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Patea Mail, 24 July 1882, Page 3

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This Afternoon. LATEST from iEGYPT. 10,000 MORE BRITISH TROOPSTHE WAR CREDIT. London, 23rd.—It is announced that the Duke of Connaught, Sir Archibald Alison, and Sir Evelyn Wood will be appointed to command of the brigades of the English army in Egypt. The British force now being despatched to Alexandria will consist of 10,000 officers and men. An extraordinary war credit to be asked for by Mr Gladstone in the House of Commons to-morrow will be for £2,300,000. Germany and Austria are holding aloof from all questions affecting Egypt at present. Alexandra, 23rd.—A party of British troops, while out exploring the frailway line outside Alexandria, met a force of Arabi’s ca%-alry. The latter declined an encounter, and made off before the British could come up. Measures have been commenced by the British troops for occupation of Abouker, an important strategical position ten miles north-east of Alexandria, Arabi has now been formally dismissed from the position of Minister of War. Army Reserve Called OutLondon, 22nd.—An order has been issued by the War Office for men of the army reserve to join the various military depots on the 2nd August. Cricket at Home. London, 22nd.—The cricket match at Middlesboro, Australians v. Yorkshire, resulted to-day in a victory for the former by 7 wickets. The Australians required 48 runs to win, and these were obtained for the loss of only 3 wickets. McDonnell was not out with 23, and batted splendidly. National Bank Dividend; London, 22nd.—The National Bank of N.Z. has declared a dividend of 8 per cent for the past half year, and carried forward £14,000 to reserve.

A Wanganui paper says the Patea Church is to have a bell weighing “ 800 cwt.” That would be a most enormous big bell for a wooden church; big enough to bring down the whole fabric. The weight would be exactly thirty thousand pounds, or fifteen tons. If it will be all the same to Wanganui, we will not hang this 300 cwt. bell at present, for fear the first clap should produce a local earthquake. An article of remarkable interest to all who have business on the sea or have tnierests in its commerce, appears in the last number of the Nineteenth Century magazine. It sets forth all that is pr'actically known about the effects of “ throwing oil on the troubled waters ” to prevent waves breaking, and thereby saving many a ship and very many boats with their freight of lives from destruction daring tempests. The experiments have been so numerous, and the testimony is so various, that it is absolutely safe to accept the theory of calming broken water by diffusing a thin film of oil, and so preventing the fearful havoc and deadly peril of waves breaking over ships and swamping smaller boats. The quantity of oil required is surprisingly small, and it can be distributed in a variety of simple ways to produce an artificial calm all round a ship. Anew Jersey horse doctor attempted to prescribe for a man and succeeded in killing him. This proves that man hasn’t the constitution of ahorse. Said a mother to her naughty little boy, “ When you went to the cupboard to steal those tarts, weren’t you afraid of something’” “ Yes. ma’am ; afraid I couldn’t find the tarts.” A Tipsy man who was arrested while making vain efforts to clutch at a barber’s pole, exclaimed, as the policeman drifted him in the direction of the station house, “ Stransh, I never saw ’rora borealish’s’near before.” Pater: “Well, Charlie me boy, I had a narrow escape in driving over to see your room to-day. As we turned the corner by Block Hail, the horse started into a dead run and nearly upset me.” Charley: “ Oh, he smelt the wild oats round the college, I guess.” Said the man as he lay crushed under the fallen wall; “ For heaven’s sake, get me out of here 1” “ Are you suffering much pain?” they asked. “ Yes,” he replied, “ but I don’t mind about that ! It’s the row my wife will make about my coming home so late that worries me.’