The New York herald., 1871-12-24
ITEMS FIR ON AFRICA.

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| The HERALD mali nlcs from Africa are datcd "a
Port Elizabeth. Cape of Good Hope. on the 3ist .,
october. The journals supply the following inter
esting items OF news:-
| The Import market continues active, and It +,
many years since the wholesale trade has been 50
nells, with scarcely any limits 10 prices. continue
~ arrive by each post and are executed "a rapidly
., business would be done but for the diliculty oi
obtaining carriage.
"A fine specimen Of Tatm gold. weighing twelve
ounces ounces anu apparently pure was sent home per
syria by Messrs. Mackie, Dunn & Go. 4
Mt .he synodcal gathering recently held In Gra,
jamestown the venerable Arcndeacon Mcrriman Waa
unanimously chosen IA Bishop OF cue diocese.
neeiaes the losses Of stock from the recent heavy
rains, the Queenstown Free Press reports that sheet
farmers farmers suffered very severely from a species OF
low ieVer which has swept or their sneep by nun.
dieas list Of the losses sustained by thirty ysix
farmers Is given, from which it appears that out oi
67,g5O sheep only 2i, 1877 remained alive.
Brt, OF the firm Of Blrt Nephew W Who ", died sad.
denly ut the Nazaar, on saturday, the 2lst or Oc-
OF ms health, and had reached the Nazaar on his
way home when ne was seized by ht or apopexy.
rorfm,nn oa,es n 9. glnnsa cotton were FORWARDED
by Messrs Cawood Brothers. to nc shipped td
England. photograph Of the wagon and ts load
cotton that has been sent from Grahamstown.
The amount OF coin lately received has been arge,
province, ana especially OF the diamond fields, re.
auires and stocks continue to be trenchen upon BY
usually scarce, both here and in Cape Town, d9L
spite the supply recently received by the standard
The amount OF customs duties collected nc Pore
Elizabeth during the month Of October VIII exceed
Gl7,500
The following is statement or the number and
value or diamonds shipped Tor England through tlo
Custom House per Royal Mall steamship Cclt:--
No. Tut,tc.
j. simpson. Observation-Disclosures. 210 fl, 500
Z W. Court. ........................ Go 1,775
Mackle Dunn Co................ 56 500
Maynards, Buchanan & Co........ 14d
The following is q list or the danonds shipped per
keya s,mns sa no9 a sya through the
L. g. Sanford, box (3yI diamonds, valued at I75
TWO large sales OF landed property In sundrY in-
solvent and assigned estates have been held curing
the fortnight. In the assigned estate OF f. II.
Salmond Co., the two stores IN Jetty street. Port
Elizabeth, occupied by Messrs. II. Rutherford ana
L. Baumann were sod--the former to Mr. w. NJ.
Farmer q. o. Tor 81, ,725 ana the latter for ii, ,30O
TO Mr.. l.. Baumann.
Cape paper Is scarce, and Is selling at par to one.
quarter per cent premium.
The fourteenth annual wool fair Of RiverdaIe has
been held 10 was much better attended Dy buyers.
inc first sample put up was Knocked down at 1sd.;
all doubts ana iears Immediately vanished, and lots
70 ae s7o cre were ioS asposed
last years Quantity by about $4,000 pounds, which
l must Dc attributed says local journal partly 70
but mostly to number or our farmers being caiOed
by fair promises INTO parting with their WOODS out
q hand, little dreaming OF the injury they are In
nictlng, not only on themselves but the market,
by driving away foreign buyers.
The German screw steamer Bismarck, Captain g.
Stats, arrived at Port Elizabeth from Table and
Mossel bays on the Goth of October, with general
cargo and passengers The Bismarck sailed for
East London and Natal on the 23d OF October, tax.
Ing as passengers for East London Mr.. Brunette:
for Natal, Captain Foster. Mrs. Roberts, Mr.. M.
Brown aud one colored woman.
A correspondent writing from Uitenhage to tho
G7aaD- Retsset Herald, under the signature or "a
leader,' says:-"Edltors OF the press here and In
Port Elizabeth eschew any correspondence at vari-
ance with their own scf.suiiicient knoTledge.n
The intcliigence that the colonial government had
the colony gave general satisfaction to the inhabi-
tants Of Port Elizabeth.