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New Zealand Mail, Issue 1265, 28 May 1896, Page 10

A new warehouse in Paris has been built with glass floors. The initial cost is considerably over that of the ordinary floor, but in view of the fact that toughened glass is so much longer lived than wood, the experiment is likely to prove cheaper in the long 1 run. It (is stated that the Norddcutsclior-Lloyd Company is building two immenso vessels for the Australian trade. They will bo (3.50 ft long, or 42ft less than tho Great Eastern, and eapablo of taking 10,000 tons dead woiglil, with proportionate passenger accommodation. The Rev J. Kennedy Elliott, preaching at the Kent terrace Presbyterian Church on Sunday, said that Air Lecky’s recent, book, “ Democracy and Liberty,” proved that in every ago hitherto tho wise and good were in a minority, and therefore government by a mere majority erred in handing over the interests of tho nation to a class who can least understand them or care for them, and that every change of late_ was in the direction of mischief. Politicians to catch votes flattered the working man, as if he supremely had the capacity for understanding measures of importance. Democracy might run mad, said the preacher, but for us the star of hope was beaming, and the Word of God would yet be enthroned in every system of education as the best of books. On Alonday the funeral of a poor girl Alary Gray, who had been bofriendo 1 by the Salvath.n Army, and who died on Saturday in tho Hospital, took place from the Army Homo in Cuba street. A short service was held outside the Home, led by Captain Mackey, and the funeral procession, headed by the local band, then proceeded to tho Karori Cemetery, where after another short sorvico the interment took placo.