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Lyttelton Times, Volume LXVII, Issue 8149, 21 April 1887, Page 3

Evebt Englishwoman will rematuber how useful Hudson’s Extract of Soap was in the Old Conuirj tor Washing, Cleaning, and Scouring ovary thin?, You can obtain a 11b packet from every keeper in the Colony. Ask for it. Eanidly soluble, lathers freely softens water, a perfect hard water soap, a soft water soap, a hot watei soap.—Fadvt.l Cincinnati clergymen have inaugurated a crusade against the ballet. It is estimated that California has 9,600,000 bushels of wheat available for export. Knives that can be bought in Sheffield at 17s a gross are sold in the Antipodes at 144 s a gross. The depression in the shipbuilding interests of Maine has not been so great for ten years as during 1886, The album, containing twenty views of the city of York, to bo presented to the Queen by the citizens, is to cost .£2OO.

The carriage built for the triumphal entry—which never took place —of the Comte de Chambord into Paris, is now the State carriage of the Queen of Greece. She paid £IO6O for it. In the United States every two hundredth man takes a college course; in England, every five hundredth ; in Scotland, every six hundredth ; and in Germany, every two hundred and thirteenth. An international conference, to which the directors of the principal foreign observatories have been invited, is to meet in Paris, under the auspices of the Academy of Sciences, on April 16. It is said that the object of this assemblage of the most distinguished astronomers is the drawing up of a map of the firmsuent, which will be one of the important works of the conference.