NEWS IN BRIEF.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XX, Issue 6667, 31 March 1883, Page 1 (Supplement)

NEWS IN BRIEF.

Sor,\i.lST conspiracies are believed to bavo been discovered in Belgium. A son of Oliver Wendell Holir.ts liris been elevated to the Bench at Washington. The number ot immigrants who arrived in the United States during Dec. was -.">,S6S. TO} English Government favour .1 scheme of modified compul»ory educatnn in Ireland. A Thessalian brigand of great notoriety has been killed in an encounter with the authorities. Extensive milhtary preparation? are being made in Madagascar to resist a French invasion. The floods in Italy last September ars held to ba the result of the denudaiion of the forests. The Hotel Continental took more thin £1000 for the hire of its windows at Oarnbetta's funeral. The United States Tariff, as passed by the Senate, reduces the national revenue by 25,000, OOOdo's. A large number of operatives have left Macclesfield for the colonies, uv, r„i; to s;lk trade depression. Fred. Marshall, the comedian, is in Yorkshire, and ic in bad heajth. Abi.lute re-t fo* yi ars is prescribed, In 1840 Ireland held nearly one thru cf the population of -he United Kingdom, It now holds one seventh. Mirrors 45ft. by 52ft., and weighing :rc&n 1200!bs. to lOOOlbs. have lately been piae-.d m the Paris Opera House. The Chancellor of the Exchequer nas been urged to abolish taxes on food aiiec.ing Indian and Colonial industries. The native Christians of Madagascar have given £iCO,OOC during the last ten years for the spreid of the Gospel. Seven hundred and eighty-eight thousand bottles of mineral water were imporcel from Hamburg by Australia in 1 jSI. It is intended that there shall w a thor ■>. reprcs-enta, on of Australian wines at th. Calcutta it ernational Exhibition. ! A recent trial has elieted the fict_ that • many Gern.r.a girls cultivate their hair for i sale, really line hair fetching £1 an ounce, i A statue of Robert Burns ia to be erected on the Victoria Kmbankment in London, by ■ Mr. Crawford, a retired Glasgow merchant. On a recent Sunday the stabies of Mr. K. ' Pureell, Brnnfort, near Mallow, were cuttreil, and the leg of a valuable colt maliciously cut otr. According to the last statistics there exists in Italy ."'2,503 menks and nuns,_ receiving pensions amounting to 10,C I J/,loG Italian, lire. 3 Mr. J. Berry, M.P. for Wexford, h.s bee:\ j entertained at a banquet, by his constituents. The first toast was that of Mr. IV.rnvll, 3 M.P. j Lord Bcrwick who recently succeeded -'> that title, has, with his wife, made his home for twelve years, winter and summer, »u his t yacht, L 7 It is stated that Messrs. Spiers and Pcr.u

Jt 13 stateu tnat .Messrs. opitia * i (Limited) are ia negotiation for the purchase or hiriug of the Alexandra I'alaee and J.'drs, Loudon. Mann, who mndered the Cook family ia Canada, has been captured. The populace attempted to lynch hiin, but were prevented by the < tlieials. The German Conservative journals ac.here to the belief that the visit of De Giers to Vienna consolidated the relations between Austria and Kussia. A dockyard rigger named Palin, one of the crew of the itoyal yacht Osborne, has been elected for the Portsmouth School B.ard at; the head of the poll. During the year just closed there were reported in England £S explosions in coal mines, 15 of which were fatal, the number of deaths reaching 241. The English papers state that Mrs. Lr.ngtry reccived £150 f.oin an eminent soap manufacturing firm for her signature, which apt>tar3 fn the firm's advertisements. The smallest section of the Egyp'.ion Legislative Council will be nominated by the Khedive. The remainder wilt be chosen by a system cf double elections. A club called the Constitutional, to embrace all classes on a very large scale, will shortly be started in London, with the approval o£ the leaders of the Conservative party. I One vessel was lost every four hoiir3 during iSSI, according to tae Nautical Gazette. In 1579-S0 there were 40(1 steamboat colisiotis in the North Atlantic Ocean. Mr. J. Fowler, C.E., states tnat the chieE span of the proposed bridge over the li-amber is to be 600 feet. No span of this size ha 3 ever yet been given over auy navigable river. An important discovery has been made at Magpie ininrs, High Peak of Derbj'shire. A vein of xine ore has been cut, 5 fe.-t Wide, which promises to be of extraordinary value. The heiviest floods in the British lake district fir twenty years now prevail. i!ie lakes lX*rwentwater aad Bessenthwaue nc\T join aud a portion of Keswick iucmerged. It is estimated that not fewer i£an 200,000 young women are engaged ia London, the bulk of whom are employed, not in shops, but in various workshops and factories. The Chinese consul at San Francisco reports that since the .Restriction Law has been enforced, only twenty Chinese have arrived, against 5000 who hive tak>:ii their departure. Dr. Pinnnck, of Ballarat, while driving from Beaufort to Ballarat, passed through an immense cloud of locusts or winged grasshoppers. He calculates that the " flight 1 was 22 miles across. A t-jilpfrrnm frnm M.nrsnillpß static thlt a

A telegram Irom xuarseuies stales .1 boat has been picked up containing four dead persons from the wrtck of the French st-r.aner Amelie, from Cetto for Marseilles, probably totally lost, with all bands. D.ivitt, in a speech at a meeting ol the Nalion.il League at Dublin, aaid if Mr. Gladstone could givo a legislative blow to landlordism his name would be revered by every generat.on of liberated victim.'!. At a meeting of the Liberal members ct the Spanish Deputies, Serrano urged a conciliation towards all Liberals. "Lot i be no more revolution," he said. "We desire a union of the throne and people. 7 ' The Prince of Wales will open the hot Royal College of Music at Kensing'on in May next. The funds are deemed sufiicie:.:. for the establishment of 50 scholarships, which will be thrown open to public competition. A French society offers a prize of £200 for t'ae work published in ISS'2-S3 havirg the r.iost powerful tendency and influence to "make to love the morality and the virtue, and to make to conquer the egotiim an:l :he envy." At the Dublin police court two gentlernea were charged with wrenching a number o£ knockers off doors in a fashionable quarter c£ the city. One of them, who gavt a wrong name, was stated to be the son of an Irish judge. They were each fined £5. Anxiety is felt lost Madame Xilsson, the melodious canUilrice, should lose her voi-e, aud she goes to New Orleans to recupcrnt?, On her way caat frem 'Frisco she contr.u'te'l a severe cold, which has interfered with her programme, aud caused her tc determine to try the "sunny south." A discharged Boldier named George was placed, in a cell in Glcsgow v- octherc Police Office besides a man named l!obt.'s Frew. Both were drunk. When the turnkey visitid the cell he found Frew dead and

covered with blood. The poor fellow had been kicked to death by Miller, who will be charged with murder. The ifew number of Macmillan's -::e contains the following singular anuor-nee-ment:—"Many inquiries having been rr.ade as to the delay in the conclusion of ' Fortune's Fool,' thu proprietors oi Macmillan's Magazine think it due to themselves to say that their only reason for stopping its publication has been their inability to obtain the remaining chapters from the author. It is hcpc-il that Mr. Hawthorne will send them, in which case tliey will at once be printed/' An incident, which the Berlin Correspondent of the Times describes as " the Coir.ody of the Modem Pilgrim Fathers," lias jv.;t been enacted in Germany. l)r. Forster, c:ie of the most prominent Jew-baiters in " hecountry, not havinc succeeded in expelling the descendants of Abraham from hij nati /o country has, with a small but devoted of adhereuts, sailed for Paraguay, where *!:•./ intend to form an antic-Semitic colony. c-nt emigration statistics show that year 500 Germans proceeded to Australia. The nrrancrcments for the rrreat HaaJcl Festival of ISS.'I are now we'l forward. The dates fixed arc June 13, 16, IS, and 'Jt>, and Sir Michael Costa has again riccepied till post of conductor, which ho Iva.3 tilled every festival since the preliminary C;.e cf 1557. Among the engagements of soloit;*, made or pending, are those of Mdmes. Albani and Valleria, Trebelli and Patey, Ai na Williams and Annie Marriott ; Meters. Edward Lloyd and Maas, Mr. Santlej; and Signer Foli, Messrs. Bridson and F. King.