GENERAL NEWS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 11986, 7 June 1902, Page 6 (Supplement)

GENERAL NEWS.

BISHOP SERIOUSLY INJURED. A very serious accident happened to Dr. Can- Glyn, Bishop of Peterborough. His I lordship was out riding near the city, when his horse reared and threw him. His lordship was picked up in an unconscious condition, and removed to Milton Hall, the nearest residence, where he lies in a critical condition. The latest reports are of a more hopeful character. It appears that after his fall his horse rolled over him, and in addition to severe concussion of the brain he sustained a fracture of the right wrist. Dr. Barton, of Kensington, and Mr. Victor Horsley were summoned in consultation with Dr. Walker and Dr. Kirkwood, and subsequently the following bulletin was issued:"The bishop has recovered more consciousness and is progressing favourably." His Majesty the King and the Princess Louise have telegraphed messages of sympathy and inquiry, MOCK WKDDING TURNED TO REALITY. An unpleasant predicament for two young persons has resulted through a fullyauthorised clergyman taking part in a private theatrical entertainment*in the town of Edgewood, New York. The plot of the play ended with a wedding to unite the hero and heroine, and to make the climax more impressive the regular marriage service was used. The person taking the part of the minister studied for the ministry many _ years ago, and was a licensed preacher, though not actively engaged in this work at present. It was forgotten at the time that such was the case, but the fact was recalled after the entertainment was over, and the hero and heroine, after a consultation of lawyers, discovered that they were as legally married as if the ceremony had taken place in church. The bridegroom, as the only means of untying the knot, intends to move to Dakota, and after living there for 90 days will bring a suit against his bride for divorce on the grounds of desertion. As she has agreed not to defend the suit the nuptials will thus be broken. THE FORESIGHT OF GENIUS. " The law of gravitation was announced by Newton in the year 1685. Had it not been foreseen by Shakespere in 1609? At all events in " Troilus and Cressida" he put these lines into the mouth of Cressida: But the strong: base and building of my love Is as the very centre of the earth. Drawing all things to it.—Act iv. sc. 2. SAVES HER BROTHER'S LIFE. The Queen of Portugal, Marie Amelie; her brother, the Duke of Orleans; the Duchess of Orleans, and the Princess Louise of Orleans were taking part in a boar hunt at Villamaurique, near Seville, when the boar' attacked the Duke and wounded his horse. Princess Louise saved her brother's life by. a well-directed shot, which killed the' boar. Princess Louise, the youngest and only unmarried daughter of the Comtesse de Paris, follows in the steps of her mother and sisters as an enthusiastic and fearless sportswoman. The Comtesse de Paris may be said to have made shooting popular among Englishwomen, for as a young married woman she always used to accompany the guns when visiting at Sandringham. HONOLULU. James Pimiock, the English explorer and traveller, who is visiting Honolulu, says: " When one remembers that it is only some three years since the country was taken over by the United States the great strides that have been made in so short a time are simply marvellous. The number of banks, merchants' offices, public schools, and colleges give me. as 'an Englishman, a most exalted idea of what : Americans can do when they 'mean it' and put their minds, money, and hands to it with a will. I hear of one large mercantile firm here which only opened its new offices and warehouses a few days since; the buildings, of which cost well on to £200.000, and which buildings are as elegantly and extravagantly finished as. the best banking-house in London." <~,.■ . GERMANY'S FOREIGN" COMMERCE. The final estimates of the value of Germany's foreign commerce for 1901 have just been completed by the Government's statisticians, assisted by a commission composed of numerous experts from various branches of trade. Imports show a total value of £285,490.000. against £302.150.000 in 1900. and £289,180,000 in 1899. Exports amounted to ' £225.625.000. against £237,130.000 in 1900. and £218,420,000 in 1899. ONLY A WOMAN'S HAIR. I In his life of " Sarah, the First Duchess of Marlborough," Fitzgerald Molloy says that on the death of the fluke the duchess found, in a cabinet where he kept all that he most valued, a mass of her hair. Years before, when he had thwarted her in something, she resolved to mortify him; and. knowing that her beautiful and abundant hair was a source of pride and delight to him, she had cut it oft'. The shorn tresses were left in a room through which the duke must pass, and in a place where he must see themfor whatever Marllady did she did it thoroughly. But he came and went, saw and spoke to her, and showed neither anger, sorrow, nor surprise. When he quitted the house she ran to see ber tresses, but they had disappeared, and on consulting her looking- ; glass she saw how foolish a thing she had done : but she said nothing about her shorn locks, nor did the duke. She never knew what had become of them until, after the death of he duke, she found them amongst those things which lie had held most precious. A PEST THAT COSTS £50,000 A TEAR. The Westminster Budget says:—lt is a fact that in some districts quite* 50 per cent, of the apples grown by English fruitgrowers are injured by the caterpillars of the . codlin moth. ' They burrow into the fruit and cause those wormy apples which are a. source of annoyance to customers, cooks, and consumers. The moths arrive at the time when the apple blossoms open. Then, when the newly-formed fruit, appears, the female lays her egg on the skin of the apple. In seven or ten days the eggs hatch, and tint walks an enemy of the apple-grower. If it is left undisturbed it bores its way into the fruit, causing, the apple ' when fully developed to fall prematurely from the tree. The Fruit Trade News reckons that by this pest English fruitgrowers sustain an annual loss of £50.000 at the lowest possible estimate. A GOETHE STATUE FOR ROME. The German Emperor has had plenty of trouble concerning his ideas as to suitable statuary for public places in Berlin. He seems, however, to be more fortunate with the Goethe statue which is to be erected in Rome, and the well-known Berlin sculptor, Professor Everlein, is just about to leave for Rome in order to carry out the work. The idea is to represent Goethe as he must have looked when, as a young man, he lived for some time in Rome? The dress is that of the period of the First Empire, with knee-breeches, lace ruffles and jabot, lone; waistcoat, and open tail-coat. A cloak is picturesquely thrown over the left arm, and falls at the back over the stem of an olive tree. In his right hand he holds- an open volume. The figure rises from the capital of a Corinthian column, which in turn rests on a pedestal ornamented with three groups representing lyric and dramatic poetry as suggested in Goethe's works. The whole is to be executed in Carrara marble, and should, when completed, be a, monument worthy of Goethe and of Rome. A TOO LITERAL TRANSLATION. A missionary lately returned from India complains of the slow progress made out there in converting the natives, on account of the difficulty in explaining the teachings of Christianity so that the ignorant people will fully understand them. Some of the most beautiful passages in the Bible are destroyed by translation. He attempted once to have the hymn, "Rock of Ages, cleft for me. Let me hide myself in thee," translated into the native dialect so that the natives might appreciate its . beauty. The work was done by a young ' Hindoo Bible student. The next day he i brought his translation to the missionary I for approval, and his rendering, as trans--1 lated back in English, read like this: " Very old stone, split for my benefit, Let me absent myself under one of your fragj ments." 5