MISCELLANEOUS.

Inangahua Times, Volume II, Issue II, 1 July 1881, Page 2

MISCELLANEOUS.

Trom Liverpool to New in a week I -The ServJata, the last addition to the Cunard line, is 580 feet long, and her burdeD is 8500 tons. Her engines are

expected to work irp to 10,500 horsepower, and it his hoped that she will make 20 mile* an hour. The Servia, is built of steel throughout, and has an inner hull five feet from the outer one. A hole, however largp, knocked through the outer skin, would not endanger her. Indeed, if both skins are perforated, *be danger would not be great* for the slip is divided into nine water-tight compartments. The only way in which a Bhip of thin kind could be. swamped during a gale is « through the washing awuy of the deck houaep, and the other exposed! structures which protect the staircases and skylights- It is safe to say that no such cataslrophe can happen to the Servia. The good people of Aberdeen bare formed a committee to raise a fnnd for the widows and children of the men of the 92 Highlanders killed in the Afghan nnd Boer wars. This is as it should be, for the 92»d Highlanders are essentially nn Aberdeen regiment. It was raised in this wise: A regiment being required, Jean, the then "beautiful Duchess" of 'Gordon, stood in the Castle-street of the rity with the shilling held between her teeth, and the recruits as they passed took the shilling with their mouths, thus as it were, kissing the Duchess. On the spot where this occurred there now stands n granite statute of toe " last Duke of Gordon." During the last stay of the 92nd in Aberdeen, the officers received permission to add to the inscription, 11 And first Colonel of the 92nd Highlanders."