NOTES ON CURRENT EVENTS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume VIII, Issue 141, 25 November 1884, Page 2

NOTES ON CURRENT EVENTS.

I:-.:: ... „ , ... '<■ " !; V :., Fancy the eleotvic light being used' for what the .Americans would call " bug-killing!" Yet this... has : actually been the case on .the, banks of the Dneiper ,^n ..>Russi£.. £ lasec^,w.ere b be'attracted m immense numbers' by ,the brilliancy of the~ ifgHt so that they. . ,cpuT<Pbe> ttestrbjed ! l wholesaWi P^rhap T s ■' ultimately the world may get rid of mosquitoes and other insect pests m a similar manner. ; >■;./.):-; ■■.■.,. ~ : . v .;*; ! An agitation is now going on m van*; oils . , p Aris of -{Britain for a) reduction m tne price of bread. Some of the bakers hay^ r yielded to, (th,e demand, whjicif has been made^ consequent on the I6w price of wheat, and, it it said that ev^p at the lesselr rateffj'a 'handsome p^bfit can ( mfidei j One- la^e firm of • bak'draf m; fl üblin is Reported. to r be making a -year 1 * Iyps:ofifeofr£ls,ooo. i..ir<i .•/.-.; :\ ..'• ' j The £iv^ > B'lionddn < cabre£»ram:of Ocljo^i : bpr 18th nays : The. j terrible, raud •nniyer'r; jflaljdepreefiipn. ,'m , tjgdeiibreajens^o drive every other question m the backj. isground. things haye f gone, so fp,r ■ that , tfee Wws'pap^rtP nji^r'nave' J fei4nc 'spJßcial cprreßp'6hcrehtß to'thef destressed toWns;' m the nbrth*f England and they fill' the journals with tales of ; dreadful destitution j caused by the tahiiost complete standstill m lha shipVbuilding trade. , < Other trades of the country are making t^e Bame % compiaints--rNp miners work,,ed gn 'full time ; wheat de-iclare'-thafr the' 6rbj}''does not' ;i pay 'for ' pages',' i bay- 'to nothing of the rent; tea merchants assert that each pound : sold at wholesale price brings a penny less than,:i» igivjon at tho Chinese] port, '• apd so on. j T^je,rapid advance qf Russia r . towards} Jndia', and tlie impossibilitiy pjf stopping her mardh'-tiir^ne^Cbssack at(d c . Sephoy are brought face to face across a frontier, wHichj ha,s yet tbjbe' marked ojut, is causing auxjety amongst thoughtful pdople- m England. : whole interest cenitres O upon Herat, \fhich townjs held to be tbre gate,, of., Ipdiii7*rirfMpon 'Afganistan^caued^b'y .Sir Lepel Griffin " tbe Asiatic Soudan." Sir Lepel m a letter to^the \ Timei'sayk : — " There is n© occasion to fear Russia. f ln ; materiabrstrength, m Jntelligetice,. ..and m all the resources, of [civilisation, En.<jland is far *• more strong. Thei strength of Russia lies m the steady 'purpose of dispPtism, directiug wiih authority; a cowed aqd uneiid-, catcH nation. This force,> 'like thd sbHjrtdj.SlpivJrisfe.ofiitbe sea.fwill only frdln , before an immovable barrier,' which it may .be hoped; will be found to exist m. the declared deter minatiGri of the English .people."" " " ' '■■''!''."' 11 The Home (jorrespondenfcpf acpntemrj porarv k wrote last ' 'm,ail :'.,' Austria and' (rem/any, tlß' well, as Belgium j are Jtufh--iing longing eye's . onv your- part' ; of the >worldi . Several. ship 6 belonging to the Anstrian, navy are to proceed. at once .upon trans-oceanic expeditions inve'stigafe the 'chances'or- opening ufiw, . 'fields for" colonisation and commercial enterprise." Tbat sum^ up , m. a few ; words' "Utie instrUctiohs T 'to !J thei ship s ; comuianding officers; > The- cor- : vetteSarda, a first-classu cnisier, .leaves •Fimmie, at.ttie end .of September with I a number of pupils of.tlie .^.a^^ Acad-; emy ? aboard; Sne/proceeds/first to Brazir, '-ihetUvoh to" Capetown,'^loourne,' 1 ' v and %e'ttragt6n'' After r vißitnigs '■ H6bart; a ftud ppsßibly; T Adelaide, the Sard a returns hom«'b£ In-' dia.! Other; t ships :of the iAustriah ; tn fl^y <m-Wn& .tsommlssioned- vaguely rfor |Vthe .Pftc|fi9," v wh|lßt, others agajn. r wijl ( jweia careful exaraination ?of all W,i?BX &t ricati' Ports. A large sum has btfen set asidi^ jtfy the Austrian | G6yeru- { mSnt for&tlte expenses of; the'selfeipedi-. ! tions, and a general impression prevails that; bußiue'sß is.meant? > . ! . . „: / ' ■.'■< <I" -'.i . .<'■' • . ■ :'i . y\ . .