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Waikato Times, Volume XXXII, Issue 2601, 14 March 1889, Page 2

Mr John Ueegan, coach proprietor, Hamilton, has a business notice in this issue. Thk minister 111-ton cannon recently manufactured in Germany carries twenty miles. Uuuixg the past ten years there have been built in Melbourne over 30,000 houses. The valuation of these is put at nearly 2£ millions sterling. Wholesale arrests have been made by the Vienna police anions? the leading Socialists in the city. Thk use of oil to allay the troubled waters is on the increase in Canada. Six of tha Like insurance companies will make a reduction in their premiums on all vessels carrying oil for the purpose. Oxe hundred and live collieries are now open in India, sixty-nine of which raised 1,338,000 tons of coal in ISSfi. The imports of coal during the same year amounted to 848,878 tons. The "Queen's Pipe" is the name given to a furnace in which all the contraband tobacco confiscated in England is burned. Some £4000 worth of tobacco has thus been " smoked " last year. It is said that Saxony furnishes the largest percentage of suicides of any civiliVed State. The number last year was 1,104, or one to about every three thousand of the population. In 1881 the total number was 1,248. This is how the New York Tribune puts it:—Hayti has illegally seized one of our merchant ships. Hayti is a poor little waif of a country. Canada has illegally seized about 200. Canada is a great empire with the greatest of empires behind her. Four American men-of-war are going down to Hayti to blow her up or do some, thin" dreadful. But as to Canada and the empire behind her wo are not going to bo so vicious. This is an Administration that looks before it lc:;ps, and if the leap looks bad it doesn't take it. But if there is nothing to leap over, why, then, it makes a brave, bold, resolute dash.