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Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume III, Issue 205, 31 January 1873, Page 5

As the intelligence of the intended removal ... of Sir G. Bowen. has brought the question of" Governors under discussion,, our readers -may be interested *n learning the amount of - salaries paid to. the different Governors over her Majesty'B colonies. The Governor-General of,' India, the Eight Honorable Lord Korth- • brooke, receives £25,000,- besides travelling; expenses and ether allowances ; the Lieut.General of Bengal, Sir W. Muir, £IO,OOO the Governor of Bombay, Sir Philip Wodehouse, £IO,OOO ; Madras, Lord Uobart,. £IO,OOO Ceylon,- the Right Hon. William, Henry Gregory, £7OOO ; ISTew South Wales,. Sir Hercules Robinson, £7OOO Charles Du Oane, £4OOO, besides. £21,500 for other expenses j Victoria;. Yiscou-nt Canterbury, £IO,OOO Western Australia, F.Weld, Esq., £2500 Cape of Good Hope, Sir H. Barclay, . £6OOO ; • Natal* Lieut'Governor Anthony Musgrave, £2500 ; Jaih iica, Si* i John Peter Grant, £7OOO ; Queensland, Mas-, quia of Normanby, £4OOO ; South Australia,. ; Sir James Fergus on, Bart.,, £SOOO Zealand, Sir G. F. Bowen, £4500. ' ' Electbicity as a Motive Power,—An ingenious inventor has "turned to a new account, but not as yet withe complete success. His object is to use it as a motive power for-the propulsion of" vessels, in lieu of steam, and he tried, the-', experiment - the other day on. a yacht named the Miranda; with the screw* "dt>. ■ tached. The result was the driving' the shaft. at. such an immense that before the-machine could be stopped it had broken away all the being too powerful by half for the, work it had to do.. The inventor ofthe macluno which is called the "Electro-Magnetic- • Motor," estimates: the number of it& revolutions at full, speed at from 1400-to -1600 per minute.-- Manchester Exapukor,'