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Waikato Times, Volume XXXI, Issue 2528, 22 September 1888, Page 2 (Supplement)

Clan Gordon's memorial to the hero of Khartoum has been unveiled at Aberdeen. It consists of a colossal statue of Gordon standing erect on a pedestal in front of the Robert Gordon College, an institution which was founded by an earlier member of the clan.

S. J. RAtwEit, who is attached to the Russian imperial household, has been in Georgia several weeks engaged in the study of cotton culture. The Czar has a large estate in Central Asia, at the end of the new railroad near Merv, and it is his desire to cultivate cotton on it.

The following easy method of causing a syphon to run, doing away with the unpleasant task of filling it, may be useful to some of our readers. Make a hole in the tin of kerosene, just large enough to admit the syphon, push it in and turn the tap on. Then take the handle of the tin pull it up and bulge it down again and the pressure of air will cause the oil to flow. If this should fail through the tin not being full, make another small hole and blow into it as a boy would do a football, of course placing a bit of rag on the first made hole to prevent the air escaping. Mud Cornkmch Vanderbiw has twentyseven carriages for her own use. Sir Provo Walt.is, tho senior Admiral of the British navy, is one hundred years Id.

Gold plate to the vnlite of £2,400.000 is stored away in the Gold Room of Windsor Castle. One piece, a salver, is worth £10,000.

The circular of a London wine firm says especially that "Lord , one of the partners! is to be found in daily attendance in the office."

West End tradesmen in London have adopted a novel method of doing; business. Thay undertake to supply a household during the season with certain articles of food 9t TO much a head-.