NEWS IN BRIEF.

Evening Post, Volume XXX, Issue 10, 11 July 1885, Page 1 (Supplement)

NEWS IN BRIEF.

Tho Queen has ordered a quanjjlj^pf Honiton laco trimming, in Spanish point and other patterns, for Princess Beatrice s troussoiu, from n manufacturer at Honitonfc Tho Fiji Land Commission Report has resulted in tho granting of claims for compensation to throe Gorman subject* to tho extent of £10,000. Of this sum £9000 goes to ono claimant, Herr Sahl. Tho total amount asked for was over £30,000, besides many acres of land, but the Commissioners most rigorously out down these demands. Mr. Richard Martin, D.L., Chairman of the Citizens' Reception Committee in connection with the receut Royal visit to Dublin, has been offered the honour of a baronetcy in return for the great services which he rendered on the recent and important occasion of the visit of the Prineo and Princoss of "Wales. There are in the human voioe about nine pcrfoct tones, but 17,692,186,044,415 different sounds. Thus 14 direct mu6cles, alone or together produce 16,383; 30 indirect muscles produce 173,741,823; ard all iv co -operation produces the^ large toti 1 given above, independently of different dtgreos of intensity. A demonstration was hold on 13th Mny, in Trafalgar Square to protest against tlio additional boor duty. Between 4000 and 5000 persons took part in tho proceedings which were witnessed by ,a muoh largtr body of spectators. Great confusion prevailed throughout,, and at tho close a prctracted struggle took place between a few policemen and the roughs. The latter*»rsisted in. clambering upon tho pedestal < f the Nelson Column, and the constables hi d ultimately to retire. A fall of snow, the heaviest ever remembered in the district at this season, occurrid in Upper Deeaide on 9th May. •* A memorial to General Gordon has bocn set on foot in tbo shape of a " Gordon Camp " in the neighbourhood of Alderahot, in which to train poor and destitute bojßi for the army. Tho suggoatiou-ia due to -- — Mr. Hallam Tennyson, who, in. a lotto r published early in March, stated that Goidon himself had wished for such ft camp. An influential committee has been formed, including the Right Hon. tho Lord Mayor, M.P., Cardinal Manning, the Duke of Westminster, the Earl of ShafteBbury,.tho 1 Earl of Carnarvon, the Earl of Weroyse, > the Bishop of Ripon, Lord Tennyson, and Colonel E. C. Gordon, R.B. Tho scheme has received the approval of Miss Gordon. ' . Thp -death i« announced of the woll- • known aotor Mr, Charles Kelly, tho liuh- ' band of Miss Ellen Terry, but from whom' he had been separated for some years. The deceased gentleman, who was born in 1839 at, it is believed, Winlaton, was the son of the late rector of that place, his real namo being Charles Warden. Prior to entering • the dramatioprofossion he held a oommk-' sion in the army. . > Messrs. J. R. ParMngton and Co. stato c the total quantity of ohampagne forwarded : from tho Champagnetlistncts for tho year ending tho Ist of April, 1885, amounted to 21,811,857 bottles, being again the largest), on record (France taking 2,822,601 bottleaV pnly), against an average, for tho past 10 ' yoara of 19,684,034 bottles. Present stocks > in oattk and botllo equal about 133,384,000 bottlos, or noarly eeven yoars' roquiromouta. ,ii Mr. Chas. Ross, who died rocentl}', had reported in tho gallery of tho Houso of Commons for 03 years. When Gladstono wtw a boy at Eton, Mr. Ross was reporting > the speeches of men then famous in Par- > liamout. • An item of £60 for ,(fjextra,woar and tear of- mind" appeared in a recent action, brought by the London oorrespondent of tho 1 Irish Times against the proprietor of that journal. • r . The American system of '^interviewing" i seems to be gaining ground in the English r Press. <•.. The Thames County Council are congratulating, themselves on having arranged liberal terms with the manager of the Bank of Now Zealand for advances which will enable tho Council to take advantage of the subsidies promised by the Minister of Mines on the £2 for £l principle. , The three members of the crew of tho > barque Wellington who were charged with > killing Captain i Armstrong during a desperate struggle on board that vessel , when off Plymouth were indicted at the ■Devon Assizes. It was shown that the captain had indiscriminately fired upon tho - orew with a revolver, and received his fatal . injuries during the attempt to disarm him. Mr. Justice Hawkins directed the jury to acquit the prisoners^ and they were 1 released. In tho Bristol County Court reoonthr, a r money-lender, named dementa sued a . butcher named Ford, residing at Choddar, . for £20 due on a promissory note, and it transpired that tho rato of interest charge*" was' 130 per cent. Judge Metoalfe b/' that as tho promissory note was a written contract he was bound to give judgment. ■ for tho plaintiff, but marked his sense of < .the transaction by ordering payment at the t rate of 6d per month, It was oaloulated' : that ten yqars would elapse before the i plaintiff would be reimbursed the amount ' he had to pay for court fees. The .Melbourne Milk Supply Company's reports, &c'.j show a loss of nearly £2000 for tho : half -year. t '< ' Tho Ratepayers of England and Wales A were taxed last year to the extent of for,the support of the Church of England denominational schools. - ' \ As large a sum as £6000 is said to have boon offered for tho copyright of General Gordon's diaries. ' , It is stated that the late Earl of Dudley ' was insured in various offioes to the extent of upwards of £300,000. r . One fruit grower in Victoria irrigated two acre's of his orchard, and as a result obtained a yield of 1000 cases of atopies. ' ' , , It is stated that the GtJvernmenrgave" Sir t Henry Gordon; entire control over tho 'publication of his brother's diaries. They offered no objection whatever to tho publication: of passages denouncing the Govern- ' ment, but they suggested that reflections, on officers now engaged on duty should be omitted. Even this point, however, is left to the discretion of Sir Henry Gordon, and ' it is believed that the omissions in any case ' will be trifling. ; Great complaints are made in Sydney, ■ > anent the new tramway regulations, which ' make a non-holder of a ticket who enters the cars a criminal. i The number of visitors to the Inventions i Exhibition during the first week was nearly 100,000.' Lord Brabourne has at last taken his' seat on the Conservative side of the Houbo ' of Lords, after successively abandoning tho - Ministerial and the cross benches. A young woman, named Sarah Ann Hdnley, living in St. Phillip's, attempted ltd commit suicide by jumping from tho Clifton Suspension Bridge. The girl was < seen by several men falling from the bridge, and when she fell on her back in the mud on the banks of the river they rendered ' assistance. They wore astonished to find £bo girl alive and conscious, and she was ' taken to the Infirmary, where she is going on well. It is a most extraordinary escape, the bridge being 250 feet above high-water mark. . , „ A large amount of oil exists in the stormy petrel, and when fat, according to Brunnich, the inhabitants of the Faroe T«land» use it as a lamp, obtaining their light from ' a wick drawn through the bird's body. It is proposed to place a memorial in the chapel, Wellington Barracks, to the late , Major-General Earle, and a committee has been formed to receive donations from those ' who have been connected with him in the Brigade of Guards. jst ,}, } A huge drum, nearly eight feet in dmmeter, anciently used for religious ceremonies at the Imperial Court in Kiyoto, is ' to be sent from Japan to the exhibition cf - J musical instruments in London. According to a telegram from Constan- * tinople, there has been a terrible avalanche in the Ala Dagh mountains, near Lake . Van, in Armenia. A caravan numbering -„ 75 persons, which was passing at the time, - i was swept away and nearly annihilated, no ' , fewer than 68 of the company losing their' lives. In revenge, it is said, for the neglect of Jt his invention of a swimming suit by the British Admiralty, Captain Boyton the ' - other night swam out to H.M.B. Garnet, in I'-'-*1 '-'-* New York harbour, and attached a dummy torpedo to the spar protecting her bows. It was not discovered until the tide hod carried it againßt, the side of the vessel. - Ab a high compliment to his character, General Grant's testimony in the Grant • and Ward case was taken without adminis- ' ; tering the oath. Such a thing is almost _ unprecedented in criminal proceedings. ' A lady has endowed for a specified period ' ' : an adult bed in the London Homoeopathic > Hospital, in memory of the bite General ■ Gordon. The twenty-fifth child has been born to . a man and wife in Dillon township, Tazo* •- well County, HI. Tho Sultan of Zanzibar has protested - against German encroachments upon 'his territory, and has appealed to the Treaty of " Powers in the matter.