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Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 5412, 29 December 1888, Page 4

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King Milan settles £-10,000 on Queen Natalie.

Lord Lonsdale has shot over fifty bears, Bcnl, and walrus during his polaric tour.

The a Hhorities of Portsmouth, England, havo built a swimming bath for pauper children.

Miles of newspaper columns lire dnvoted daily in London to reports of the Parnell Commission.

A French comic paper has been seized for publishing an insulting caricature of Emperor William.

Tho construction of a railrond from Joppa to Jerusalem has been .vunctiuneil by the Turkish Government.

Ihe reront wet hcawin has saved the London Corporation in the way of watering tho street* quite £2000.

Navigation in the Gulf of Bothnia is cn> dangeml by thousands of floating log' washed from Aland Bay.

The Expulsion law in Rue-in is duing its work. In thu last throe months over three thousand Jews have left Odessa.

A new tenor has appituml in tho perwn of 31. Jerome, who has juet made n highly successful debut in Faust in Paris.

Franco will bo obliged to *pt-nrl £GO,fl"0,000 to deffwl her eastern frontier against a possible German invasion.

The Briti-«h Consul■ General tit in hie last report, state* the great hope oi the colony is now in the cultivation of vines.

King Humbert of Italy intends to abdicate, it is rumored, in furor of his son nnlc* his physicians give him cause to hope for better health.

Sims Reeves* will have hi-s final farewell, it is believed, in 188;?, upon which occasion ho will celebrate the fifty years' jubilee of Mβ public career.

It is not at all improbable thut the Ameer of Afghanistan will, if tho circumstances of his country permit, pay a visit to England in tho course of next year.

Queen Victoria has purchased a fine herd of Galloway heifers for her Windsor farm. No wopder tho Queen is poor. Fancy farming will ruin anybody.

One London boolwlk-r sold 400 copies of Sir Morell Mackenzie's " Frederick the Noble "in an hour recently. The book is having a largo sale in England.

The exhibition of fruit-drying industry, which was to have taken place at Portici, Italy, during tho mor.th of September last has been put oft until September, 1889.

Lord Claud Hamilton, brother of thu Duke of Abercorn, has Btartcil for America as the representative of a. wealthy syndicate interested in n scheme for heating cities.

Tho Sultan of Morocco will send an ambassador to the United States to complain, among other thing*, of the conduct of Reed Lewis, the United Stales Consul at Tangier.

Ba/aine's children all returned with their mother to Mexico, except the eldest, who in a Sergeant in tho Spanish Army, and who shared hie meagre pay with his miserable father.

It is reported that thu King of Uganda, Africa, has 1,300 wives. In order that ho may keep his harems filled with novelties, he now has fire queens executed every morning.

It is estimated that owing to tho low state of the Nile 200,000 acres of land in Egypt will remain uncultivated next year. That means a diminution in the land tax of £800,000.

The Cologne Oazette declares that French officers aro systematically inakipg , tours of Germany in the pretence of desiring to learn the language, but really to act as military epien.

Some '10,000 copies of Dr. Mackenzie's book on Emperor Fredericks illnc-t-s liavo been Beizod at Leipnic, arid tho liorliii police aro bunting through tho bookatall.s for more copies.

It seems Unit there aro now only 100,000 GermuiiH in Franco- -lenn than half the number that, lived there before tho FrancoPrussian war. More than one-third of theso aro quartered in Paris.

While tho Emperor William was at Koine Le v/nS treated to fin illumination of tho ancient ruin* of the Eternal City. It wan a wonderful panorama. Tho Coliseum appeared a rolo? u al maw '<f ilrc.

Great Britain is worrying abt/Ui the rapidly increasing number of its lunation. It appears that those (supported by the Government alone have grown to 75,000. It is attributed to the hurry of modem life.

Prince Constantino of Greece is only Duke of Spurta by th" freation of his father, tho King. The Oreok Parliament decline to permit iiiiv titles of nobility and only allow their iikjiihujli'k sons to be called princes by courteny.

'jf ho Matterhorn Valley is to bo rendered more accessible 1 by the construction of v railway t' rom V"ir>p, on t!ie Klione V'ulloy line to Zcrr 11tltr - ''' ~0 I'inifth will be twenty*oigh't miles, a;i'\ the line h to bo opened for trafiic in .Tune, i^' l -

Heni-v LnboucluT'o u"le>rraphH to tlioNew York World : " 1 b'-nr th:..! (Vnwn Princiv-s Stephanie of Au-tria intends to apply for n divorce from the Crown l'rineo .Kiniolpli, and that she will probably quit Vienn.i shortly for 'HruswlLs."

A f>in>r"hir )i'V-v,y has roraitly bof-nj !<>f f. to tht» t-.wn of Dn sdeii by Jean do Block, a Court Councillor. Itjwmistsof a collection of boots fornvrly helonjrinpr to Emperors, K.in{<><, Queen*, and celcbratcil eluiraeters who have lived '::> M-c.'int tirniis.

President C-miotV njxvrhes ;is lie goes

throush Franco are said by the French newspapers to be summed up in the words : "You are fellows, I'm a fine fellow, and we are all fine fellows." Tho President, consequently, is eminently popular.

Nobel Brothers, tho Baku petroleum refiners, spent 25,000 rubles entertaining the Czar. They presented tho Czarina with a diamond bouquet-holder valued at 10.000 ruble, , !. Another petroleum firm at Baku spent 20,000 rubles in honor of the Czar.

It is authoratively stated that Princess Sophie, sister of Emperor William 11. will not enter into the communion of tho Greek Chutch on her marriage with the Greek Crown Prince. It was distinctly stipulated at the engagement that she should remain a Protestant.

Prince Bismarck is credited with a good saying lately. An American who breakfasted with the Prince remarked that when his mind was wearied ho sought relaxation in trifling entertainments. " I find the nowspapors comedy enough for me," remarked Yon Bismarck.

In receiving Archbishop Riordnn of San Francisco tho Pope complair.ed bitterly of his position and of the action of the Italian Government. He exhorted the Archbishop to stimulate tho American Catholics to peaceful agitation for tho restoration of his temporal power.

The total emigration from the United Kinffdom for the nine months ended September 30th was 331>,042, against ;V25.70.') in 1887. The destination of the emigrants was; United States, 251,30(5; British North America, 15,593 ; Australasia, 22,994 ; and all other places, lil,oßfl. The huntsmen of Styria are capital chasseurs of the chamois, but poor courtiers. They actually let the Emperor of Germsiny go out twice without crediting his gun with a single stag. This would not have done in India in 1875. There tho Prince of Wales shot all the largest tigers.