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Lyttelton Times, Volume LVII, Issue 6507, 4 January 1882, Page 3

The English Church Timet states as a sign of the progress of ritualistic principles in England that a certain parish, which it does not name, has some thirteen altars, of which at a recent festival seven had vestments and lights. At a meeting of citizens held at Boston, on Oct. 24, to receive the report of the Committee of Twenty-eight on the World’s Fair project, the subject matter of the report—being the advisability of holding a World’s Fair here, provided £1,000,000 can be raised—was referred to a committee of thirteen, who were instructed to convass the community relative to raising that amount, and to report at another citizsns’ meeting to be held in ninety days. Lime is employed by T. Schloesing in obtaining magnesia from sea water. One cubic meter of the water when allowed to precipitate ami settle during twenty-four hours yields a gelatinous deposit of magnesia of about eighty litres. To this precipitate a dilute solution of phosphoric acid added, thus throwing down ti tribasic phosphate of magnesia, whbh condenses on settling, is capable of being filtered through cloth or the ordinary press, and combines readily with ammonia to form an ammonium insgnosum phosphate. Two Spanish cruisers now in course of construction in England—the Gravina and the Velasco—are to bo provided with large electric lights, which will be employed to delect the approach of the torpedo-boats of an enemy, etc. A large Gramme machine, driven by a rotary engine of the Hudson type, will supply the electricity to lamp», which hare improved reflectors, and which aw estimated to give a light of 20,0Q0-cendle power. It is proposed, but not determined, to illuminate the cabins with some incandescent system of Isntpe.