MISCELLANEOUS.

Timaru Herald, Volume XLII, Issue 3426, 21 September 1885, Page 3

MISCELLANEOUS.

g Tlio Xalional Qaxelle of August 22nd says n Cliiiiu liiis contracted with a Manchester Gnu .5 to furnish material for tlio construction of 0 ruilways from Tukon, at the mouth of tlio s- Hocn Uo on tlio Yellow Sen, to Toug Chow, if on the Pciho, an allluenl of tho Hoon Ho, I, twcnty-livo miles east of Pekin. Tlio ruilroad is will bo 11 most important work, and will be o 100 miles long. It will give Pekin direct nnd vl easy communication with tho Tellow Sea, a, Tlio road is to bo built and operated on by a is Manchester (inn with Chiueso labor und 1, capital. if China, is now ongagod m raising m Europo t. a loan of 1,000,000, to be expended m external ir improvements. d Tho loss of tlio Gormnn corvette Augusta if during 11 cyclone m the Eed Sea, was conOrnicd is on August 21st. The crew, consisting of 230 0 officers and sailors wcro nil lost. The value of '9 th« vessel was 1,750,000 dollars. c Lord Coloi'idgo was married to Miss F. o Crawford, daughter of tho former judgo m it Bengal, at tho bridis'9 houso m London, on d August lGth. Tho marriago was a strictly 0 private one, and tho only persons present g besides tho contracting parties were tho 's bride's mother nnd younger sistor. Tho >t room where tho maniuge took placo was only it 9 feel square. g Tlio manufacturing establishment of S. v Maw nnd Sons, and J. Maw, Son and 13 Thompson, makers of surgical instruments, Ivor ilon, win burned down on tho 28th. Tho n lo*s was £50,01,0, and fivo hundred employees '9 wore thrown out of work. is A firo broke out m Hoiton, iv poor nnd v crowded quarter of London, on August 28rd, " m which a lodging houso was burnod and g with it a man and hii two children.