CABLE NEWS.

Per United Press Association —By Electric Telegraph. Owing to the fact of his being engaged electioneering, Mr Chamber-' lain witl be unable to preside at tho farewell banquet to Earl Hopetoun. The Admiralty has ordered 5000 tons of American coal for delivery at Bermuda, and 2500 for Halifax, for the use of warships on fh« station.

Bomb, Sept 27 The Italian Government is asking for ten millions sterling to build war- Ships.

Sydney, Sept 28 • Through a fall of earth at the Oobar Goldmine two m 8n } named Nicolla and MeLaaghlia, were killed, and seven others injured. Hobart, Sept 28 The Legislative As^mbly passed a Local Inscribed Stock Bill, authorising the Treasurer to raise £700,000 with ?*rying currency, at from 3 to 3£ per OiDt, at circumstances permit,

Papers Found By Railway Porters

Fight tons of stray news papers and periodicals left by passengers in railway carriages were last year found at two of the great railway termini in London alene, and this leaves wfao'ly oat of ac connt the very large numbers of papere taken home by the porters and searches themselves.

The rale as to these Btray papers— Their numbers may be roughly estimated from the fact that more than 1,200 were found between noon and midnight on a by no means unusual day at Kings Cros Station recently—varies with the differ ent companies, bot, in general, all the papers are the perquisites of tho porters as boh. They may take those which they fancy, but all iha rest aw sold in buik, and the proceeds are divided a mongst a certain part of the staff. In the caie of the higher priced and | Illustrated periodicals it is alleged by the j porters themselves that th3y can, if the number* are current ones, always dis pose of them at a remunerative rate. Books have to be handed over like other property, and to show what numbers of them are left behind—with intention in qoite eightcas:s out of ten—it may be stated that the average yearly number at paoh of three great London stations is 2,700. One waste paper buyer reckons each year on about six: tons of abandoned papers and periodicals left in railway carriages, bathe is by no means the only person who contracts for them as a re gular thing, and he estimates that the porters take home or give away at least one paper in five. In the case of one London omnibus company, too, he reck ons, fiom his own purchases', that quite a ton of abandoned papers are every year found in the vehicles, and the men o f this same country fouud over 1,000 volumes of books !abt year, besides thos< which passengers themselves must have foaad and taken away.

"The Yankee."

The Britisher, with that delightful ignorance of other people's views which is a characteristic of his race, insists on calling every citizen of " the mightiest country on airth," by this comprehensive term. Thq word properly designates only the inhabitants of the IS orthern States, but Northern or Southern, there is something in the ring of that word that fits tho character of the American people. As a younger child of the same grand old mother, we have a warm aide to our big and independent sister Columbia. She's cute, and eorae of her children in turn are more cute still.

The average Yankee is not only cutp, bub he is faddy, the fads of the people b^'lp to keep business brisk in the States (iike our Frtmier'a orders; for ■ South *Sea Island pho*os., is making trade brisk with the Wellington photographers ) Strange to say with all their fads the Yankee is hard to change fscm his confirmed habite, bat once be sees reason to change, why he'just goes the whole hog right clap away.' For instance, for years the Yankee would driok O'tly China and Japan tea and to get him to try Oeyloa ■vas like trying to get a child to take a cold bath it was good no doubt, but not wanted. By dint of persistent advertising and much hard work, together with an enormous expenditure over several years, the Oeylon planters at last got a footing in the States for the pure teas of Ceylon

It was like the cat getting her nose in, the rest of the body soon followed, and from smal 1 experiments the Yan kee took to bolder trials until at last the purity, strength, aroma, richness and fragrance of the unblended Ceylon Tea overturned his prejudice, and to day the tfas of our sister colony are capturing the tea pots of Anjeric*, just as the purs Oeylon packed and Sealed Teas of the Hondai Lanka Co, are cap turing the teapots cf Otago and South land, much to the disgust of the Local Tea Blender with his big tea-mending profits; hence his humble prayer and mendacious petition for an extra tax on pure Ceylon packed Teas,' but wa failed to throw his dust In our Widp-awake Colonial Trea surer's eyes. The Superlative in Oeylon Tea must eurely be the product of the Gardens which received the First prize at the Paris Exhibition now open, and from these same gardens comj the now widely celebrated " MAHARAJAH" Tea, sold as it is packed, " in Oeylon," not in New Zea land, by the Hondai Lanka Tea 00., and their Agents,

It, mast be gratifying to tea cor noiseurs that the recent; attempt msftle by a few Plutocrats to have an extra duty placed on the peoples' pure Ceylon packed Teas proved a failure—and an exposure, vide Hansard No. 19, page 287, and No. 20, page 356. So THAT Bondai Lanka Teas are now admitted to be the best value obtainable and you can prove the* fact by investing in a |lb pacbefc, but be careful it is Hondai Lianktt, with the name on every genuine Packet and Box—but not on the Sub stitute.

Tfl ASHBUBtOIt GtfATOt^ i SAfOBT)At, PEfTEMBtIt 2§, 1900

Printed and published by Aijbbd (Joxk Tyrbell-Baxter, of Burnett street «Mt> for she Proprietors, RopBRT Bell »nd Henry Abam 'Maokay, at their Prtnlisg Offioe s BBraefcb Street, Ashburton, SATUSDAY SEPTffMBEfi29



TO THE DEAF—A rich lady, cured o Deafness aod Noiaea in the Head by Dr Nicho'aon'' Artificial Ear Biums, gave £500 to his lontitute, so that deaf people unable lo procure the JKnr Drums mfty have them ree. Address No, 66?0 The Nicholson Institute, Loncoott. Gumiefshury, London



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