GENERAL NEWS

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXIII, Issue 48, 7 March 1901, Page 4

GENERAL NEWS

tFFECT of Arctic Darkness.—'The Aus- I trians who passed the winter under deck in j the Tecctthoff, when tnal ship was caught I in a floe above Spitsbergen, hardly knew ! each other when thn --.mi reappeared, for' owing to their imprisomia'sK ;n darkness, • they were all of the colour or « lute paper, j , The oldest ves?d :s ihu Yi.ilant, built at Baltimore in the year 17No, and. consequently, iti years old She is owned by | Mr. S I'eathany. of i'ruz, and is! now doirn; coed service as r.ir.ii carrier be-1 tween :?t. 1 hoiv.as and Santa t.ruz, in the West India Islands In tier day she was a coaster, a peaceablu common carrier of merchandise, a slaver, ami I pirate. % t A Gkavs and Ki ,-k Gaku;:.,-—One Edyard Kose, a citizen of London, who died in 1653, bequeathed £2O for the purchase oi apiece of land, wherewith to provide his grave in 13ari.es churchyard, Surrey, with a constant succession of rose trees. He insured the tulfilment of his trust by devoting the surplus profits to the poor of the parish, anil after the lapse of more than two centuries lils grave is still a rose-garden. A Newspaper Without an EditorJn, Madrid is a popular newspaper edited jr. E very peculiar way In 'act, it has n' editor, but a dozen v.ide-a-wtke report en,, who scour the town fur every kind of information. Th-jy come to the office and drop the manuscripts in a hag, where they stay "ntil the iorcsnnn wants copy. Everything is then thrown into the forms without regard lo order or anything else, and the paper i< read from end to end in spite of this fact. Not all the petty princes of India are rolling 15 wealth, for a certaiu Prince Mount Latf recently applied to the Civil Judge ai fiengalore for permission to pay into court live rupees per mensem towads a judgmftnt debt of 280 rupees. The Prince explained that his Goverment allowance.was not sufficient to enable him to maintain his wife and family, much less to meet his liabilities. This plea had no effect, for he was advised to reJacehisexpendkure and pay h'w dsbts in full After so much said about the splendour of Indian potentates, it rather •' takes the gilt off the gingerbread" to find one of them in the position of a small tradesman in financial difficulties. jyr t nnosfibt living centenarians must be in tluded the venerable Admiral of tbe Fleet, Sir Brijvo W. Wallis, G.C.8., who vras. bom in 1791. He enjoys the honour of .beiiig the oldest officer in the Royal NavJ. His early years were passed during & period of unrest, for England was then fighting foi her vary existence. Sir Prove Vill ever be remembered as a participator in the csptute of the Chesapeake, when he and his comrades upheld the honour of his country at a time when her fortunes were apparently 1 n the ebb. This celebrated engagement once more proved tbe power oi the English navy on the high seas. The gallant old Admiral is spending his declining veai&ai