Gleanings.

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Issue 22, 22 October 1898, Page 3

Gleanings.

Forty .thousand Eussian troops are stationed at Port Arthur. , Heat, at rifle meeting in Sydney, was 93 in the shade. .The xrreck of th« Atlantic liner Mohican pear Falmouth on, October 15th, xaused the loss of 106 lives., " France is storing 30,000 tons of coal' at .Turns, and js -increasing the defences of the port, ghe is also equipping ironclads.

The recent hot winds have Teversed the promise of an abundant cereal crop in Victoria. New South Wales is in the «arne predicament. Five Italian Anarchists arrested at' Alexandria. Believed to have contemplated assassination of Emperor of Germany and the Khedive. . Dreyfus case still on the board. Dreyfus i» proved innocent, but that doesn't say he will be released. Colonel Henry, the forger of the incriminating documents, committed suicide. Mr Park. Government Inspector, examined dairy herds in Wanganui. Sixty four diseased animals weie s^ughtered. S«ven were also condemned by other inspectors on the Peninsula. Edison, the famous inventor, tiaa lodged five applications for New Zealand letters Patent in connection with the treatment of Taranaki iron sand. It is generally an outsider who picks the plums out of New Zealand puddings. Proposed to establish a technical school at Eotorua to teach Maori boys woodcarving. Represented that school vrould be self-support-ing as specimens of work would be eaeerly purchased by tourists and collectors. Education Department doesn't count on that. Perhaps it is better not. What is to keep the school till the pupils have learnt to make the "specimens ?" Seventy-eight barrels of " mixed livert " from America via Belgium, and intended for the manufacture of " meat extracts " and " table delicacies " were seized at Bermondsey, England, lately. Samples of horse, pig, ox and sheep livers were present. Barrels to be sunk at sea. the magistrate remarking that he had " never seen anything more filthy and abominable." Probably the fish of the neighbourhood will appreciate this supply of " deHcacles " in the raw. The annual " slaughter of the innocents " took place on Wednesday, when over fifty Bills were discharged from the Order Paper in the House of Representatives. Some of the Bills, of which no more will be heard this session, were important Government proposals, such ns Referendum, Second Ballot, Government Fire Insurance. There will probably be a further slaughter later on. So much for a Parliament which does little else than talk.