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New Zealand Tablet, Volume V, Issue 267, 14 June 1878, Page 16

- Mb. George Watson is prepared to execute all commissions connected, with the profession of accountant in bankruptcy, land and estate agent, and sharebroker. Mr. Watson's office is situated in the Albert Buildings, Princes-street, Dunedin. / The South British Insurance Company continues to hold out nnnvalled encouragement to intending insurers. The advantages of doing business with the company in question are extreme. / _ Mr. John Pattison, so well and favourably known in connection with the Koyal Hotel, has commenced business in. the Oritagon Hotel, Dunedin. Mr. Pattison's numerous friends and patroife will be glad to find an establishment presided over by him still/within their reach. 7 Mr. M. Moloney, late of Anderson's Bay, has opened th/ Queen's Arms Hotel, Princes-street, Dunedin. The establishment /has been thoroughly renovated and will be conducted in the best styfe. When India was handed over to the Crown in 1858 it/debfc was £95,500,000, and this has been increased to £234,000,000 At the present time. The loss on the irrigation works in Bengal aloae amounted in the years 1875-6 to £203,700 on an outlay of £,4,072,742. The manner in which the new Pope took the nanui of " Leo " is thus described :— Consignor Lasagni (Pro- Secretary <£ State during, the Conclave) had already risen to despatch Tommas/ Tosi, Captain of the Conclave with the official announcement t» the Marshal, Prince Chighi, that the Conclave would be opened a/ 4 o'clock p.m., and that the Marshal should be the first admitted to; kiss the sacred - foot, when it occurred to him that the title by which the new Pope>i_ was to be proclaimed was yet unknown. " By'wha/ name," he asked, - ; " does your Holiness wish to be known ?" «• Who/s the patron saint of to-day ?" " St. Leo." " Then announce me as /co XIII." The German barque Godeffroy, Captain Thielemann, lately arrived in Table Bay, Cape of Good Hope, witn immigrants from Germany. These immigrants are a strong anahardy lot of people, some of them being Germans who lived in li/ssia," and who have taken the alternative of emigrating in preferenoj to renouncing their religion. / The main force of Eussiau diplomacy liesin the fact that it has, like the nation which it represents, a good cWI of the enterprising, adventurous spirit of youth. Wic ordinary Englishman, desires above all things in foreign politics the preservation of the status qtto, and when complications arise which he cannot ignore he seeks to remove them by palliatives and compromises. iWliussian, on the contraiy, has no such quietist tendency ; ardent and /impulsive by nature, and not very heavily weighted -with the foresight and caution which come from age and experience, he readily becomes an ardent adherent of political enterprises which seem to the sober British mind extremely hazardous, not to say Quixotic. The energy, enterprising spirit, bold initiative, and love of adventure which the English display in private life are displayed by the liissians in the sphere of politics. — Times,