BRIEF MENTION.

Evening Star, Issue 9437, 5 July 1894, Page 4

BRIEF MENTION.

Litigation over Ine Paris funds has resulted in the Parnellites being nonsuited and Mr Justin M'Carthy virtually allowed control.

M. Casimir-Perier, the new French President, in a Message to the Chamber of Deputies, declares he will not permit the rights which the Constitution has conferred on the President to be disregarded, and he has promised to retire in September. In the Chamber the Socialists violently attacked the revival of personal government. An uproar resulted, and the previous question having been put was carried by an enormous majority. . . Owing to mourning for the late French President, tho national fete will not be celebrated, and the money will be devoted to the relief of the poor. Madame Curnot has declined to accept a pension. The l'opc is in tailing health, and has delivered to the cardinals i'l sealed packet, to be opened on his death, in which it is believed he cxpressca his last wishes. The Premier of Cape Colony and the delegates to the Ottawa Conference from the same colony -arc seeking to obtain reciprocity—Cape wines against Canadian lumber. The Conference arc still discussing the question of the Pacific cable. Haussmau, accountant in the Lands Department, Sydney, has been arrested for embezzlement. There is a deadlock at Lyttelton in connection with one of the hotels. The license was granted, but a change in the management of the house was arranged. The licensee signed a transfer of the license, but the chairman of the Committee has so far declined to grant a license to the person nominated. Before the licensing elections there were 216 hotels in Canterbury. On July 1 there were only 194. Of the twenty-two which were closed nine were in Christchurch, four in Kaiapoi, three in Lyttelton, three in Selwyn, two in Waitaki, and one in Avon. Speaking at Marton the other day Mr A. Simpson, referring to the willingness of hotelkeepers to assist the needy, stated that to his knowledge no less than twenty men were provided, during the previous four nights, with bed and breakfast free of cost by the hotelkeepers of Marton. A recent visitor to Pahiatua has handed to the Manawatu ' Standard' the following description of that locality:—" If you have never visited that much appreciated elysium reflect before you do so. Rain that would drown a duck is a daily occurrence, mud that would bog a camel is continuous, aud to watch the human bipeds struggle through it is equal to looking at an amphibious menagerie." At the Ottawa Conference the Hon. F. Suttor, of New South Wales, opened the discussion on the Pacific cable. Lord Rosebery cabled to the President expressing sympathy with and interest in the Conference, and hoping it would be a happy augury for the future of the Empire. The Anarchists threaten the life of M. Casimir - Perier, tho r»w President, unless Santo, who assassinated M. Carnot, the late President, is pardoned. M. Casimir - Perier has forwarded a message of thanks to the German Emperor for releasing the two French officers. M. Dupuy," the French Premier, retains his colleagues. M. Stamboloff has warned the Sobranji that Russia intends to occupy Varna and Bburghas. ■'■*■' T The United States Senate has repealed the sugar bounty. The United States President has ordered the troops to arrest the leaders of the strike on a charge of conspiracy. , The Auckland Board of Education have determined to hold an inquiry into the system, of conducting standard and scholarship examinations in public schools as soon as Mr Petrie, the new chief inspector, has arrived to assist the Board in making it. Mr Napier's motion to insert a elapse in the conditions of contract providing for eight hours as a working day and a minimum rate of wages for workmen to. be fixed) by -the Works and Tariff Committee was defeated. A drunken map who was arrested in Masterton last week had on him deposit slips for £lßoarid dE6B; '■ ; > '