NEW ZEALAND.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXVI, Issue 25, 27 October 1898, Page 20

NEW ZEALAND.

The war-pcare has had its echo in New Zealand. Leave of absence has been withdrawn from naval and military men. The forts about Wellington are manned, though rumour says ammunition is scarce. a large gun iB being placed in position to command the wharves and harbour, and arrangements have been made for placing mines for harbour defence.

Power will intoxicate the be*t hearts as wine the strongest heads. No man is wise enough nor good enough to be trusted with ualimited power.

Mr. E. W. Dunne, Catholic bookfeller, of 81 George street, Dunedin, has a new advertisement in this issue wherein he calls attention to a shipment of ten casr-s of goods which he h.is jut-t received. The goods are of the usual first-class order for which Mr. Dunne's establishment has long been noted. — %*

We beg to d p aw the attention of the public to the advertisement of Messrs. Hooper and Co.. furniture manufacturers, Octagon, Dunpdin. which appears elsewhere in our columns. Messrs. Hooper and Co. have gained an enviable reputation for the high art upholstering turned out from their factory, and for the ordinary, evtryday articles of household furniture the firm occupies a foremost place in the trade. — „.*„,

The English one hour track record has been raised by A. A. Chase, who, pac°d by the crack Dunlop teams, succeeded in riding 33 mile-? 712 yards in 60min. on the Crystal Palace track, London. This ride is nearly a mile better than the previous English record, held by J. W. Stocks ; but it is not equal to Elke's American ride, when he covered the remarkable distance of 34 miles 1223 yards in the hour. — ***