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Poverty Bay Standard, Volume X, Issue 1242, 9 January 1883, Page 2

The Government have sent Home for the necessary materials, machinery, etc., required for the lighting of the Houses of Parliament by electricity, as authorised by the House of Representatives last session. The Swan Incandescent light -the same system that is in use on board the steamers Manapouri and Wairarapa— is the one adopted. In the first instance, only the Representative Chamber and the new corridor now in course of erection will be electrically illuminated, but if this acts satisfactorily the plan will be extended to the entire block of buildings.

At Koroit, Victoria, recently, (says the Standard) a man named Thomas Bence made a somewhat novel wager, and won it. He undertook to eat two and a half dozen eggs, boiled hard, at a sitting, and he accomplished the feat in 15 minutes. What a glutton ! We have not. heard whether there has been a run on aperient medecines since. It is a fact not generally known that the Suez Canal is not vet completed according to the terms of the concession granted to M. de Lesseps. It is not. nearly wide enough ; although the European powers have agreed to regard it as complete, provided 27,000.000 francs be expended upon it during the next 27 years. Even by this arrangement the

oannl wiil net ir- finisliou lill'lhe year 1900. When tin's fact, is regarded in e.nnieelioii wit!, the promises made by M. de Lesseps in regard to other canals, the reliability of his estimates and undertakings may be est-ima-