An agent for a German firm has just left the city, after a futile attempt to sell quick-firing guns to the Governor, for use province. "His proposition to. furnish such in the large armies now stationed in this
guns to the Governor was not at all kindly received. The Governor informed the gentleman that in every cass in which his country had had experience with foreign arms, it had beea much to their discredit, and from this he concludes to have nothing to do with foreign guns, but has ordered 2 great many of the old fashioned two-man guns, which it has been said authoritatively are quite sure to knock down the two men who fire the gun, but are just as certain to do no harm to the enemy. His Excellency has also ordered Tis, 2,000 to be spent fur bamboo shields and Tls. 3,000 for spears; the latter is-a short spear-head tied with considerable red tape to the end ofa long pole. These are to be the weapons used to push the barbarians off the Ainter-land! If anything is thrown back the bamboo shields will prove Achillean armour rains all such. This is only a sample of the ideas in our new Governor's brain.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.