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Manawatu Herald, Volume III, Issue III, 6 February 1892, Page 2

Mrs Hodgson Burnett has called a news-boys' home that she has founded " Lionel's Home," to perpetuate the memory of her son Lionel, the original of " Little Lord Fauntleroy." The violence and disorder characterising the Waterford election are by no means new phenomena in that city. It formerly enjoyed the honour of being represented by Mr Bernal Osborne, who, after a contest there, wrote to a friend, "I am slowly recovering from the effects of a successful Irish election, in which, up to the present, only six deaths have occurred." ' A London paper says -.—General A Booth is an enterprising man. His scheme for the establishment of a matrimonial bureau has, to all intents and purposes, come into existence. A Glamorganshire miner has approached the Salvation Army to find him a wife. A Chelsea widow has made overtures in search ot a husband. The Salvationists have taken up both applications seriously. If the War Department consents, Maxwell & Moore, of New York, will exhibit at the Chicago Fair the process of making cannon of the 50-ton description. They, propose to show in operation a lathe weighing 285, 000 pounds, which is used in rifling out the cannon.