NEWS IN BRIEF.

Manawatu Times, Volume V, Issue 143, 25 May 1881, Page 3

NEWS IN BRIEF.

The annexation of Tahiti to France was fconUtional on a pension of £2400 to Qneen 'iPoinare; imd of tiensiors to other F.oyai personages and chief* amounting m all to £36!8 . . .•: It i": reported from Bombay that native gitf> are < ing induced to pre nt themselveu at public examinations, either for entrance to the University or for admission t the public service A firm m New York has been making a baby's outfit, for which it charged £800, and ha* •; n* it home m two large waggons. .The Lancet states that there is a serious concumnee of opinion about the amount of female drinkinsr that is going on m all : classes of ciety. ; The I. ; st shot m the British regular fore-" . for 1879 was Sergeant A re 4 Fletcher, of the 14th Company of the Boya' Marine Artillery. who. during the regulated rifle practice for that year scored m thren classes nt distances from 200 800 yards 207 p w.ts. The fleieond -Chamber o? the Dutch Le?ia« ;lautra has irran 7000 guilders for a new Arct-c Expedition by .he ship William Barendta net f year. ; 'Mr. .TnTßes GoHnn "Rennett, proprietor of r the New York Herald, is to ha^e a new •'"am yacht built for him at a cost of £20jOOC. ... ,b,The ; . Chinese lahour agitation on the ->P.a T c?flc.;coaßt is frisrhtcning the Chinese. The steamer Oceanic sailed vom Ban Francisco for Hong Kong on November 19 with 850 Chinese on board. "f/A recent return states that the number of .persons under special police protection m Ireland ein December 31 was 153, and the number of persons specially wa hed over by the polica to protect them, from outrage

The New York liners have always been reputed for quick passages but the quickest on record must now be credit ;d - the White Star Linei Britannic, as she recently maie the run from New York to Liverpool m six days and ten hours. It is the intention of Her Mnjenty to give Lady Collex a suite of apartments at Hampton Court Palac«. A man of the name of Ludwick Beethoven was recently convicted m America of the theft nf a Bmall musical instrument: which plays six aiis by Offenbach. ihe incongruity of thia connection between the names needs no comment. The yearly return of <he receipts and dißbursemants of the Duchy of Lan^nßter ■hows that the total Te<y»ipt« were £78,177 9« 6d, of which sum £41.000 was paid for the Queen's use to the Keeper of the Privy Parse. All the clerks of the telegraph office at the Pla^e de la Bourse, Paris have been replaced by women. Only experienced clerks well acquainted with ihe night and day press service, have been maintained m the office. Ba' Matthews (coloured) whs discharged on Feb. 21 from .service by Tsnm Cody, at Nashville, Ohio. On Feb 22 she was arrested on a charge cf putting arsenic m drinking water, "from the effect of which Cody is dying and three of his children are hopelessly ill. During hop picking time (just ended) m the Victorian alpine-country, the State schoo's weie almost deserled, for children by this light and pleasant labour were a' lc to earn from 3s to 4s per day. ■> For the heinous crime, of dealing with a Boycotted »bopkepper. an Irishman was compelled by the Land Leaguers to eat the Rnap he had purchased. .Gurrycombing an offender is also a favourite punihment. General James Butler, of Kinsbuiy, Berks was recently burned to dea h. Re carried the colors of his regiment th ough the battle of Waterloo, and was present at the storming of Peronne, and the cap'nre of Paris.