THE COST OF THE DYNAMITE. OUTRAGES.

Waikato Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2170, 5 June 1886, Page 2 (Supplement)

THE COST OF THE DYNAMITE. OUTRAGES.

The dynamite outrages of the past year oost the country a pretty large num. The amount, an shown by the recently prepered Civil Service Estimates, in close upon £50,000, and this apparently does nor include the bill for the repairs at the Tower and the expense of prosecuting Burton and Cunningham in May last. The principal item i« the large one of £38,000 for police. The details are not yet forthcoming, the estimate merely saying that the money has been spent in meeting the expenses of the police engaged on speoial duties in conneotiou with the outrages. In the previous year only £12,000 was expended under this head. It cost £8,625 to make good the damage done to the House of Commons and Westminster Hall by the explosion of January 24, 1883. It may be interesting to give the items of the account ?— Repairs to the House of Commons*£s,soo: furniture, clocks, &c, £550 ; electrical installation, £75. We wonder what the extra bill from Scotland-yard will be for the recent riotous proceedings in the metropolis.

Proves of wild horses are said to be in the Mississippi River bottom* a hundred miles above Memphis. They are •upposed to have originated from horses lost by the* rebel General Forrest in his campaigns. Hii command wan splendidly mounted on thoroughbreds, and a large numbers of them escaped into the swamps. There is in that region a large district of uninhabitable country, and much fine graziug land. Past and Prksent.— The youth of the present day who goes from London to visit his friends in Edinburgh, say in the space of ten hours, has no conception of the hardships his grandfather some* times went through in accomplishing the same distance, -which, in his time, never took less than two days and two nights. When the "Regent" coach started on it« journey of three or four hundred miles from the George and Blue Boar, Holloway, at 6 o'clock in the morning, with the snow thick upon the ground, a bitter wind blowing, a hard frost, and the »ky, save from the light of a fow stars, pitch dark, the prospect before the passengers, especially the outside ones, was not cheering. When it rained those outside • fared still worse. They descended from the coach at 9 o'clock, stiff, aching, and chilled to the marrow. Germans are certainly practical people — especially in military matters. A Prussian military committee lately conducted, at Spandau, a series of experiments on the penetrative force of different types of projectiles. Of course, for this purpose, vo target could equal flesh and blood. Accordingly, the War Minister placed at the disposal ot the committee a number of horses, which were started at full gallop, and shot down with highly satisfactory remits. This is pretty well ; but the sequel is infinitely more edifying. They have in Prussia, it seems, a Society for the Protection of Animals, and this body had the temerity to remonstrate with the War Minister on the experiments. The result, however, was that the society itself was prosecuted, and has been fined fifty marks and costs for an insult to the army.