AUSTRALIAN CABLE NEWS.

Oamaru Mail, Volume I, Issue 70, 12 July 1876, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN CABLE NEWS.

[pee press agency.]'' H Sydney, Wednesd™ The Whampoa's English news is oiflg importance. §j| SMALL-POX. I Small-pox lias broken out in fowaß of the Flying Squadron which reeA left Bombay for China. B| DIABOLICAL PLOT, ffi A plot has bean discovered to sinlH ironclad training-ship Calidona. ||| AN 'EASTERN ITEM, jl A Constantinople telegram states aS hundred and eighteen villas, contaM 100,000 inhabitants, in Bulgaria, am THE BRONTES' STRUGGLES The literary history of the venwm sisters, Charlotte, Et'nily, and Anneßsjß illustrates, in a very interesting nuWßj the exigencies of authorship. ThesjM lived with their father in a seclM hamlet in the north of England, andwj desirous of publishing a volume of pw They wrote to a publishing hous'i J arranged to have the book printedM published at the authors' expense. 9 volume fell dead from the press, wi WL girls remitted the bill, which anw'J to about £7O. It was a hard los« made a gap in the little funds .«■ family, but Was no ayoidwM result, which was borne with cjieerfn»M The poems were published as ""JH duction of three brothers, differ.« and Acton Bell, and the best W which any of them received was a( fMB to the poems of Ellis (Emily), **■ considered by Charlotte the mostpH| the family. The gifted sisters disheartened. Charlotte had novel, which she sent to a publisi'fyM returned :t. It was afterwards sewM other houses, and was declined bJJM one. The book was called" The V sor.'' Charlotte, while the book tss lM the rounds, commenced " Jane _'MJ which she determined to make nl0 f JH sensation novel than " The and succeeded to a remarkable JH The manuscript was sent to S ffllt and Co., and was published at and had a ready sale. Subseque" •[■ author and her sister Anne ffen , JH don to see the publishers, and !\JM| were astonished to behold two ""aaHB young women, clad in dress of plicity, who represented so as "Jane Eyre." Charlotte w JMk Elder, and Co.'s business corre as a proof of her identity, an* ;-^B

'"a . v IL ilcii.r. Then, for the first f v ' t j u . ..uhli/.'icrs learned that Currcr S , o nce«ipp;-«'l b> l« • n,M». wa, a [•• Hfl - "irl, wlm»m« studies »t lite and r'Lrfv'iii"' 1 "- t ' n ~( n vyry Umitt " l « f «"" 1 '- fSucb WW t! ! «entn»iu:H^M t ,f..f the talented families of the present age r r |i,. literary world. How tediu* and f'nv'n !\'d i>y experience. Perhaps the hi*'''"nf this remarkable trio is one of the ' M f,nkinu- in the- modem history of '"i,iH and has an almost tragical characf Seldom lias the world witnessed | r ' . such talented sisters, who withered <l\y under ed.'.fortune, and followed fj 'other in 'i :^ *•»-- te succession to the r"'" ::Ll ""'"" vw^