EPITOME OF NEWS.

Lake County Press, Issue 498, 14 April 1892, Page 3

EPITOME OF NEWS.

Sir Harry Atkinson is rapidly failing in health. The Southland Times records the death on the 11th of Mr John Dalglieah, one time of the firm of Murray, Dalgliesh and Co. Georgina Smithson Holloway, for some time licensee of the Excelsior Hotel, Dunedin, has filed. Liabilities, £17019 a Id, and no assets.

Mataura Ensign says the Croydon Rabbit Factory has received an average of 6000 rabbits per day since the opening of the season. On one day the total reached 8000. New machinery will be in operation next week. The English coal strike is involving a loss of £250,000 in wages every week The steel works are closing for want of fuel.

Muntz, the leader of the Spanish Anarchists, has been arrested. “ Trident,” acquatic writer for the Sydney Mail, strongly favors Stansbury’s chances against Sullivan for the championship. Miss Hewitt, formerly of the Dunedin High School, but for the last seven years principal of the Napier Girls’ High School, died on Friday somewhat suddenly, though she had been in illhealth for some years. Miss Hewitt was an ardent social reformer, amongst other things objecting, on sanitary grounds, to the burial of the dead. When her will was opened, it was found that she desired her body to be cremated, if possible, but, iu the absence of suitable appliances it was to be taken to sea and sunk. Consequently a steamer took the body six miles from shore, where it was committed to the sea, Dean Hovell reading the burial service. The coroner’s jury returned a verdict of wilful murder against Deeming in the Windsor case.

Polish Anarchists killed the Bishop of Promusci. The murderors were pur sued, and two of them shot dead ; the other two committed suicide.

Found guilty of bribing an elector to vote for him by promising to secure him a billet, Mr German, one of the Puberal members in the Canadian "Dominion Parliament, has been expolled, and precluded from re-entering the House foi seven years. It is alleged that sweating in the Salvation Army Match Factory is causing distress among private employes. Lord Glasgow has sailed for New Zealand. His lordship’s party numbers 40.

The Commonwealth, a newspaper published by the Anarchists, incites the murder of Mr H. Matthews (Horae Secretary), Mr Justice Hawkins, and Inspector Melville for the part they took in connection with the arrest and punishment of the Walsall Anarchists.

Mrs Montagu, found guilty of manslaughter in causing the death of her child by ill - treatment, was recommended to mercy by the jury on the grounds that she had mistaken her sense of duty. She was sentenced to one year’s imprison ment. The other charges of cruelty against her were withdrawn. A further prosecution, privately originated, has been determined on, many persons deeming the punishment inadequate. A sensational murder has been reported near Brisbane. A new arrival named Wismuller was found with his brains beaten out by a tomahawk. Frank Horrocks, aged 29, the son of a well-known member of the civil service, has been arrested on suspicion of being the perpetrator. Outrages are being committed in Ooupty Galway ; and on Lord CUnricarde’s estate, Loughrea, 50 sheep have been found houghed The annualVace between the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge (eightoar crews) was won by Oxford this year. Oxford beat the record time at every point throughout the course. Oxford has now won 26 and Cambridge 22 races, the contest in 1877 being a dead heat.

The complete returns show that the railway revenue of the colony for the year is J82236 above the estimate. The expenditure will not be more than the estimate. Other classes of revenue are well up to the mark. The territorial revenue for the year has exceeded the expenditure by £IOOO,

' The directors of an English railway j company have been adjudged guilty of j breach of privilege and arraigned at j the bar of the House of Commons for 1 dismissing employers who had given | evidence before a Select Committee of : the House. The directors made the 1 fullest apology and were admonished | The Times advises the directors to pay the men compensation, i The Ameer of Afghanistan has issued a warning to hia chiefs to beware of Russian wiles, and points out that the safety of their country lies in maintaining friendship with the British.

In the House of Commons a motion for the repeal or amendment of the Septennial Parliaments Act was de- : feated by 4G votes. The Tory press 1 declare that to shorten term of the representative chamber would degrade the House into a mere meeting of popular delegates. Thirty Liberals and one Unionist voted with the majority. Further scenes have occurred in the French Chamber of Deputies over the discussion of a motion that the executive governments should assist the clergy to preserve order in their churches. The motion was rejected. The stipend of the Bishop of Mendes has been stopped, and he has been summoned to appear before the Council of State.

Holden, a surveyor, has been sentenced to a year’s imprisonment, with hard labor, for attempting to induce a soldier at Malta to divulge plana of the fortications to the French. In passing sentence Lord Coleridge expressed regret that he was unable to deal with the prisoner with greater severity. A court martial will shortly try Lient. Macdonald, who is charged with treason, in that he he did, while a candidate fer the Dominion Parliament, advocate the annexation of Canada by the United States. An anti-Horne Rule conference at Belfast has arranged for an Ulster Convention to protest against the creation of an Irish Parliament. Sir Charles Russell (Gladstoniau Liberal) has expressed the opinion that the meeting will be the most important one held in Belfast during the present century, while Colonel Saunderson, Conservative member for North Armagh, says the Convention is intended as a solemn warning—not a threat.