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New Zealand Tablet, Volume X, Issue 514, 16 February 1883, Page 18

The South British Insurance Company may be dealt with advantageously by persons desirous of insuring their property. The lowest current rates are offered.

Messrs. Oakden and Howell, St. Andrew street, Dunedin, are ready to undertake piano-tuning, and all repairs of every kind of musical instrument. They have also a stock of superior instruments on sale.

Messrs. Whitaker Bros., Lambton Quay, Wellington, have received a large stock of books and religious goods from London and Paris. Among the books we notice several giving instruction in the Irish language, which it is now being attempted to perpetuate and revive by study. The firm also advertise a supply of wax candles for the altar, at moderate rates. Madagascar is somewhat larger than France. A belt of almost virgin forest runs around the island. The population is about 4,000,000, and the soil will easily support 30,000,000. India rubber is a principal export. The mineral wealth is enormous. The London, Economist says : " Though Englishmen may regret keenly the ccuSC quest of Madagascar by France, it is not their duty or their business to prevent it in the only possible way— by insisting, at any risk, that the conquest shall not be attempted. Let the French get a bit of the tropical world if they can." The vicar of the village in Sussex where the late Mr. Anthony Trollope used to live publishes in the Chiardian some interesting " in memoriam" items of the deceased. He says that Mr. Trollope had two remarkable escapes from death— one from being drowned when skating, when he was rescued by a lad who afterwards was known as Dean Milman, of St. Paul's, London ; and once again in the hunting field, when he was saved by the fidelity and sagacity of a favourite horse,