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New Zealand Tablet, Volume XVII, Issue 36, 27 December 1889, Page 19

That the Croniii trial may bring to light the truth about the appalling crime is the wish ot the whole country, and in no element is it more earnest than in the Irish-American. Theories and guesses may be lefc aside ; the testimony is the thing to be depended on.— Pilot.

College athletics have never had a better excuse for being than in the exploit of the Evatistoo, 111., life-saving crew in rescuing twenty-nine men and a woman from two wrecked vessels on the night of October 22. The crew is composed of students of the Northwestern University. In spue of high s;as aad a dense fog, the brave boys made three trips aud brought, off all hands in safety. This is better work than winning races ; but it is the winning of races that makes the heroes fit for the better work. — Pilot.

A committee is being formed for the purpo3e of considering plans for the construction of a ship canal to coanect Berlin with the Baltic Sei. li is purposed to cut a canal from Berlin to the nearest point on the river Oder, and thence to utilise the river itself by dredging and otherwise improving, as a ship canal, as far as the Baltic Sea.