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Te Aroha News, Volume VI, Issue 369, 18 May 1889, Page 5

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CjmiSTCHURCff, May 16. The Mayor has received a letter signed by over 400 citizens thanking him for tetusingf to preside at a meeting of Parnell syin pathis>ers in March.

Typhoid fever is a source of anxiety at Dunedin just now. At a meeting of the Hospital truatees the resident surgeon reported that seven casts of typhoid fever had been admitted, all coming from the same family, evidently pointing to .some serious sanitary defect in the house. It was decided to draw the attention of the Board of Health to die matter. It was renolved to admit no patients other than destitute peisous until the trustees had been consulted. The balance sheet showed that the expenditure for the year had been lets than in previous vearb, salaries and wages being less by £200, and provisions t>y .£3OO. The storming of Ranghiri it not yet forgotten, as is shown by the fact that a monument and railing have been erected last week at the historic spot, in memory of a naval officer and several seamen who lost their lives in that notable engagement. The memorial consists of a neat stone column monument with appropriate carving 1 . It is enclosed by a railing of cast iron pillars, with chain and bar. The inscription sets forth the names of the men with their grade, and the name of tr-e ship to which they belonged. The work was executed bv Messrs Tait Bros, to the order of the various ship*, of H.M. navy which have lately visited our port, the necessary funds having been subscribed by tLe squadran. A few days ago a Brazilian man-of-war, the Alrniratite Barroso, arrived at Sydney and was saluted as she moored in Farm Cove. The vefsel is full ship-rigged and full powered. She carries eight of Armstiong's latest pattern breech-loading, rifled, heavy guns, and the usual equipment of smaller arms. There are 46 officers and 250 men on board. Of the former 30 are young officers undergoing training for positions in the Brazilian Navy. The ship was commissioned ac Rio de Janeiro tor two j ears' cvuiso in October la?t. After being docked at Sydney she proceeds to Japan, China, Java, Ceylon, India, to the Mediterranean porto, and homeward via Gibi altar, Plymouth, Portsmouth, Breste, Cherbourg, TeneriHe, Bahia and Rio de Janeiro. I H.M.s. Diamond, formerly so well known on the Australian naval station, has been i condemned by the Admiralty. A London paper of the 29 h ultimo says: — "Her I Majesty's cruiser Diamond, 12, the last representative of ' wooden walls ' of England, built at Sheerness, has been condemned as unfit for further service, and is ordered to bo sold out of the Koyal Navy. The Diamond, which has just returned to Sheer-ne-s after seven years' service on the Australian station, was built in 1875, and has had three commissions on foreign service. The original coat was £85,770, and a sum of £39,873 has since been expended upon her in maintaining her in a pea-going condition." Dr. Kintr, the Bishop of Lincoln, whose trial for ritualistic practices is not yet concluded, is one of the saints of the English. Church. He has one of those spiritual faces which you cannot look at without feeling the better' for it, and which positively beam., with benevolence. Add to this.that he ha» a vei - y '* sweet " voice and winiviftg manner* it is not difficult to understand thgfaffectioa felt for the Bishop by all who have cor&s under his influence^. *