NEWS IN BRIEF.

Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume XXI, Issue 5308, 15 February 1879, Page 3

NEWS IN BRIEF.

Prince Leopold, it is said, is desirous to become a clergyman. A church built by the American Baptists at a cost of £4000, has just been opened in Rome. A Russian lady is not considered well dressed unless she wears from twelve to twenty bracelets. Several French manufacturers have refused, as inadequate to their merits, the medals awarded them by the Paris Exhibition jury. Last season the total amount of grain dispatched from the different districts of Canterbury amounted to i 45,614 tons. The Times understands that Mr Steams has succeeded in applying his duplex system of telegraphy to the AngloAmerican cable. The last census taken in Austria revealed the fact that there were 183 men and 229 women above the age of 100 years in the country, •The Melbourne Argus says that this has been the' worst year for business since 1854 and 1855. People have been living from hand to mouth. Mr T. Hughes opened a coffee-house in the New : Out, Lambeth, lately, making the thirteenth fitted up in the metropolis by the Coffee Tavern Company. The Home Secretary has intimated that the cat will hereafter be administered in private, and that the representatives of | the Press will not be present. The Queen has directed that the old tapestries of Holyrood Palace, which are in a very dilapidated condition, should be restored at the Royal tapestry works, Old Windsor. The following reverend ladies have recently preached in New York : — Mdmes. Van Oorfc, Brigham, Allyn Whitney, and Sutterwaite, and Misses Greenwood and Smith. Enough corn for the whole world has been grown in America this year. We learn the average condition of the corn crop is 95, the yield being estimated at 1,300,000,000 bushels. An inn-keeper at Ashton-under-Lyne, named Allen Cook, has just died from hydrophobia. The deceased was bitten some time in June last by a dog belonging to himself. Dr. M'Hale, of Tuam, Ireland, is the senior Archbishop of the Roman Church, and probably the oldest mitred priest in the world. He has lived during the time of six Popes. Hundreds of people in Sheffield, England, are without fuel, and dependent upon the charity of their neighbors for subsistence. The Mayor has called a public meeting to devise means of relief. " La Perichole " is to be given in the Alhambra ; but a London paper doubts whether Miss Soldene's broad style will please those who have been accustomed to the refinement of Madame Solina Dolaro. The contemplated exhibitions in Australia — at Sydney, 1879, and Melbourne, 1880, — are attracting attention in Europe. The London Times enlarges upon the extraordinary development of the colonies. A revolution in dancing circles is promised in Paris this winter. Quadrilles and cotillons are to disappear, and to be replaced by stately ballets, such aa were danced in the time of the three last Louises. Canon Harper, at the Church of England congress, deprecated abstaining from beer, and said that on a hot day he found Bass's beer one of the best drinks, better certainly than milk, water, or cold tea. It would seem that the theory that rust in wheat appeared only in very wet seasons is fallacious, as this, an exceptionally dry season, has been the worst for rust that has ever been known in Victoria. The tower of the parish church of Week St. Mary, in Cornwall, was demolished by lightning lately. The damage is estimated at £2,000. This is the third time such a disaster has occurred to the tower. Edison's telephone is to be set up in every large town in England. The wires attached to each subscriber's house will be carried to a central office, so that any two of them may be put in communication in a moment. The New Caledonia convicts at the end of 1876, according to a return just published, number 3,564, of whom 2,786 were Roman Catholics, 311 Protestants, 22 Jews, 89 Mohammedans, and 356 Idolaters (sic). The Rev. R. K. Ewing, whose case so severely exercised the Presbyterian Assembly of Victoria a little over a year ago, has been admitted as a priest of the Church of England, by the Bishop ©f Grafton and Armidale. It seems that the Netv York Times employs a lady as live stock reporter, and this lady, Miss Midy Morgan, has recently sent a description of the Islington Cattle Market to that paper. This is a new sphere of labor for women. The vintage has been very abundant in Italy. The Neapolitan proprietors complain that, having filled all the caskß obtainable, they do not know what to do with the surplus wine this year. , They are equally well off for olive oil, which is in good years worth four millions sterling to the country. Mr W. C. Jones, who five years ago gave the Church of England Missionary Society £20,000 as a capital fund for the support of native evangelists in certain missions, has now given a further siim of £35,000, to be employed in the extension of evangelistic work by the Native Church in India. The foreigners who entered their names in the hotel register during the Paris show, included 58,916 from Britain, 28,830 from Belgium, 22,778 from Germany, 13,573 from the United States, 11,980 from Switzerland, and 10,000 from Spain. Russian newspapers state that in Siberia, in the vicinity of the village of Motigyen, an immense nugget of gold has been found, weighing no less than 1471 b, and representing a value of half a million roubles. The same paper states that in the district of Irkutsk about 9001 bof gold is found annually. It is reported that the revision of the New Testament is almost completed, and will probably be presented to convocation in England this year. Already it is nearly all printed, the two universities having given £10,000 for the privilege of printing it, of which they pay £2000 yearly. The revision of the Old Testament will require three years longer. Prince Bismarck is accredited with a pretty fair ion mot. Apropos of the marriage of the Duke of Cumberland with the Princess Thyra, he said, " There are now in the Danish Royal Family two crowns (Denmark and Greece), two halfcrowns (England and Russia), and it is not surprising that the family wants some smaller change, and takes a Duke of the Blood." Professor Blackie, at the annual meeting of the association for Promoting Secondary Education, held in Edinburgh, said that the Scotch were in the habit of boasting at dinners and elsewhere that they were the best educated people in the world. They had starved the schoolmasters and dragged down the universities, asking the professors to do what is a disgrace for them to do. A European newspaper correspondent, coming from Bombay, made a daring attempt to accompany Sir Neville Chamberlain's mission in the disguise of a moolah, but being compelled to eke out his insufficient stock of the vernacular by resort to his mother tongue, the police penetrated his disguise, and the moolah got no further on his way to Cabul than the Peshawur Serai. Typographical errors, says Lloyd's News, it is well known, will creep into the most carefully printed works, but we were surprised to find it stated in the official list of awards made to British exhibitors at the Paris Exhibition, that it was "issued by order of his Royal Highness.

the Prince of Males !" This cannot be taken as a new French title for tin Prince, seeing that the list is stmt out Ivy the " printers to the Queen's most excellent Majesty." A courageous act on the part of a young lady is, reported from Boulogne. A marj at work on board a sloop just off the port fell into the water, and was sinking fast, when Mdlle. Pay, daughter of a local wine merchant, who happened to be on the shore, jumped into the waves, and swimming to the drowning man, rescued him from death. On reaching terra firmd she received an enthusiastic ovation from the lookers-on. . Dr. Kenealy's Son, Alexander Cockburn, aged 13, along with three other youths* was convicted by the Stryning (near Brighton) magistrates of assaulting another youth, whom they had pulled out of bed, tied with a rope, and gagged. Master Kenealy and his fellow delinquents were each fined £2, and at the cloae of the case Dr Kenealy told the Bench that to fine a boy of 13 in that way was " scandalous." They had done it simply "because the boy was his son." He threatened to have the Bench brought before Mr Secretary Crosß in the House of Commons.