GENERAL NEWS.

North Otago Times, Volume XXXV, Issue 7265, 13 October 1891, Page 1

GENERAL NEWS.

Two horeeB, after being taken to wade on the Egremont chore, sank ia the quiokeand-like mad For an hour they (struggled to save themselves from beiug engulphed, and wore eventually drawn out by ropes attaohed to tbrea other hotsoe. A sham military offioer, who had lodged m the ho-une of a gentleman farmer at Buxted, haa boon sentenced to five years' penal servitude for attempting; ty extoit a largo fiutn of money from, the gentlemau'fl wife, under threats of circulating a scandal which had no foundation in fact. It is calculated that Mr Edison will get about 15 OOO.OOOdol ia royalties if a decision juat announced by the United States Circuit Ojurt in Now York ia confirmed on uppeal. Thia deciaiou condemns tho ohief o( hie rivals in tho manufacture of incandescent oloctrio lampB f jr infringement of the groat inventor's patent. Mr Rudyard Kipling, whose plana of travel have undergone ohanges, is likely (aaya the Athecwum) to «efc sail for New Zealand immediately, and ho will probably pay a flying visit t) Me R. L. Stevenson in Samoa, From tho same journal we learn that Rubinstein ia rusticating in the neighborhood of DreBden, where ho intends to finish, biB new oratorio ' Moses,' and a new opera, tho name of which ia not yet «nnounced. A voiumo of essays on rausio from his pea.is nearly ready, anl will shortly appear. It will be oalled 1 Apropos de Munique. 1