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New Zealand Tablet, Volume XI, Issue 5, 25 May 1883, Page 18

The name of the Right Hon. W. E. Forster, better known as " Buckshot" Forster, has been mentioned in connection with the Governor-Genaralship of Canada. -If the arch-coercionisfc is to be sent out here, we suppose it will be for the object of striking terror into the hearts of those Canadians who have of late been talking so loudly of independence and of cutting adrift from England. Forster is just the man to put down such treasonable and seditious utterances. — Montreal True Witness. Sir Salar Jung died of cholera on the evening of Thursday at Hyderabad. From the Viceroy downwards the sad news will be received with the deepest regret. It is not for us to speak of his eminent qualities as a politician and statesman, which are universally recognised to have been of the highest order. As such, bis loss is perhaps as great to England as it is to India. But we cannot let the mournful occasion pass without paying to his memory the tribute of saying that in him the Catholic charities have lost a warm admirer and a generous supporter. The Mission of Hyderabad, in particular, is indebted to him for many benefits, and, if, we remember rightly, more than once has his Holiness testified to the deceased Mahommedan nobleman in high appreciation of those benefits. m ßombay GatkoUc Examiner, Feb. 10. A rather novel occurrence has taken place on the farm of a gentleman residing near KiUeagh, Kerry, and which occasioned a considerable amount of surprise until the mystery was explained. A' few nights ago a number of newly-weaned lambs were placed for shelter in one of the out-houses in the farm yard, but in the morning it was found that the greatest number had lost their tails, which were nowhere to be found. On examination, however, it was dis covered that the tails had been eaten by rats during the night. The lambs do not, however, appear to have suffered from this novel method of cutting off their tails.