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Miss Parkes, Lady Superintent of the Auckland Hospital, has resigned. Her complaint, like Dr MacGill’s, is that the action of a section of the Board prevents the enforcement of the discipline. The plans sent in for composition for tho buildings of the Paris Exhibition of 1900 number 112. Some very Mnn-chausen-likc projects for the don of the exhibition are tallied about. 11. Hoffman, of Antwerp, proposes a mound 200 metros higher than the Eiffel Tower; M. Mottler, of Paris, would group the whole Exhibition in a palace some 1500 ft high ! and Mr Nightingale, of Washington, would delve into the earth, as he talks of a well 1000 metres deep. According to reports from Copenhagen, the secret of Dowe’s bullet proof coat has been revealed by a man named Western, with whom he has been travelling through

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