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New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXII, Issue 18, 30 August 1895, Page 9

Don Ramon Barea of Madrid, Spain, has invented a water bicycle, which propels at the rate of six miles an hour. France is going to build two great warships, to have a gpeed of 23 miles, and steam 7,500 miles at 12 miles an hour without recoaling. Pugilist Corbett has fallen a victim to the demoralising influence of the prise ring, He entered the riDg with bigb aims and a superb body. He will be knocked out, a debauchee and physical wreck. His wife has begun divorce proceedings as a starter. John Curtin, or John Curtin Kent, as be was usually called (his mother's name being Keot), who was convicted of complicity in an attempt to blow up British warships with dynamite, between eight and nine years ago, and sentence i to life imprisonment, was rele>sed from Portland prison, England, on Saturday. He will Bail for the United States at an early date. The Irish members oi Parliament received the name of Joseph Chamberlain with shouts of "Judas," when mentioned in the House as Secretary of State for the Colon ieß in the Salisbury Cabinet. Most Rev Dr Walsb, Archbishop of Dublin, bas issued a circular to the priests of the archdiocese denouncing the fends and disseneions unhappily existing among the people in Ireland, and requesting the clergy not to mention politics in the churches. Commenting on the downfall of Lord Bosebery, Labouchere, in Truth, expresses the opinion that the ex-Premier would have made an admirable Master of the Horse, and that bis epitaph should be : " Here lies Archibald Philip Primrose, fifth Earl of Bosebery, once Prime Minister of England. He lost twenty seats and won two Derbys. Richelieu's skull has been put back in its tomb in the church of the Sorbonne, Pans, France. The cavity near by where it was buiied when stolen during the Bevolution was sealed up with great cpremocy the other day in the presence of M. Hanotanx, Minister of Foreign Affairs ; the Director of the Beaux Arts, the vioe-rector of the Academic and the Princesß of Monaco, representing the family,