BRIEF MENTION.

Evening Star, Issue 8968, 29 October 1892, Page 2

BRIEF MENTION.

In his evidence before the Labor Commlssion (ttngland) the Registrar of Friendly Societies stated that the total Investments of the working classes amounted to L 818.000.000, Queen Victoria has sent a wreath to be placed on Mrs Harrison's coffin.

An English remedy for cholera, consisting of perioxate crystals, cured 95 per oent, of cases in the Seamen s Hospital at Hamburg.

The Ohambjr of Deputies has refused to grant an amnesty to the Oarmaux (France) rioters, though the Government promised to pardon them if they resumed work. The oltiiens of Lemberg (capital of Salaoia) poUloned the mayor because of the stringent measures taken to prevent the introduction of cholera.

The United States warship Mohican struck the rocks in Behriog Sea, and will probably be condemned.

Mr W. R. Kennedy, and not Sir W. Phillimore, is the new English judge. Imperial troops not to be withdrawn from Canada.

Lord Salisbury ridicules the idea of force being applied to the House of Lords over the Irish question. He says that the House of Lords always bows to the real wish of the nation.

T. Neil, the Lambeth murderer, has eon* fessed to tne murder of four women, and told one of the witnesses s>t his trial that he bad killed lots of women of the unfortunate class. The Prince of 'Wales and his eldest son'will visit the Chicago Exhibition.

Mr Chamberlain declares that it would be silly and cowardly for'the British to abandon Uganda. ' , I The Committee of the Dunedln Amateur Athletlo Club have recommended Messrs W. A. Parker and G. Callaway for reinstatement's* amateurs,

Major Le Oaron has got himself Into alibel aotion over Mb book,

Mr Begg wants us to believe that the "trade" In England are helping the licensed victuallers in this oolony with funds to fight the Sydenham appeal cases before the Privy Council. The inquiry into the management of the Deaf and Dumb Institution at Sumner is a fizzle. No one appears to support the "oharge?,"and the evidence of the officials is that the asylum is well esnduoted, and that the children are not in any sense overworked. Mr A. 0. Begg told the Synod on Thursday that the Prohibitionists will carry many of the licensing districts in Otago next year. The London 'Daily Mews' thinks it will oast Queensland more than she oan afford to adequately protect kanaka labor. Fiat perjury in the Joshua divoroe case yesterday. Gaversham Borough Council, at the request of the St, Clair people, decided to take another Eoll re a loan for supplying that division of the orongh with water. Messrs Earnshaw and Gourley appointed members of the Otago Harbor Board. The Appeal Court upheld the decision of Mr Justice Dennlston in the ease of M'Farlane v. the Canterbury Land Board. The Governor's visit to the Bouth will be very brief, and be confined to Canterbury for the present. Be stays there for a month, returning to Auckland on the eve of the Christmas holidays. Auokland intends to hold her eight-hour demonstration on the Prlnoe of Wales Birthday in future. Messrs Brett (Auokland ' Star') and Guthrie (Ohristchuroh 'Press') re-elected directors of the Press Association, Mr G. Fenwiok being eleoted chairman for the current year. The Court of Appeal is by no meanß sure that there is a right of appeal to the Supreme Court from decisions of Waste Land Boards.

The Queensland Legislative Council, by 17 to 9, rejeoted the Constitutional Bill. There are to be a few ohanges in the local police force. Sergeant Brown is to take charge of the South Dunedln station, and Sergeant Mulville, who Is at present stationed at South Dunedin, will be re-transferred to the central station,