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Waikato Times, Volume XXX, Issue 2459, 14 April 1888, Page 2 (Supplement)

Mrss Kiji'.A Muxok, who has just been married to a son of the King of Sweden, is described as a young lady having n* pretensions to beauty, not even distingue, anil of a very ordinary, not to say insignificant, appearance. There are new about 200,000 acres of tea planted in Ceylon, giving employment to 1200 British managers and superintendents and 300,000 British subjects from India and Ceylon. By the end of the present century it is calculated that Cevlon will be able to export 100,000,000 lb. of tea. Tjikue ha 3 b?.en some idea of the Princess Louise of Wa'ea marrying Prince William of Nassau, who would have been an excellent match for her, as he is very rich, but the young lady, in the full exercise of her right to choose a husband that pleases her, declines to look with favour on him as a suitor. A si'eiumks of M'Elhone oratory recently addressed to the New South Wales Minister for Education :—" You lousy Scotch coward," ''You Scotch dog," " You cowardly liar," " What about your rotten tea?" &c, &c. Mr Inglis rose from his seat at length, white with suppressed passion, and was proceeding towards where Mr M'Elhone was standing when he was appealed to by several of his colleagues not to mix himself up in what would evidently be a row. Meantime, Mr M'Elhone was forced away by the members who were leaving the House, but he continued for several minutes in a loud tone of voice to abuse the Minister for Education in the terms previously employed. Tmc following has reference to the recent blizzard in America : — " One singular effect of the recent gale and snow, combined with the cold," says Sergeant Glenn, of the Government Signal Service, stationed at Avon, " was to freeze the eyes shut, and then form an ice mask over the face. The wind would drive the fine hard snow into the eyes, causing them to water. The snow would mix with tae water behind the eyelids, and the cold wind would at once bind the lids together by an ice band. Repeated removal of this would inflame the eyeball, so that a film would form, obscuring the sight,- After this film formed, the presence of the ice was a relief to the inrlatncd eye. The eye would soon be frozen so close that nothing but steady artificial heat would relieve it. It is also a strange fact that those rescued with i their eyes and the entire lower part of ] the face covered with the ice mask did , not suffer from frosted faces. Any desperate attempt to remove the mask , resulted in removing the skin of the iace |. with it. The mask over the lower part | of the face was formed by the breath t. from the mouth and nostrils combining \- with the snow," I j)