Prated and published by the Proprietors, PitUNa $aoa., Lawrence- Wednesday, January 16, 1895

A ghastly description of the horrors of modern warfare was given by a cor respondent who pictures the scene on the decks of Admiral Ting's flagship, Chen fuen, after her fight with the two Japanese cruisers Naniwa and Yoßhino. He says :— " The slaughter had been awful, blood and huraan re mains being scattered all over the decks and guns. Three of the five men working the 40-ton gun in tbe turret were blown to pieces by a six-inch shell from one of Naniwa's quick-firing guns, and a fourth was shot down while attempting to leave the turret. The remaining gunner stuck to his post, and managed to load and fire three rounds at the Naniwa, and one shell entering her engine room, and another blowing her forebridge away, she hauled off. The Chinese admiral rewarded the plucky gunner with 1,000 taels. One shell struck the Cben Yuen's steel deck, and glancing off, passed up through the conning tower and exploded, blowing the gunnery lieutenant to pieces, and leaving his head hanging on one of the voice pipes. Huge fragments of armour and pack ing had been torn from their fasten ings and carried inboard, crushing a number of poor wretches into shape less masses, even the upper part of the funnels being splashed with blood. An engine-room officer (European) was sent for to repair the steam pipe of the steering engine, and tried to grope his way through the smoke of bursting shells and heaps of killed and wounded lying on the deck, when a shot struck" his assistant and disembow elled him, covering the engineer with blood. He, nevertheless, managed to reach the steering engine, and repaired the pipe, for which he received a rather handsome reward from the 1 admiral."

A correspondent, writing to a con temporary, says : It has often occurred to me to ask why parsley had not been sown on the plains of Canterbury as feed for sheep. It is a fine feed, and they are very food of it, and during the summer months, when the grass is burned up with drought, the 'parsley serves for herbage and they have the dry grass to counteract the effects of scouring. 