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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 12586, 17 October 1911, Page 7

The report resently published that Powelfca has succeeded m evading the police and escaping to Australia, is discredited by the Wellington police. Tha circumstantial evidence detailed by the Wairarapa journal, which originated the ■story, has no foun Jation so far as tne authorities know, and it is believed that Powelka is still m hiding m New Zealand.

A suggestion by Mr W. S. Bedford as to the evils of party m politics drew from Siv James Carroll at the Yorkshire dinner at Wellington a characteristic comment. "We must all share to a certain degree," he said, "m the deprecation of party politics. Still wo have to admit, so far as history is able to inform us, all nations and governments, wherever politics exist, so long as there are differences of opinion, naturally divide themselves into one set or another. These differences of opinion must manifest themselves m some established order. You will find the Tory party and the Whig party, the Reform' party and the Deform party — (laughter)— the Liberal and the Conservative parties, and, as time goes on, Radical parties, Socialist parties, and Communistic parties, all m 'sections. When you come down to practical bedrock you have what you^call the 'ins' and what you call the 'outs.' " (Laughter.)

Those who watched the old Roman boat being removed from its resting place on the Bite of the new County Hall to Kensington Palace recently realised that the London Museum, nvhich. is to be established there, will have a very solid centrepiece (says the Daily Chronicle). The boat was a Roman galley, and the remains of it were discovered when the foundations for the County Hall were being excavated- It may perhaps have conveyed some of Caesar's troops across tho Channel. It is built of solid oak, and the timbers during their immersion of centuries m the Thames mud swelled immensely, so that since they have been brought into the air they nave shrunk by nearly a third. The l'emains are, of course, very fragile, and they will requiro very careful treatment at tho museum. They are the only relics of a Roman galley known to exist. The boat had been placed m a dpal framework, and the heavy load, "weighing some 30 tons, was dragged up an incline from the lower level of the foundations by means of chains. When this operation,, which took several hours to accomplish, was completed the great case was fixed on a couple of lorries and carted by a team of a dozen dray horses to Kensington, where it was deposited m an annexe of tho palace. The kindly Thames mud has preserved many other relics of ancient times, many of prehistoric period. Somo years ago, when excavations were being inado at the Daily Chronicle offices m Whitefriars the skull of a rhinoceros was found m an almost perfect state, and is now among the treasures of the Natural History Museum of South Kensington. Tusks of the mammoth and elephant, and bones of the rhinoceros and tiger were also found during the building of Di'ummond's Bank at Spring Gardens. Roman coins and bronzes and pottery, too, have been unearthed m considerable profusion during the last 50 years. In all likelihood the Museum will be open ed, probably by the King himself, m October.