GENERAL NEWS.

Hot Lakes Chronicle, Issue 116, 20 February 1895, Page 3

GENERAL NEWS.

Juvais the most fertile, the most productive, and tho most populous tropical island in ttio world. The Dutch have bad possession of it ninny years, and htrvo derived great revenues; especially from the collee plantations, birblmvq done little for Dtii religious elevation of the r»-oplo. who are Mohammedans. A largo curtain or coverlet; made of linen and wool, discovered at Akhpiyn, in Upper Egypt, is now being .exhibited Jn tho South Kensington museum. : From the likeness of its ornamentation 1:0 that of hangings, shown in a wall mosaic at Ravenna, representing a corridor' in Justinian's palaces, it is generally accepted as a work of the century. It is about ten by six feet. How small the population of Western Australia iscan only be realised lay reflecting that it is less than that of the Isle of linn, less than . that of tho Channel Islands,: less than that of fthof English country, except Rutland, or about the same as the population of the.si:igle,t owns of Cambridge, Oxford, or, Maidstone. Thirty-nine thousand of theso colonists live in the south-west corner of the continent, inhabiting an area of (37,000 square miles, or nearly o,ooo'square miles more than tho area el' England and Wales. ' • '• Metaphysicial lexicographers • lui'iiiiagreed as to whether jealousy is a base ' illoy of the gold of love, or whether it is I i vein of gold which stamps as .genuine .he metal of love. The Hudson Suspension liridgo will utve a centre spina of 1,020 feet in length, md its towers will each be 3'J7 feet High': A female pike, weighing 201b:', has been 'ound in the lake at Ewluirst Park, Basingstoke, the seat of Lord Alexander Jtnsscll. It had apparently met its death n the vain attempt to swallow one of its >wn species weighing 01b. Obstinacy is a bad thing to live with .nd to have to submit to, but infirmity . if purpose is worse, in the former you lave at least a sense of solidity" and persistence : with the hitter you are like a , eaf, not borne on the current, but.tossed j bout on the foam, and where you will j ie landed is a secret to which you have lot the remotest clue.

A big cheese, weighing scwt, is la be aanufactured at the Stratford factory for n agriculturalshowatHawera. The cheese vill contain current coins of the realm to he value of £5, from a sovereign down to threepenny piece, and is to be cut up n retail quantities. During an all-night sitting of the r,B.W; Assembly the stertorous Premier lent the deep sleep of tho foghorn, ' WaYe illowed wave in uiontonotis crescendo, rith strange sounds like i "gruMi»u*u»ttj! nd "hriu-m-ni-ni-iuph," until up n his hinder shanks, Perry, M.P, ; 'Mistei Speaker,. 1 name the honourable lie Premier for 'tedious repetition.''" A novel marriage, which excited much it'erest, has just taken place at Liveredge, Yorkshire, the contracting parties oing a saw-grinder, aged eighty-two, and widow of s'evo'nty-three. The brideroom appeared in his working a! tire, and ■as .equipped with his stock-in-trade ; hilst the bride was attited in a black ress, rolled up at the sleeves, and a r«d otton handkerchict on her head. The ride was given away; by an umbrella lender, and the ''bridesmaid" was a ,'idow of about seventy'., '. The Tcmnka Leader is responsible for lio following : —"Ev.er singe the holidays, ,or some reason unknown, the bush nf'J Peei Forest has been over-run with r \ffiai is commonly known as tho navaircert women in pantaloons. Tents have been pitched in the bush, and here the feminine beauties disport themselves . in real unconventional style, far from the haunts of men, altliough a few select members .of. the male sex who have conformed to the order are admitted within the snefed precincts."