ILLUSTRATED MISCELLANY.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 260, 7 November 1906, Page 3

ILLUSTRATED MISCELLANY.

A short time back the Government tham Dockyard, and our illustration lades), a vessel very well known in the shipbreakers in Felixstowo Doric.

sold several obsolete gunboats at Chashows one of their number (the PyWaitemata. now being broken up by the

While Russia is in the throes of revolution, the children of the Czar play happily and safely in the gardens of the palace at Pcterhof. The little boy on the right is the Czarevitch Alexis, born in 1904, who may one day rule Russia. The girls, from left to right, are his sisters, the Grand Duchesses Olga. Marie,. and Tatiana.. Our sketch is from a recent photograph.

UNIQUE MEMORIAL TO A DOG. The Battersea Borough Council recently finally and fully arranged themselves on the side of the anti-vivisec-tionists by accepting and unveiling a. public memorial to a little brown dog alleged to have met a cruel death at, a certain London Hospital. This unique memorial, -which cost about £180, and ■which, standing 7ft bin high, is of marble, surmounted by the . effigy of a dog lSin in height, was presented to Battorsea by the International AntiA r ivisection Council, and in September (he Mayor of Battersea. in the presence of a large gathering, foranerh- unveiled and took it over. Standing jn the centre of the Latehmere Recreation Ground, ■which was made by the unemployed, this memorial fountain is a striking piece of work, and sets forth that it is hi memory of a brown terrier alleged to have been done to death in the laboratory of a London hospital in 1903. after having undergone vivisection extending over more than two months. It also records the death of 432 other dogs said to have been vivisected in the same place. The Mayor, in performing the ceremony, mentioned that they had been threatened with all sorts of pains and penalties for accepting the fountain, but they were prepared ■to face any consequences of their action. He did not mention, what is common knowledge, that the Vivisection Council is indemnifying them to the extent of £300 against damages in any possible action for libel. Nor did he divulge the fact that, owing to the threats of medical students to destroy the fountain, the figure of the dog is electrically fitted so as to give au alarm should it bo tampered with.