A Japanese’Prince, now in San Francisco, has offered to contract with the Central Pacific Pailway Company to supply them with 100,000 Japanese skilled laborers and artizana, al low wages. 30,000 barrels of petroleum have been consumed by fire in the Canada oil district. The fire burnt for twenty-four hours, and at one time about 15 acres of ground were covered with Same. "The Registrar of. Shapinshay records the birth of one illegitimate child, the only one in the island since 1858, and the third since the commencement of the registration. The illegitimate births in Nairnshire during' the quarter ending June 30, were 2-3 per cent, of the whole. It is so far srtiafactory to note that no other county in Scotland ‘was so bad. Nairn is a little shire, and is profoundly evangelical. Connecticut river farmer boasts of a field of corn averaging nine and a half feet high.
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Wairarapa Standard, Volume I, Issue 49, 9 December 1867, Page 3
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149Page 3 Advertisements Column 1 Wairarapa Standard, Volume I, Issue 49, 9 December 1867, Page 3
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