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As showing that there is a profit in wheat growing, even at 2s 4d a bushel if the yield is good, the North Otago Times states that a cropper who last year had to mortgage his horses and plant owing to the failure of his crop, was this year assisted by his financial agent to crop another piece of land. He took up some 200 acres, and his yield was so Rood tiiat he was able to pay off the bill-of-sale oyer his horses and plant, pay for the see 1 required in sowing the land, and he had £IOO clear himself. A Central News telegram from Madrid, dated January 16, says:—Much sensation has bcon caused in Government circles by the discovery that there are not less than 34 million spurious dollars in circulation in the country. coins are of silver, and not only of the weight and standard required by the mint authorities, but many of them have been found to be of standard superior to that of the national and superior currency. The fraud consists in the fact that while the authorised dollar circulates for its full face value of five pesetas or francs, its full intrinsic value is rather less than 1\ pasetas. The stroke of business affected by the coiners of the spurious dollar in disposing of so much silver must therefore rank as one of the greatest ever recorded. From official investigations that are still in progress it appears that a very large percentage of this coinage has been procured in France and America, but suspicion prevails that some proportion lias also been made in Scvi'le, Barcelona, and Carthasrena.