BRIEF MENTION.

Evening Star, Issue 9472, 17 August 1894, Page 3

BRIEF MENTION.

Henry Topp, a farmer of Sefton, was mortally injured by a horse tramping on him on Tuesday. Elizabeth Mary Ingram has successfully sued the trustees of the Students of Truth for £l2, interest on debentures in the Temple of Truth. The defendants obtained leave to appeal. The science research scholarship granted to Mr Jackson, of New Zealand, has been renewed for a third year. * The Times ’ states that the FrancoCongolcse treaty does not affect British rights in the Upper Nile valley, though it will compel effective occupation, The German Press take a less favorable view of the matter.

Dr William Brown has received official intimation of. his appointment as honorary president of the sixth section (hygiene and school life) of the International Congress of Hygiene and Demography to be held at Buda-Pestb during next month, under the immediate patronage of the Emperor Francis Josef and the Archduke Charles.Louis.

A large building in course of erection at Szathmar, a county in the east and southeast of Hungary, collapsed, burying 250 laborers. Mr G. Turner’s waut-of-confidence motion in the Victorian Assembly accuses the Government of adopting a drifting financial policy. The Native chiefs are reported to be very anxious to have a British protectorate proclaimed over Samoa.

Mr R. Watson was yesterday elected councillor for Linden Ward, Koslyn, polling 94 against Mr J. Wilson’s 38, That the services of Colonel Fox are to lie retained by the colony is one of the most gratifying announcements in connection with the administration of public affairs which lias been made for some lime. Colonel Fox is not only a highly - qualified ttml thoroughly - competent military authority, but he is also an honest and independent man. He is not a man who will draw pay for doing nothing, who will connive at wrong-doing, or who will abstain from insisting that what he thinks necessary and right shall he done. What his precise status or duties as military adviser may be we do not know, but we may be quite sure that whatever the position it is one in which he sees his way to rendering useful service to the colony. He would not accept the position of an adviser whose advice would be systematically ignored.—‘Post.’