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New Zealand Tablet, Volume XII, Issue 5, 23 May 1884, Page 5

On fourteen sections of the Panama Canal Work is now being pushed forward actively, fifteen thousand men are employed. They earn about 1 dol. a day each, and spend about twenty cents a day for food.— Pilot. The Paris Gaulois says :— " The London explosions were plotted in Paris at a cafe in the Avenue d'Eylau. The dynamite was sent from France, while the clockwork came from abroad." If the French Canadians be " the Chinese of New England," as they have been called, they hare at least .one Chinese virtue nut so common to Western civilisation. — that of filial devotion. ' Desire Boudoir, a Frenchman of Great Falls, New Hampshire, has voluntarily returned from Canada to plead guilty of a manslaughter for which his father had been unjustly convicted, if the son's story be true. I Ihe latter has been sentenced, on his plea of guilty, to three years i* Stete Prison,— Kfcfc