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New Zealand Herald, Volume XVI, Issue 5496, 28 June 1879, Page 7

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Steam-pouoktno haa increased of wheat 50 per cent, in Ahreria.S The moat eminent phvaicianeinJTeW , IBS-- 5 3||| make from £8000 to .•.;;^W&fiMliS The Sydney International probably bO opened on the 17t^f'SeSUR»^fc||ai A clerk in the PerpignariSbtaucV af Bank of France haa ahicoadeFviW'^giyyOtm^yif^M Jewish residents of Neyr ~£nrk areonyjß-*::f"-?:31| izing extensive Hebrew colonies toJfrS; egg"* ''.->J?aE! liabed in the far w. -' - ■.- '- :^M Arrangements are fg§jHp»n- :' : : !« strnction of docks at Conatantintjgjfc.under ■;.-;.: ■:&- the direction of Hobart Pasna. - *' r ; S| There are six lepers in the Chinese leper \'i:': hospital, Ballarat, Victoria. TKejJWifornian .-%=?; authorities ship all lepers ba£> h> China. * ' London is said to be full of ..and Germans. It is chiefly " foreigneA" who are \ now, manipulating the electrio lighten that city. Mr. Walter Thompson has beon forced to close his oatmeal mill at SeaCortb, Canada, owing to the duty imposed on American oats under the new tariff. The Emperor and Empress of BraSu intend to contribute 10 per cent, of their income towards the reduction of the deficit* in the national funds. A terrible sporadic fever in rasing in Q|Mblanca, in Morocco, attacking both nalftlj and Europeans. Business haa been brought to a standstill. ~ ' The Americans will soon have a second W railroad across the continent. The Southern Pacific railroad track has reached a point 830 miles eaat of San Francisco. All the poets laureate have been Englishmen exept .Nahum Tate, the murderer o£ the Pslams, who was an Irishman. No Scotchman has ever occupied the post. A boy who was killed by lightning in. South Australia,' was found after death to have a fig-leaf and geranium, which he waa' holding* in hia hand, photographed on his breast. Mrs. Stowe says that £0000 will cover all her profits from "Uncle Tom'a Cabin." People who have great ideas about the money made by authors will be rather surprised. Comandent Deberly, said to be the last survivor of Austerlitz, has just died near Bordeanx, in his 95th year. He entered the French army in ISO 2, aad was pensioned off in 1533. Mr. Arthur Sullivan states that although' 150 companies are playing "H.M.S. Pinafore" in the Onited States, only one manager haa made any pecuinary acknowledgment to the authors. The Duke of Norfolk has, says the SlutfUAd Telegraph, subscribed £20,000 towards the erection of a new .Roman Catholics chnrch on the site of the present Oratory at Brompton. The old buildings in London known a3 Elm-court, in the Middle Temple, are shortly to be pulled down, the tenants occupying chambers there having received notice to that effect. For speaking disrespectfully of the Crown Prince of Germany, in a public place of! entertainment, a teacher of languages in Berlin has been sentenced to four months , imprisonment. Passanante, who attempted the life of King Humbert, by whom his sentence of death has been commuted to perpetual imprisment, has been sent on board a war vessel to the Island of Elba. In a recent return to the Registrar-General of a marriage solemnised in the north ef England, the clergyman states that the woman married, aged 19, is the 37th ohild of her father by his fifth wife. A coal-mine near "Wattensohied, in Germany, is now lighted by electricity, at, it is 6aid, a cost of about 2Ad for each, light per hour. Another coal mine in the same district is repealing the experiment. The first importation of American meats into Germany some years ago, resulted in failure. The last season 35,000,000 pounds were imported there of beef of the best quality, aown tightly in thick canvas. • The foundation-stone of a Russian monument ia shortly is be laid on the summit q£ the Shipka Pass. This structure will be a pleaaont subject for contemplation by the Turkish garrison of the Balkans. America now sends Britain to the value of. £65,000,000 sterling o£ fesding stuffs each - year, with about £7,060,000 worth of manufactured articles; bnt she takes from England only £25,000,000 worth in return. -w^r£Mr. Edward Cattam, of 35, SeethingMeae* London, lias brought out a lozenge called " Cottam's Nautine Lo2enge," which is said to be an effective remedy for the prevention of " sea sickness," and all kinds' of nausea. It ia proposed to raise a memorial fund to perpetuate the memory of the late Princess Alice, and which will be applied to the "Alice Hospital" in Darmstadt. To this hospital is attached a training school for nurses. It is stated in Nature that although Robert Chambers was always credited with the lion's share of the work o£ writing " The Vestiges," still there is little doubt bnt that he had powerful assistance from the late David Page. There is talk of holding a b&by show, the first in Paris, Galignani believes, at the Pal> ace of Industry, in July. The competitors are divided in three groups—infants of one, two, and three years, and will be presented by their mothers or nurses. The Pope's brother, Monsignor Thom»3 - Fecci, is to be created a cardinal at the ConHistory after Easter. He is distinguished for his mastery of St. Thomas Aqninas, whose doctrines the Pope in an impending Encyclical will urge the bishops to disaemi« nate. ■ The French Geographical Society has pre« sented gold medals to Ensign de Brazza for hie expedition up the Ogone river (West Africa), to Lieutenant Wyse for exploring the Isthmus of Darien, and to Captain Nates, of the British Navy, for his Arctic expedition of 1875-76. A nautical adventurer of Bordeanx is about to try to eclipse all the feats hitherto accomplished at sea. Ho has built a whaleboat, appropriately christened l'Epreuve, which is six .yards long and two yards wide, and has one sail, and in which he proposes to croaa from Arcachon to Dover alone. The Mikado of Japan has read his Ministers a lecture on their extravagance and luxury alier entertaining them at a banquet. The Prime Minister has accordingly, says a telegram fro*n Yokohama, issued an order for the cessation of. all superfluous expenditure in the development of commerce, and stopped the expenditure for public works. Karl Montressor, the senior General in the Russian army, died lately at Kurik. Hβ served in the campaign of 1812, was a Knight of St. George and General of the Cavalry o£ the Guard. Last year ho celebrated his 50th anniversary as General, and the 70th of hie service as an officer. Last New Year's Day he entered on the 95th year of his age. Intelligence has been received at Berlin oE a valuable new "find" made by the German excavators at Olympia. The object exhumed is the head of a statue representing the rivergod Kladeos. The head is in a good state of preservation. The German Minister at Athens, Herr von Radowitz, happened to ba present when the head was discovered. . Mr. Herbert Johnson, of the Graphic, who illustrated the tour of tho Prince of Wales in India, has just finished his large painting (Bffc. by sft.) depicting the passage of tho Sarda River, in Nepaul. The Prince of Wales and all of his staff in hunting dress, Sir JunjJ Bahadoor and the officers of the Nepaul Buifc, and 700 elephants, appear on the canvas. An accident happened at Banbury to a man named Charles Lovell. He was employed feeding a chaff-cutting machine, when hia arms were accidently drawn into the machine., and before he could extricate himself both , , arms were ohopped short off close below the For many years he has been a .cripple with both legs, and no hopes are entertained of hia recovery. The cadets of her Her Majesty's ehip Britannia took their part recently in their annual regatta, and the crew of one of the fouroared gigs included two sons of the Prince of Wales, Prince Albert Victor pulling bow, and Prince George steering. Six boats competed, and after a keen contest that in which the Princes were came in first by nearly two lengths. The race was rowed in a cold and pelting rain. The San Francisco schools, among many other good things, have a corps of twenty-two substitute teachers. They are paid 123 a day for actual service in a primary class, IG3 ia a grammar class, and 30s for remaining at the offioe' half a day to answer calle. They report regularly every morning at the rooms of the Board, and are sent out to various schools on the receipt of telegraphic signals. Mr. Spurgeon, who had been residing at Mentone for three months for the benefit of his health, and was incapacitated from preaching for two or three months previously by an : attack of rheumatic gout, ha* recovered sufficiently to resume his duties, and on Easter Sunday he preached at the Tabernacle, tNewington-butte- both morning and evening.' Excepting a., little huakinesa of voice which was manifested occasionally, the result probably of a recent ■cold, the reverend gentleman appeared to be . in good health, and he preached with hie old force and Yfrnwity,"— ■ ;; .