NEWS IN BRIEF.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XIX, Issue 6572, 9 December 1882, Page 1 (Supplement)

NEWS IN BRIEF.

The exportation of cattle fen Tripoli bi3 been prohibited. ; The secretary of the Derbjinfirmary has just received from an ducjr a bank-note for £1,000. The Maharajah of Jaypore an exhibition of Indian products n 1 mauuractures, to bo held at his capital a.\t y-ir. The Rev. \V. Clippecdale. V.tr of Tf on, has been fiued £3 tor assaulting a..i r.wT. He called the. defendant a liar, aud-tiu>;k him

j A man recently got a divorce fnn }jis -vife ,in London. Three days after the 1 .-nisi | had been pronounced, both of th> t ::»ari ried to each other. ; A discharged soldier named (Ir-mi is in i custody in Cumberland, on a << a r'- of I murdering his child by dashing its head acainst some timber. The President of the Royal S- ei.tv, Mr. Spojtiswoode, has met with an a'-jin.:)!, mid broken his left arm. The accident at his residence near Seven Oaks. The wife of a respectable cw.oi.tjio in Ashford has just given birth to ;< ;:al- child which has only one leg. Otherwi :i. jiniaut is strong and healthy, and likely :<• li By the death of .Sir George Grey Mr. Gladstone becomes the Senior Comm. ur on the List of Her Majesty's Privy Coi-.cil. The Premier was sworn in on iseptemr 3, IS4I. Over 700 petitions for the redress of grievances have recently beensont by the ..:"i.::rs of her Majesty's convict prisons to the Home Office. As yet, no reply has been received. The Oldham Town Council have decided that £2,000 shall be paid annually out of tho profits of the gas works toward.-* tho maintenance of the Free Library, M :._-eu:ii, ;;nd Art Gallery. Mr. W. J. Smith, of the Midland Circuit, has been appointed by Lord Kiinberley to be a Puisne Judge of the Island of C\ prus. Mr. Smith was called to the Bar at Lincoln's Inn in 1575. A serious riot occurred at Ramsgate between English and French fishf-riuen. Bu.ithooks and oars were freely used on the V-Yst Pier, the Frenchmen being eventually overpowered by numbers. Messrs. Taylor have cast the new bell for Manchester Town Hall. The m-. tal consists of thirteen parts of pure copper to four parts of tin. It will bear the inscription, "King out the false, ring in the true." A fisherman named Strong has just caught in the sea, about a mile from W.itchet, a large conger eel, about twenty pounds in weight. He found in the fish's throat a purse, containing half a sovereign. At Leeds, Mary Fitzpatrick, a woman of loose character, has been committed to the assizes on a charge of having murdered and robbed James Richardson, a glassblower, whose body was found in the river Aire. At a farmhouse in the parish of Alwington, nearßideford, North Devon, Harry Andrews, a lad, took down a loaded gun during his employer's absence and shot a servant named Lee, literally blowing her brains cut. The Gtiion steamer Alaska, which it-ft New York at 7 p.m. (11.30 p.m. Greenwich time) on Sept. 12th, made the passage in 0 days, IS hours, 37 minutes, or 3i hours less than it has ever made before. The distance run was 2,751 miles. At Exeter, a local jockey was fined £5 for cruelly spurring a horse which he li.nl been eng'ged to ride at a little meeting in the neighbourhood. The animal had only two sound legs, and had been bought for JL'5 not long before the race. A serions accident occurred at Cor.clnes, iu France, during the grand mami'uvres. A cannon burst and killed two artillerymen, and seriously wounded two spectators. Carelessness in turning the breechloading apparatus was the causc. School libraries are greatly on the increase in Frauce. In ISGS the number was only 4.533, and in 1574 10,618. There are now 25,913. This does not include the teachers' libraries, which number 5?,345, with an aggregate of 500,000 volumes. On a recent occasion in accordance with r. very ancient custom, the Master. Wardens, and Court of Assistants of the Fruiterers' Company waited upon the Lord Mayor at the Mansion-House, and presented him with a choice assortment of the fruit in season. A most painful feature in recent returns is the increase of suicide among bo3'r-, which lias also been noted in England of late. In the four years, 1576-SO, 19S boys under 15 took their own lives, six of them beine nnder nine anrl one only seven years old. The number of girls who committed suicide iu the same period was but 40. According to returns furnished by the Board of Trade and Lloyd's Register of Shipping, the total value of the merchant shipping of the United Kingdom may be estimated at £126,000,000, of which £90,000,000 represent steamers having a net tonnage of 3,003,f158 tons ; and 30,000,000 sailing vessels of 3,GSS,OOS tons. General Berger, one of the ablest and most efficient officers in the French sorvice, has been removed from the command of the Thirteenth Territorial Division o? Infantry. His offence was intimating to the Generals under his command that they allowed their men to scatter too much and get out of the command of thcirreyimentalsofficers while deploying for the attack in open order. The electric light has found a el employment in the hands of some iugeniru-.s Fienchmen, who have lately, by permission of their Government, boen experimenting with it as a lure for tish. The lamp was contained in an air-tight globe and was lowered at night into the sea, with the result that thousands of fish of all sizes were attracted to its brilliant light. Boats furnished wit!) nets gradually closed in upon the living mass, and made a great haul of fish. The Rev. J. E. B. Mayor, of St. John's College, Cambridge, and Professor of Latin, preached in the St. Peter's-strcet Primitive Methodist chapel, Cambridge, recently. It was a special service, and the first of a series inaugurated by Good Templars. The unusual o-jcurrence has caused a little discussion. It i questioned if a clergyman can preach in an \ nlicensed building—a question which will rzost likely be submitted to the bishop of the diocese. The New York Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children has interfered to suppress a baby show at the Broadway museum as involving cruelty forbidden by statute. Prizes were offered for the handsomest baby, the ugliest baby, the heaviest baby under one year of age, the lightest baby under one year of age, the neatest dressed baby, the neatest Jressed mother. A large number of entries had been made, and the mothers were greatly disgusted on learning that the show could not be held. Julian Gautier, a Frenchman, who had been in the employ of Lord Clancarty as cook for the last 30 years, some time ago inherited money and property to :i:e value of about 15,000 francs. Conso.,-.. --. :'y r.e resigned his situation a few month* . to i.'ecome the proprietor of the Ciai.; .: ' r:.t* i-uel, with the intention of ge_ • *o Lord CJr.ncarty's hou;e::i:\i-! - -e. but irtxt morning he lv;; ' raid shot himself v. ibh a jv . No •..--.son wuatcver can be assiaued ior Uie By the marriage settlement the wife is comfortably provided for. Mr. Taylor, one of the Monmouthshire inspectors of schools, cites the following answers given to his questions in geography by pupil teachers under examination : — " King John signed the Magna Charta in 1515." " Alderman—a man from Alderney." Xorman—a man from Normandy. "We owe to them every thing." "The West Indian Islands are the Maltese Islands of Malta, Gozo and Comino, Gibraltar, and HongKong." " The fox is found in almost every country in Europe, but the fox is not found England." " The Atlantic Ocean is on the west of Australia," and "Ceylon was discovered by Colombus in 1059." This last assertion Mr. Moßtyn Price declares that he also found recently to be a current belief in Standard IV. ia a town school. Perhaps (adds this gentleman) it was in the same school the pupil teacher reigned. James Smith, of Ansonia, Connecticut, a ruffian of 2?,, was banged recently for murdering - A policeman. He was buried in his native village on the Sunday following. Ten thr, asajl( j people are said to have been in atten',x ance . upon the occasion. Two hundred y°'ang men belonging to the Monitor, Star- | and Jolly Rover Clubs, the character of which is hinted in the names, marched ahead of the hearse, and 21 hacks and 127 3 other carriages, " filled principally by young i people," followed it to the grave- His last days in prison were soothed by the ministrae tions of religion and the attendance of f&ithe ful and devoted priests, and there was no d lack of floral offorings and other gifts from >f the class of women who habitually, idealise d and lioaise the perpetrators of great crimes. ), Upon the casket at the funeral were roaay ro flowers ; on a pillow surmounted by aw hit* d dove were the words, " Thou art forgiven, and on a cross the word "Hope."