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Oamaru Mail, Volume XVII, Issue 5204, 10 February 1892, Page 4

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" Do you expect to meet Mrs Parvenue in the mountains ?" " Oh, dear no. The air is entirely too refined for her." The fortification of Heligoland is proceeding apace. A tunnel 600 ft. long and rising in a slope 1 r .>m the sea to the top of the island is being blasted in the rock with dynamite, and will be ready at the beginning of the year. A dam is being constructed outside the lower end of this tunnel, the rick from the tunnel serving to make the concrete. It is to be used as a pier or harbor for vessels. As fresh water is scarce new borings have been undertaken, aud water found at a depth of 120 ft. The forts will be armed with first-class annour-breaking guns, and the entire works are estimated to cost about L 350,000. Sir Edwin Arnold (says a Home paper) is not wanting for a good opinion of his profession. At a convivial gathering of the New York Press Club the other day, Sir Edwin, speaking with a long experience of Fleet-street life, declared that a " successful newspaper man must have the constitution and the hide of a rhinoceros, and a hair-trigger intellect. I am," he added, "prouder of the fact that I am a journalist than I should be of being an Archbishop or a Lord Chancellor."