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THE ENGLISH SUEZ MAIL.

ENGLAND. . By the will of the late Mr. Howard Haywood, a retired brick and tile manufacturer, the town of Burslem comes into possession of £30,000 for charitable purposes. The “youthful current of the blood,” which is compelled to serve as the defence of some varieties of crime, can hardly be pleaded by John Hanson, an inmate of the Ashton workhouse, who at the age of seventy-seven has been kicking another pauper eighty-three years old. Doubtless life in “the old men’s dayroom,” where the assault took place, is somewhat too even in its tenor for many tastes ; still such a diversion as that of Mr. Hanson’s is a little too violent, says the Manchester Ounrdiav. The consecration of Dr. Samuel Thornton to the new see of Ballarat is postponed till his appointment has been ratified in the colony. The Kev. W. C. Harris, M.A., Oxford, who was for some years principal of Christ’s College School, New Zealand, has been selected out of fifty-four candidates as head-master of Wimbome Minster Grammar School. The Admiralty has just sent off seven officers and 104 seamen and marines to the South Sea Islands for the suppression of the illegal traffic there. The officers and crew, with the marines, will be drafted, on the termination of their voyage, to the Alacrity and Conflict. The new iron sailing ship Timaru has jjjst left Glasgow for New Zealand, carring in the hold a huge wooden box some 12ft. square, in which are between thirty and forty tons of ice in solid blocks Buried right in the centre of this ice-house are deposited some fifty boxes, each exactly Ift. cube. Each box is fitted with trays ; in these trays are now nestling over 200,000 salmon eggs. The eggs are so packed that they cannot touch one another ; each eggs rests on and is surrounded by spagnum moss, carefully collected for the purpose. It is expected that the Timaru will arrive in New Zealand about the end of next month, and there is every reason to hope that the ice in the ice-house will remain unmelted all this time. The most trying part for the eggs is the passage through the tropics, where the temperature is sometimes as high as 86degs. to 88degs. To obviate this an outer box has been placed round the ice-house, and the interspace filled up with sawdust. Strange though it may seem, intense cold has the property of retarding the development of life in the egg of the salmon. Eggs sent out to Australia by Mr. James Youl, packed in ice for ninety days, hatched out quite well, and it was by this means that English river trout have now been quite established in Australia from eggs provided to Mr. Youl by Mr. F. Buckland and Mr. Francis Francis. It is hoped, there-, fore, that the present consignment of' salmon to New Zealand will meet with the same success as the trout ova to Australia. The eggs on arriving, we under-' stand, will be received by competent persons, and hatched out in apparatus fitted for the purpose. The rivers of New Zealand are admirably suited for the well-being of salmon if they could only once be liberated there in sufficient quantities to establish their species. The task of collecting these eggs in the present severe weather has been very heavy, but it has been accomplished by Mr. Frank Buckland, Inspector of Salmon Fisheries, and Mr. Edon, the assistant at the Fish Museum,. South Kensington. The latter obtained a great many ova from fish spawned at the mouth of the Almond, a tributary of the Tay, near Perth, Peter Marshall, the well-known salmon breeder of Stormontfields, operating on many of the fish. By permission of the Earl of Kinnoul several splendid eggs were taken by Mr. Edon from large salmon in the Earn, near Duplin Castle. As these were taken they were immediately sent to the Patent Ice Company’s works atGlasgow, andatonce frozeusolid by Mr. Eac, themanager. Thclastlotofeggswcretaken from the Teith, near Stirling, by Mr. Buckland. The largest fish taken was a male, weighing nearly 401bs. In three hauls of the net no less than nine splendid clean run salmon were captured. The operation, being done by experienced hands, of taking the eggs, does not injure the fish in the least. Neither in the Tay, the Teith, nor the Earn, has any mischief occurred to the fish, who, though sometimes requiring to bo nursed in the water, in every instance swam away quite uninjured. So intense was the cold that the ice by the banks

of the liver had to be broken away, and the nets froze hard like wire directly they were out of the water. Though trying for Mr. Buckland and his assistants, the weather was most favorable for the salmon eggs. On the first occasion of the new Lord Mayor of Dublin (who is a Roman Catholic, and who came into office on the Ist of January), going to the Roman Catholic Cathedral, he went in state, when high mass was celebrated by the Bishop of Sandhurst, Victoria—the Bishop of Brisbane being one of the assistants. Another royal personage may be expected in Australia shortly. The Grand Duke Alexis of Russia has been appointed captain of the fri"ate Swetlana, and intends starting on a voyage to the Antipodes shortly.

CONTINENTAL.

GERMANY. Erom Prague, the death is announced of the Elector Frederick William, of Hesse, at the age of seventy-two. The event was sudden and unexpected, the deceased having almost recovered from a dangerous illness. In his last will and testament, he divides his personal property, amounting to £700,000 sterling, among his children. -'t r FRANCE.

An interesting ceremony took place at Nantes (Loire-Infdrieure) the other day. A large crowd of friends and relatives accompanied a widow, named Bouin, to church to return thanks on the occasion of her completing her hundreth year. She was born on December 28, 1774, as her baptismal certificate proves. She is in full possession of all her faculties, and walked with a firm step at the head of the procession. A remarkable circumstance in her life is, that when she was eightythree, her son was drowned in the Loire, and his wife perished also in trying to save him. They left seven children, very young, and the old woman, took them home, tended them, and brought them up, and has now the happiness, at the age of 100, of seeing them all well-to-do in the world. The Crown diamonds of France, which, at the commencement of the Franco-German war, were sent to a military ocean port, arrived back in Paris, on January 10, and were delivered to the Administration of the Public Domains. SPAIN. King Alfonso embarked on Jan. 7 at Marseilles on board the Spanish frigate Los Navas di Tolosa for Barcelona. It is telegraphed that on embarking he handed to the Spanish Charge d’Affaires in Paris half the flag which was hoisted over the boat, saying, “ Give my mother this flag, which represents the ancient glory of Spain, which I hope to restore." It is related that on the departure of the royal squadron for Marseilles the newspaper correspondents had been allotted places on board one of the ships ; but, on the arrival of the King on board the Navas di Tolosa, he found that the correspondents of the Oaulois and of the Havas Agency had got on board the royal frigate by mistake. His Majesty graciously gave them permission to remain on board, seeing that it would have been tedious and difficult for them to . make, their way to the vessel assigned to them,; and somewhat later the King, not wishing to give evidence of special favor, sent a boat to the other ship to invite all the correspondents to come on board the Navas. On their arrival they were invited to a dinner, at which the Chevalier Murphy

presided, as the representative of the King.

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New Zealand Times, Volume XXX, Issue 4365, 17 March 1875, Page 3

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THE ENGLISH SUEZ MAIL. New Zealand Times, Volume XXX, Issue 4365, 17 March 1875, Page 3

THE ENGLISH SUEZ MAIL. New Zealand Times, Volume XXX, Issue 4365, 17 March 1875, Page 3

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