A baby girl in New Zealand has been christened Khakina. The same word in Maori, but speit slightly different, means “ no good.” Marconi’s system of wireless telegra phy has been tested aboard the Ostend steamers. Passengers representing different nationalities were invited in mid-channel to send greetings to the in ventor. A message on behalf of Austra lia was among the number. The honour of building a temple with out the sound of hammer has hitherto been held by Solomon, but the architect who designed the vitrified clay church in Chicago competes pretty closely with the learned king. There is not an inch of lumber or a nail in the whole structure. The entire ceiling is of brick and tile vaulting the keystones being of terra cotta, and the ribs of the arches and groins of moulded brick. Several foreigners who immediately after the relief of Peitang to get inside the Imperial grounds, ami even into the Palace, describe the Dowager’s apartments (says the Pekin and Tientsin Times) as suggesting Low ther Arcade, the best of artistic China, and gilt-edged Paris in a curious medley. Her flight had been genuinely hasty, it appears, as one observant visitor noted a slipper thrown off near the bed, and various articles of toilet lying about. Everything had to be left intact, but trifling mementos such as a fan or a scent Pottle were brought away by the lucky few who got in. Among the Mafeking relics sold re cently in London was the celebrtaed ape —the “ babjian”—which was the cause of saving many lives during the long siege of ,l 8.P.” and his gallant band. The monkey, which was nicknamed *■ Genera! bnynian,” was trained by an officer to ring a bell as soon as the enemy fired a shot, thus giving warning to everybody to shelior in the bomb-proof buildings. Bo intelligent was the animal that he himself ran to a place of safety as soon as he had dons his duty. Perched ou the saleroom counter, the baboon was the centre of an admiring crowd, who fed him with apples. He was ‘‘ knocked down ” for forty guineas. There has been a tumultuous dis cussion in the Hungarian Parliament. The extreme left, led by M. 