Notes and Events.

Manawatu Herald, Volume III, Issue III, 30 January 1892, Page 2

Notes and Events.

The London Daily News says that Queensland has sunk to the position of the lowest of the Australian colonies, owing to the action of the Colonial Treasurer, whose administration has been characterised by blustering and muddling.

The most interesting, or, at any rate, the rarest, arrival at the London Zoological Gardens is the hairyeared rhinoceros ; it occupies the distinguished position of being the only, example of the species known. There are only, including this doubtful form, six species of rhinoceros .now living, though in earlier periods of our earth's history the rhinoceros tribe was much more flourishing. Mr Barlett, the son of the : well-known superintendent of the Zoo however, thinks that he has found a new kind in the, island of Borneo, a region comparatively unknown, to zoologists.

Asia Minor must be a good healthy spot to live in. According to an official Russian paper, men often live to the age of 100 there, and one who ! bias just celebrated his 152 nd birthday has a grandchild who is already 90 . years old. This is all true,., oi 'course, being published in an .official paper. It has often been remarked that in Russja, not to mentipn official Russia, truth is much more marvellous than fiction.

The White: Star liner Teutonic, which ., recently arrived from ; .New , 3f ork, after, a rapid passage, ; brings particulars, of a. collision between the Anchor; Line, steamer Ethiopia and a large whale, 800 miles east of Sandy Hook qn the 15th inst. on, the passage to New York from Glasgow. At 10.45 a.ni , Captain Wilson and Second Officer Fife were on the bridge, keeping a close watch ahead. Suddenly a whale came to the surface directly in the path of the ship, and only a fow feet ahead. The ship was rushing towards the whale at the rate of sixteen miles an hour. There was no time to check the speed of the vessel, and almost before the astonished officers realised it, the ship's sharp iron prow, crashed into the monster. The blow was a square incisive one. The ship seemed to sail right through the whale, which disappeared almost immediately, leaving a trail of crimson as far as the eye could see. Shortly afterwards the whale was sighted astern, floating lifelessly. When the ship came into collision with the whale the shock caused the vessel to tremble from stem to stern, and startled the passengers for a moment. The passoHgers who were below rushed on deck, and a panic seemed to be imminent. Captain Wilson hurriedly left the bridge, and appeared on deck. " Have no fear, 1 " he said, "we have only killed a whale. The ship is not hurt." His words allayed the fears of the pasaefifteri.