MISCELLANEOUS NEWS.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume VII, Issue 1130, 24 September 1880, Page 2

MISCELLANEOUS NEWS.

• r— Four million four hundred and twenty thousand five hundred and eight bushels of maize were grown in N. S. Wale 3 laßt year ; the highest yield was 47 bushels, the lowest 14, and the average 35, per aero. The' Daily Times says that on the ground of the 1 desirability of leaving the brain fallow during the first seven years of life, \fe should be justified in urging that the State should no longer undertake to systematically teach children under seven years of age, but shonld rather discourage such a practice by- every means in its power. Mr. James, one of the surgeons of the Melbourne hospital, is blamed .-fiy the ' Age ' or having attempted to extract the bullet from the unfortunate man Greer, without consulting one or other of his confreres, and" with having mullled the operation. Major Evelyn Baring, British Contioller of Egyptian . Finances, succeeds Sir John Strachey, the Indian Finance Minister, who has resigned. Mr. Longfellow has in hand the libretto of an opera, the music of which will be composed by Mr. Alfred Cellier, the author of the " Sultan of Mecca." M. Gustavo Dore has in hand a large picture illustrating the -text, "Come into me all ye that labour and are heavy laden." Bulgaria may be expected to fulfil ere long ,the obligations imposed upon her by the Berlin Treaty with' respect to the raising of the fortresses on the right bank of the Danube. , Prince Alexander has promised -Baron Haym'erle, the Austrian Ohancdil6r, )l that the worte o v f ' demolition should be prooeeded with immediately. Tne^TJharwar correspondent * of? the Bombay Gazette states r that a thunder- ■ storm whioh occurredon March 24 last was ushered in by the fall of some extremely heavy hail, Beyeral of the largest atones, which were spherical in shape, measuring no less than 9in. 2 or IQin. in diameter; •:''-, | Mr. Franjfc Buckland, writes in Land and Water, on the structural beauties of the eel, says :— " The eel has, strange to say, a heart in his ' tail. When''the^ eel becomes faint and exhausted he will begin to play, up the hea^rt ; in his tail, : the pulsations of which pan be- plainly seen," ' ' - ; .... ,