NEWS IN BRIEF.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXI, Issue 7080, 26 July 1884, Page 1 (Supplement)

NEWS IN BRIEF.

lAVOntaw'i -.estate- hae beea valneaafr£7o,ooo. of which £3000 consists c/acpyrighfc «■ fffr lug woclcs* * w •" *• Sir IGdad Obita has, it tj ■a&Yld&'i £d®os?* * BWOjil * | By theexotosJonof* st«ain bl«aebcr.Wft ' faotoiy at Waterford. near Troy. New Y«k.five men have been killed. - . .The Freaoh Senate have adopted byamajority of-160 to 118 a Bill wlueb mak(« divorce possible ia Ifcanee.' . The American. State Coauniasiaa has ported that foot-and-mouth disease hM bm> entirely stamped oat ia Maine. Prince Dobrochojrski, of tbefioasaan Miy ( 'i' has been arrsatei. A. considerable quantityof dynamite was found in his house. - There was a alight frost the other night fe, North Hungary, and the green eom aal - fruit trees have suffered considerably. Dr. Schulz hss recently left Natal far tfc* - Zambesi. It ia his intention to cross from < that river into the basin of the Congo. A telegram from Borne states font Padr* Curci's work, entitled "Vaticaao Region" has been placed on the Index Kxpurgsturiea. Two men of the friendly tribes, who been made prisoners by Oaman Signs, kis - arrivsd at Saakim with their right hands' cat off. The fire millions sterling stipulated for bv the Lords' Committee on the Ifaneheatar* Ship Canal was forthcoming before day • was out. . ..." - The Parisian dootors have taken to pre*: scribe shreds of raw beef, spread upon tartises ■ of bread and batter, as the panacea for div— : ditssses. , , , , ; The brass tablet in mummj of the lata Owiiul Moncriefi; which ia to be ia the cemetery at Jeddab, is J rtalnrrrt by the Customs authorities. During the excavation of a tamni an tikeSouth Pennsylvania Bailroad, a scaffold feU, killing' nine persona m ~* seriously injuring eleven others. * The Karl of Lichfield has set up two of Mi' sons in a farm on his own with a view to their .becoming practical farmers. . young man have gone vigorously to.work. The Hawkes Bay Berard says that the so* called patent scaffold brought up from Wellington for the execution of Edwsrds was a most disgraceful and «<fcjr, . One of the most eminent of . Orleanitt party, Count Joseph Othemnd'Haussonville, senator and member of ths ■ French Academy, has just died, ia , fail > seventy-fifth year. The French mechanics who reoently -visited ■ the_ United Statee, to see if emigration wan desirable, have oome back ooiivinoed that " France is a better place for the workman than the United States.

The enormous overcrowding: of the alleela of Paris has decided the Government to prooeed with the creation of a metropolitan railway, to be confided to a company, with - M. Demon at its head. A woman who has been arrested aft Varan da, Hungary, confessed that she poisoned four husbands hundreds of women daring the past two yean. A Qsisbc ■ of accomplice* have been arrested. It is estimated in Milwaukee . wheat crop of the next harvest wQI ba -Vmt - 505,800,000 bushels, which is BO , above the average of the last fin yean, , Spring wheat ia especially promising. The United States Congress has passed s ; Bill extending the duration of the Conrt at Alahama Claims till December 81, 1886, so the Court may distribute among the the entire remnants of the Geneva award. The Reading Railroad new wages note haf joit appeared on the streets trf Ntw.YoA. Employes take them without objection, sdk ■ ing them at about 4 per cent, discount. They; run for three months, bearing 8 ptr oeaU • interest. At Maples, a short time ago, a recruit, Vioenzo Mamio, fatally shot, hte - corporal for having placed Mw in . . on acoount of his neglect of duty, assumed the r<s£eof one fny Kk , sctions. The military tribunal at Naples lm. delivered judgment in the ease of the nMi«» Milriia, who killed and wounded several ct * his comrades recently in the barrack «C Pirzopalcona. The accused was ocadamaed to be shot. .. . . The French Minister of Education andtba fine Arts bas proposed to place at' tbs - disposal of M. Pasteur, for the proeeautian of - his scientific experiments, a Luge situated at Vilieneuve-Etang, which . to the State. . aIn the course of last year the German lifeboat Society, which supports 87 . stations, saved 277 persons belonging to 47 German vessels, and to five TWH.h fmr • Dutch, four SWedlsh, three Danish, and two Russian ships. An exhibition in connection with tbe com- - merci&l, industrial, and maritime mtamtt will be held at Antwerp, under tbe patronage of His Majesty King Leopold IT., and with • the concurrence of the Belgian and of the : local authorities, in the spring of 1885. - Dr. Dominik Kammel von Hardeggexy- a wealthy Austrian and eager sportsman, pro> poses to start in the ensuing autumn for Harar and the Somal country. He will b« accompanied by Dr. Phillip Paulitachke, . Professor of Geography at the Uuivanity o£ Vienna. The King of Sweden and Norway bas awarded a gold medal to Mr. Alexander Mair, master of the British schooner Norseman, la - .recognition of his humane conduct towards the master and crew of the Swedish -*«—•- : ship Atlantic, which foundered la tbs Atlantic on December 15 last. The Mississippi River has made a " cut off" ■ at Waterford, Louisiana, 3000 ft. long, , off twelve miles of circuitous Steam* - boats go through the new channel, which - causes almost the whole river to flow at greafe . velocity. Some land has been and a small village has been destroyed. A recently issued Parliamentary return shows that at the last general election ia Great Britain tbe number of illiterate votes - recorded was Counties, 6719; borocshs. : 22,000: total, 29,628. In Irish countiMthe number were 4081, and in boroughs, 1231 • . total, 5312. Scotch counties retain 88 : and - boroughs 110 : total, 198. The International Railway Sleeping Qsr Company, who are organising what they "«»| - a "lightning express," to run between Bi.Petersburg, Berne, and Lisbon, oo the model - of the ane_ between Paris and Constantinople, • exhibited in Berlin a "lightning train," got - up in a style of great con3ort and safety. The young Nizam of Hyderabad was recently attended by Dr. Beaumont, who watched his Highness through a serious - attack, of cholera. On .his recovery tha Nizam caused a sum of nearly £3000, and - jewellery of the value of £916, to ba sent to Dr. Beaumont for his 14 days' pro* "• fessional attendance. • .

Captain Foote, the newly-appointed oon. snl at Lake Nyaiua, one of the most impor* • tant centres of the African slave trad<v haaarrived at his destination, and is now In th* . active exercise of hia functions. It is —H thai his efficiency as a consul: specially charged with the dnty of watching the alave trade, would be greatly increased if a steam. launch were placed at his disponL In the course of > speech at NewoastlsL, Mr. Joseph Cowen sUted that wealth and aristocracy seek to preserve the emtfSm.Ttey. approve of a firm and spirited foreign pobcy. The working classes can no think, and snow little Xhay. cm' nothing for India, and even Canada andAustndia are to them merely places like the! United States, where a poor man may hope 1 for better wages than at home. . . The idleness olltiigiraliM often aroossdthe wrath of industrious Yankee, who bas< exclaimed, "It is dujjnitiDg to see so niseis, strength wasting itself in doing iwHim» bob splashing, or, at giving shower catha. to citizens too dirty to be cleansed by any* other means." Now, however, Niagara Falls are to earn their living, and a 40-foot elestriobattery is to be worked day and night by it. This will transmit enough electricity to light sixty-five cities, all over 30,000 population. Political arrests continue to be made la. Buuia almost daily, and cease to attract any attention. One morning reoently * yrtll* known fainQy in St. Petersburg was alanqed by the appearance of 'a paste., ofc" h«»vy-clanking gendarmes and police, 1 who, - unceremoniously entered, the apartmant* while.most of the inmates wen still siunib*r», ing, and carried ofithe governess to tha, ■ fortress. The girl had ' only '■ entered tho, family the previous day. No explanation of. / any kind was offered. . j.:,," ... : : In Vienna, where it is said-that.aince/ilt* great financial' acaro eleven ywn ago-lb*! ~ suicide mania waa never "so ( ««. present, the latest suicides reported an ,tlMft of a mine owner' from' who £&!«L . himself inan hotel , well-known throughont'Oerm>ny r »fe ;bad; an engineer, dfowWhimsalf-m/ [the Danahe at Viemia ; and7*,pri,vtf«rii»raa; ; celebrating thi® snzixYcnnCTi qL thfrVibtory of