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Poverty Bay Standard, Volume X, Issue 1166, 4 October 1882, Page 2

A Parliamentary return shows the esti- ’ ‘ted and actual cost of building and comnletlng for sea service Her Majesty’s Ship Inflexible, from which it appears that the total actual cost was £809,504, of which ■589,481 was for the hull alone. The baptism of the infant Grand Duchess )l< r a Alexandrovna, daughter of the Emperor and Empress of Russia, was performed on the 23rd of July at Peterhoff in the pre•mice of the Imperial Family, the King and Queen of Greece, the Ministers, and the hploniatic Corps, with all the gorgeous cerenony peculiar to Royalty. Experiments under the direction of the Explosives Committee, have been made ut ' ’hatham, to ascertain whether xerotinc sic lative, which is supp >sed to have caused the oss of the Doterel, con’d be exploded by m-a-is of coal gas. A tank on board the gunboat Bullfinch was ignited, and the sie- • a - nnrp pxnloded, causing great destination, her decks being completely blown out and the vessel being instantly in flumes. Tiie “Standard’s” (London) correspondent savs, “Intenseheat has been prevalent here (New York), and tho death average is 1000 weekly, whi h is the greatest mortality bill on record. Children figure most conspicuously in the death returns.

The following is the address of t let ci which was received at lb b.irt by the kis v mail “ llnwbat Town, v c -.v ; L.nd, New South Wales, .Sidney, A'.; •• i." lu letter bearing this address was jo,icd at Birmingham. A gentleman of Glasgow has set up a novel defence of a breach of promise action. He acknowledged to having courtc<l a young lady for four years, but broke off the ‘match on discovering that she was of illegitimate birth. The judge has taken time to consider the verdict. Do you want any job printing ? Nov.’ is the time to order the summer’s supply. Work done cheaply and expeditiously at the— Standard Office.