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MISCELLANEOUS.

Tho balance-sheot of the Duchy of Cornwall in a very comfortable looking document;. Ifc shows payments made last year for tho uso of tho Prince of Wales amounting to L 63,598. In addition to rents and profits accruing in Cornwall, thoro goes into tho balance-sheet a sum of over Ll2OO, the produce of royalties of coal mines in the County of Somerset. There aro two generally unsuspected sourcos of rcvonuo for his royal Highness which appears in this account. One is profits arising out of the office of Havenor, which reached tho sum of Ll2 Is MM. The oflico of Havonor, ifc is explained, , deals with tho proceeds of tho unlo of unclaimed wrecks. Any wreck found on tho coasb of Cornwall, and not claimed, becomes the property of His Royal Highness tho Duke. Another source of profit is the seizure of the personal esbafco of any person domiciled in Cornwall and dying intestate without kin. Last year I the Prince of Walos did not bonofit a copper from this source. Thoro is « paragraph going the round of tho scientific periodicals dochring tliat "in Asia the suppoped oradlo of tho human raco, there are now about 800,000,000 of people, densely crowded, on an avorago of 120 to every square mile." In point of fttpt, tfye pppulation ha« been eatiuvtlod, as high as 830,699, 000, and, yet thjs gives an average of no moi'o than 49 to tho square' milo. Only a

amall portion of the area can bo truly described us " densely orowded," while the bigger half of it hua an averago population of leas than two to tho aquaro mllo. The highest estimate ia probably not far from tho truth ; for although tho population of China ia supposed to bo overstatod, that of India is Hupposed to bo understated, an increase of 2,000,000 per annum having boon accumulating since 1881. The only roason for supponiog that Asia was tho oradlo of tho human race ia that it happens to be tho biggest quarkor of tho earth, and has thorefore tho biggest chanco that anything may have happened there.

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North Otago Times, Volume XXXIV, Issue 775, 18 July 1890, Page 3

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MISCELLANEOUS. North Otago Times, Volume XXXIV, Issue 775, 18 July 1890, Page 3

MISCELLANEOUS. North Otago Times, Volume XXXIV, Issue 775, 18 July 1890, Page 3