BRIEF MENTION.

Evening Star, Issue 8526, 27 May 1891, Page 2

BRIEF MENTION.

Many of the London omnibus drivers who are on strike have been arrested for intimidation. The murderer of Mr Gritnwood has been executed. The Chinese have pillaged the Christian Mission at Nankin. Ex Queen Natalie has gone to Odeßsa. The Newfoundland Assembly passed by a great majority the second reading of the Bill to give effect to the modus vivendi, but further progress was deferred at the request of the delegates, who are dissatisfied with the way in which the Imperial measures are being pressed. The London * Standard ' hints at the inability of the Salisbury Ministry to carry their free education proposals this session. If a woman were as careful in selecting a husband to match her disposition as she is in selecting a drees to match her complexion, there would be fewer unhappy marriages than there are. A man in America who was noted for his irreligion left the bulk of bis money, about L 20.000, to religious bodies. A judge has just set the will aside in favor of the children, owing to the " strange inconsistency between the man's life and his post mortem intentions."

A bride in Montreal appeared at the altar with her pet canary fastened to her ehoulder by a gold chain. Daring the marriage ceremony the bird broke int.) song. Mrs Alice J. Shaw, la belle sijleuse, continues to charm Russian audiences with her peculiar talent. She will not visit Australia till next year. Reefton Hospital is now lighted throughout by electrical lamps. The danger from fire through naked lights, or by the explo feion of kerosene lamps, has been entirely done away with, and the hospital is now aa safe from fire as it can be made. The Works Committee of the Harbor Board will report at tomorrow's meeting re the petition of wharf laborers for the erection of a shelter that the chairman had informed them that there was no site belonging to the Board very conveniently situated, but there is a piece of ground that had been taken from the Board for railway purposes close to the Sailors' Rest that is still unoccupied. It would be very suitable, and its occupation for the intended purpose would not interfere with railway work. The petitioners are recommended to approach the Minister of Works, through the chairman of the Board.

The proposed conference of munioipal bodies re a general hawkers' license has been abandoned.