BRIEF MENTION.

Evening Star, Issue 8614, 7 September 1891, Page 4

BRIEF MENTION.

The Antwerp wool sales closed flat. Eight thousand bales of Australian wool were sold at from Jd to £d per lb below the prioes realised at the dose of the last wool series in London. The situation in the manufacturing districts and on the Continent is very bad. The Rev. C. H. Spurgeon has suffered a relapse. During the visit of the French fleet the Admiralty stopped the leave of the crews on the ships at Spithead, and nearly provoked a mutiny. The position beoame very serious, but eventually the Admiralty yielded. The military manoeuvres of the Austrian and French soldiers in Vienna and Paris show that smokeless powder will come into extensive use in the -field. Balloons, telephones, and semaphores were also need. The Duke of Rutland has provisionally accepted the vacant portfolio as PostmasterGeneral.

The report of the accident to a train conveying French troops to the manoeuvres is incorreot.

During severe storms in Paris several persons were drowned. The proposal to ereot an observatory on the top of Mont Blano has been abandoned, as the proposers were unable to find a rock for the foundations.

Mr Arnold White, representative of Baron Hirsch, has had a satisfactory interview with the Czar relative to the Baron's proposals in connection with his compatriots. News from the Solomon Islands states that a trader named Gunderson has been murdered and his store looted.

At New Guinea a report is current but not confirmed that two missionaries and Native teachers have been killed.

The Hon. G. E. Foster, Canadian Minister of Finance, is accused of corrupt practice in subsidising the West Indian Steam Company. An explosion of twenty tons of dynamite at White Pigeon, in Michigan, destroyed a factory and killed six persons. There is a crisis impending in Hayti, and General Hippolite, the President, has strongly garrisoned the seaports. In the collision between the Medina Campo and Madrid express trains no lives were lost.

During the recent riots at Chang-sha, in China, a Belgian priest and two Sisters of Meroy were murdered. A man named Rhodes, employed as a sorter in the London Post Office, has been arrested on a charge of stealing 2,000 letters and abstracting in the aggregate a sum of L 20.000, as well as a large number of cheques and post office orders. Freaohing at All Saints' last night, Bishop Nevill reminded bis hearers of the fact that he was now completing the twentieth year of his episcopate in this City. During his term of offioe two new ohurches a year had been oonseorated.

The Otago Rowing Club have had two racing boats built by Mr G. Norton, of Wellington. Eaoh boat is of the following dimensions .-—Length, 31ft; beam, 3ft lin; depth amidships, 12in ; depth at bow, Bin ; depth at stern, 7in. They can be used either as double scullers or pairs. They are clinker built, of Sydney cedar, and fitted with all the most modern improvements,