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Motueka Star, Volume IV, Issue 157, 20 February 1903, Page 4

Among the 5000 tramway car drivers . and conductors in Vienna, there are stated to be 400 knights, 50 barons, and four connts besides othernoblemen.

Sir Thomas Lipton’s new Gup defender it is said, will differ very little outwardly from the 90 footers that Herrcshoffs have turned out during the last decade. She will have the same spoon bow, a long overhanging aft, and a fin keel. She will be slightly broader than the Constitution, and her keel will be longer and heavier though she draws several inches less. Her sail spread will be about 15,000 square feet. Her keel - plates will be flanged and»webbed in three sections. Much of the bracing will be the same as in the case of the former defenders. The after part of her lead keel appears to be 2ft lower than the forward end.

Thirty-one huge and exceedingly strong Havana cigars is the daily allowance of King Carlos of Portugal, the biggest and fattest of all the reigning monarehs of Europe. His bulk is something colossal, but his face, in spite of its superabundance of fat, is both comely and pleasant. Notwithstanding his girth, he still excels in all sorts of bodily exercises, and enjoys the distinction of being the only reigning sovereign who can boast of being a successful and skilful bull fighter.

Dr Lorenz, the Vienna surgeon, says that nowhere in the world has he seen such wonderful hospitals as those of America, particularly in New York and Chicago. He knows all the hospitals of Europe—Vienna, Berlin, Paris, London.

Tne loneliness of residence in a great city has been strikingly exemplified in Edinburgh. A distress warrant was issued for arrears of rent at one of the houses in Comely Bank Hoad, a middle- class ' district. The house was believed to have been unoccupied for a year or more, but on the sheriffs officer making his entry the body of the occupant, Ann Connell, sixty ypars of age, was found in a bedroom. It was surmised that death was due to syncope. Over £3OO in notes and gold was discovered in the house. Rumours have been prevalent in Wellington, for some time past, to the effect that some of the occupants of the “Biggest Wooden Building in the World - ’ do a considerable amount of “loafing.” In this connection a Wellington correspondent writes as follows : —“I hear the Premier has issued a strongly worded circular to the heads of departments, insisting that there shall be more persistent attention on the part of staffs to their duties and less of what is known as .the Government stroke. The circular is circulated to check the habit of some Civil Servants of going out at eleven o’clock beef tea, and. making afternoon appointments away from the office.”

Mr Chamberlain, speaking at Zanzibar on his way to the Cape, said he hoped that it would shortly be decided to subsidise a direct steam service to 'Zanzibar. He regretted that the trade of the port was largely in the hands of foreigners, and urged British merchants to make strenuous efforts to recover some of it, also to remember their Mother country, whose sympathies with all the colonies and outposts of j the Empire were great. I