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New Zealand Tablet, Volume XIX, Issue 22, 27 February 1891, Page 19

Geologists have proved that the diamo ni mines of Ftuth Afiica &t? situated in vents or chimnejs varying from 70 to 1,600 feet in diameter. The McCarthy party has issued the United Ireland nnder th c name of Suppressed Uni ted Ireland. The publication wan reetrained by lr junction, and it will now be called Insnppresnble United Ireland. A Texas steer, whilst being driven through a Kansas town, took after a grocer, but didn't see the man dodge into a doorway. He kept on until be saw a telegraph pole, made a charge, and struck it with such force that bis neck, one leg, and a shoulder were broken. The owner of the steer is now cuing the grocer for the loss of the animal. Oklahoma settlera are in great distress. Had they the means they would rush out of the land of misery as eagerly as they rushed into it. The failure of one year's crop baß rendered a large number of thfim utterly destitute. The Fathers of St. Dominic are engaged for years past in bringing out the most perfect edition of the works of St. Tbomas Aquicaj that has yet been published. Father Ouglielmotti, a member of the Order, has lately completed a naval and military dictionary, whose merits are so great that it has be >n adopted by the Italian Government in the military ani naval schools of tbe kingdom. Another piiet-t of ihe same Order, Father Bmbriaco, is the inventor of a clepsydra, or water clock, in which the moyement of the machinery is cause Iby falling water. This is an ingenious return to the system adopted by the ancient Greeks for the measurement of time. Thers is no department of science or art — Fra Angelico and Fra RartolomI meo, the world-renowned painters, were Dominicans— in which this Order does not hold a high place,