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Clutha Leader, Volume XX, Issue 1028, 6 April 1894, Page 3

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The Pope issued a decree on February 12 beatifying Joan of Arc. A sensation has been caused in New York by thn discovery of a gambling club located in Coleman House, a leadins; hotel, the chief decoy for whicli was Mr Allie Clemeshere, belonging to a very respectable family. According to the latest advices from York House the latter end of June or the beginning of July is the time at which an event of much interest, notably to the Royal circle, but also to all loyal subjects, is expected to happen. Blondin, the • famous rope-walker, celebrated his seventieth birthday on February 28, at the Crystal Palace. He walked a rope carrying one of his sons, who weighed 1501 b. He says he expects to be still walking the tightrope at 80. Sir Harry V.erney, eldest son of Sir Harry -Cal vert, the lirst baronet, died in London on February 13. He was born in 1801. His son, Captain Verney, who succeeds him, was sentenced to one year's imprisonment for being connected with the . procuration of a young governess enticed from London to Paris. The Provisional Government of Hawaii will give Queen Liliuokalani a pension, providing that she behaves herself. She will not be sent into exile, as the leaders of the Provisional Government do not regard her as worthy of martyrdom. The idea of annexation has not been abandoned by the Provisional Government, but will be made the object of a fight in the future. 'Says a London despatch of March 8 : 'At Scotland Yard the detectives hare discovered that the famous Jack the Ripper is an inmate of Dartmoor Insane Asylum, having been sent there shortly after committing the last of the Whitechappl murders. The fact was kept a profound secret, but is now generally admitted.' Details of the bankruptcy of Captain O'Shea, formerly husband of the lady who married Charles Parnell, were issued on February 23. Until 1892 O'Shea had an income of L2OOO, and in 1893 it was only L7OO. O'Shea's liabilities are Ll 8,000. He offers 7s 6d in the £, and the receiver advises the creditors to accept the offer. Mr Gladstone was reported on March 7 as seriously ill, the result of a chill. With two physicians in attendance the invalid persisted that his ailment was trivial, - and desired to leave his bed, but the physicians prevented him. The ex-Premier is cheerful, however. On the Sth he was reported to be better. There was no increase in the bronchial catarrh, and his cough was quieter. It was a kind and happy thought of the Emperor William to order that the money which ordinarily would have been spent on the illuminations in honor of his birthday should, instead, be given to the poor of Berlin. The absence of the illuminations caused some comment and all sorts of farfetched theories were devised to account for the fact. The explanation was felt to do honor to the Kaiser's head and heart alike. An Anai chist leaflet in French, but printed in London, was being freely circulated there early in February. The author threatened the bourgeoise unless their demands were conceded, and implored their comrades to execute justice upon the bourgeoise — the enemies of all ages and both sexes. Another leaflet, aimed against society in England, is printed in English, and urges the desirability of setting fire to London in 100 places to monopolise the attention of the police while the Anarchists loot the city. Tuesday (February 6} was the festival known to children as ** Pancake Day,' to adults as Shrove Tuesday. It may interest some in New Zealand to know that the pancakes at the Royal table were made (as they always have been) from a special recipe, which is as follows : * Beat six eggs extremely well, mix ym when strayned with a pinte of cream e, four ounces of sugar, a glass of wine, half a nutmeg, and flour to thickene yt Heat ye pann warmely hot, wipe it with a cleane clothe, and pour , in ye batter.' The -* Free Land ' colony started from Brussels for the district in the east and south of Mount Kenia, in South Africa, on February 58. The colony will be founded on the communistic principle. Nuns in their religious garb are now allowed in the public schools of Riverside, Pennsylvania. They are sisters of charity. Communications from all paits of the country are being received in reference to the practice, but the school board has decided to continue it until the courts declare its illegality. The canal scheme to connect Georgian Bay with Lake Ontario has passed the committee stages in the Provincial Parliament. It has now to go to the Council for ratification. If successful, the promoters promise to spend 60,000,000 dollars on it. Traffic going by the way of the Erie canal will be diverted into Lake Ontario, and through the St. Lawrence River to Europe. The route is 839 miles shorter than by Lake Erie, and the canal promoters expect to get all the western traffic. Another new line of steamers is announced to run between Canada and

Great Britain during the coming season, beginning ori May 15. It will be called the ''Head ' Line, consisting of the Mithowen.Head," 3050 tons ; the Bengore Head, 2458 tons; the Dim-, more Head, 2229 tons ; and the Leelin » Head, 1687 tons. The line will be run by the Ulster Steamship Company. The- British terminus will be Belfast, 1 and the Canadian will be Montreal. The Prince arid Princess of Wales | with their daughters the Princesses ' Marie and Victoria, and the Duchess ' of York and suite, attended the per- ■ forminc of 'Twelfth Nigdt' at Daly's * Theatrp, London, on February 21. At the fall of the curtain the Royal party 1 sent their congratulations to Mr 1 Augustin Daly and Miss Ada Rehan. The Prince said the company had given * one of the most artistic and charming ' performances he had ever witnessed. There were many distinguished persons in the audience, including the Right Hon. Arthur J. Balfour. * Len Tye, a negro, found guilty of ' kidnapping, ill-using and murdering 1 white girls in Kentucky, suffered a horrible death on March 2. He had secreted a farmer's daughter in the 1 woods, where some hunters came upon 1 him, and proceeded to skin him alive. . Before he hacl ceased to breathe the - girl built a fire on his head, after the \ Apache Indian manner of torture, and ' so the miserable wretch slowly roasted, i A terrible explosion occurred at 8 o'clock on the evening of March 8 at \ the piazza of Monte Citioro, Rome, very near the Chamber of Deputies, the sitting of which had just concluded. The police at once swarmed to the 1 scene and took possession of the neighborhood. The explosion shattered all the windows \n the neighborhood, and at least two persons were wounded. It is believed that a bomb or infernal machine was placed by Anarchists, whose intention, according to information received by the police, was to blow up the Chamber of Deputies while the meulbers were in session. Thfi Pontiff celebrated his eightyfourth birthday anniversary on March 2. In reply to congratulations he said he would continue to the end of his life the work of carrying on the beneficent action of the church, adding that the need of this is great, for all the old conceptions of honesty', justice, authority, liberty, social rights, ancl social duties have been overthrown, and the church must seek to recall the nations to the principles of -moral faith, to point out the true causes of existing evils, to denounce the designs of Freemasonry, to imbue the different classes of society with a feeling of equity and charity, to inspire rulers with rectitude and to govern with submission, and instil an ardour for peace. Father Kneipp, famous for his so-called water cure, had an audience with his Holiness on February 28. After examination Father Kneipp expressed the opinion that the Pope will probably live beyond the end of the century. It is propable that the Nicaragua Canal Company, instead of abandoning the scheme, will soon resume operations under new management. There is now in hand more funds than enough to pay the floating debt and to leave a working cash balance. The contract for raising the United States steamer Kearsage, wrecked on Roncader Reef, was on March 5 awai'ded to a Bostori company, who are to receive 45,000d0l if successful in delivering the ship at the Norfolk Navy Yard, and, if unsuccessful are to be paid 10,000dol. The battleship Indiana, the latest addition to the United States navy, is asserted to be the queen of the world's battleships, and the best vessel that ever left Crump's ship yards. Her speed is 15 knots. The New York Herald's Cairo special on March 9 says that the treasury of King Onsoutesen, of the twelfth dynasty, has been discovered at Dashourj by Morgan, director of the excavation now going on in the Pryamids. It was hidden in a comb near a relative of the Royal Family. '• The jewels and gold and mounted precious stones were in great variety, including a crown. This is probably ths oldest specimen of the Egyptian art. ! Along with the rest was found a pair of exquisitely-mounted lions. The United States Minister Terrill, after taking a vigorous stand in the matter, succeeded on February 13 in obtaining the release of one of the : Armenian naturalised Americans imprisioned at Iskandrum, in Northern Syria. The Porte contended they were Turkish subjects, and announced its ' determination to maintain the right to keep them in prison pending a trial for high treason. Terrill replied that if they were not released in a given^time he would ask the United States to send two warships to Iskandrum to compel their release. The Porte then succumbed