General News.

Thames Star, Volume XIV, Issue 4615, 19 October 1883, Page 2

General News.

The " Claimant" expects to be liberated on ticket of leave next Christmas twelve months. He is now employed iv the ear. penters shop at Portsea. He professes to beleve that the Government are determined to keep Cresswell, the lunatic, in confinement in New South Wales, as his appearance in England would expose the conspiracy against him. For his own part, he asserts he would rather rot in prison than be liberated as Orton. m The Herald's correspondent writes :— The French Press have been singularly reticent in regard to the Pacific, but a tele, gram has just appeared, to the effect thafc the war vessels D'Estress and Bruet have been ordered from Noumea to the New Hebrides, to protect the interest of a Few Caledonian Trading Company, which has recently established itself on the islands. It is easy to see what this foreshadow** Ot course, even from a pecuniary point of view, the Protestant missionaries who hare christianised the natives have infinitely more at stake than this trading company, which was probably started with f view. tO. Political eventualities; but then the missionaries have no energetics aggressive government to support their pretensions, and will therefore probably come off the losers. Evidently those missionanes, while looking after souls, don't torget the main chance. ' Some people have such a plaasant way ot putting things :—"]s"ow do let me pro. pose you as a member.'" " But suppose they black ball me ?" "Pooh! Absurd! Why, my dear fellow, there's not a man m the club that knows you, even!" - An Irishman says that if the Naiadg were constantly bathing he presumes, from their name, that the Drayds were the ones who brought the towels. There are now building in England 784) iron or steel vessels the estimated tonnage of which is over one million tone.

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