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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XXV, Issue 126, 29 May 1891, Page 3

; The British sailors belonging to H.M.S. i IrnmorUUUi, who perished in trying to save . som,e of : the.viotima . from the Utopia will OOt b« forgotten : by the grateful Italians. - A bronze wreath has been eubsoribed for a{; Some to to wnt to the brave tars' tomb. Oar London correspondent (eiys a Sydney paper) writes that serious defects continue to be manifested in the maohinery of the ships of the Australian auxiliary pquadron. ; The Karrakatta has broken down for the fourth time, and the T&uranga floods her lower deok and mog&rine from an undiaooverable leak, In the mean time the big mercantile companies continue to build huge ships with, all the lateit improvements and appliances, and they sever go wrong. It iB the same* old story, Imperial John Bull always was an ass in the matter of ship building — whioh is not altogether Rurpriaing when ib is remembered where he oelleota his ' Lords of the Admiralty from. 1 ' 'The following incident in the journey of the J^on Mr B»ddon from Marton to New Plymouth is related by the Auokland Herald'.'- When the train reached Hawera the pautoger carriages were full, when the "Honourable Diok" notioed Archbishop Bed wood going along the train trying to get * sfcjat. Mr Seddon took in the situation, and as ; he belongs to that very numerous ojass who desire to "make the best of both ' 'worlds,!' gave the arOhbishop a hearty invita^on to oome into the reserved Ministerial o&riage. The result was that both found ■ that they had been fortunate enough in 4 jetting hold of a pleasant travelling com- " panion, and the mileage to Now Plymouth for that trip became wonderfully short. It goes without Baying that though they talked about almost every subjeot, inoluding the weather, theology and the Education Act were severely esobewed. Mr Seddon says that when he went to Wanganui the coach . owne.to grief ; ; at Palmerston North he was pitched into a oreek; while after that he got stranded in the Mawhera at Nelson, He thinks that after making thiDgs pleasant for the church he should have better luok in future. ■ ■• The Colorado State Senate has made a new • departure by electing as its reading clerk ' Miss Anna W. Kelly, a young and pretty woman. She reads rapidly, clearly, and with correctness of accent and pronunciation. She is the,'first woman in the world to hold such a post. £ITwq women and a man were admitted to one of the hoipilals in Dublin Buffering from wonnds wbioh they alleged had been iniiloted byghdits, The Ohinese question will be the next provocative ol strife between the United States and Canada. The Canadian Premier refuses to prohibit Chinese immigration, and it is ah open peoret that a very large propom Uon of the Chinese who land in Britith Columbia go at once into the United States. Th? true Bengal tiger is dying out— so Bay , Indjan mportamen. The advance of civilisation drives the creatures from their old . . b»nnts, and, the rewards offered for the „- • iestmctlon of wild beasts enoourage in« . 4Ueriminate slaughter, so that tigers are rare, even in the' islands of Brahmapootra, where they formed the chief population some years ago. Mow sportsman may spend days hunting for tigers without obtaining a single beast,