NEWS IN BRIEF.

Oamaru Mail, Volume I, Issue 202, 13 December 1876, Page 2

NEWS IN BRIEF.

The Irishmen of Chicago are talking of spending SIOO,OOO in a daily newspaper. Bible 3 and Christian books are nowsold in Tokio, in tiie Japanese language. A single New Jersey farm twelve tons of currants to New York^^ A great temperance movement is going on in the British Army in India. New Bedford girls are introducing the fashion of smoking cigarettes in the street. Lady Lytton, the widow of the novelist, has published a volume of meditations called ." Shells from the Sands of Time." , It is said that the Marquis of Stafford is to be honored with the hand of the Princess Beatrice. The Prince of Wales called on Colonel Baker, after the release of the latter from prison. Emigration from Great Britain to the United States fell off twenty per cent, in 1875, as compared with the previous year. A brood of young emus, hatched about two- weeks ago, are now to be seen at Ellerslie Gardens, Auckland. A writer in the Dunstan Times says we must accept the great influx of Chinese labor into Australasia and America as the beginning of an equalisation of labor ! In the Bulgarian town of Batak, 9,000 persons of all ag _ s were slaughtered in cold blood, after surrendering their arms. No resistance was'offered. Kimball and Morton's English sailmaking sewing-machine attracts a good deal of attention at the Centennial. It will do the work of twelve sail makers. In New York more working men are out of employment and actually suffering for necessaries of life than ever before at. this season of the year. During 1875, the imports of wheat and flour into the United Kingdom were valued at £32,380,000, against a home production estimated at £22,000,000. The Corporation of London . pavs in salaries between £60,000 and £70,000 per annum, and in wages between £IIO,OOO and £120,000, An English Company with a capital of $10,000,000 has purchased the water power at the great falls of the Potomac, fourteen miles above Washington. Young Lord Mayo, aged 25, has thoughtfully provided a crowning scandal for the London season, by eloping with Lady Zouche, who was married only a yeai* ago. In a pamphlet circulated among working men in Germany, Cain is eulogised as the industrious laborer who, in killing Abel, struck a merited How at laziness. The approaching visit of Queen Victoria to Ireland will, it is said, be made the occasion of granting an amnesty to the remaining Fenian prisoners. Sir C narles Mordaunt allows his divorced wife £3OO a year during her life time, or until she re-marries, and £IOO per annum for the support of her daughtei*. __ r ~^- A proposal is afoot to make it compul- . sory on all vehicles plying in the \ of London to have indiarubber tyers round the wheels. . The Aust/ian" Government has lately passed a law, compelling all dealers, in. beer at Vienna to mark on their glasses a line below which the froth must not subside.

The bronze st.fif.nrM of t>v. Eaviueeifone, lately unveiled in Edinbur.;!,, r< presents die explorer in travelling costi'inc, b'-^ riitlifc band ImtUrtL,' out. a Bode ;ui t Ids lt:ff. restin ' on the handle of m ;;';•. j The Kiiv; of S.::i!i I :ivnr.._ ne hidden ; liberal ten-.; i■; in i; -.e fdmv■ rslty < f M.i- ---■ drill, a irto iM..i;ii,utu Ims be n r'oirmb-d i iitili'pondi'iitly of if., wlueh, b : ■ ■.':-.--v' , y | nearly 300 u.wmhecs. The destruction of Canadian forests I;u caused a decadence of trout tishin;.,', the .water ta the trout streams bavin - U-ome too warm by tho trues bum;; cut a\.ay froui the banks. Bishop O'oXe's daughter, who we.* recently married »f ibilrhlo, received from (her husband #l.,O<:i),o<)<> in bonds as a ; wedrtinjc present. Few wordd object to bniul-4 of ui.ifcritu.iay of that kin.l ami amount. A uiovinnonf, is beim*; rua.ln arnoii;;s!'. the Eti.ithtari'ksra ia ,\u:»tvaba for tit« «-sfabImhnieut of a (rauiic EVvic.licvl, to bo isMiiotl nioutlily*, ami nublUliad uiciiyr in iVEi-'lbouruo or Sydney. Flour will i'Xfin::;ni."»!'v the Hani'-n of burning kt-roHimo promn'l/-. Ft ranl'ly al>siitbs khe lluid, lieactwa;* t!u' fluu", ami. vm\ bo readily gathered up and thrown out of doors. The hi:.du-3t inhabited spot in fcai? v/orld is said to bo the BuddhUfc VUn^ vV , :l t fl'arlu, Tiiibrt, v.'lru'o twcnfy-ni'.! prii.r.N lived in an akd.udu of fewt abov« blu> la vol of tho sta. The revuntio oiiiciafrt in Fnuu.isoo liavn dtßi:ovorod «,u ploy (v;nU iii'C from a distillery to an ouf.lot undt-r a wharf, wh'.>aei', evidunf.ly, amount*' of evookod waiskuy havo been shipped. 'they aru mak'm;;- Hoar ia by thi' with a luai'hiao foi-tned of imiaiujrablo Utth; trip h:i.iinn;.'r-t. A mill of that kind, eo«tinu' i.'2".(>, will make ast mtieli Hour iva aa ordinary uvdl e.^ein.,' i'l,'j;.)o. Tho Wheelef who tmv beon wnrkinu: a claim ia the !Uai:k Elilts, ar< rived-at Fort L.vrimie, afewdaysa;o, with the proeuud.-'. of t« 'Vi-n nioui; labo-;. Ww.y have .£,t;o,Oi><) in :,'old, a'ul I.bOO Ibsv of-old dust. A pint of iron film £3 rutind a:; apple try i) on whie'i are dead spots make aa exiH'ilont remedy. Apple trees riMpiiru iron in about the .snue pi-oporttona-* tin; lumian sy.-sSeni, and t w eil'eet it*, nine'; the sanm. W"iu)!i th;i so,I lieeonu-s ;s. lauot'-'d of iron lilto trjes b-.v.dn to d.ieay. Since tins snpin' s iiou of t';e civil war in S;»iin. t >,()(.)■.) sol Hers w rru en ';!'.'' I i"V n few weeks in a bitv:et; ii ;'r-. wit •, tU--' lll'taies of !oi:u.".ts whioil have d 'v;;. \k:\t -d Hie western n,;i I v. ■n'w\.l pn»viu :. s of t ;;.' omiatry. En IJadajot'. nl>\u r.'j.> loev..;:i killed vjoouni.ed t... bru tons. T v l.w I '. fri.d in the way <.f ;.. (tdtern.tii>n . t'l ; pnt : he; s.i.h: in".' a!e. in order to ei'.n.'.) a i.'.(.'.;'■ for lieu-:-. A b-v i* aller in London w \ ; likly lia-.l I.k pnt- I tine->d y;r.vias of :;.aa'. into every e,;..l ■■a of buer. Adispiteh Ins be aireeeiv -<l a-.>m 71>. ;- kid, d.'ebuia; to aloof; te sit l:n. c seel.: iat.m of e01.0.r.al wanm c ,pi :;'.i ;hi! Oitstnu' at iloai'. r.s sn :'';'•.■'-ed, oe. mxoitnt oc dd b<Ai\j ia'oaveiu.;at to the trade.