Notes and Events.

Manawatu Herald, 19 April 1892, Page 3

Notes and Events.

Mr Arnold Morley.thotUattatoriiaii \Vhip, describes London as " the key df the situation,'* and declares that Wie iuetropdlls must be secured b} r thoLiW&lpdi'fcy.er* Uv Gladstone can face the House of Lords.

Siv George Treveiyaii i;<r^ to Glasgow as an instanca oi: fclie wisdom of the muuicipal policy now advocated by the Progressives. "In Glasgow," he says, " the water has paid off the debt of purchase, and the price of gas has been reduced one-half, while the public streets are lighted for nothing.''

Theatre bonnets are now being made entirely of ostrich feathers with Velvet strings. If a little

transparency c"oulcl btf imparted to the Ostrich feathers riirtio theatregoers would have little left to wish for.

A cocoanut tree weighing six 'tons has been transferred from ( Honolulu to the public park in bah Fraiieistio. In a trench around the tree, which stood in a grove near Honolulu, a massive box was built to inclose the roots. Above the box was a fi-ame that had jack screws for lifting the entire mass. After the tree had been raised it was canted, and its long leaves were gathered together and tied. The nuts 1 were wrapped in soft sacking. By hydraulic power the mass was raised on a truck that carried it to the beach for shipment.

The Pope has just received a handsome legacy" of 10,000,000 francs and a palatial mansion in thy Place de la Concorde, in L J aris, with the provision that the mansion is henceforth to be the official vesidoh'ce of the Papal Nuncio in Fiance. It was left by the Marquise PliasesBilliere. The circumstances under "which the splendid gift was made are rather curious, and culminated in the decision of a law suit confirming the gift to the Pope.

A gentleman in Mortlake district, Victoria, while out shooting the other day sent a ferret into a large rabbit burrow, and shot some eight or nine rabbits as they ran out, when there was a great scuffling and out leapt a vixen fox. Although only prepared for rabbit shooting so quickly did he recover himself that he brought the vixen down. The ferret had evidently got hold cf her, as she was marked at the side of the neck. The sportsman believe s from the fuss that went on in the burrow after that, the ferret had a tussle with the dog fox, but could not say whether he injured him fatally. One reads about the time. coming when the lion and lamb will lie down together, the lamb outside, not inside, but here we have the fox and the rabbit sharing the Oie compartment. !