BRIEF MENTION.

Evening Star, Issue 8610, 2 September 1891, Page 2

BRIEF MENTION.

The English harvest has been suspended owing to the wet, and the crops are rotting in the fields.

The Hon. J. Chapleau and other prominent Tory Catholics in Canada have appealed to the Pope against the politics] action of the National party led by M. Mercier, Premier of Quebec. The Italian Budget estimates that the expenditure for 1892 will be reduoed by 25,000,000fr. The Simplon railway tunnel (Switzerland} is estimated to cost 80,000,000fr, and the boring will take eight years and a-half tocomplete. The Nihilists have murdered the chief of police at Bielaya Tserkovf, near Kief. The Indian export of wheat is the largest since 1874.

Ministerialists are urging Mr Napier, of Auckland, to become a candidate for the Waikato seat in the Government interest. Mr J. R. Cox, M.P. for East Clare, and Irish delegate to the colonies, arrived at Auckland yesterday, At the Auckland Supreme Court Frederick Lewie Beard, charged with the embezzlement of the funds of the Hobson County Council, was sentenced to twelve months' imprisonment. An application for probation under the First Offenders Act was refused. Frederick Williams, for larceny, received twelve months; Taikati, a Maori, for horse-stealing, nine months; Te Wira, for the same offence, eight months. The Grand Jury returned a true bill in the libel case against Shortland. At the Wellington Supreme Court Lucy Walden, aged fifteen years, charged with larceny at Woodville, was granted twelve months' probation. The evidence showed that Bhe was a kleptomaniac. Nearly all the local bodies in the country have opposed the extension of the " one-man-one-vote " principle to county government.

The Kakanui relief fund is to be wound up immediately. Mr C. F. Bell is recommended for the head-mastership of Manuka Creek State school, The death of Mr H. Stringer, of Roxburgh, is alleged by the • Tuapeka Times's' correspondent to have been primarily due to an accident received in the football field. The Warepa Farmers' Club severely condemn the new taxation. A conference'of labor unions at Leeds, representing 50,000 men, resolved in favor of immediate federation of trade and labor unions. The Knights of Labor are taking steps to establish an hospital in Woodville, Mr Justice Grantham, in charging the Grand Jury at the Liverpool Assise*, said the calendar was a light one, but there were several serious cases, It was frequently said that publicans did not do their duty in refusing to serve drnnken men. Many, he had no doubt, did not do their duty in that respect, and he felt that in some way or other publicans who failed in their duty should be punished. He himself would be glad if those publicans could be fined the costs of all prosecutions caused by crimee committed by people who, having had toy much drink, had been farther supplied witb more. If that course could be adopted, halt the crimes committed in Liverpool would b& stopped.