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Taranaki Herald, Volume XLII, Issue 9840, 28 October 1893, Page 2

Postage stamp collectors, a Paris correspondent says,- may be interested to hear that a new postage stamp will shortly be issued, and there is a good prospect of its becoming very rare at no distant? date. The French Government haß'just created, at) an experiment only, a postal service by camel express in the French territories of Obock and the Somali coast. In connection 'with this feryice, a special provisional Btamp will be issued, the "value being five francs. The new stamp is triangular, like tho old Cape of Good Hope vignettes. In the centre is a " melmri," or racing camel, in the background a desert landscape. Around are inscriptions in three languages —Abyssinian, Arabic, and French —mentioning tho year of issue and the name of the coloDy. The- weight allowed will be 50 grammes. Later on, if tho experiment be satisfactory, a further issue of stamps wi I be made, the values ranging from two to Qfty francß. The substitution of the metal nib for the old fashioned goose quill appears to have awakened in the late Cardinal Newman something more than a mere sentimental regret. In a letter to tbe lnte Sergeant j Bellasis in 1871, printed .in Mr Edward Bel lame's memorials of liis father, jurt published by Messrs Burns and .Dates, the Cardinal says:—"l have a pen which writes so badly that it reacts upon my composition and my spelling How odd this is; but it is true. I think best when I write. I cannot in the same way think while 1 spenk. Some l» n aro b illitint in conversation, others in public speaking. But then, if it is a bad pen -n steol pen? That in my case just now, nnd thus I find my br in won't work, much as I wish it, Therefore you must take pity en me, and send mo a better answer thun I a question." The Muharuja of Mysore has caused to be issued a regulation, to bo hen. after consideied by I is Government, the object of which is to ' prevent infant marriages in the territories of Mysore." The regulation, which is to come iuto for:c within six riionlliß, will fix the minimum age at which a girl uiay mnrry at eight years, ond a boy at fourteen. Any person who brings about the marriugo of children under this age will be punished with imprisonment for six monthp, a lino, or both. A male over the age of eighteen may not marry a girl of eight under a similar penally. A 'Wan over fifty years of ago ia not to be allowed to marry a girl under fourteen years of ago, under puin of imprisonment, which may extend to two years. An aider or abittor of such an offence is I able to imprisonment for six months. Lord Gillford, flag lieutenant of the Victoria, had to face a trying oideiil at Orfborne, when the Queen asko i him to givo a minute account of the disaster in tho Mediterranean. Her Majesty's str ngly emotional nature is less under control now than it was in former days, and as Loid Gislfoid proceeded With liin story, Vanity Fair says, tho Queen io completely broke down that his narrative had to be postponed until sho had in some measure regained her composure Tl c Sovereign 8 grief is not to cc wondered at, for the direct account of in eye witness of the fearful occurrence must have been thrilling in tbe extreme.