The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1862-02-25 00:00:00

FOREIGN MISCELLANY.

Marcum mow TAIL GAATIL-The Esperance deit,
Peepk of Nantes relates the billowing curious incident.,
as baying taken place in that town :-' The body elf
young Man had been deposited for interment in onkel.
the side chapels of the Church of Saint Laurent, wheat
while awaiting the arrival of the clergy, the Kier vete
agitated violently. The coffin Inn immediately optima..
and the young man inside wee found to have awoke f
a lethargy sif sixty hours. He was at once
to his house, and is dein:, well, lie has • wife and twe
children."
The continental papers announce, as official news.
i that the Bing of Portugal s about to marry the young
sister of the late queen of Portugal.
The Vienna papers mention • handsome donation made
by the Prince of Wales for the benefit of the sufferers
by the inundations and unusually severe weather,
which latter has greatly aggravated the misery- of
thousands of poor boucles' wretches, driven by the
waters frail their homes with the loss of everything
they possessed.
SALE Or MININO SHEEP In New ZiALAND.-..-The
LidelMon Times states that the well-known Book of Mr.
G. Bich had recently been disposed of, the imported
sheep being put up singly, the rams in pens containing
from four to 12 in each, and the ewes iu pens of Aan
each. The following prices were realised :-36 imported
pure-bred Spanish ewes, £998, two of them fetshing £5O
each; six imported French ewes, £207; four benefit
out of Noah+ ewes by French rams, £76 ; four ewes by
imported Spanish rain out of French ewes £124; three '
ewes of mixed French and Spanish Wood, RAO ; five
ewe. and three lambs of the Mount Eden and Spanish
Sock, £196; 45 ewes of the same dock, £315; 34 pens,
containing 173 ewes and lambs of the Mount Eden Bock,
£1,348, 12 guineas per head being the highest price, for
any one pen of this lot. The ram Auk was more
spiritedly competed for, and the prices obtained wwee
better :-Two imported pure-bred Spanish rams, each
of which bad taken first class prices in Germany, were
bought in for £600; • pure-bred Spanish merino ram.
imported, fetched 2150; five Sbakspeare rams, £lOO6,
two pens, containing 12 each of rain lambs by the above
Shikspeare MUNI, £180; 28 pens, eontsining 219 rains..
from two to four tooth, • portion by the Spanish marine
ram out of the Mount Eden Saxon merino ewes, fetched
from £5 to MD 10s. per head, and realised £1,408 145,;
• pea of three rams and one ewe lamb, £8 Bs. per head;
12 rams, sold singy, fetched £279.
WAGES IN AUITIALIA.-The latest advice". from
Melbourne report wages to be extremely good, sod not
the slightest appearance of any diminution. Married
couples for home stations and service, per annum, £6O
to £66; for betels' iresieureati, see, M 8 te-278 ; ditto,
with families, £4O to £46; ploughmen, 15a. per week;
bullock drivers, 151.,ani 20.. when driving on the roads;
ploughmen, from three to six months' hire, £4O per
annum ; fern; labourers, 15s. per week; mowers, 25e.
per week ; mowing by the acre, from 3e, 81. to 4. 6d.,
according to the heaviness of the crop, men finding
their own tools ; haymakers, from 15s. to We. per week;
milkmen, from 16.. to 20e. per week; gaideners, RIO
per annum; shepherds from £3O to 35 per annum ; but
keepers, £24 per annum; shearers, 14e. to 16.. per hun-
dred ; should they find their own rations,lBe.,employers
finding them a cook; shearing butchers' sheep a trifle
higher; blacksmiths, for stations, 30e. per week • ear-
penten, 25e. per week • rough carpenters, 201 i. per
weakwheelwrights, 34. per weak; cooks from 20s.
ta 450: per week; waiters, from 20e. ditto ; hay cutters
and trusters 4s. per ton, or 20s. to 255. per week; lade
to drive bull:mks, lib. per week ;carter., 20s. per week;
lads to milk, or drive bullocks, fcc.,los. per week. With-
out rations: Carpenters, Bs. to 10.. per dity • mason.,
from 12i. to 14s. ; plasterers and btioklayers,
10e. to 12s. ; quarrymen, Bs, per day' '
blacksmiths,
10e, to lki. • able pick or shovel men, 7s. or is. per
hour; kismet, three rails, 2s. to Is. 6.1. per roil, accord''
lag to the ground • wire fencers, with rails, ls. 6d. to
2. per rodr•' spiders of posts and rails, 204, to 255. per
hundred, according to the timber woodcutters, 3.. per
ton. Female servants: Cooks and laundresses, £3O
to £35 per annum, and occasionally £4O, for hotels,
restaurants, dc ; for private families, £3O ; housemaids
£2B to £3O; thorough competent women " for gentled
housework, ; upper-class nursemaids £26 per
annum; nurse girls, from £l4 to t'2o ; needlewomen,
£26 to £3O; if they are dressmakers, £35 per
annum.
Sotrricrwe " MONZT."-The troubles that the Sou*,
is experiencing on the ourrency are humourouly 'WA
forth in the subjoined paragrwnh, which ic taken frees
• letter written by the Norfolk correspondent of the
Richmond Despatch :-Leaning over the counter a
puzzled volunteer was encleavourinj to reckon up the
--"!, by the aleek-hstred clerk. Before
of motile.- ' 'lie, ragged and dirty
of care, checks, a few
tickets, stamps, sod other
outrageous 'coin
"akin-
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of the.

gram, looking very like the Oran card on the top of •
sardine box. 'Do you call Ws money r holding up an
advertiseuient of thin Gavannali cigsrs—' and this,'—a
bill for 15 cents, in which some weak-minded printer
had gone raving iced in different kind. of type ' Good
for one shave (reeding alowly).—Dick the Barber'—
Do you call this money? The sleek-haired clerk was
punted also. 'lt'll pass all over town; indeed it will,
Sir.' Once more the soldier scrutinised the ragged and
incongrous pile,and grasping it in one band, soliloquised
—' So this is in, ney—money lia! I call it stuff. 'Why,
a man miaht hold his hand full, and then have but 170.
in money."