NEWS IN BRIEF.

Oamaru Mail, Volume I, Issue 185, 23 November 1876, Page 3

NEWS IN BRIEF.

The Japanese are next in order for an international exhibition. They commence after France haa got through. Prince Milan has pawned, for 475,000 francs, his sword of honor. His wife declares she will sell off her wardrobe to obtain funds to prosecute the Servian war. Totul number of cases of small-pox reported and discovered in San Francisco, 73 >; muni el - ♦ f t'e ths— whites, 123; Chinese, 60*; Aft icons, 2. At the Kuuiara rusu, men have to tunnel from the river bank 1,500 ft., or sink 106t. and take the stuff to water, and then only stand the chance of getting wages f A cave containing. 20,000 tons of guano has been discovered 20 mile 3 front San Antonia, Texas. There are forty cotton mills running on full time at Georgia, and paying handsome dividends. A priest at Carnbridgeport, Mass., ©"dered that no fans should be used during service. His congregation disobeyed the order, and two men were ejected. A law-suit has grown out of it. The Duchess of Edinburgh, it appears, hits taken a wel'-fcnuwn villa at Malta, where she will join her Royal husband in the autumn, £is ship, the Saltan, being attach*! to t! e Me iiterrarem Squadron. A Uatling- gun was recently tired at the rate of 2,400 shots a minute, 14,400 s ,; 'ocs an hour. Pretty warm place to be in, before one of them. The gun is ten barrel, forty-&ve caltibre. A Dr. Hooper, living in North Carolina, placed a deadly poison in his wife's cap of coffee. Being called; out of the room, the wite changed the cup*, a tly having fallen into hevs." The doctor on returning drank tile cup of coffee. He died in a few minutus. It is said that Melbourne is as much infected with- beggars as Constantinople, and in point of tilth there is nothing to choose between them. The Liverpool Town Council have adopted a sc leme for * new water supply on tile gravitation principle, which b estimated; to cost £2,000,000 sterling. During the two ymtrs the Sunt t Shields Free Library has been in operation, only four voluin -s out of a circulation of nearly 300,000 have beatt missing. .The engineers enga|ei I in making soumlfor the- great tunnel, to connect Eng- ... land and France, have reported everything favorable to the undertaking. Thousands of deaths are occurring in the norfi iero provinces of C'uina. A famine i» raging there. England has beea engaged in forty-nine wars since 1800;; France, thirty-eight; Russia, ewunty-two ; Austria, twelve; | Prussia,, eigut. An American brick-making machine takes' in raw utay, tempers it, rejects the atones,, and makes; from fifty to eighty bricks per minute. Lieut. Cameron, the African explorer, has been made a commander in the British navy. A jnst reward for a brave and efficient man. lident Grant is now fifty-four years He was sleeted President at aven ; appointed General at forty nsie publisher testified, tn a recent a copyright case, that the copyright tccts»ful comic sonsc is frequently from £I,OOO to £1,230. King of Dahom* y, Afri< a, has con►'l Europeans to their houses, and nsto n »isacr e them. >ite her exhausted treasury, Spain es sanding 24,000 men with Krupp > Cuba fi.r the winter campaign, details of the Bulgarian atrocities ating in England strong hostil ty to The British Government mistlie extent of the Turkish barsaid tt'at a large firm of She the Ed iannfactur»r» are about to re.uove Uiiiness to Syracuse, Cnited Statrs. t stouudingdiscovery has bee i made >o»ton s'e itrician, that a man can ay upon a mus : cal instrument in fork, New Orleans, or London, or and bt< h. ard distinctly in l> >stt>n. , Oharljs ICavniltort lias rtcj'-rtfy belt convert to thw Roman iolic l. Eio is now a pri 'sS. and otlioiacest Pro c. th -'drat at Ken ingtou. r.esj pvper handkerchiefs are finite I plra.Jint to USami at the same surly a-v tough as cloth, ami rut s'iins aru- largely used in >r m.vki vg gloves, the la«ter baing rly .4U(>ph; and tint?. Ti er ; are o ".<!)• ittrs employ ad ;n tlm Era le. w .fewish Synagogue is about to be ; at dotting Hill, ton to>*. at a cost 0 0. to ttjcjmrnoda e SVO persona. Alisaoff, a Russian, sh'>w< a type at Philadelphia, which ft r mejhani-i-h re, laavjs the Americm one far , but it cannot be made to work so ? i. B t. mkin c Ho the students of the Rams--1 Indusiral Sc 00l ot the amusj- ; th# present d uy, the Bishop of > >■ axpresaod his- delight that • i r.s had gone to see Mr. Jrving's .'.••'\>ruuwice of Hivrntst in ManVv; ,t «head, inventor of the cele- - ■» i torpetfo-, "who""h»3 cstisnsiffp •>n Ai.sktria tos its saanuLciW , » , England, trying war Uo* ent t v adop'l some ia,p;».*jd torpeEauh torpedo coats £4OO. Austria havw mveatjd £20,000 in fwc&idablc projectile*.