NEWS IN BRIEF.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXVIII, Issue 8670, 12 September 1891, Page 1 (Supplement)

NEWS IN BRIEF.

Tiie cholera is extending in Southern Syria. Hundreds of deaths have occurred. There are 13,000 licensed cabmen in Loudon, of whom 8000 are actually in employment. The English people have taken a fancy for Emperor William, and lie is warmly reciprocal. Influenza is raging in the province or Toledo, Spain. There are 700 cases at Mora and 100 at Orgaz. The British garrison at Aden is to bo strengthened to be ready for any demonstration in that quarter. Within a period of five years over £100,000 of property left in cabs has been deposited by the drivers at Scotland Yard. Labour (wrote Charlotte Bronte to a friend) must be my cure—not sympathy. Labour is the only radical cure for rooted sorrow.

Leith is about to undertake an important scheme of harbour and dock extension and improvement, necessitated by the increase of its shipping traffic. The Rothschilds are said to have purchased largo tracts of land in Palestine, which fugitive Jews can occupy and pay for in ten yearly instalments. The appointment of Mrs. Mary Florentia Hughes to be one of Her Majesty's maids of honour inordinary, in the room of the Hon. Marie Adeane, is gazetted.

Divorce is occasionally a quick process in Scotland, where the other day, a trial which included the examination of four witnesses, only occupied five minutes. James Winskill, a clerk, was remanded in custody at Nottingham recently on the charge of writing insulting letters to the Queen and the Archbishop of Canterbury. In Paris -tho fashionable women have a new wrinkle, which is long ribbon streamers from the top and from the handle of sunshades. The effect is described as startling. Bishop Tucker, of Uganda, lias succeeded in obtaining the forty missionaries for whom lie recently pleaded in Exeter Hall. Nine of the number are from Cambridge University.

Internal feuds among Socialists in Germany are increasing in intensity, and meetings lately held show an open rupture between the young and old sections of the party. There has been a serious landslip near Wolverhampton, caused through mining operations. Several buildings were demolislied, and others were out of the perpendicular. Last month tho Fishmongers' Company seized at or near Billingsgate and on board boats lying off that market the enormous quantity of 201 tons of fish as unfit for human food.

The Rev. John M'Ncill lias suggested that Christian people should carry the Bible with them as their pocket-companion, "in the same way an the Prince of Wales did his baccarat, counters !"

In the wrestling tournament at Berlin, the American, Cannon, was the best of all comers. Camion was presented with a gold medal in a laurel wreath, surmounted by the German and American eagles.

A ruffian outside a public-house in Sunderland placed a parcel in t.li" hand of a woman, at the same ilme applying a match to the paper. The parcel exploded, shattering her hand. The man escaped. A young widow at'Ballyconnell, Ireland, is charged with concealment of death. She is said to have buried the dead body of her father in the garden of her house so that she might continue to draw his pension. ' A Polish countess has been graduated from the Geneva University a full-fledged doctor. What makes her case more than commonly interesting is that she intends to treat the poor of her own country gratuitously. 1 The principal relic belonging to the Church of Sainte Gudule, in Brussels, consists of a thorn which is said to have formed a part of the Saviour's crown. It was brought to the Netherlands in the time of the Crusades.

The triennial prize of £00 offered by the Cobden Club to the Victoria University, Manchester, for the best . essay on an economic, question, has been awarded to Miss Vietorine Jeane, 8.A., of 10, Mayfield Road, Whalley Range. Sentences of 18 and 15 months' imprisonment respectively have been imposed on two men for perjury in the Divorce Court, and conspiring to obtain a dissolution of marriage instituted by one of them, the other being the co-respondent. A sad case of death from excessive joy vi reported from Dnsseldorf. A young girl, on being promised one of the most delightful of the Rhine excursions, fell to the floor and died, the strain produced by the excitement proving too much for her. Many Jews are arriving in Palestine, from 200 to 300 families weekly. They are entirely destitute, and the distress among them is terrible. Bread is very dear. Typhus and scarlatina are raging in Jerusalem, and a general pestilence is feared. Mr. Thomas Wallace has given the Actuarial Society in Edinburgh the following rate of mortality per 1000 of the inhabitants :—Licensed grocers, IS - 9 ; hotel* keepers, 20*8 ; publicans, 33*4 ; while the average for Englishmen generally is about) 1012.

Mr. Barbour, of Bonskeid.has bequeathed £10,000 each to the Free Church and the English Presbyterian Churches for foreign missions. As regards the bequest to the Free Church, it is stated that it is for the endowment of a medical missionary in India. : V

Cardinal Manning and a London committee are drawing up rules for a* union ol Catholic workmen which lie is organising on the lines laid down in the recent encyclical of the Pope. Its name will be "The Catholic Association,"and it is intended ultimately to embrace all English-speaking Catholics.

A new plan lias been adopted by the municipal authorities of Rome to prevent) adulteration. Recognising the fact that the public can gain but little knowledge from the annual reports of food inspectors, they have required the names of all makers and sellers of alimentary substances injurious to health, or adulterated, to bo published in the daily papers. Some unknown persons at Sofia have inscribed upon the tombstone of M. Beltchoff, the late Minister of Finance of Bulgaria, who was assassinated some months ago while walking in the streets with Premier Stambuloil', the words: "Forgive us. We aimed at Stambuloll' and struck you. The next time we shall not fail. Sbambulolf cannot discover the guilty parties; there are too many of us." Advices from the island of Sardinia show that two bands of outlaws, one having about 100 members and the other seventy, are gradually becoming the real rulers of the province, plundering villages and levying blackmail at will without fear of successful resistance from the local authorities. The Italian Government has ordered ix whole battalion of infantry to proceed to the scene of the lawlessness. A couple of young lventuckians having eloped, the bride's father had i\ requisition drawn up, based on his affidavit that the girl had committed perjury in Swearing thab she was of marriageable age. Governor lTovey declined to honour the requisition, observing that it seemed strange to him, that "a father should seek to have his daughter arrested and made a felon because of her natural desire to marry the man she loves.".

A sensation has been created in Paris by the announcement that two well-known medical men, by way of experiment, have been in the habit of grafting cancerous tumours on unsuspecting patients while lying ill in hospitals through inoculating them with cancer-lymph. The doctors, iV' is said, admit the accuracy of the statement, but declare that the patient in each instance was past recovery. The revelations have led to a widespread feeling of uneasiness in regard to surgical methods in hospitals. Sir John Fowler's report to the directors of the London and Brighton Railway, with reference to their bridges, states that the company has 171 cast-iron bridges, altogether, and that 81 of these ought within three years to be replaced with wrought iron or steel structures. He does not state that any of them aro unsafe, and concludes his report by saying "the result of my investigation does : not indicate any unusual weakness in the Brighton bridges, which are neither better nor worse than those of similar lines of railways at home and . abroad." - ■' " ' . ' Y ' '' '