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Star (Christchurch), Issue 5258, 14 May 1895, Page 3

Land fob Settlements. — Notices in the Gazette declare the following lands acquired under the provisions of the Land for Settlements Act to be Crown Lands, subject to that Act.— Otaio settlement, 376 a2r 30p, Otaio survey district ; Eoßebrook settlement, 600 alr Bp,. Pareora survey district. The largest log of mahogany evo imported into the United States was received some little time back at Messrs Nesmith Brothers' mahogany and cedar yard, Greenpoint, New York, on the schooner Laguna, of Port Jefferson,- New York. The log, measuring 44ft 4in long, 60in fey 56in at the base, and weighing about 21$ tons, was felled in the Sierra Chisee.ia Guatemala, and floated down the Eio dela Pasion and Eio Uaumucanto to Laguna, Mexico, a distance of over three hundred miles. Any human being who will have the j presence of mind to clasp the hands behind the back and turn the face toward the zenith, may float at ease, and in perfect safety, in tolerably still water. A Lanarkshire man quarrelled with lua sweetheart a few years ago, and they parted, he going to San Francisco. Beturning to Scotland a short time since, he overheard two ladies in a railway carnage speaking of the excellent work of a certain , deaconess. He recognised the name aa that of hia old sweetheart, and, going m queat oi her, found the deaconess in a dingy street engaged in works of charity. Having remained Bingle, and having made a fortune in San Francisco, he ro-proposed, : and. ; waß re-accepted. They have Binoe been married.