BRIEF MENTION.

Evening Star, Issue 8772, 12 March 1892, Page 1 (Supplement)

BRIEF MENTION.

Captain Kane has been promoted to the post of commodore, and has been given command of the Calliope on the coast of A Barings estate trust is being formed in order to relieve the bank. Mr Rockefeller, the head of the Standard Oil Company, United States, has given a, donation of L 200.000 to the Baptist University at Chicago. The Upper House of the Mississippi State have passed a Bill making smoking in publio a penal offence. M. Mercier, ex-Premier of Canada, has resigned, and it is rumored his adherents will also resign out of sympathy with him. The Committee of the United States House of Representatives recommend the construction of eighteen new war vessels, and the purchase of a large nnmber of torpedoes. Agent-General Perceval is zealously announcing the resources and charms of New Zealand. . _ Almost the whole of the Viotonan Treasnry bills have been disposed of. Tory members of the London Connty Council are nominating Lord Randolph Churchill for the chairmanship. Messrs Herbert Spencer and Diggle have been nominated for office as aldermen. The County of Salop has been wrecked on the coast of Cornwall. All on board were rescued by means of the rocket apparatus, 1 The Times' says that the growth of the North German Lloyd's Shipping Company in Australia is remarkable. One-fourth of the company's fleet is now being employed in the trade with the Australian colonies. MrCnraon, Political Secretary for India, says the mortality in India is mainly duetto the prevalence of cholera, which is an indirect result of the drought. The ' Standard's' correspondent at Constantinople states that the suspect who was arrested has admitted that the assassination of Van Keovitch, the Bulgarian agent, was the outcome of a Russian plot. The Bill introduced by Lord Knntsford in the House of Lords providing that the United Kingdom recognise probate letters throughout the Empire has been read a second time. The London Chamber of Commerce passed a resolution advocating decimal coinage and weights. The House of Commons has been appealed to with regard to the by-law in force in Eastbourne forbidding the Salvation Army to parade the streets of the town, The Bank of Australasia has declared a dividend of 12J per cent., and carried forward L 15.000 to the reserve fund. Emperor William is confined to his bed with a severe cold. The second batch of Xeres Anarchists who were tried at Cadiz were acquitted. The Victorian Cabinet have further considered the scheme submitted by the Railway Commissioners for reducing the railway deficit 5 but no decision was arrived at, and consideration of the proposal was adjourned for a few days, when it is believed the advisability of suspending the Commissioners will be discussed. The total quantity of wflolsold during the last year in New South Wales, Victoria, and South Australia was 634,000 bales, valued at between six and seven millions sterling. Bishop Julius, just before leaving Wellington, witnessed Mr Walter Bentley's performance of 'Hamlet,' and expressed himself that it was one of the finest pieces of acting he ever remembered. During one of the intervals he went behind the scenes and warmly oomplimented the actor on his impersonation. The "Buller Lion," otherwise Mr E. O'Conor, M.H.R., is doing the grand tour in Europe, and writing his Ideas of the same to his district's newspaper. His last letter is from Rome, and amoDg other Btriking observations is one to the effect that the inhabitants of Rome are " mostly Italians V The sum of L 3.503 was expended by the North Wairarapa Rabbit Board during 1891 in importing stoats and weasels. A sentence of fifteen years' imprisonment has been passed on the father—a clerk—who took hit ehild to Brighten (England) and gave it chlorodyne, and afterwards poshed it into the sea. The obild was rescued and died in the hospital. Mr Walter Turnbull has returned to the colony after eighteen years' absence, and will settle permanently at Wellington. Mr Robinson, R.M., dismissed the case against the Dobson • Kennedy company, holding that newspaper reports of performances was not direct evidence of the pieces having been played. Messrs Buckhurst and Luke (retiring members) and Mr J. L. Kelly have beep appointed to the Auckland Education Board. The other candidates were Miss Edgar, M.A., SirG. M, O'Rorke, and Messrs Bell andCrisper. T. S. Jones, the jeweller and fancy goods dealer who was arrested on a charge of setting fire to his shop in Victoria street, Auckland, in December last, was tried yesterday for the alleged offence at the Supreme Court, when a verdict of "Not guilty" was returned, and he was acquitted. information has been received that the Grand Lodge of New Brunswick have extended their fraternal recognition to the Grand Lodge of New Zealand, The Grand Lodge of New Brunswick was established in 1877, and exercises jurisdiction over thirty-six lodges. The local agents for the barque Doon, bound from Liverpool to Wellington, which put into Hobart last month with her mainmast cut away, have received advice that the repairs to the vessel, which will cost more than L 2.000, have been commenced, but will probably not be finished till the end of next month. On moving some of the oargo stowed round the mizzen-mast some damago was perceptible, but nothing serious. A movement is again on foot in Wellington to extend the tramway to Island Bay and form a reclamation ground there.