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Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXIII, Issue 119, 12 June 1901, Page 4

riiFFEcr or Arctic Darkness.—The Ans itrians Who passed tne winter under deck id ithe Tecettboff, when that ship was caught & a floe above Spitzbergen, hardly knew each other when the sun reappeared, 101 owing to their imprisonment in darkness, they were all of the colour of white paper. > 'Tije .oldest vessel is the Vigilant, built at Baltimore in the year 1780. and, conse«uently*m yfears old. She is owned by Mr. S Peathany, of Santa Cruz, and is now doing good service as mail earner between Si Thomas and Santa Cruz, in the West India Islands In tier day she was a coaster, a peaceable common carrier ol .merchandise, a slaver, and a pirate. . A Grave and Rose Glides.—One Edward Kose. a citizen of London, who died in 1653, bequeathed £2O for the purchase ol a piece of land, wherewith to provide his grave in Barues churchyard, Surrey, with a constant succession of rose trees. He in sured the fulfilment of his trust by devoting ,the surplus profits to the poor of the parish and alter the lapse of more than two cen turies his grave is still a rose-garden. 1 A Newspaper rrnouT an Editor- I In Madrid is a popular newspaper Edited a a very peculiar way. In f act, it has n' editor, but a dozen wide-a-w&ke reporter!., 'who scour the town for every kind of information. Thuy come to the office and drop the manuscripts in a bag. where they staj "ntil the foreman wants copy. Everythinj ■ys then thrown into the forms without regard to order or anything else, and the paper u .read from end to end in spite of this fact. 1 Not all the petty pr'.ucesof India are roll ing in wealth, fcr a certain Prince Mouni, >Latt recently applied to the Civil Judge a. Jfengaiote tor permission to pay into court | Jive rupees per niensu.n tov.ads a judgmen; debt of 2SO rupees. The Prince explained that his Goverment allowance was not suffi cient to enable him to maintain his wife anci family, much less to meet his liabilities. Thi; Slea had no effect, for ho was advised to re nee his expenditure and pru Vis debts in full 'After so much said abniit the splendouf of Indian potentates, it rather " takes thegil off the gingerbread" to find one of them in the position of a small tradesman in financial .difficulties. V Amongst iivlng cenienanans musW* in iluded .the venerable Admiral of tbe Fleet, Sir Provo W. Parry Wallis, G.C.B who was born in 1791. He enjoys the honoui of being the oldest officer in the Royal J4avy His early years were passed during a period of unrest, for England was then fighting for her very existence. Sir Prove will 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 wen apparently t n the ebb. This celebrated en gagement once more proved the power o.' (be English navy on the high jeas. The gallant old Admiral is spending his declining wftTfiil C > hichp«;»P r _

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