The Warwickshire Herald. — 1885-11-12 (Birmingham, West Midlands, England)

ONE OF OUR BEST CUSTOMERS.  Published statistics shew that the value of goods exported f rum the L nited Kingdom to New South Wales 'during 1884 was £11,423,047. Among the Irticles thus finding a ready market was 68,094 packages of drapery valued at £1,777,453; 16.183 packages of wearing apparel, valued at £644,090; 39,332 packages of boots and shoes, valued at £399.917, saddlery, harnes, and saddlers' war., 2,991 packag. valued at £88,090; 7,784 packages of furnlture, valueu at £339,787 ; and 2,570 packages of upholstery valued at £65,716. This class of goods included also considerable quantities of baskets and basketware,brushware, cutlery, earthenware, ard china, floor cloth and oil cloth, glassware, grindery, indiarubber goods, lampware, mats and matting, pictures and paintings, tobacco pipes, silver plate, tinware, toys, turnery and woodware, watches and clocks, &c. The iron and other metal goods included 913 anchors, 192 tons of chain cables, 2,772 tons of iron castings, 18,081 tons of galvanised iron, 429 tons of galvanised iron manufactures, 9,162 tons of iron pipes, 1,092 iron tanks, 6,328 tons of ironware, 149 tons of galvanised ironware, 30,639 tons of iron and steel, 55.716 cwt. lead in rolls, 2,499 cwt. lead piping, 19,664 packages machinery, 12,338 packages of sewing machines, 796 packages of weighing machines, 39,831 cwt. nails, 17,512 packages of telegraphic materials, 2,702 cwt. zinc, &c. In addition, there were considerable quantities of arms and ammunition, agricultural implements, cordage, and rope, drugs, felt, gas fittings, musical and scientific instruments, jewellery, lithographic materials, oils, paints, paperhangings, photographic materials, prit iting materials, ship chandlery, stationery, &c., besides large quantities of beer, spirits, provisions of every description, soap, candles, and the like. There is scarcely a manufacturing industry in the United Kingdom which is not benefited more or less by the custom of New South Wales, whose purchases of British goods at e becoming larger each succeeding year, in proportion to the steady increase of the colonial population.  The captain of the Danish trigantine Domingo S. at i has been charged at Dover with ill.treating a e 1..1.1, d seaman nail, it Williams, by keeping him in lot s for six days. The prosecutor, who appeared to %. IT weak, and had two n-gro boys with him in urt as witne-ses, st..trd flint during the six months Ii v. ssel had been on the voyatre the defendant had Ii equelitly beaten him with b laying pins. The captain pi. (need the leg-book, which contained an entry s at ng that the presecutor had been placed in irons for threatening to murder him, aud the Bench distil iseed the case. On hearing the decision, the negroes ste•wed symptoms ..tf great distre-s, crying piteously, aml assert leg that they would not return to the ship. bold Londesbotough, while shooting on his Selby Mr. Hastings, proprietor of the Irish Citizcn 'paper estate, was struck by a shot from his own gun. The which publishes a weekly cartoon ridiculing the shot struck a stone, cud rebounding inflicted a Parnellite party, has handed to the Dublin police a severe cut under his lordship's tight eye. threatening letter which he had received by post A night train from Naples to Foggia has been purporting to come from an inner circle of Invinciblem. robbed by some men, who entered the luggage van, The officers and men of the Ist Battalion Coldhit ed the guard, and escaped with ten valuable stream Guards were on Satur day served out with Ii kages before the arrival of the train at the next medals for the Soudan campaign at the Chelsea tit-awn. Barracks. The detachment stationed at St. George's The steamers Gaff and Mountain Girl have been Barracks, Charing-cross, was also on parade, .and in collision on the Ohio river, near Lawrenceburg, received the decorations from the commanding officer. Indiana. The latter vessel was carrying the members A Luton correspondent having written to Laid ot u travelling eircus, who were giving shows at Salisbury regarding certain statements in the Cobden the towns along the river. While attenipting to cross Club pamphlets, that Protectionists and Fair-traders the Gaff's bows she was run into and cut through and want to impose a tax on the importation of wheat, sank. The crew of the Gaff rescued all who could be the Premier has replied that he has repeatedly stated saved, but seven lives are reported to have been lost. ; that he is opposed to any tax unon foreign corn.