FACTS A SCRAPS.
(Ftom the Australasian Sketcher.)
A woman named Elizabeth Ayton waa killed a short time since at DarHngbnrat by a stroke of lightning. Tbera is a probability of New South Wales and Victoria sending a feaja of riflemen to England to contest for prizes. A firm at Tower-hill, near Ware nambool, baa bad the remarkableyield of 42 toot of potatoes from two acres of land.
The Governor of Queensland, (the Marquis of Normandy) has, had, his salary increased by Parliament tyom £4,000 to £5,000 per annum.
Messrs Bobertson Brothers’ anrtpl l sale at Coiac, on May 15, was an ijnmenee soereeo,aaQ)ucb as 2Gf> guineas being obtained for young Durham ballcalves.
Tbcro have been no lesa than 22 petitions sent in to the GovermHr «t New Sooth Wales praying for the release of the notorious bushranger Gardiner.
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Wairarapa Standard, Volume 3, Issue 188, 23 June 1874, Page 3
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