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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXVI, Issue 8416, 16 January 1899, Page 3

The heroes of the Cuban war continue to be petted by American society. A New York telegram of November '21st in the London Daily Mail says that Deignan, one of the sailors who helped Lieutenant Hobson to sink the Merrimac in Santiago Harbour, was enteitained at dinner that day at the Hotel Waldorf. On emerging from the restaurant he was surrounded by a bevy of fashionable ladies, who endeavored to kiss him, but were prevented by his host. The wealthy and fashionable guests gazed with admiration at the sailor, who had the reputation of kissin," 200 girls last week in lowa. An article has appeared in the Autorite of Paris, over the signature of Paul de Cassagnac, which gives impassioned utterance to the sentiments of at least a section of the French. England, he says, is insolent and aggressive ; Russia is silent and selfish ; therefore, France, being left to her own resources, should make heroic, nay, unparalleled efforts to double her fleet and compel haughty Albion to eat humble pie. He proceeds :—" Do we lack warships? Let them be built. Do we lack guns 1 Let them be manufactured. Are our coasts exposed ? Let them be defended. If a thousand millions are needed, if two thousand millions are needed, let Parliament be asked to vote then), and Parliament will do so unhesitatingly, if its heart be moved by love of country and care for France's grandeur Is it not silly to squander hundreds of millions at this moment for the sole purpose of organising an indecent and tiseless fair called the Exposition Universelle 1 Trade and industry profit nothing by it. Paris, as long as the show lasts, sees everything increase in price, and is on the very verge of starvation. And all this for the sake of foreigners who hold us in scant esteem, and visit us only in order to amuse themselves, just as they will go to a fast place of amusement. Would it not he better to expend that money in ironclads ? Warships — warships —that is what we must have at all costs."