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Manawatu Herald, 14 May 1898, Page 2

Chinese burglars are difficult to catch. They oil their stark naked bodies all over, and twist their pig-tails iato chignons stuck full of needles. The GoVernment has decided that the buildings at Mount Cook are not to be used as a gaol until after Parliament has had an opportunity of deciding what shall be done in respect to them and the reserve. In the meantime they will be utilised for military purposes. Mr Seddon told a meeting at Wellington that 6000 rifles of the -303 calibre and 1000 carbines had been ordered from Home. A bronze arquebus fished out of Brest Harbour during recent dredging operations was in a perfect state of preservation, though it had loin in the water for over 300 years. The oldest of the three cables between Oterangi Bay, near Terawhiti, and White's Bay, Nelson, broke suddenly on Monday last. The fracture, which is about five miles off Oterangi Bay, will be repaired by the Tutanekai some time this month. Helmets made of aluminium, to be covered with waterproof cloth of various oolours, according to the branch of the service wearing it, are about to be adopted in the French Army. Major Sommerville has stated he had reason to believe that the militia would be called out. A London correspondent writes: Ap* parently the engagement of Lady Augusta Boyle to Mr Orr-Ewing, M.P., is not to be a long one, for it is announced that the marriage will take place on the 28th of next month. The ceremony will be performed at St. Columba's Episcopal Church, Largs. Commander George A. Couverse, of the United States cruiser Montgomery, which has taken a leading part in the blockade of Havana, is a torpedo expert of world-wide reputation in naval circles. He is an Annapolis graduate, and for many years before the outbreak of the war was engaged as supervising constructor of torpedo boat*,

The following tenders have been received by the Public Works Department for the Palmerston North Courthouse contract : — Accepted— Adams and Elwood, Feilding, £2235. Declined— Zajonskowski Brothers, Marton, £3180; I. J. Fake, Palmerston, £3450. Silver money 250 years old is still in circulation in Spain. We understand (says the Marlborough Express) that the Flax Bonus Commissioners were favourably impressed with the merits of Mr T. Branton's new process for dressing flax. It is calculated that the capital value of the British Navy at the present time exceeds £94,000,000. In a letter to the Education Board Capt. Hewitt stated that the Linton School Committee had instructed the master to open the school with the third collect in the Church of England prayer-book, the Lord's prayer and a psalm from the Bible. — The Board declined to sanction the proposal. All over the world some 59 languages are represented by newspapers. Many are printed in two or three languages, English in such cases being generally one. The result of the elections to the French Chamber of Deputies the Meline Government has again obtained a majority. M. Meline is the Premier and Minister of Agriculture. With regard to the accident that occurred to Mrs Jennings' son, the Otaki Mail says : — It is with great pleasure we learn that our little friend, "Laddie" Jennings, is making good improvement in his lamentable condition, which is doubtless mainly attributable to the child's extraordinary fortitude and bravery. He is said to have borne up under the trying circumstances with a courage that none could have hoped for. The little chap regained consciousness the morning after the accident, aud has remained so since. We hasten to correct an erroneous statement made by us in our last issue that the boy's leg was amputated at the thigh. We should have said " just above the knee." Latest intelligence yesterday states that the sufferer was able to chat quite cheerfully with those around him, and was able to take hia food much better. Mr D. D. Hyde, the well-known tobacconist, has been appointed Government Poultry Expert. The general apprehension of a great war is firmly expressed by the London Spectator in the following significant paragraph : — "We almost believe that between the obstinacy of M. Hanotaux (the Frenoh Foreign Minister) and the people behind him, .the clear necessity of defending our own possessions, and the unconquerable suspicion of our electors about Bussian designs, we shall find ourselves involved in a great war with an enemy whom we not only do not hate, but do not want, if she will only be reasonable, even temporarily to hurt." In our advertising columns will be found an interesting notification that a splendid flaxmill site can be obtained at Otaki on application to Mr W. H. Simcox. When flax was booming this site was in the occupation of Miller, Booth & Co., and afterwards of Thompson. The Otaki station is no distance away, and there ia a metal road. It will be noticed the area from which flax is obtainable is very large. During the mayoralty of Sir George Faudel-Phillips, Bart., the ex-Lord Mayor of London, the enormous sum of £657,000 was raised by Mansion House funds for the relief of the poor, the afflicted, and the famine and fever-stricken. A scientist has found miorobe3 of various kinds in 77 samples of ink — red, blue, and black — supplied to schools, and some of the microbes were deadly enough to kill mica inoculated with them. Commenting on the defence of New Zealand the Post says:— "We have the visit of the flagship with Admiral Pearson. The visit of such a vessel to those waters is not an uncommon thing. The Orlando was here on several occasions, and so was the Nelson ; but the vifeit of the Royal Arthur is singular in some respects. The vessel appears to be making a special cruise in Cook Strait, and the only inference that we can draw from the flagship's movements is that Admiral Pearson is on the look-out for a naval station. Both Auckland and Wellington have been urging their claims as a base for the squadron, but there comes a rumour that the site favoured by the Admiralty is PictonJ From a man-of-war's point of view Picton has many undoubted advantages,, whi'e it commands Cook Strait and consequently the centre of the coal traffic and the cables. War preparations are being carried on very quietly in all the colonies, no doubt under advice and instructions from Downing-street, and we can only surmise from this that the Salisbury Cabinet has concluded that the hour may be near when the British nation will be called upon to defend the Empire. The national harbour works at Dover have been commenced by the enclosure of an area of foreshore between the Admiralty Pier and Shakspere Cliff at the western end of the. town. The enclosure will be used for the purpose of making the concrete blocks for the extension of the Admiralty Pier section of the work. The Colonial Ammunition Company has j received an order from the Government for 400,000 rounds of Snider ball ammunition. A flax-mill capable of producing 4 tons of fibre per week, worked with water-power is advertised for sale or lease. We very much regret to learn that the report of Dr. Ferguson, the eye specialist on Herbert Saville, is most emphatic and unsatisfactory He holds out not the slightest hope o! the patient recovering his sight, and he points out that it is no question of money, but an impossibility. Dr. Ferguson thinks had he seen Saville directly his sight was affected something might have been done. The committee meet on Monday to arrange about the money collected which ammounts to £56 2s. 6d, with one list to come in. Messrs Abraham and Williams' hold a stock sale atTa'merston on Tuesday.

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