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Manawatu Times, Volume II, Issue 88, 22 August 1877, Page 3

;:A<sorreßpt)ndettfc of the " Globe * state* that a. commißßariafc officer at Odessa was diß--coterisd adulterating flour about to be sent to the army with lime and other substances. : He;.was imediately tried, and shot withhr24 hours; after the.^discovery took place/ The ' Government trti'st thai;' this-sjiiATiiary etecution will put a. sjbop to -thaer. practices" which .caused so much to the. Russian 1 soldiers' during Jlw.Omnean wart ' The Jiaori.and the; '/A&nent GB^ypti*^ -— Ther, ; M!apri .language, . coritaiiritig many " ancient Arabic 1 and Egyptiap words, shows' tliaCther two. Tatces were inf intimate.cohnectibn'in 1 anciettt tim^. Ra is the term used byjihte Maoritftf^ eipressiye of clay and the Ughtblithei suii, andit was used m precisely the same sense by the ancient Egyptians.- A magnificent hymn to the sun, recently translated by M. Marietta andl attributed -to .the ,12th Dynadty, begins :-^^Dhou awakenest benteflcently Ammbnißa^^ ■";'■' In the Egyptian Ritiial of the : Dead the > >Bivi- : nity is made to say, "I am Ra, at his 1 rising m thehe^nning,he who governs that he : has made." Intlre Egyptian ll Trinity, Ra is also thesbkr agent. similarly; m, sound and- meaning of the" Egyptian were fjfpAoa with- that of the Maori taipo both being ernaeme 'of the Spirit of Evil, is afeo not ar markable. . • .\ — - ; v