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New Zealand Tablet, Volume V, Issue 251, 22 February 1878, Page 17

La Drfvnsa states that, notwithstanding the contradiction from Madrid, the remains of Christopher Columbus, recently discovered at Han Domingo, are perfectly authentic. A report on the subject has been presented to the Holy Father. The Unita Cattolica publishes an extract from the official documentary record of the discovery. The civil and religious authorities of San Domingo, as well as the consular body, have signed this document, which bears date, September 10, 1877. The copy transmitted to the Pope is dated the 18th of the same month, and is signed by three notaries. The mosquitoes in Alaska are innumerable ; their number is no* legion, but millions and hundreds of thousands of millions. What a plague they are ! One is involuntarily reminded of the third plague of Egypt, the celebrated scinlphes. They unceremoniously drop into your cup of tea, they are uncouth enough to fall into your spoon before you take it to your lips ; you open your mouth either to speak or breathe and half-a-dozen of mosquitoes sail into your throat and give you a fit of coughing. Some statistics of the increase which has been made in the hierarchy o£ the Catholic Church during the pontificate of the late Pope have been recently published. During his lengthened reign Pius IX. founded twenty-nine metropolitan churches, one hundred and thirty episcopal chairs, three chairs nullins diceccsics, three apostolic delegations, thirty-three apostolic vicarages, and fifteen apostolic prefectures.