BRIEF MENTION.

Evening Star, Issue 8775, 16 March 1892, Page 4

BRIEF MENTION.

It has transpired that legacies amounting to L7dG,COO are due to Queen Victoria and her daughters from the Guelph fund. Lord Hampden is 3d a critical state of health.

The Queen has postponed her departure for Hyeres until Saturday owing to tho death of the Grand Duke of Hesse. Oamaru waterworks stock has follen 5 per cent.

Factory-made butter by the Rlmutaka realised 112s to 116s per cwt in London. Mr J. W. Lowther, Political Secretary to the Foreign Office, stated in the House of Commons that "an action would be brought against the French police for the wrongful arrest and imprisonment in Paris of the brothers Purdie, two Englishmen. It waa a grave matter, and he trusted the French Government would pay compeneation and guarantee to prevent a recurrence of such an incident.

The rioters at Pahang have renewed hostilities, They seized the fort and captured, among others, Bibby, an Australian miner, but afterwards released him.

General GourLjo requested permission, in tbe event of war, to hs allowed to expel all oitizsns from Warsaw except 50,000, but the Czar refused the request, Russia is building barracks on the German frontier, a step which has occasioned much uneasiuess.

Messrs King and Watson, of the African Lakes Company, were wounded in the a*tick on Fort Johnston. Ten Sikhs were killed and a number wounded during the engagement. Messrs Shiela and M'Lean have been appointed the representatives of Victoria on the Federal Council, which meets next year. Mr Eddy, Chief Commissioner of Railways, has replied to the New South Wales Government insisting on an inquiry into the truth of the charges made by the member for Red fern of favoring the Proudfoots In the matter of railway contracts, ft is qaite possible that tho refusal of the Cabinet to accede to the request will cause the resignation of the Commissioners.

It is stated that the Hon. J, B, Whyte intends to call for a searching inquiry by a parliamentary committee into his case. Let us hope that there are not many boys like young Davis, of Adelaide, who refused to jump into four feet of water to save a small boy from drowning. Three weeks before Davis bad won second prize in a swimming match. The coroner characterised his conduct as cowardly and heartless in the extreme,

A Perth tejegram to the ‘Argus’ says that Robert Duncan, an advertisiog agent, and previously manager for Miss Viola, the parachutist, died there suddenly on the sth inst. Deceased is said to have been well connected, and to belong to Now Zealand. Tank Kee, a cultivated Chinaman, who is lecturing throughout the United States on his native land, has given a library of 38,000 volumes to the University of Texas. Some of the books are old manuscripts, but the most of them ajfa in English print. They all refer to China, and are valued at L 25.000. The Weasleyan Conference, on the motion of the Rev. J. Dukes, adopted the following resolution; —“ This Conference view with alarm and disgust the prevalence in the colony of a brutal pastime called ' boxing,’ but which is in reality nothing lew' than prize-fighting. These pugilistic encounters are contributing largely to the growth of lawlessness pffA larrikin ism of the worst type, and as a Conference yro pledge our-, selves, in common with other Christian churches, to agitate until the Legislature refuses its swotfep to the infamous evil,"