EXCHANGES.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XVI, Issue 5714, 18 August 1897, Page 4

EXCHANGES.

In Great Britain the yearly loss in waga through ill-health is cCI 1,000,000. A lady, aged eighty-live, is a leader of a church choir in Hyde. She has been a member for seventyeight years. A wet Whit Monday means a loss of £IO,OOO to each of the great railways in lingland. A JJclfast merchant has offered for the Queen's acceptance a site in Ireland for a Royal residence. At a coroner's ir.rpiest held in London, twelve of the fourteen jurymen were unable to write their names. A New Jersey wife, at the age of SS, has just become the mother of her 17th child. All her children, nine boys and eight girls are living, A coach tilled with holiday-makers at a:i American resort was run down by a train at a level crossing, six persons being killed iiml .sixteen injured.

The London County Council contemplates another Thames funnel for foot passengers, between Greenwich and the Isle of Dogs.

Two famous American racehorses have a " palace car," the luxurious stable is fifty feet long and cost £SOOO to build.

Tamworlh Castle, conferred by the Conqueror upon one of his friends, was put up for auction, and purchased by the Corporation of the town for t'oOOO.

Alßiirnetsiboyof fifteen placed liis i>cckoii the metals and was decapitated by tho train, bueuuso his mother lmd threatened to report liim to his father,

Fifty years a<,'o England imported three eggs a liead for its population. Last yeur it imported forty for encli inhabitant, tbo total numbor being l,58!),:iS7,000.