzerland, a prohibitive tax will probably be put on distillation. > A miserable woman, Norah O'Donnell, aged 30 years, having no home or relatives, was recently arrested in London for being drunk, begging, and assaulting a man. The trial, although brief, elicited that she had been a drunkard for twenty years, and that she had been brought before the Courts more than 100 timec. hibour 18 SeQt gaol for a tnontii with hard It is stated that there will noon be no Kamtschatkans m Kamtschatka. Thepopu m a district larger than the whole J* - ch mee above CO.OOC had in 1880 fallen off to 6200. The only occupations of the inhabitants we shootinr and fishing; their food consists almost exclusively of fish, for the annual income of anyone rarely exceeds sixteen shilling®, for which not even forty pounds of none • aa be height.