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could exceed. By this ingenioua instrument it will b 8 possible for a war artist to telegraph a sketch from the battlefield. Indeed there is no limit to the possibilities which . thid invention opens up to the imagination. Mr Gladstone, in a recent speech said: — "Nature cries out for recreation, and that the cry of nature is a natural cry, and, therefore, I do not regret when I am told that light literature is greatly in request and greatly in vogue ; but what I hope is that there will always be a great deßire to have good light literature If you ask me what I mean by good light literature, I mean such as the immortal works of Sir Walter Scott, whom I look upon as one of the greatest benefactors, in the first place, of his own special country, which is also my country in blood ; in the second place of Great Britain ; but. in the third place, I rejoice that that great and good man has been a benefactor to the world at large The Inangahua ' Herald ' understands that Mr Ziman purchased the Golden Fleece Extended property on Monday last, and took stock on Tuesday. He informed the tributaries - that in any caae their possession would not be disturbed for six months,, and that at the expiration of that time, they should receive two mouths' notice, if required, to band over their tribute. A certain Mrs Ocesswell died in Bridewell prison, and b.qaeathel £10 to have a setmon preached in which nothing bat what was gocd of her should be said. The sermon is eaid to have been written by the Duke of Buckingham, and was as follows; — 11 All I can s"»y of her is this : She was born Well, married well, lived well, and died well. Fur she wad bom in Shadw^ll, married to Oreewell, lived at Clerkenwell, and died at Bridewell .» The • Otago Daily Timea ' says that the people are beginning to see -as may be concluded from a recent article of Mr Keir Hardies in the ' Niueteeatb Ceutury" — that, if an aristocracy of rank were to pass away, an 1 arisooracy of money would take its place, and that this would be infinitely worse fiMa the position of the working 1 class .8. 1 The secret of longevity is thus re--1 vealed by M. Lcdin de Lalaire, a hardy old gentleman of ninety-eight : — " Distaaie for stroog drink and apaßßionaie fondness for sea-bathing. I used o be an even more intrepid swimmer than Lord Byron, and 1 never had to oall in a doctor until I was eightynine. As regards tobacco, I have con- | sumed a v ritable mountain of cigars. [ My two greatest passions have been • reading and poetry, and I still write - verses at the age of 98.' It is estimated that the water stored inthet&nks at Bajby's reward will [ affect a saving to the Company of over • £300 a month. The sum named has ' been paid by this Company for " water fv.r some time pas!. — l Forth In--1 quirer.' t The Thames people are up in arms 1 over the action of one or two Auckland > jobbers, v ho have bean strenuously - endeavoring to upset the amalgama- ■ tion of certain properties in the Moan--3 tairi Greek district, and for the de* 1 velopment of which there was almost ) a certainty of £80,000 of English 1 capital bsing introduced. Satisfactory 3 negotiations had been entered into with the Home people, and then, when ? the bargain was abont to ba clinched, £ one or two share jobbers set to work to defeat the whole proposal by getting 3up opposition to it. If successful, , (says the Inangahm ' Times ') a direct - loss of £80,000 to the Thames district will ensne, besides shaking the confi* r dence of English investors in the l commercial integrity of Sew Zealand - mining men, and probably hindering i the advancement of not only the - Thames, bat o'h^r mining districts - in this Colony. , Mb Kaufman, the American mining » expert, reports that the richest stone in the Coolgardie district is now being ■ raised from the 1000 feet level in the f Wealth of Nations mine. Great quan- ) tities of machinery are being forwarded i almost daily to Coolgardie and to the I Murchison. Mr Florence O'Driscoll. • who is now there, reports glowingly sa to the prospects at Menzies' and Hannan's. The Great Boulder mill ! started crushing in the presence of the Warden and other gentlemen of the < field recently. A cleaning up of 88 tons, resulting in 831ozs of gold, or over lOozs to the ton. The mill is still running on good stone. An elderly lady, who had been informed that there was nothing Scriptural in the worship of Catholics, wisely determined to judge for herself. She turned in therefore on one Sunday evening, she was passing a Catholic church. The choir happened to be singing the Litany of the blessed Virgin, and the singers dwelt on the words " Ora pro nohis" The good lady was delighted. She went away declaring that the Catholics had been slandered. " They were singing a hymn and I could not hear all the words, she said, '< but the refrain was repeated over and over again — c Hurrah for Moses !' ' Hurrah for Moses !' " It is stated that a firm hi Melbourne have netted £20,000 buying leather during the recent rise. SPECIAL APPOINTMENT. Psißs Soap, Makers to her Magiety the Queen

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