doubted a little, and it is to be hoped the police will fully unravel the matter. At our local R.M. Court on Monday a woman, on a charge of the larceny of silk, the value of 3s. 6d., was sentenced to fourteen days’ imprisonment. Timaru is joyful again. Messrs. Henderson and Heale have been re appointed to inspect our harbor plans, and the public are again happy whilst trusting in the advancement of their pet scheme —the breakwater. Now though the majority of the people wish for Sir John Coode to visit and report on that thorn which has so long remained in our side —the shifting shingle question— our local Harbor Board have thought fit to put this all on one side. What do they require with Sir John Goode’s opinion on it whilst they have a couple of—well, men of locally high standing to investigate the matter, but ’tis well we have one comfort, namely, to recur to the well-worn phrase of “ penny wise and pound foolish,” which may, for all our Harbor Board knows, be very ap plicable to themselves.

SIR GARNET WOLSELEY.

The Home News thus speaks of Sir Garnet Wolseley, the hero of the Gold

Coast war:—

It needs no abnormal prescience to predict for him a brilliant future. He will be a lieutenant general before he is forty-five, and it is rarely that an Eng lish officer arrives at this exalted rank when still in the heyday of youth and vigor. Sir Garnet Wolseley is, in truth, at this moment the very incarnation of “ go.” His figure is spare, well knit, active, light; his bright, eager face, although his hair is fast turning to silver, is still quite young and keen. He can get through more work than most men; can hold his own with a bevy of merry, light-footed girls at lawn tennis, or sit for hours in grave debate at the India Council, or yet again rapidly dispose of piles of official papers at his desk. He wields a fluent and incisive pen ; besides minor works, he has published the invaluable “ Soldier’s Pocket-Book,” which has taken rank already as a military manual and classic; this very month his paper on the “ Armed Strength of France,” in the Nineteenth Century , is something more than a mere sitcces d’estime. He is a soldier par excellence; high military commands and great military renown are his most cherished aspirations and dreams, but he has given evidence of great administrative talents.

WONDERFUL ARTESIAN WELL.

The deepest artesian well in the world is now in progress at Pesth, and has already reached a depth of 751 metres (3118 feet). The well at Paris,, which is 547 metres in depth, has hitherto held the first place in such achieve ments. The work is carried on at the expense of the city, which has granted a sum equal to for the purpose, with the intention of obtaining an un limited supply of warm water for the municipal establishments and public baths. The water at present issuing has a temperature of 161 deg. Fahr., and the operations will be continued until that of 178 deg. Fahr. is obtained. About 175,000 gallons of the liquid stream out daily, and rise to a height of 36 feet. This amount will not only supply all the wants ol the city, but is expected to convert the surrounding district into a sort of tropical garden by the constant evolution of heat. Since June last the boring has penetrated through 200 feet of dalomite, and the preceding strata passed through have supplied a number of interesting facts to the geologist, which have been no ticed from time t:o time in the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. The difficulties to be overcome have given rise to many highly ingenious engineering devices, such as a method for driving nails, at the enormous depth above mentioned, and, more, the means of drawing them (by magnets), of cutting off and pulling up broken tubes, and, above all, a valuable mechanical apparatus by means of which the water rising from the well is used as a motive power, driving the drills at a rate of speed double that pre viously imparted from the mouth of the well.

TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

[By Submarine Cable.]

AUSTRALIAN.

( Special to the Globe.) Sydney, Tuesday. The ship Merchant has been lost on Dunk Island, on the Queensland Coast. All hands lost, or eaten by native wreckers. The wreck age is strewn on the island.

INTER PROVINCIAL.

[Per Press Agency.] A NEW NEWSPAPER STAMPED WRAPPER. Gisborne, Tuesday. Sir John Coode will visit Gisborne by the end of April re the proposed harbour improve ments. Nelson, Tuesday. Mr. Charles Kiernan dropped dead in a fit of apoplexy last night. Dr. Somerville is addressing crowded audi ences here. Blenheim, Tuesday.

The special reporter of the Express says that two other payable terraces have been opened at Wakamarina, between Deep Creek and the Forks. The prospect obtained at the previously reported terrace should be an ounce to each set of timber driven, not per tub. Kumara, Tuesday.

Great preparations are being made by the Catholics for Father Hennebery’s procession to-morrow. There is some excitement in town. The police force has been increased, and every precaution taken to prevent any disturbance. Dunedin, Wednesday.

The Returning Officer has received a writ for the election of a member to the General Assembly for Port Chalmers vice the Hon. Mr. Reynolds, resigned. The nomination takes place on the Cth of April. No candidates are yet in the field. 6694 persons travelled on the Otago railways on Saturday last. Port Chalmers, Wednesday. Sailed—Albion Company’s ship Canterbury, for London, with ten passengers, and the fol lowing cargo : —2SBI bales wool, 400 casks tallow, 3S4S sacks flour, 4277 sacks wheat ; value

Wellington, Thursday. Mr. Barton will on Friday bring on a motion in banco to quash the order for his commit ment for contempt of Court.

The Postmaster-General has issued a stamped newspaper halfpenny wrapper, which will come into force on the Ist of April next. These wrappers will be sold much in the same way as postage stamps, but in parcels of not less than eighteen or a multiple of it.

JOSH BILLINGS’ PHILOSOPHY.

Josh Billings in his weekly column of philosophy for the Saturday Satellite, says :

A satellite iz but a little thing, but it kan hold this great world in its arms. The tung is a little thing, but it fills the universe with trubble.

An egg is a little thing, but a kroker dile kreeps into life out of it. A penny is a very little thing, but the interest on it from the days of Cain and Abel would buy out the globe. A minute is a little thing, but it is long enough to get married in, and have your own mother-in-law. A red herring will keep a man dry better than an umbrella.

THE EVENING ECHO, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 27, IS7S.



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