NEWS IN BRIEF.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXV, Issue 9082, 16 June 1888, Page 2 (Supplement)

NEWS IN BRIEF.

• , "The Death Ship" in next Wednesday's Herald.. The late Sultan of Zanzibar leavea twenty-seven widows and 232 children. Crematoriums are to be opened in Turin, San Remo, Bologna, and other Italian cities. The Empress of Austria while at Bournemouth was out on the diffs as early as six o'clock. China now furnishes a third only of the tea used in England. India furnishes the greater part. The Duke of Norfolk will, it is stated ab the Vatican, make a third journey to Rome for fresh instructions. A London dealer in orchids employs sixteen collectors in South America, Africa, Asia, and the Pacific Islands. The widower Duke of Norfolk, the greatest matrimonial catch in England, is to marry a French count's daughter. Emperor Frederick, it is said, wanted to extend amnesty to all Socialists, bub Bis- ! marck dissuaded him from doing so. Brighton will soon possess a pier near the Aquarium which will be 2000 ft long—or 850 ft longer than the present chain pier. j Queen Victoria has invited the King and i Queen of Italy to visit Windsor Castle in i June, and they have accepted the invitation. The new regulations for the theatres of Madrid prohibit the use of gas, and make the adoption of the electric light compulsory. The annual spring influx of immigrants at New York is larger than usual. They are arriving at the rate of a thousand a day. The Bill giving the public right to access to the mountains in the Lake District has elicited a good deal of sympathy in the north. Arrangements for the Bi-metallic Conference in Manchester are now complete, i and the conference promises to be a great success. The Iron Chancellor loves a plover's egg. This year they are scarce. His admirers, however, managed to send him 101 on his birthday. Parisian burglars have just now made a dead-set at bric-a-brac dealers. More than one shop has been almost cleared within the last few days. The trousseau of the Viscountesse Rouge was so magnificent that it was publicly exhibited in Paris. It is said to be the most beautiful ever made. On her trial-trip the Reina Regente, the new Spanish war ship, which has just left) the hands of her English builders, developed a speed of 21 knots. Louisa Alcob ended the very last letter she wrote with the query, "Shall I ever find time to die?" Two days later that; question was answered. The captain and mate of the British ship Baron Blantyre, were at Liverpool, committed to the assizes, charged with causing the death of a seaman by cruelty on the high seas. Chamberlain, replying te a letter, says that no intelligent American would challenge the fact that the power of the democracy in Great Britain is more direct than it is in America. A society paper declares that the London police are collecting information as to the numerous small gambling clubs in the metropolis. A general closing of these resorts is anticipated. The Pope, it is said, is about to confer the title of Prince on the numerous relations bearing his name. Hitherto the members of tho Pecci family have not ranked higher than counts and countesses. The Russian railway king: is dead. Samuel Polikoff by name, played a great parb ic Russia's secret financial transactions during the Russo-Turkish War. He has left about fifty million roubles behind him. The Emperor of Germany drinks much milk, which is sometimes qualified with a little whisky. He also drinks much mineral water, which is said to be very beneficial to him ; but he drinks little wine. Between seven hundred and eight hundred electors of Chester, England, have just regained their voting privileges after having been deprived of them for seven years for corrupt practice in an election. Breeders of Devons will be glad to see, says the Live Stock Journal, that the British Dairy Farmers' Association are to give prizes of £10, £7, and £3 for cows of that breed at the London Dairy Shows.

During a late sitting of the Manchester Police Court, a violent scene took place between two women prisoners, who attacked each other in the dock. A child which was in the arms of one of them had to be rescued by policemen. Last year the snakes, tigers, panthers, alligators, and poisonous insects of India got away with 38,492 people, about 100 of whom were white. These figures are below the average, and the Indian Government is greatly encouraged. The corpse of a Christian girl,, with, the throat cut, was lately found in cavern near Tiberias. Suspicion—after the fashion of the localityfastened itself on the Jews; / but an investigation placed it beyond a I J i.i J. 1...1. _i__ U-J I. . 3 l i 1

doubt that she had been murdered by her father and brothers. The Sultan is said to have sent the Emperor Frederick an infallible remedy. It is a lecklet made of fresh hazel-nuts, which h<i7e been prayed over by the dervishes and .sheiks of the Sultan's palace, and which, therefore, are believed to contain an infallible cure. Albert Frazer escaped from the Michigan Penitenti iry and then induced his wife, who 1 was having a hard time, to deliver him up and secure the reward offered for his capture. She did so, and Frazer had the satisfaction of knowing that he had done some- . thing to pro ride for his family. At Guy's Hospital, London, recently, was received the body of a drunkard which was very much bloated. It was found that when punctured and a match was applied to the gas which escaped, it burned with the ordinary flame of carbureted hydrogen. As many as a dozen of these flumes were burning at the same time. Captain Mennickan, of the Cunard steamer Umbria, which arrived in the Mersey a few days ago, has achieved that ; which has never been accomplished before —namely, a vessel leaving New York on ; Saturday, and the following Saturday passing the entry in the Liverpool Custom' ; house as having arrived in the Mersey. ' A homely French abbe, who has jusb inherited £64,000, has presented his fortune : to the Pope, stating that hitherto he had lived on £12 a month, and thus he would ' not know what to do with so much. In return, however, he asks His Holiness to ' support him if he wants assistance at any future time—which the Pope will, of course. ' The house at Domremy in which Joan of Arc was born has hitherto been under the care of a religious sisterhood, who made a, ■ good thing out of the fees paid by visitors. ' A movement not long since was set oh foob ; to place it in lay hands. On the proposal of M. Charles Ferry, the Council-General of 1 the Vos-ges has appointed an invalided > 1,1:.... _i TV i. i-- -i_ . __i i

, soldier of Domremy to be its caretaker. Curiously enough, it is pointed out by the Critic, the Villa Trollope at Florence, which was built by Mrs. Trollope, the mother of Anthony and T. Adolphus, from the proceeds of the sale of her book, " The ; Domestic Manners of the Americans," ia now an American boarding-house. The J book villifies the ways of our Translantio i cousins, who, however, now have their revenge. Jane Stoddart, the girl who preferred the [ criminal charge against the late Rev. J. M. J Lowther, rector of Bolton, and cousin to j Lord Lonsdale, which led to his tragic , death, was. lately fined 40s at Workington , Police Court for assaulting a man named j White. Defendant admitted that she had been twice convicted of felony. She further I admitted drinking with sporting men and . having had three fights. A singular suit is pending at Askon, 0. j A rich widow fell in love with, and—after romantically overcoming many obstacles— • married a tramp named Fenton. Her i relatives at once arrested her on a charge of : insanity. Less than twelve months after Fenton died ; and now his widow, who had been detained in an asylum, seeks to re- • cover £1000 from her brother for having been denied her husband, whom, she says, she could have saved had she been per- : mitted to live with him, ; According to one of the society papers, the ) Tory Democrats are about to start a new i journal of their own, which is to be the most brilliant paper ever published. It ia to be issued weekly, and to contain more novelties, special and political, than any : organ in the press. Lord Randolph. Churchill will be its avowed hero, and' it will take its policy from his inspiration. , The new paper is to wage war on obsolete Conservatism, and rally the gilded youth i of the country round the standard of constitutional reform.