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Lyttelton Times, Volume LXVII, Issue 8124, 22 March 1887, Page 6

Paper bottles were patented in America in 1883. There are fifth-three miles of street gas mains in Christchurch. A young man and his wife walked frojn Canada to Central Wisconsin, a distance of five hundred miles. They said they travelled in that manner because they wanted to save all their money to buy land. It is reported that magnificent underground caves, covering an area of several square miles, and little, if anything, inferior to the Jenolan or Fish Eiver Caves, have been discovered on private property at Bungendore, New South Wales. The tomato pack of 1886 in the States reached a total of 2,314,460 cases of two dozen tins each, or a total of. 55,547,040 cans. Great as is the quantity, it is below the consumptive requirements of the country. It gives every family of five persona only five cans per annum. A German jilt has just been punished by the Mainz tribunals, her aggrieved betrothed having been awarded £350 damages, with all costs. This is the first time that a lady has been sued for a breach of promise of marriage in Germany. An artesian well, being sunk at White Plains, Nevada, is down over 2300 ft, and can go no further until the water, which is 17 per cent salt, and so heavy that the ropes and tools float on it and the drill does not penetrate the rock, is shut out. A very severe hailstorm recently broke over Barney’s Downs and Bryan’s Gap, near Tenterfield, New South Wales. Whole fields of wheat were completely destroyed, and one farmer had 200 sheep killed. Many more sheep were injured by hailstones as big as eggs. Immense damage was done. The valuable art collection of the late Baron von Eothschild, of Frankfort-on-Main, has been divided among the various members of the Eothschild family—partly by agreement and partly by lot. This collection, which was kept at Gunthersburg, is said to have been valued at some forty million marks. It included a celebrated table service, whose value was 900,000 golden.