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Colonist, Volume LII, Issue 12718, 14 February 1910, Page 1

The sectarian disorders in Liverpool have caused an extra expenditure of £9,000, and the "Watch Committee have decided to ask the City Council to sanction an expendmtro of £3,000 for extra police duty. Believing in the reforming power of music, Father Barwarden, the Roman Catholic chaplain of Wandsworth i Prison, is organising a choir for the I purpose of giving concerts in the Lon- ! don gaols. A sad tale of poverty told at a Lon ilon inquest showed that a. man and -his wife and two children after paying rent,: had only 5s 6d a week to live upon.

While presiding over a luncheon ab Dublin in honour of Sir Ernest Shackleton, Sir Charles Cameron caused much amusement by reading a telegram, which, he said, he had just received. "Have discovered South Pole. Kindly annex it to Ireland. — Cook." .

Bismarck and a fried were out hunting one 'day, when tbe friend incau- ; tionsly walked off into a morass, and, I feeling himself gradually sinking, called out to Bismarck, "Kor God's sake come to my help, or I shall be lost iit this quicksand." Bismarck saw the danger was great, but he retained his presence of mind. "J)o," cried Bismarck. "I will not venture into the morass, for then- 1 should be lost, too. It is evident your end is inevitable; therefore ,to relieve you from the cruel agony of slow death, I will shoot you." And ho coolly levelled his riflo at Jiis floundering friend. "Keep quiet," cried Bismarck; "I cannot take correct aim. Remember, that in order to put you at once out of misery I must shoot you through the head !" The shocking brutality of this sugegsgestion drove all fear of tho morass out of the friend's mind. The unlucky man thought only of dodging Bismarck's bullet and with this in mind he struggled so violently that finally, by superhuman, efforts, he .succeeded in laying hold of the root of an old tree, and thereby he rescued himself. "It was your presence of mind that saved me," ho confessed to Bismarck. - in,2iHts yPc ;a. , rfiPioo adiuk