Notes and Events.

Manawatu Herald, 29 February 1896, Page 3

Notes and Events.

A strange thing is happening in France, viz., the Gouffre Mountain is slipping faster. This becomes exciting, almost as muoh as a horse race, but the cablefflan has dot for years mentioned anything about its previous progress and this is just what we want to know you knowj as weights, time and previous performances are required, a3 well a 9 the pedigree of the horse and colours of the rider. Given these, most of the rising colonists would be prepared to open a betting book and take the odds in anyway a speculator might desire.

A moving mountain is an illustration of the great faith of some one, but it must be mighty unpleasant to the holders of real property in ita. vicinity. The syndicate who owns the mountain, if it is a syndicate, had better sell at faca value as smartly as they can for it would appear a3 though actions for heavy damages were looming in the near distance. It appears not only the question as to smothering some unfortunate small farmer, worse than even the small farmer has been smothered in this colony by the Seddon Ministry, but the peripatetic mountain purposes to block up two rivers.

The cablegram does not make it clear where this performance is to be viewed, but we find that the Gard river is a tributary of the river Rhone, and enters the latter about the centre of the Department of Gard which is a portion of the French Republic bordering on the Mediterranean Sea on the west of some of the many mouths of the river Rhone.