BRIEF MENTION.

Evening Star, Issue 8773, 14 March 1892, Page 4

BRIEF MENTION.

Holden, a sergeant of the Royal Engineers, was charged at Manohaster with selling plans of the defences of Malta. He was remanded.

Thomas Healy, a brother of Tim Healy’s, has been elected unopposed for the Wexford North seat, rendered vacant by the resignation of Mr John Redmond.

The foot and mouth disease is spreading throughout England, Scotland, and Belgium. The ' Fall Mall Gazette ’ correspondent in Sydney has cabled to that journal au account of an interview he had with Sir Henry Farkes on the subject of federation. The ex-Premier of New South Wales said he believed the federation of the Australasian colonies would be accomplished within the next three years. He denounced the treachery of the Hon, Mr Barton, AttorneyGeneral in the New South Wales Ministry, and scouted the proposal made by Sir Gharles Lilley, Chief Justice of Queensland, to facilitate the declaration of the independence of Australia. The election of a member to fill the vacancy for Kirkcaldy, caused by the death of Sir George Campbell, took place on Saturday, when Mr Dalziell (Gladstone Liberal) was returned by a majority of 1,036 over his opponent, Mr Cox, the Conservative candidate. n A crowd of upwards of 4,000 residents of the East End received General Booth with marked hostility when he paid a visit to that quarter of the ' city. The General attempted to address a meeting, but he was howled down by the mob, and assailed with cries of “ Old sweater, where’s the money gone to?” The hostile crowd was composed chiefly of 11 dossers ” and wood choppers, who consider they have a grievance against the leader of the Salvation Army, The Secretary of State of the War Department has promised to withdraw his statement that the local governments concerned had not undertaken the necessary works in connection with the fortifications at King George Sound and in Torres Strait. The Bank of England has received no cllicial intimation of Sir Samuel Griffith's apology, and the management of the institution were astonished to sec the announcement of the apology in the London dailies. Lord Rosebery has been appointed chairman pro tem. of the London County Council. G. W. Hastings, member for East Worcester, who has been sentenced to five years’ imprisonment for fraud as a trustee, will be expelled from the House of Commons, The Russian Government have given orders for the erection of enormoas barracks at Merv, in Western Turkestan.

The Paris Chamber of Commerce are petitioning the Government to establish a commercial treaty with Spain, on tho ground that England and Germany are absorbing the Spanish trade. The house of tho judge who tried tho Paris Anarchists has been wrecked by an explosion of dynamite. Two persons were injured. The damage is estimated at 20,000fr.

The Belgian Government are inviting the Great Powers to scud representatives to a conference to consider what plan of common action should bo taken against the Anarchists.

Emperor William, who has been suffering from a severe cold, is better.

The Grand Duke of Hesse has suffered a relapse. The cases arising out of the theft of the diamond belonging to the Nizam of Hyderabad have been settled.

The Liberal party in the Dominion Parliament have tabled}a motion to test the right of Canada to make treaties.

The blizzard which swept the country from Michigan to Montana has caused an immense amount of damage.

President Harrison has issued a notice to the effect that retaliatory measures will bo taken against those countries which refuse to adopt reciprocal trade relations with the United States because of tho provisions of tho M’Kinley Act.

Information has been received at Lisbon to the effect that the authorities succeeded in quelling the revolt among tho Native soldiers belonging to the Portuguese expedi tion on Lake Nyanza. In the engagements 600 of the rebels were killed and 400 taken prisoners, On the Portuguese side eleven men were killed and thirty-one wounded. The report that Colonel Rogers had been defeated at Witu is not true. So far from suffering a reverse, he inflicted a severe defeat upon the rebel Natives. Owing to the reduction in the military vote, the Easter encampment at Sydney this year has been abandoned.