Messrs. Yarrow and Co., of Poplar, London, have just completed two little steel vessels, 30 ft. long by 8 ft. beam, for use on lake Nyassa in the interior of Africa. The peculiarity cf these boats is that they are entirely bolted together and not rivetted, so that they can easily be subdivided into small and light pieces for transport on men's backs. This is the same mode of construction adopted by Messrs. Yarrow and Co., in the little.steamer Ilala, which has been so successfuly launched on Lake Nyassa.— Engineering. A sentence of imprisonment for 99 years was passed at St. Louis in April upon a negro who confessed that he had killed his wife. The St. Louis Republican states that he was allowed to avoid risk to his neck by pleading guilty of murder in the second degree; and there being a law of the State of Missouri that a person sentenced to imprisonment for life, can claim his discharge at the expiration of fifteen years, the judge passed a sentence longer than life.
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New Zealand Mail, Issue 246, 5 August 1876, Page 14
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