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Tuapeka Times, Volume III, Issue 168, 27 April 1871, Page 7

The sword given up by Napoleon, at Sedan now lies in the Prussian Military College at Berlin, side by side .vith one that belonged to the first Napoleon.

A novel arrangement has been made by the New" York Post Office.. The pillar boxes are connected with a pneumatic tube that runs round the city to the general receiving kouse. As the letters are dropped into the box they are blown along the tube at the rate of 65 miles an hour.

An American contemporary says : — The Hon. Julius Yogel, in his striking and interesting address before the San Francisco Chamber of Commerce, broached the idea of great Anglo-Saxon Confederation, which -would embrace all the English-speaking nations and communities of the world. Mr Yogel speaks of this as a dream which he has long cherished, and which now seems to be much nearer to realisation than is | generally imagined. Such a Confederation, should it ever become an accomplished fact, would constitute the most formidable on earth. An eccentric thief in. jtvilniorp, Vie toria stole a page of newspaper in type as "locked up" by. the printer. The " form " was found under a bridge, with, the type all in," pie." The San Francisco correspondent of a. Brisbane paper says that the notorious Mrs. Kinder, who acted so conspicuous a part some years ago before the criminal courts in Sydney, with Bertrand, with reference to the murder of her husband, is now married to a Dutchman, and is keeping a general store in San Francisco.