NEWS IN BRIEF.

Manawatu Times, Volume V, Issue 121, 2 March 1881, Page 4

NEWS IN BRIEF.

A quantity of silver plate, stolen 10 yrars a«jo from Sir Francis Smith, BoDart Tpwn r was accidentally unearthed a tew days ago at the Red Lion Inn, street. ' . Then* are snid to be three miles of; b^ok- r ase3, «'ght feet high, m the reading robin' of the ' British Museum. It is lighted by an electric light m the dome. G» ing, to .a ball m Ireland.- now-a~ "Vnv* is like travelling across HampBtead Heath last century. Tiie ge'ntle'ihiehJjS© armed to the teeth and on arrival give up tlioir revolvers with their revolvers with their great coats; Cork, for use m the manufacture of -siha+st.Kas been rut. to th« thickness or rnfcher the thinness, of four-hundreth oil an inch. ■•* • Prince William, the eldest son of the j CroVnP-rincfl'of Russia, commands a company of the Grenadier. Guards, and | -elic^feli universal' thorow fly soldier-like and practiced way m which he handled \ his men : ; ; ■-'■■■■ •' J v lisviec des D&ir Monies, m a recent number, printing a'story cast m the -fcufoulogVapfficaf from, and signed •'Georg», Eliot.,', The story is. entitled " Le, Voile : Soiileve,' f 'and describes the fife' ; of' 'a-'ina'n unhapply gifted with a mysterious power of eliiivorancei A sudden and sponta'neons disappearance of the phylloiera h'aj. taken place m uomp.distrihts m fie south of France. It Ka ; s, !i h6weyer, : . shown iteslf m Algeria -and Italy -^-Rbuntriei which, if had hi the* to spared., . . : • :; The full name of the Spanish: Prinvress,is Maria de las Mercedes Isabella There«e-Glmstina Alpalsine Hyacinthp. Her little ladyirhip repose's m .-a blue satin cradle ornam.eted with gold, and ■wears coshimes of the rarest lace. The whtrd'etors of'the St Gothard ■ tutinrl hare applied to the Federl Triproldngby 700 days tne time origiimlly fixed _fpr the complel.ion of the'uri'd'ertaking.' .. T nstead ofbeing early next year, it would thus not be open for trnflle uflliMate m: 1 882. Theißev.. A: H. Carey, rector of Ab- ■ ington, -Northamptonshire, has been killed- by apiece oi meat lodging m his windpipe and causing piiffocation. Michael ; Boyton, who is included m the list l of' "seditions agitators whom it is desirable to /prosecute, is the brother of Panf Bbyto'n, the Channel swimmer. Ijohsiana's rice crop is estimated at f ,550,p.Q0 barrels. This shows that the abolition of slavery ban not ruined, the rice business m the Pelican stale. Mr'Nicblet, celpbrity of the Paris bar and'the intended 'defender of the Jesuits, died a few days ago nt the age of sixty. Mr Nicolet, was always a firm t '£2bnee ( fv<itive. ' ' . The.nuraber pf languages spoken m tho<kn,Wwn' world 'is 2523, of which there 7 afe s^'in Europe ?96 ,m Asia, 376 m Afrin, and 1265 m America. . / Mina.( a ,t.he E.rigli<h painter, charges, 25,00') doln for.painting.a portrait, and this m thetface of <the fact that, good photographs can be liad : for 3dols a dozen. , ' ! Por stealing a chiltt : of 3| years," an old offender na.mtdj Thomas Burrows, w.iR at MW'HHurher sentenced i 6' three ypni-s years' hard Inbori ■ There is aire ( p,or.t that the Qneen has 'California to Australia m 1830 was "■ 2/.814 i-as.es,, as, compared- with 14,098 m 1879. eff During" 'the hunting enjnyed by the Emperor >Wiilliam and- his ! Court recently at Letzingen there were slaugh-ter-d no fewer than 852 head of big g»me, includipg ,deer of all kinds and x;r wWboar?' i To this/.totiil his Majesty hiniself contribnted .118 head, and the £ G^ranCl ..." Duke Vladimir, eighty-eight, ' nn^glhers.-makjng. a score iv delicate propornon !to their rank., as deftly preai'rangsd by the royal fore'ster-in-cbi";f. hM ■>) i* ' ; Of eight daily papers started m Paris last yen r, four had "disappeared before the year was out.' ■' : . : A heartless scoxiudrel named Oldham, living at Rochdale, England, pushed his Ron, JOyears old, into the river to drown him. The boy on rising to,, the surface clung to a floating log, and wns saved. Oldham wa% sentenced to 25 years' penal servitude. During the. siege of Condahar meat and wafer were plentiful, but beer and whisky were, more- precious than rubies. At the sale os General Brooke's effects a bottle of the ; fo r me,r wag knocked down to a thirsty*" Lancer ' for eleven, rupees, and tho mountain r dew, fetched over . fourteen rupee's a. bottles. A paddle of mutton sent as a" present.' bysonipone unknow, to Mr Ashdown, agent m Shr:opthire fore the Duk? of Cleveland, was, after it had been cooked .<>* ( antJ brought ito.table, found to be poiponoxis, and an analysis showed it to •&?'ed'ntain<'St'rychine enough to poison fifty' persons. ... On Nov. 16 :'a fire broke out m a lunatic,- af?yhirh r m Minnesota m which there wpre^OQ .patient/?,,, and it; is suppOßed thatvfif,ty. wepebt^rjied to death. At Sfc. Lbiiiß, on -Nov.. 15. : four men; entered o saloen and: called for drink. Upon their refnsingto pay for them the landlord drew a revolver and shot two of them dead* : Chaca, King of the Whydans, West Coast of tAtf riea; is dead ; his son ml ends to celebrate the mriney of his father by beheading 200 captured chiefs. . A Roman Catholic prießt, who stated that he' had quarrelled with his bishop and destitute, was admitted into the Nottirgham Workouse as a pauper.- ...-,■..- A farm labourer at Goldberg, Gerjnany, while ( i; hHving'a drink of milk, took a wa'Bp f into his mouth, and, al- . though he Li proniply spa Mfc out, the angry rrpature found time. to plant its •tine m the back of his jthroat before he co\jld]get^ri^ o£ ¥ it. The interior of the ' . the unfortunate man's larynx swelled so rapidly thatr in' less than ten 'minutce he died ?!of?T?uffocation, 'after euduriuc ferriblete^onieii m the yoin endeavor t^ V^^Mi^ «nd to open ' tbis air-passages m , Ws .throat/ 7