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Thames Star, Volume XV, Issue 4892, 13 September 1884, Page 3

* A London message of August 1 says :— Mr H. M. Stanley, the well known African explorer, has arrived at Plymouth after two years' absence or thereabouts in Africa, where he has been establishing stations in connection with his mission from the King of the Belgians. Mr t Stanley declares that Gordon is perfectly well able to escape either by .the Congo, across the desert to Zanzibar, or the White Nild, where he might join Lupton the Bey.' He believes that an autumn campaign to relieve Gordon would be an utterly Quixotic infatuation, and that the men would die like fleas as summer A Frenchman makes the suggestion that reservoirs should be constructed and stored with water in times of floods for the purpose of regulating the rivers when low water occurs, and the conveyance of inntive t>ower by electricity. The ramSll of Fwnce is equal to 3,990,500,000 000 .Mibic meters of water a year, of which 100 000,000 runs to waste and evaporates. The writer finds by his computation that «»V. k stream represents the loss of force SSfJIS to the work produced by the combustion of 100,000,000 tons of *b y merely introducing conductors C«3l 'utilising this stored power to produce *wStv fields could be tilled by the SKTSSt now devastates them. This is Sically the idea (says an American *^£rt now being carried out in damming ?u P Wd water- of the Mississippi, so ■J&SftffS?*. Anthony will have an e*An PS»b*an meeting an Irishman ♦OS him saying: " Can you tell me - wcosted him,say»b , „H owdoyou tbew«ytomgan^Y eA ¥ n-°?m?n ""guessed it," replied^ John sn;r^Well,5 n ;r^Well, goessthe .way,to W*an