NEWS IN BRIEF.

Oamaru Mail, Volume I, Issue 247, 6 February 1877, Page 3

NEWS IN BRIEF.

[ The young Thakour of Bhownuggur, India, married four wives simultaneously, three yt-urss Now he wialus to fit-*-* cmiir a Christian,. but the missionaries* tell liini Christians must: only have one spouse. lit; is sorely perplexed. A- young niaiv afc Jteweastle, named Charles Ni'-hol, after being two hours apparently dead, from drowning. was restored to cou'.eiousness. T!ii' now Midland coupled express engines, in Kngland, running in tho usual course, have been timed ♦♦K and »- miles ;m lionr. Fibers have born engendered at iVlmvtrcid by I Miming collins which wore e Slimmed t'l'i• 11* iin old burying-gvouud at the now canal basin. Nearly all tho Northern and Western States, Canada, t ienuany, Uushm,, and London, have educational pxiubitu at the t'onMuiial. London has a beautiful buildiu f, a. model school-house. Tho ix)w..t of tho iV-ss ha* just been * shown in a. now form in Ku gland. A gen- , tloniau'ii name way struck from tho poll-in; j lists ,h ('oi>liani because tiio Tutt-m had ' a no to of his funeral. tn r.i>!i'limi. tnads importi'd from France, at a eoxt t.f £| a dotfuu, aro vised in gardens to devour insect's. Tim song of the volunteers setting oat from Uns«ia fop Servia is a passionate imprecation aga.in.sl'. England. Oats are gradually filing out ot' cultiva- , tion in the AHmry district, Australia, r local farmers not being able to compete with importation;-* front New Zealand. !l't is stated that tO.OOO wotueti and girb vo learned to swim at the free New >rk baths this season. Mi;.« Heel; or says she would like to see lies educated up to a truer feeling for o preservation of " feathered songsters," iteail of wearing humming-birds and liur small birds of like value in their An interesting arehi.vologieat discovery is been made at Hexham, Nurtluuubernd. No less than altars have been loarthed, besides several thousand topper ins, belonging chiefly to the risignd ot' .wletian and Constantino the Great. Ferhapa the grandest spectaoEa of the mtermial Plxposition was the Orarnt >dgo of Udd Fellows' parade. It is estiited that over 00,000 members of the 'der Were present, A St. E'etersburgh paper asserts that issia has at present nearly 1.9000,060 m under arms, and 2,670 field pieces, d tijljU.- army can be increased to calling out the re- | msv«*

The monument to Horace Greely, known as "The Printers' Greely Memorial," was unveiletl in Greenwood Cemetery in October. It constats of a colossal bronze bust of Greely. Two Jews have just been f-l et'-d to the Italian Senate, the first who have ever hefof this honor in Italy. It is hardly a decade since the Jews had no political, and few social, rights in Italy. Taking the whole area of London, the number of begsrars taken into custody last year amounted to 2,002. of whom 813 were discharged, and l,l»5 received punishment. Among the men now enlisting in the army are an unusually large proportion of clerks out of employ, small tradesmen who have failed, and so forth. The black swans at Central Park, New York, have brought out three cygnets, which are supposed t'» be the tirst black swans ever bred in America. It is reported that the Government of India contemplates sending a Ilemoiuit Committee t"> Australia this year, for the purpose of purchasing remounts and shipping them direct. The Secretary to th» v IJfitish Iron Trade Association has received a letter from the Foreign Office, stating that there is good reason t.o believe- that the eXts'.'ng duties on iron entering Germany wit! cease at the end of this year. The L>rd flavor's banquet on November t) was a brilliant atlair. and was the occasion of same important speeches. Nearly all the Ministers, including tluPremier, were present. India was represented in the "show " by two elephants. It is said that volunteers who int«-nd to appear at unbted<>n next July will n»»t be allowed to indulge in the mixture of uniform and civilian costume hitherto so popular, without rendering them IhMe to the penalties attendant npoti a distinct breach of regulation. The halfpenny and torching originated in the tini« of the Conqueror, when the penny was divided into four parts with a deeply-cut cross, so that it could be broken into- half a penny or fourth-thing. Two American hairdressers in England have been competing keenly with each other. One employed pretty young ladies as manipulators of the hair and beards of tits customers. The opposition immediate, ty ottered a glass of to all c nners. The result was an unusual ru-»h of business to both establishment-i. Kerosene will probably soon become one of the stap'e- pro.U;et-» of An American speculator. who ha» strucK oil " in the valley ot tae \ olg.i, lias taken on tease .T>O.OOO acres of land. which he has already begun to wo- k. He promises to-sail p-„-h*-te:tm at thirty per cent., under the price of that imported from America, and he Eias ;-Jready shown the value of his discovery by .supplying some of the steamers on t'ue Volga. It_ i; said that the companies which have tried heatinu' with the new f»iel are perfectly satistied with the result of the experiment.