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Thames Star, Volume XIV, Issue 4369, 4 January 1883, Page 2

A murder'of a boy by his mother, committed in Paris more than a yeax* ago, has only just been discovered. A woman of bad character, named Robert, had with her in a lodging in the Rue de Grenelle a a boy whom she called her nephew. It was remarked by the neighbors that the child was thin and looked ill-treated. Last year he disappeared, and the woman said she had sent him home to his parents. Being turned out for non-payment of rent, she asked a neighbor to take care of a box for her. After a time, a bad smell emanating from the bos, it was opened, and under a heap of rags a skeleton was discovered. The woman, who was found tramping not far from her own lodgings, has been arrested, and confesses that the murdered boy was her son. A dry dock has been built at Cape Town which was opened for business on September 15th last. It has been in coarse of construction for about two years, and will accommodate any steamer of lets length | than 500 feet, and not drawing more than twenty-four feet, or at high tide twentysix feet. In California a dry dock it being built at Mare Island. It was begun ten yean ago, and may perhaps be completed some time after the year 2,000. When ready for business it will accommodate ships of 600 feet in length, but the draught ia rather uncertain, owing to the tendency of the outer bottom to rise the surface of the water. At any event, in order to dock and undbck a large vessel, the services of a dredge will be in continual demand. The committee of Congress in America has proposed to grant large Bhip.building bountjei. . ■*