The Bombay Gazette employe sixteen Anglo-Indian girls as compositors and a woman as proof reader. The Fiji Times reports that recently the Governor’s barge and several other boats were submitted for sale by auction. The former, for which Sir Arthur Gordon charged the colony between £7OO and £BOO, fell to Mr W. Horne’s bid of £lO. The Roman Catholic population of the British Empire is not far short of ten millions (9,682,000), of whom above half belong to Groat Britain and Ireland. Of the remainder, 175,000 are Europeans and 980,000 Asiatics—chiefly in British India and Ceylon —135,000 Africans, and 568,000 inhabitants of Australasia, and the remaining 2,183,000 of British America. i
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New Zealand Times, Volume XLX, Issue 8167, 19 August 1887, Page 5
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