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Wairoa Bell, Volume V, Issue 199, 26 May 1893, Page 3

Iron visiting cards aro the latest freak of fashion in Germany. They are so thin' that a packet of half a hundred is not nearly so thick as fifty of the cards wnich we use at present. The ground is black and tbe name is printed on silver. In China when a Bank fails, all the clerks and managers have their heads cut off and thrown into a heap with books of the firm. For the last five hundred years not a sing’o Chinese bank has suspended payment. —Le ■Journal Illusive, The first copy of the New Zealand Methodist under the editorship of ?he Rev. P. W, Fairclotigh is an improvement upon its predecessor, and we shall be much surprised if under the new regime the paper do s not become more popular. The editor has entered upon his task in a sensible and outspoken manner. The lily Land, says a contemporary, is rapi lly lodng all that romance, at least, which belongs to remoteness. It is becoming both modernised and secularised to an almost distressing degree. A railway already runs from Jaffa to Jerusalem, with one station at Emtnaus and another at Rarnleh ; and a second line has been started from Acre to Damascus. It will run beneath Mount Carmel, and cross by a sixtyfoot viaduct the brook Kishon ; it then runs along the plain or Ssdraelao, and passes Beth shan, where the Fhillistines nailed the body of Saul to the city walls, Jordan is bridged by a fine iron viaduct, and the lino runs over the high lands of Gadara and in sight of the snowy peak of Hermon, and crosses the river Pharpar and runs straight into Damascus. Jezreel, where Ahab’s palace one stood, is a station, and from a junction close at hand a branch line takes passengers t.o Nazareth and j Mount Tabor. Ffcearn vessels are to bo • placed the .--’a t Galileo, and a sulphur | hood of iiethsaida.