Notes and Events.
George Peabody, to the committee of Whose centenary Queen Victoria has sent a special message, gave about £600,000 towards ■n building of industrial homes in He was offered at the time a baronetcy, or the Grand Cross "*bf the Bath, but refused these honors. He WAaJhen asked what he would accepratoa he replied, "A letter from Queen of England, which I may carry across the Atlantic and deposit as a memorial of one of her most faithful sons." Mi Felix Faure appears to have solved the question, how to be a popular President. On the day of bis election he ordered a quarter of a bottle of wine to be given to every private soldier on active service, to drink his health. Every day, when he leaves the Elysee, he goes into the gaard room; the soldiers all •tand ia a row on attention, and the President walks past them, speaks a few words to each one, and prescribes a quarter of a bottle of wine. M. Ffiure's medicine ia extremely popular, says the Globs, and is thought tope doing much towards building up the constitution of the Republic. It is said that the German Emperor, through his envoy, requested the 'Japanese to desist from their advance on Pekin. The reply of the ' ruler of the land of the chrysanthemum was :—" When your august grandfather invaded France he meant to reach Paris. When I invade China I mean to reach PekW?
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Manawatu Herald, 25 April 1895, Page 3
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244Notes and Events. Manawatu Herald, 25 April 1895, Page 3
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