BRIEF MENTION.

Evening Star, Issue 9709, 18 May 1895, Page 4

BRIEF MENTION.

Two of the Melbourne Corporation contractors have been fined for paying smaller wages than the minimum stipulated in their contracts. Admiral Chapman, formerly commodore of the Australian Station, is dead. Nelson Bros, are sending from London an experimental shipment of twelve tons of butter and seven tons of cheese to the Cape and Natal. The new trial of Oscar Wilde and Taylor will be taken at Bow street on Monday before Mr Justice Wells. The death is announced, at the Invercargill Hospital, of Charles James Aldridge, a barrister and solicitor, at one time managing clerk for the late Mr John Hyde Harris, and afterwards practising at Gore. His constitution broke down about five years ago, and he had to enter the Invercargill Old Men's Home. The Pope has issued a letter ordering Roman Catholics to take no part in the Italian General Election. News has been received in England that the French crossed the Niger and looted a large village in Niepe, a country within the British sphere. French launches, armed with Hotchkiss guns, are patrolling the river and openly defying treaty ights. Separate Notes have been sent by England, Russia, and France to the Sultan, demanding an early reply, and announcing their firm intention of enforcing reforms in Armenia. It is believed the Suluu is trying to get the demands modified. The Prussian Diet has passed a motion in favor of bimetallism. It is reported that Shakri Pasha, formerly Turkish Ambassador at St. Petersburg, has been appointed Commissioner of Armenia. Lord Ripon has replied to the AgentsGeneral that owing to the fact that he has received no intimation of the holding of a Monetary Conference he is unable to con- | sider whether the colonies can be allowed direct representation at it. Playing for Surrey against Warwickshire Brockwell took eight wickets for 22 runs. There is a miniature boom in the shares of some Broken Hill (Coolgardie) mines known to contain sulphide ores, owing to the discovery by Mr Ashcroft, electrician of the Proprietary mine, of a successful process of extracting the zinc by electrolysis. Sir G. Osborne Morgan, in resuming the discussion on the Welsh Disestablishment Bill on 25th March, said: " But for Nonconformity Wales would have lapsed into heathenism."