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New Zealand Times, Volume LI, Issue 9137, 7 November 1890, Page 3

Not a single death from small pox was registered in Ireland last year. From this scourge, at all events, “the distressful country ” appears to be gradually freeing itself. Over the last ten years tho average annual number of deaths was 130, bat this average is due to the more serious state of things prevailing in the early stages of the decade. Since 1883 there has only been one year in which tho number of deaths from small pox was as high as 14. That was in 1887. In 1883 there were bat four deaths from small pox registered in Ireland ; in 1886, two; in 1884 tbere was only one ; in IBSB there were three ; and, as above stated, in ISS9 tbere was not one. The Californian “pack” ot tinned fruit last season consisted of 760,000 oases, of which tomatoes and peaches amounted to 180,000 each, pears to 100,000, plums and white cherries to 60,000 each, apricots and grapes to 40,000 each, black cherries to 30,000, strawberries to 20,000, and apples, blackberries, currants, gooseberries, necta* fines, quinces,' and raspberries to smaller amounts. The exports from San Francisco amounted to 529,769 oases by rail and 264,832 by sea. the greater part ot the latter going to Great Britain, Australia, and Now York.

The exceptional fine weather of the past two or three months has caused an extraordinary demand for gentlemen’s summer underclothing, in consequence of which Davis and Clater wired to their agents to supplement thoic order. The goods have now arrived, and their clients can rely upon unprecedented value in merino, natural wool, and Balbriggau shirts, vests, and pants.