Admiralty blunders are not, says a Paris correspondent, a priviledge of Great Britain alone. The French Minister of Marine kept at St. Pierre Miquelon, near Newfoundland, a stock of empty barrels which had contained lard, wine and salt meat. The Colonial Governor, not knowing what to do with these « emtpies », which were rotting and falling to pieces, asked that they might be removed. The Commisoner of the Minister of Marine ruled however, that they must be sent to France. As no transport is to be found in the Newfoundland waters, it was necessary to charter a sailing vessel, the Seaflower, which was on its way to Saint Malo. The vessel landed the other day, its precious freight, a sum of L 1000 being paid by the Admiralty to the owners. The barrels were sold by auction and fetched the sum of L 6.