CLIPPINGS.

Press, Volume L, Issue 8481, 12 May 1893, Page 4

CLIPPINGS.

A charwoman at the Manchester Assizes recovered 43500 damages from the Northwestern Railway Company for the loss of an eye. While walking near the railway some sparks from an engine entered her eye, causing blindness. The Company intend appealing against the judgment.

A Bishop whose emoluments are considerably under £400 a year 1 Such is the present position of Dr. Carter, Bishop of Zuluiand, who finds himself uuable to supply even the modest needs of (South African episcopal life on this. An attempt is being made to ensure him a fixed £450, wherewith he will endeavour to sustain the dignity of his office in comparative splendour. Dr. Carter hasan exceedingly good "record" as Eton Miseioner at Hackney, and has acquitted himself with great credit during the time in which he has occupied his preeent arduous and responsible post.

M. Brandicourte, of the French Linnean Society, has published a ourious account of certain plants which have become extinct, or nearly so. He names the eucalyptus alpina, once a common denizen of the heights of Mount. William, Australia, now known to the world from one single specimen in the botanical gardens at Melbourne; tbe Psiadia rotundifolia, a native of St. Helena, whicb also owns but one representative in its wild state, besides a few cultivated adherents in the gardens at Kow; the Obamrerops humili3, or dwarf palm of Nice, which has perished from off the face of the earth; and lastly the orchid Spiranthes Romanzioviona, which flourished once in a single Irish meadow, but has disappeared for ever. It is sad that the love of tne amateur and the science of the horticulturist should be solely responsible for this destruction of the species they profess to foster.— Pail Mall Gazette.

A curious instance of the exciting effect produced, upon blue-jackets, even iv munio warfare, is found in* the report of the umpires of the last Naval Manoeuvres, now presented to both Houses of Parliament by Her Majesty's command. During an attack in Belfast Lough the feelings of both officers and men ran bo high that Co avoid personal encounters, and probable loss of life, it was found necessary to restrain the action which, might otherwise have been taken by the guardboats even duckig peace manoeuvres. In one case, it wilroe remembered, » small boat was sunk by a collision with a hostile steam .launch, whion, after rescuing the crew, beat a hasty retreat. But witen the captured bluejackets found that they were to be regarded as prisoners, they, to a man, jumped overboard aud tswuxn about until a pursuing boat of their own side picked them up. Like true Britons, they determined they "cever, never, never would be slaves ! "

The English Coneul-General in Florence reports that co-operation is still in the ascendent in Italy in spite of occasional failures. The benefits, tv be derived from federating the co-operative societies of the same district, and gradually extending the principle to larger areas, have been recognised and carried out in various loca* lilies. Meanwhile the shopkeepers of some cities are also adopting the principle of union. Sir Dominic Colnagiti estimates that the total number of co-operative societies now existing exceeds three thousand. These are approximately divided into about one thousand co-operative dairies, five hundred, popular and rural banks, five hundred co-operative stores, five hundred associations of day labourers, the remainder being composed of industrial, building, and insurance societies, agricultural syndicates, and co forth* In the spring of 1893 the fifth Congress of the Italian Co-operative Associations will be held at Genoa.

A writer in the Home Journal has been giving expression to ». man's opinion of women. Let us, my friends, he saye, you

of my own sex who may read these words tn! and pick all the flaws we chooeo in wonij&f and whit good does it do. We always comli back to her, and glad we are of the nrtaL I lege, too! Nervous? But yot how cJll and steady when tho right time come.! Illogical? But yot how certain the iSX.f tion, how unerring tho instinct. Withn.i' judgment? But yet how cafe her eg Z \ how sure her guidance! Never a L.ti i But what a helper! Timid? But vi v? 1 a sweetheart! Unsystematic♦ jj,, t ' ; with what neat precision is marke.l ,\' '> training of her children! Dressy? i\ yet how she can wear her gowns! 'v* ready? Rarely for the theatiWtaV y*fi} ever-ready with her sweet womanly •»„, pathy in a time of trouble. Fond of nSf * things? But yet how they become S person, her room, her house! Well bless her, yes! But the ch°2 article for the money ever created! f? long may we love her to brighten ourhom ' make wise our children, make men W , than they are, and lifo the better worth «!* living! And we'll love her, tool for S" enemies she has made. ' llle

A valuable suggestion has hear* *- 1 • Mr J. S. Rutherford, of The l£d ftfc b * girei, in the following letter t?»V2 v ealand Institute :-«'I believe *h t " W serving a record of the ra 7*\£ r ?' language, and old New zHSa fJf." the wite field of labour of vo AitiS * I shall, therefore, respectfully one of the mo3t important aide in ftw- ition would be a purely colony showing uative names only Vμ would be of the greatest hiatoriotf V *C aud, in faot, is almost the only Lwi can ever hope to retain the Native names and hand them on with any degree of purity. Every year past makes th« task more difficult, as at all event* in the eouthera portion of New Zealand the munej are being fast forgotten, corrupted, or eutirely loat, there being now only a romn&nt of the race living to whom on appeal ouu be made. VVhenitisconsidereduowcurefullyand mmutely each bay and heudland is uamctl by the Natives, in maoy cmcs far more appropriately than by the Europeans, who have fallen back on a clumsy ropetitiou of names where there is no similarity of position or surroundings, aud wheu it ia re, tnembered how often the Native name ii taken from some distinctive feature in th« place, I think the value of such a document will be readily admitted."