BRIEF MENTION.

Evening Star, Issue 8770, 10 March 1892, Page 4

BRIEF MENTION.

Sir Charles Tapper, High Commissioner for Canada, believes that the Marquis of Salisbury's thirty-mile reserve respecting the Behring Sea fisheries will prevent rookeries being raided. It is reported that the Emperor of Germany has threatened to pulveriao Russia, aad that the Czar retorts that he will throw half a million troops on the Prussian frontier. . , v , ir .. , Mr Springer, the Chairman of the United States House of Representatives Ways acd Means Committee, has suffered a relapse. Davis, of Sydney, has sailed from Liverpool for the United States, and will attempt to swim the Niagara Falls. In Quebec thirty Conservatives, including members of the Government, have been elected, as against i.ix Liberals. VI. Merclot's colleagues have been defeated, and it is certain that the Government will havo a working majority. . , . Publishers of literature in China inciting people to attack Europeans have been arrested, and their plant destroyed. The French Budget proposes a permanent fund to redeem the National Debt, ami the tikin" of special measures to pay six and a-half millions sterling maturing next year. Colonel Hill advocates Imperial commercial federation and tho decimal system. English shareholders in tho Murcanti.e Bink of Victoria favor the proposal for rtforming the company. The filing against the associated bunks fur not coming to its assistance ia general.

The votes recorded by Lieutenant-colonel General Sir L LVlly (member for Hackney), Sir J. H. Puieaton (member for Dovouport), and Mr W. L Bardett-Coutts (member for Westminster) in tho Home of Commons in favor of a vote for defraying the i-xpi-n.es of the survey of a railway route fioin Mombasaa tc Lake Victoria Nyaixi have beta challenged, on the grounds mat they as members of the East Africa Compmy are interested partie?. The debate on the matter has been adjourned. Lord Knutaford has introduced ft Bill in the House of .Lords prov'.di -g that the United Kingdom recognise pr-jbate letters throughout the Empire. Tue Hoc. Eclwa:A Pierrep-jiit, the eminent American banister, aged Bixty-tive, is

ilead. The ship Tiieophane, nf l,f>lo tons, under the command of CapUin Nelson, which left Newcastle for Vollen'lo, South Anunci, on OecemKer 10, has been reinsured at a premium of GOgs, aa it U feared she has been loat. Mr Justin M'Carthy has iaaued writ 3 in the French courts ilamindiny the investment of the Paris funds in the names of Messrs Ssxton, Dillon, and hiiuself. At a meeting of oreditors of Bsr.zon, the Jubilee Plunger, it was mentioned that the whereabouts of the debtor was unknown. At the annual meeting of the London Chamber of Commerce the establishment of tribunals of commerce wa« urged, The Rev. Mr Calvert, Fiji missionary, is dead. The Australian and New Zealand Mortgage Company de;lare a divider! of 54 per cent, tor the year, aud carry forward the sum of 1/2,000. Butter e* the Oruba, frum Australia, is selling in London as follows : Sound factory, llo'a to 113 a per cwt; ordinary, 110s 4o lUs. The market is strong, The Italian Government have adopted a rifle similar in construction tu- the Maunlicher. Sir G. S. Baden-Powell, one of the British Commissioners! re the Behring Sea dispute* a3serta that the question u proceeding amicably. The American Government are reouildiog the defences of New York and trebling the armaments. The New Zealand Shipping Company s new steamer Ruahine arrived in Melbourne yesterday forenoon, and it ia expected she will be ready to sail for Sydney on Saturday. It has transpired that the caute of the suspension of the Mercantile Bmk wai_ the treatment it received at the hands of the associated banks, which offered to lend LIOO.OOO, but required security practically amounting to L 250.000. The B.a. Lubeck lvw arrived at Sydney from Samoa. She reports thas everything was quiet when she lefc. Mr Eggert, land .commissioner at Samoa, was a puasenger en

i-oide for Germany, Large meetings have been held to discuss alterations in the Treaty, and a number cere agreed on. Many of the prisoners expelled six months ago from Samoa are returning. The 'Evening Post' tajs there is a no*.aibility of Xaranahi being transterred to toe Wellington judicial diatriot, in which case Judge Kettle would bo removed to Waoganui, where he will alai act aa deputyregistrar of the Supreme Court. A committee compose! of delegates from the .buildera' aaaocatbna of the colony intend to suggest a number of amendments in the conditions attached to Government contracts for the consideration of Ministers.

Among the passengers by the Doric waa a. young woman who wts coming out to be married to au employe of Ihd Union Company. Upon boardiog the steamer g,t Wellington to gre=t bia bride, he found gh.3 had eloped at Hobart with a fellovv-paasenger, i3aid to be a married man with a family. Ihe 454 lots of foreign stacipa belonging tj a prominent philatelist reaiden- in Hongkong realised L 1,500 at an .auction in London recently.

The question whether a customer has any (fight in the back premises of an hotel has recently been decided in Melbourne. It was held that a customer having been served in the bar has a righb to the accommodation the house atforda.

Mayor Bell explain* tfiat the Selection Committee of the Wellington ficee Library did not refuse a gift of numbera of the 'lllustrated Sporting and Dramatic Kewa' on account of their unauitability, but beoause it would cost mow) to bind them than Co purchase the bound volun^a. to the Poverty Bay paper the Hon. Jamea Carrc-ll and Wi.Pere, who are strong advocates of placing both race 3 on an equal footing, r/u.e to p*y the Giaborne iiarbor or the county rate, while Wi Pere also refuses to pay rates on prof arty he lately purchased from Europeans, The Fiak Jubilee Singers contemplate a vlesoent on New Zealand at the tad of the year, Ex-Inv&rcargillites are to the fore at Zeehan, Mr D. C. Urquharr, whilom manager of the Ll\nk of New Zealand, is a practising barrister ; Hr Quinlan, formerly accountant in tiie same establishment, has a large store, aud recently stood for parliamentary honors, being well up tbe poll — third out of twelve candidates.

It may be taken as a direct indication of the deplorable condition of Victoria just now that at Albert Park (South Melbourne) no leaa than 1,700 houaea are to let. According to the census returns th6M are in Victoria no fewer than 20,915 persons who have reached the allotted span of life—three score and ten, Mr Price Williams, who proposes to construct a railway across Auatralia, is consulting engineer to the Nizam of Hyderabad. It is rumored /.says the * Express') that if Marlborough ia to have the honor of gettiDg another M.L.C, the person to be chosen will bo W. B. Earll; and aa ha ia the political godfather of the member tor Wairau, no one eau possibly have a prior claim, "The paiiie-monger ia the enemy of the country," aaya Sir Graham Berry. "We cannot expect Engliri: investors to have oontideneo in the colony if wc have not confidence in oiiraelvea."

The 'Manawata Standard' says fch*fcthe Government propose next session to hriiig in a meaaure farther simplifying the process of Und transfer and reducing the heavy law coata now attaching to the process.

Ab an instance of the price of land along 'the Wellington-Manawatu Company's line, et is mentiooad that sixty acres of bush land, only partly tailed, about half a mile from the township of Manukau, reoently changed hands at the proa ,of Lll 10a an Acre.

There are twenty-one patients in tin leper asylum at Botany (New Soath Waleai, ten of whom are natives of the colony of European descent, South Australia does not appear to hold ont permanent attractions to population. ■Official returns for last year show that 58,685 people arrived in that colony and 58,296 left, the net increase in favor of Sooth .Australia being onlyt3B9.