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Waipawa Mail, Volume XVIII, Issue 3104, 26 July 1894, Page 3

According to Mr Meredith, some of the most prosperous men iu Canterbury wore brought up as tailors and shoemakers in the city of London. In an article on the unemployed difficulty the Christchurch Press says : — il Our principle must bo that which Mr Tregear has stated, with no less courage than wisdom : ‘lf men clamor for work, give them work, not alms.’ ” A novel feature at the English Military Tournament was a collie used for carrying despatches. The dog would scarcely have scored anything in, say, the open class for rough-haired collies at the Kennel Club or Collie Club Shows, but it was evidently an animal brimful of intelligence, a quality which dogs accustomed to the show bench may sometimes be rather lacking in. Collies, as a matter of faot,. ore now used qaito extensively military purposes, and a number of foreign regiments have their collies, just ns the 23rd has its goat, though with more practical objects in view. The collio may not be ablo to find its way home like the pigeon at long range, but for short messages, and when ho knows the way to his beloved master, ho is a “ nailer.”

A cyclone lifted a large sheet of water from Portage, Lake Mich. (U.S.), and carried it high in the air and half a mile inland where it broke. For the space of a mile the ground was coverod with fish of various sizes. The Press says that as a result of the alteration of the United States tariff, we hear that the American Consulate in Wellington have already had enquiries from wool purchasers over there in regard to the market hero. A correspondent from Johannesborg writes to a contemporary, the Butter Miner , as follows :—“ Had one Bhort job at blacksmithing. Wages vary from £5 to £6 per week ; carpenters at the mines the same. Living costs from £5 to £5 10- ! P er month. Companies find all accom modotion for tbo men, so a follow need not carry a tent with him unless going on his own hook. It is a wonderful place this, considering tho time it has boon started—-I suppose not more than seven or eight, years There are railways, street trams (horse), telephone exchange, electric light, gas, and lots of other good thiags too numerous to mention. Tho population comprises chiefly Jews, Cousin Jacks, and Kaffirs. There are few a Boers, naturally enough, when you consider the country belongs to them. But a new-comer would be impressed with tho idea that the place belonged to Cornwall, or the sons of Israel.”