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Colonist, Volume XXXI, Issue 5277, 27 July 1888, Page 4

Babbit preserving appears to have mat with greater success in Marlborough than at Woodlands in Southland. The Marl borough works at present employ 5-1 hands and pay about £500 weekly in wages, ' The price paid for rabbits is 3s per dozen, and many station bolders find that by making terms with rabbiters the rabbits are almost as profitable as sheep- Tho trappers are said to average about £2 per week. FoFJSD Dead in the Snow.—The ' Timaru Herald' of Satuiday learned that a man named Eobert Bussell, who had been missing since the 13th instant, was found dead in the snow on the Grampian Plains, about 22 miles from Fairlie Creek. The Potato.—A statue has been erected at Neuilly, to Parmentier, who introduced the potato into France. The ceremony of unveiling was carried out with eclat, and an excellent panegyric !of the excellent root pronounced. ! From a return presented to Parliament, it appears that there are no fewer than ISO " incurables " among the patients in the hospitals of New Zealand. Gold.—Mahakipawa gold now sells at £3 ISi 6d per ounce. A London paper says the Queen is bo fond of Prinoe Henry of Battenberg, tbat if he wanwd the top brick off the chimney, she would have it displaced and gilded for presentation to him. By the recant death at Newport of Mr William 0. Munson, his nephew, James Bailey, of Shamokin, Perm., has fallen heir to £320,000. Eailey has a wife and seven children, and lor the past four months has missed many a meal to appease the hunger of the little ones. There is a moral in the story of the poor parishioner who regretted to his minister that he oould not pay his quarter's pew rent: " Been gambling iv stocks, I suppose ? " said the minister testily. "No, sir, not that." " Well, speculating in oil then ?" "No, sir; I went to your church fair, sir, and was roped into so many lotteries." The death is announced, at a comparatively early age, of Reginald Shirley Brooke, son ol the Shirley Brooks, and known all over the world as the " Peter Blobba " of the • Sporting Times.' A pukekura settler caught 58 hawks in a month with an ordinary rat trap baited with raw meat. A HOMCEPATHic doctor in Auckland says bis average of deaths from typhoid fever has only been 2*5 per cent. It is said that Mr Blackett, En-gineer-in-Chief, is likely to retire on a pension at a very early data