NEWS IN BRIEF.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXIX, Issue 8890, 28 May 1892, Page 1 (Supplement)

NEWS IN BRIEF.

A Toy of dimonds is worth about £7,000,000. The population of Greats Britain is as 335 to the square mile. Ib is proposed to ererecb a Protestanb cathedral in Berlin at a cost of 10,000,000fr. In the designs for the new coinage the crown has disappeared from the head of the Queen. Mr. Rudyard Kipling has been elected a member of the council of the Incorporated Society of Authors. A fight between an eagle and a fox occurred in the Scottish Highlands, proving fatal to the latter. There have been enormous catches of seals this year. Vessels are returning with 208,000 skins on board. It is computed that no less a sum than £15,000,000 is annually spent on Sunday drinking alone in the United Kingdom. At a meeting of the Court of Common Council in London, Mr. Joseph Barnby was elected principal of the Guildhall School of Music. During the football season, which recently closed, there were 15 fatalities, and 100 other players received injury, 39 having legs broken. An Odessa correspondent states thab during one fortnight nearly 7000 Jews have emigrated from South Russia to England and America.

The Senate of the University of Edinburgh has invited Professor Pfleiderer, of Berlin, to deliver the Gifford lectures during the next two years. The appearance of German balloons' over Russian Poland is now becoming frequent, and this system of espionage is creating much indignation. The total number of public-houses in England and Wales licensed for the sale of beer, or beer and wine, to be consumed on the premises is 32,497. A lady who sustained serious injury by jumping from a tramcar at the Giant's Causeway when a collision was imminent has been awarded £375 damages. A letter of condolence on the death of th« Duke of Ciarence from the Ameer o) Afghanistan to the Queen is enclosed in a casket of pure gold, weighing about lib. The O'Shea will case was settled by consent of the parties. Mrs. Parnell agreed to hand over £60,000 of the £130,000 for distribution amongst her children and relatives. What has most impressed Continental ladies about the Queen and Princesses is the simplicity of their mourning. The entire absence of crape has been the subject of much comment. The stained-glass window which is to be placed in St. Margaret's, Westminster, to the memory of the late Mr. W. H. Smith is intended to be the special memorial of the Honse of Commons. A well-dressed woman was sentenced to four monts' hard labour in London for stealing 72 yards of silk, valued at £12. She was detected with the roll lodged in the flounce of an underskirt. A fierce fight has taken place between a sheriff's force of 150 men and a numerous band of cattle thieves at Riverside, in Wyoming, in which 18 of the former and 28 of the latter were killed. Intimation has been received by the Town Clerk of Belfast that the Government have decided to recommend Her Majesty to grant the style and title of Lord Mayor to to the chief magistrate of that city. A weaver at Burnley who occupied one of the last carriages of an excursion train fell in the darkness and injured himself through the train being too long for the platform. A jury awarded him £250 damages. A cook, who had obtained two situations by means of forged testimonials, was fined by a London magistrate £20 in one case, and £10 in the other, and in default was senb to gaol for three and a-half months. Lovers of picturesque old towns will be sorry to hear that the mediaeval fortifications of Nuremberg are threatened. So far Nuremberg is the only large German city which still retains these relics of past ages. Insect Life records the death of Mr. Wiliain H. Danley, a strong man oi vigorous constitution, who sank 'into a comatose state ten minutes after being stung by a bee, and died five minutes later. Jeremiah Cotto, an Italian, was executed by electricity in Sing Sing Prison, New York, for the murder of a fellow-country-man. Four shocks were given. There wore apparent signs of life after the first three.

In taking the census of the State of New York a family was found in the town of Warrensburg in which the baby was three month old, its mother was not 15 years old, its grandmother was 33, and its great-grand-mother 54. A postmaster in Hungary a year ago married a young girl whom his family, especially his sister, hated. In the husband's absence the sister visited the young mother, killing both her and her infant, and then committing suicide. The slave trade flourishes in Morocco. The Sultan and his son recently received a present of 200 slaves to celebrate the event) of the marriage of the heir to the Moorish throne. Girls from 10 to 13 years of age fetch from £16 to £24 each. Father Leith Forbes, the Scotch Jesuit:, who was expelled from France for making insulting allusions to the French Army, has left Paris. Special instructions have been received by the Nuncio in Paris from the Pope to forbid the clergy taking the Papal Encyclical as a text for their sermons. A lady went to a fancy dress ball at Covent Garden Theatre in the character of a magpie. Her dress was trimmed with stuffed birds, which had in their beaks jewels worth over £500. While at supper some of these jewels were stolen, and a waiter has been charged with the theft. A decree prohibiting the passage of Russian Jews through Germany was published in the Breslauer Zeitung on March 25. The prohibition applies to all Jewish refugees, even though provided for. The decree is expected to have very serious consequences, as 400,000 Jews are now trying to leavo Russia. It may not be generally known that the bugler who under orders sounded the fatal charge at Balaclava is still living, and in full practice of his profession. Mr. Landfried is indeed esteemed as an excellent cornet and trumpet soloist, b'ut ho also holds the post of bandmaster of the Ist Sussex Volunteer Artillery. A child is said to have died in Haggerston us the result of vaccination. In tho House of Commons' Mr. Ritchie said that the Government could not guarantee the purity of lymph, as they had no absolute proof that it was taken direct from the calf by officers of the department. The antivaccinators are making the most of this admission. The Home Secretary, replying to a deputation of travelling drapers, said there was no probability of the Bill limiting the power of a married woman to pledge her husband's credit being passed into law. The object of the Bill was to prevent the wives of working-men from obtaining on credit articles which could nob bo regarded as necessaries of life.

A man when clearing out a well in Francc came upon a subterranean passage in the chalk. Exploring this, he reached a spacious room, in which ho observed the bodies of two soldiers, one leaning against the wall and the other seated at a table. It is supposed they took refuge in the undarcround apartment during the war of 1870; and the Germans filling up the woll the victims were buried alive. At Cwm Tillery, Wales, a little girl coming downstairs in the morning to light the fire found her mother sitting dead in a chair in front of a sewing-machine. Her cries brought down the father, who is said to have confessed that he killed the mother when he came home the night before, by dragging her head back and breaking hei neck, as she was sitting ab the machine making a little frock. _ At Birmingham Assizes—before Mr. Justice Denman— Walter Eaves (19), screwmaker, was charged with the manslaughter of William Edward Russell. The two men with others, whilst ab a public-house, challenged each other to a test of endurance, and commenced exchanging blows on the chest. Ultimately deceased, after receiving a blow, fell dead. The medical evidence was to the effect that death had resulted from failure of the heart's action. _ The doctor had never known a fatal case from such a blow. The jury found the prisoner no guilty, and he was acquitted. .