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Auckland Star, Volume XXXIX, Issue 230, 25 September 1908, Page 3

An impediment to navigation in the Western Ocean is a drifting buoy, which has been careering about in the track of shipping ever since it broke away from the moorings at Delaware breakwater, a long time ago. The buoy, which is frequently seen from passing vessels, is of great size, standing about 16ft. above water. Its cverchanging whereabouts are reported from time to time as it is sighted by vessels, and the authorities of the United States have the derelict '-under observation," Three days after her departure, from New York for Melbourne, the United Tyse.r liner Indralema passed the buoy in latitude 33deg. 35min. north, and longitude 60dcg. 32 mm. west. ,

Jn a lecture on the miracles of Lourdes, recently,the Abbe Coube distinguished between functional and organic disease, limiting the power of "suggestion" to the former, while stating that 850 cases of organic disease, chiefly cancer and cen-■miH-ac-, had been ca_-ji_teht cured at