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New Zealand Mail, Issue 1188, 7 December 1894, Page 7

The visit of General Feilding to the Manchester Block has caused the question, to be raised as to whether any of the roads under the care of the several local bodies are public roads. From- the statements which, it is reported, have, been made by the resident agent of the Corporation, the impression has been put about that the Corporation still claim them as private property. Preposterous as such a claim may seem, it will be necessary for the local bodies interested to ascertain their standing in the matter, and this the Manchester Board intend to do without delay. — Advocate.

#*Tlie Birmingham correspondent of the Feilding Star writes:—Mr George Weidmaier, who for some years past has managed a farm belonging to Mr Easton, butcher, of Foxton, dropped dead on Sunday evening, about 5 o’clock. Deceased was about 65 years of ago, - and as he was not attended by a doctor it is probable that an inquest will be'held. The Itangitikei Advocate understands that although the Kiwitea County Council have refused to contribute their share of the cost of the Vinegar Hill bridge unless certain formalities have first been complied with, the Rangitikei County Council will go on with the work and recover tlie Kiwitea County Council’s proportion, in the usual way.

An Assessment Court is to be held at Auckland to determine the value of the interests of Rahui te Kiri and Ngupeka in the Little Barrier Island, and to enquire into the law expenses of Tenetahi in establishing liis title. Mr Northcroft, S.M., is. to preside, and if the Chief Judge of the Native Court, who will make the necessary arrangements for setting up the Court, decides that two Commissioners are necessary, the other one will most probably be Mr Bush, S.M. In the captured Chinese camp, after the battle of Ping Yang, the victorious Japs found some 10,000 cangues, those cruel and massive wooden necklets used by the genial Chinese for the restraint and punishment of prisoners. These were intended for the expected Japanese captives. The tables, however, had been turned, and it was the Chinese themselves who performed the captive role. So the Japs not unreasonably argued that the Chinese themselves must know best how they liked prisoners to be treated. Accordingly they fitted the necklets on the Chinese captives, and marched them back to camp thus decorated. Am aluminium torpedo boat built at Poplar for the French Government has been successfully tried on the Thames. This is the first serviceable vessel constructed of aluminium, which only weighs one-third as much as steel. Aluminium is regarded as the coming metal. It exists largely in clay, and eleetricityis the principal agent ixj. its maiiufacturct i