GENERAL NEWS.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume III, Issue 285, 9 August 1882, Page 3

GENERAL NEWS.

Tho Dutch Warship Andcr has been lost. • Eigbty lives were lost. £ A shoemaker in Ireland, namfcd Sullivau, has been recently arrested for treason-felony.

■ New goldfields reported to be of importance have been discovered in the' Transvaal. ' . :

Rear-Admiral Iloskius has gone to Alexandria as second in command to Admiral Beauchainp Seymour. „Tho late census of AYesLei-n Australia shows a population (exclusive of aborigines) of 29,708, -being an increase of 4,923 for the past eleven j'ears. . It is 1 stated that an American millionaire has token a deer run of unproductive, laud in the Highlands for nine years, at a yearly rental of ' A man named Cbnrell, supposed to be insane, made an ,'attack upon ,the postmaster 6f Navan recently, when the postmaster immediately shot'him dead. ■

In order to develop the manufacture of . cotton in Russia, the Goyer-ujment of that country has considerably reduced the 'import duty on the raw material. The South Australian footballers were •'guests' of the Mayor of Melbourne on their recent visit to that city. They, were entertained at lunch,' 'apd'r 1 were also favored witli ah organ recital.

■ 'The, revenue from.; .tlie coffee houses in connection with the Liverpool missions last year .amounted, to the large sum of £75,000. ' A private dock is projected, at Adelaide to cost £35,000, and to be large enough to accommodate ten of the largest steamers in the world, as well as seven of the small steamers. ■ •■

A fireman on tbe Victorian railways, named John ,Jil<?Ewan, lost his life rocently by falling from the footplate of tbe engine on to the Hue while ' the train was in motion, • , ' } At'Queenstowu, South Australia, a lady has been nominated for the District Council. The Returning Officer is in a fix and cannot say'whtether she is eligible or not. $ ; Fifty thotjsand , women signed , an address congratulating the Queen on her escape from assassination. The address was presented to the Marquis of Juorne, to forwarded to Her Majesty. . ; The' new commander of the "Orient Company's steamship Garonne* Henry Sladen, was in H.M.S. Challenger, while she .was on the Australian station, under Commodore Lambert.

A meeting has been held at Normanton, North Queenland, when .£270 was ;collected for the purpose of establishing a newspaper in chat town. A.plant was to be purchased, and an editor is advertised' for, , . • . ' ■ j '■ It is seated that, wlieii Mr. Highett, M-L.C, died, there was an amount of iB7Qp lying to .bis, credit. in the .Treasury for salary as a member of Parliament^; which he' declined, to draw. His executors, now. claim the amouut»,,and the Treasurer liasihe application under' consideration. Probatp.was granted, to .the will of; the late 'Arthur Hopkius, of Murdeduke, near ■\yinphester,, (Victoria}, squatter, f amounttb i-77,350. 1 Trobate was ' 'also ' gran ted to the will of the late Alexander Mclntbsh, of G-lendennin'g station, Wimmera district, (Victoria,) amounting^ 473,522. ; A a recent meeting 1 of tlie Bazaar Committee f of the" Warrriambool Eacihg Glub (Victoria), it was elicited that the sum of i;ipoo profit from tlje bazaar would, be banded over to the trustees, in aid.of the fund for rcdWoing-tbe debt on tlib grand stand of the Warruambool racecourse.

■ Wholesale 1 robberies' having taken place at the Fitzroy Public Library, a stiict watch was kept, resulting in the discovery of a man named Edward 2fcise in the act of placing books in a bag. Al his lodging's fort^-five' Volume's were found.' He was brought' up at the Fitzroy Police Court and (Sentenced to si* -months'' imprisonment ■ i

, 'The Kaiapdii Woollen Factory propose to introduce •the electric light, aud (adds tlie Christchurch Press) as it has bepn discovered that' the power of tlie company's engine would drive,. a dynamo machine capable of^ftirm'shing the "illuminating power for all thetowu lamps, it is- thought highly probable that the municipal authorities may entej.'.mto a scheme , for the improved lighting of the .borough in, this way! ; , ' , i Roebuck Bay, Western Australia, is pronounced by Captain WalcotX, revenue officer for 'the North "Western ' District, to be one of the finest' harbors in Austral • «

rana. i - ;The Rev.. Mr. Keating, ,who has made himself so active during the,short tinw he has been here in awakening; a sense q£ interest in bis cbure.h, lias no desire to conceal his High Oliur,ch tendencies. He , has every window in the church (Jinbellished with colored symbols, and part of the service is, intoned by himself. Yesterdry he acknowledged the gift of two tablets* bearing the Ten Commandments, and a gilded crucifix. He did not see why,' when -they believed in the crucifixion, they should dispense with .the cross. It .was a mistake for people to r think that it made the church look 'like a'Turkij3h' mosque or Mohammedan temple. — Evening News. ' • " In an article upon' the Russian Greheral Skobeleff, contributed to the Melbourne Argus by Mr. -Archibald Forbes",' the writer says { — '^Hq had ; no married life, although he was iinarried before <jl knew him. jHis marriage was one ;pf L the strangest episodes in his .eventful cancer. He loved a lady, I think of the.Krapotkine family, t and she flouted liim ; ■he persevereS, and he finally won Her affection. Then he married her. As they left- .'the church" after the ceremony, Skobeleff quitted her . with a low bow, and never spoke to her again. He took iij f thj|3 fashion a not quite chivalrous revenge for the despite with which his firs.t advances had been met., Skobeleff was the -mos fc brilliant man I ever knew, and incomparably the finest fighting man. I regard his loss to Russia, in 'airy- war in which' she may engage, as equivalent to the deprivation of an army corps." l(

To Wives and Mothers. — Nothing is so depressing as sickness in a family, especially in tbe infant portion of it. Who .can be cheerful or happy under such affliction? It is, however, a task of< considerable difficulty to the medical man in tbe treatment of bis patient to impress upon mothers tbe necessity of careful and judicious feeding of their yonng offspring. The diarrhoea and wasting disease- observed in infant life arises to a great extent from the use of the patent foods that flood the market— ,which, jto saj the least, arc often sour' and perfectly indigestible. The highest medical authorities on tbe subject are in 'favor of tbe" use of Baron Liebig's In:fant'a' Food. Messrs. Sharland f and Co. arb' the New Zealand agents for it, it can be obtained from all chemists throughout New Zealand at Is. 6d. a tin. — Adv.