CLIPPINGS FROM OUR MAIL FILES.

Waikato Times, Volume XXI, Issue 1737, 23 August 1883, Page 3

CLIPPINGS FROM OUR MAIL FILES.

The centre of London will before long be turned into a collection of vast i.uiway stations. From north to south, from east to west, there is but one ile Hire on the prut of a railway dnector — to Krease the size of the terminus of his ?. Thecnlargcincnt'of Enstou .Station has been brought piommcntiy bcfoie the public tliiough the distinction of an open piece of giound adjoining the Hampstead road. T/ie accommodation ut Liveipool sticet has ah cad y pronotinced insufficient foi the tiaiiic on a bank holiday. A new budge aeioss the Tiintnes and a new station are contemplated by the manage! s ot the Clialhani and Dover Railway, and if then attempt to obtain a fresh outlet lor the Londoner through Croydon to fcuiney and .Sussex should pvovo buceessful, they will be urgently requited at once. At Wateiloo station the woik of patching and mci easing has been leeommeiieed after tlie bricftst of intermissions, and within a short time uo,ooo «-quaio feet »\ ill luue been added to ono ot the most inconvenient stations in London. — l'att Mull limff/tl. What is a working man? "I am quite sure," Loul b.disbiuy said the other- night, "that many working men would be both peiplexed and hoiiirbd if they we.io asked to go thiough the amount of woik tli.it is peifonued by Lord (reoige Hamilton," .So they would if they wcie forced to pass such days as that ot the Mtorney-Ucneial, ioi c.\aniplc, one daj last week. We may supjAu that tlic Attorney had plent) ot general business to bottle befoie noon. At noon he went to h:s Uiand Committee, •md lought .1 btiihbh tight time, until it was time to go into the House. Then* bis Couupt Piactices Jldl awaited bun, and more still lighting of the closest kind, until past one in the moinii.g. An almost umntcuuittent bti.un of this sott for tluiteon houis is indeed enough to "peiplex and hoiuly' haul wotkeis, whether with hands or heads. — Fall Mali OuzUU. Peg away was the admiiablc and thoroughly woi ldly advice of .in Aniuiican President to tliooe who wanted to get on. Weseetli.it .Sir Fiedeuck Robeits is pegging away, «i& lie has just won the iiist [)me at a. tent pegging contest m India, and was hailed liy the admimig cuticd as cluof pegger of India. That must coiibole him foi not getting Egyptian honoius, butwo iccomniend lain to peg away. — <.<»n I Jouuntl. When the chief of a pictty Gorman principality maiiies a cominonci, the haudwitU which ho pledges l\ib tioth decides the futiue station in society of his wife and himself. It he give, hot his right hand at the alter, helo&es hi ■> title and the entail ; If his leit hoietanis both, but hedegiades his wife to the lex el of a concubine, and her clnldiennio detained from succession. That the lcit hand is thconlyone usually chosen lsnotMu prising one takes into uonsideietion the IVicrous pi tdc and lidiculous v.iiuty ot these Pumpci nickel Pi inces. Occasionally, however, one ot them shows his coinage and Mipcrioiity oxer tlio rrsfc by sauih'cing rank and liches lather than dcgiade his wife ; and a ease in point lias just occurred which deserves mention, Prince Alexander, of Sayn-Wittgenstem, (who bee une a widower two yoais ago) has renounced his title and surrendered the family estates to the eldest son, in order to marry with the tight hand the governess of his younger children. The Emperor has shown his uppieciation of tins act of self-abnegation by wiiting him a kind letter and confei ring on him an hereditaay peeiage. — Tiut/t. .Seldom or never has the cummous importance of the lumesfcuf the sea been more forcibly repicsented than it was by Professor Huxley, in the admit able address which he deliveiod .it the International Fi-hciic? Exhibition. An acre of good fishing ground, he pointed out, will yield moie tood in a week than an acre of the best land will yield in a yoai. Still more \ivid was his picture of the moving mountain of cod, 120 feet to I.'JO feet in hignt, which for two months in every year moves westwaul and southwards, yiast the Noiwegiau coast. Kveiv square mile of this colossal column of fish contains 320,000,000 of iisli, consuming every week, when on bhoit lations, no fewer than 540,000,000 of hen ing-. The whole catch of the Norwegian fisheries never exceeds in a year moio than halt a square mile of this cod mountain, and one w euk's supply of the herrings needed to keep that aiea of cod Srwn. starving. We might \ictual Lonfl^T with herrings for a year on a days consumption of the countless shoals of uncaught cod. The SraDERLAxc Catastrophe— We hear of at least one child being rescued from the crush in a dying state and restored to animation by means of electricity. Dr Abratii, of the Sunderland Hospital for Foreign Seamen, had the gratification of being the successful operator in this case. — Electrician. The Vatican and Tin; Irish Bishops. ■ — The " (hwrwlo)e lloinanu" tlie oigan of the Vatican, publishes an important article entitled, ''The Ciicular ot the Propaganda to the lush Episcopate," evidently intended to tone down the excitement produced in Ireland by that publication. Alluding to the grief left by many good Irish Catholics who regard this circular aa an obstacle to tlie freedom of their country, the Osscrvulorc Romano vindicates the Pontiffs predilection for Ireland, but says that his love is not so blind as not to distinguish what is for her good from what would ruin her. After setting forth at great length the character of the agitatiou initiated by Mr Parnell, it goes on to say : "In view of «uch principles, which jar with the maxims of evangelical morality recalled by Leo XIII in bis letters, it is impossible that the clergy can safely militate under the orders of one who has such ■fßpbaianis in his avivy. The clergy's position in Ireland is clear, respected, powerful. Let it use its position in advocating the cause of the people with the Government, but never let it promote agitation which may one day cause it to find itself linked with revolutionaries. As for the Holy See, it neither seeks applause.nor dreads criticism. It is actuated only by its invariable maxims, and if it knows -how to speak out the truth to government* it can, when necessary, brings ii Ij6itte to peoples, even though

be unable to appreciate its holy intentions and may deem it subservient to the mlers of the cai th. Such is the cahunmy to which it is now exposed at the hands af not a lew of the trith. Wo regret this, hut we do not believe that the Holy See is at all moved by it, for the best must all be convinced that, however it may be justly desirous of drawing near to governments, and of showing them that safety lies in itself and its doctrines, it will never do so to the detriment of justice. Never will it pandei to their arrogance, nor back up tyranny, but will always speak out frankly in defence of oppressed peoples. Oh the other hand, if it seeks to benefit the latter by every means it can, it will never stoop to open up to them the ways of disoider and illegality." The further ordeis received by the Vulcan Shipbuilding Company of fStcttin for the Chinese Uovcrnment, as mentioned in our last, aie a sister ship to the Tun/ Yuen, to be called the Chen Yuen, and a " turtlcluuk " corvette. Besides the four torpedo boats just now being deliveied, theie aic under oulers two first-class and two second-class boats, which have to be delivered during the year. A laige sea hopper diedger has also been ordered, and a floating steamcaane to lift sixty tons. H. K. Li. Fongpao, the ( hinese Minister at Beilm, has returned to Stettin, to attend the trials of the first four torpedo boats, •which are to have a. speed of fifteen and a half and twenty knots for fust and secotid-class respectively. — Cluita Express Theßiitish Trade Journal fays : Ib is believed that the American syndicates building railroads in Mexico will make out ot 12,850 miles of track about §303,500,000. Budding railroads that net si profit of o\er §30,000 to the mile would seem to be a rather costly undertaking for a country like Mexico. There must he a good deal of robbery going on somewhere.

Tenders me requested hy Mr. J. G Addison, Kiluk'hi, for alterations and additions i to Ins house Mr Jas. L\ Thomson, Cambridge, in- | vitcs tendois for tin- eicuum of .1 vill.i lesidcnce <ibout two miles fnnn CambruJ/fi . Mr Jolui Kiiox notilics that no\t Saturdays vilr at the Hamilton Aik tion Mart, be-nitf ,in uniKiialh impoitnnt one will c ommence, at noon, and t'l it linn homi will lie .it 1 o'clock List ol lots &( , w ill be loi ml in .id wi tise merits The saic ot di«t|iciy by ->. IJnglit ami Co., Caiiioiulgc, w ill be continued on Saturday IK Sl ILvis ami Micr.. —Ji you wKh to deStH)} tin 111 f'< t .' pat kl t fit III! I \M \(,l( Y\ KMI.N Kil 1 1 u in p,i' ki rs. Oil. ')(], ,in<l Is, to be obt iiih il ol all stoiL'kcfpcis, vi lioin 1 IS Jlu I bj cntlosmy ,ii, ( \(,.( sf llll|> LIKI- IN TJ!I, ]Ju.s][— Tlll,\ AM> NoW. — It is tf( MLiall) supjio I'd that in (lie hush \u- !i,i\c to put up \ ilh in.m\ disiomloiis and pmations in the sli i|ii- of fi'od I'miiicrly it \\ is so, but now, 111 inks to 1' 1) ll in, who has himself dwelt in l he bush, it food docs consist chiefly <>f tinned mi- ils Ins V- i)i om \i Saici jjiveb to tliem .i most deloi table H n our, making them as well of the plainest food laost eroojable, and insti .id as haul biscuits and indigestible tlanipiM his ImI'KOVI II COIOM VI liVIvINC PoH 1)1 X lliake'S the ve'rj liest bio id, scones, takes, and pasti) far supeiioi and moic waolesoine than or ltaven. Sold b) all stoickee-peis- who cm obtain it from in\ meniiant in Am kl md