President Garfield's Health. Washington, July 16.

Waikato Times, Volume XVII, Issue 1411, 19 July 1881, Page 2

President Garfield's Health. Washington, July 16.

July This morning's bulletin reports that; President Garfield is progressing favourably, and is rapidly gaining strength. His complete recovery now seems assured.

Central Africa haa claimed another victim ; its very desolation and savagery are more than a match for the skill and science of the most advanced civilization. Colonel Flatters, like so many other intrepid explorers, finds his last resting, place beneath the desert sands. His ■ grand aim was to prove the possibilty of piercing the Sahara by a; railway, and penetrating to that region of fable or romance where is said to exist a black population of two hundred millions, and where the prospects of the trader are co brilliant that there are native tribes among whom salt is so scarce that they will freely give in exchange its weight in grams of gold. . In attempting to reach Timbuctoo from Ouargla, the leader of the expedition and the greater number of his escort were killed by the savageToaaregs, and the two dr three fugitives who managed to reach the Algerian frontier' in the most miserable state re* ported that the remainder of the expedition was surrounded by the implacable foe, and that no shred of hope was left for its escaped Since then the telegraph informs us that the remnants of the expedition were driven to take refuge in acave, where fifteen of them were eaten by thon 1 fellows. -.' . '*; New Zealand Flax is cultivated aft Sairfaßosa, California-. } The flax is now" reudered profitable by an American's discovery of a cheap mechanical method of freeing it from the viscous coating, heretofore imperfectly done by expensive hand labour* J