Brevities.

Otago Witness, Issue 1502, 28 August 1880, Page 8

Brevities.

Germany issued 14 179 now hooka iv 1879. They are building a "coffee stall in Collingwood (Victoria)', wbioh ie to cost £1350! ' Of the 575.433 tenants' in Ireland, 428,285 hold thirty acres and 287,516 under fifteen. Apoetloa of Morinonism are making converts , in Sydney. .• > i Mr M. T. Carey, of Coonabarabran, killed 1600 mioe on hit farm in five .weeks. > . Within a, radios of 50 miles of Coorna, 50,000 bushels of wheat have been threshed tbip season. ' The first' fall oF enow at Oooma this winter ' was on Saturday)' June l'9th. Mr Percy HodgHineon has discovered a splendid deposit' of iron ore about three miles from Qaeahbeyiin. The sample he brought in wou'd 'yield 75 per oent of iron. ' o< . „ , . ■- The population of..VJotona on the 31st March last ,was estimated at 902,994 souls. ■An. anti-vaccination society has just been . formed, iv Melbourne. . -„i.',. " A Hobfirt Town paper says that " our now Governor is of the eectof Plymouth-Brethren." There now are sleeping ears upon the Sydney railways; , < , „,,.,'• " ' ..jLi-phbishopVaughan announces himself as r a free trader. ' . . , „-,-.',, „ ,' Ttie'prickly pe'a'r'is found to be jusfc the food ■ for ostriches at the Oape. ' • ' r ' "Longfellow's "Hiawatha" and "Evangeline" ' have beon translated into Bohemian. ..Th : ere Is some talk of another Thames tunnel, 1 nearßlaokwall.' • r •■< • ■ '■ - ! ;,. . ,The mortality in Paris iB ore^'mf? great alarm.; ■ The., slave trado;,on >the : Ked Sea has been revive^. ,({,.. „ „ , x) „<!',, i ! ; j'X statue" of Beethoven was unveued in Vienna on th» let 1 of May. . * .', ' ""'A'Yeterihary'KurgeoW' Association ia.aboufc tQ be established in Melbourne;" ' " ' 'The ohimesof th<? post-office clock in Adelaide ■ s hava'bee'n heard 240 miles distant, by means of the telephone. " - " - " ■ - ! /.'A'«ew Boriapartist evening, one-sou journal id about to appear in Paris -under tho title of •''',Le' Napoleon.'.' ; ■ ] ■ ., -Thirteen train-wreckers; in Spain have been , sentenced to death and thirteen to twenty years 'imprisonment.,,' '„'.. •' ' ;' 'Fifteen acres of fins in the forest orFon,- ' tainebleau' were 'burnt down, it is believed; • 'tlirongb the carelessness of a' smoker. ' ' i !> - 'The Queen 1 has coh'fer'red tho Order of the Indian Empire on tbe Jesuit Father Lafon, of . Calcutta - f - '•- ' ■ • . ,:\ Tbe Janguage of. the inhabitants of, the island , 'of.* Madagascar contains <a .complete numeral , ./System, up to a million.',; j , „ j .'.During lasb.anmmer the in the Northern Territory died at the rate of 34 a month. * " ''■' I At a meeting' of the:lioensed victuallers, held i irv Melbourne, a resolution against the granting of licenses to single women was carried. Sleeping cafe are now attached to both the tip ' and 'down night mail trains on the Southern and 'Western Bltiilways in New South Wales. •'' 'There' were upwards of ' 1000 applicants for - '^Je'rkslSipS' at '7s per* day, v to"'the' Melbourne '^Exhibition;' '- ■' \ :': '- ' ( .. -• - ' , >' •"< The>Mayor>of Sydney has received a&ona fflp offor of <£2, per > week forthep'rivilege of picking up rasfß in Moore Park. . ,?• - f . i , j • (Red, clover tea is said,to'be a our,©, for cancer. ...The tops, are boiled in water, andjthe tea is used .internally and ex»ernallyii „ v ( ' ' ItisVaid 'that' Pooe' Leo intends 'opening an international competition for a monument in 1 the Basilica of Sh Peter's to Pio Nona Longfellow has three times declined foreign missions- offered him" by the ■ United • States 'Government. ' ■» - • The earn of ;£16j346 -was found ia unregistered ••- letters opened at theiDead Letter Offico,,Syd- „■ ney. during tho last year. , \ • -Forty aores have been set apart from Elstern- . ' wick Park, Melbourne", for the purpose of a '. .^rotting, track on the,Arnericah principle. "A .Viotoriun J.P. baa been summoned for ' stealing a monument 22ft high, and which took seven men and tackling to put on a lorry. ' The American Postmaster- General ha 3 just issued a' notice intimating that henceforth • ' ' 'queen bees '■ may-be;transmitted by post. 'Dr Hammond, an. authority on diseases of - ;.the advises nervous people to consume . . .plenty of fat. or fat producing food. , - The total amount received from nil sources by the various Irish relief committees up to April 24th,' was Half !a million sterling. It is said that the British losses in the Afghan ' campaign do 'not' equal the number oi Afghans • whom'the' British have hanged. In New" South Walos the postal routes for 1879 were— by coach, 7605 miles ; on horseback, 12.987 miles ; by rail, 776 miles ; total, 51,368. The Country Gentleman states that it is .ininoured .that Lord Beaconefield has another , novel nearly ready: for print., ",i,n .edition of 100,000 copies of Channing's work's," at a shilling each,' was published in England to mark his centenary. : ' lUf 'It is pfobable that theßarlof Rosebery will : 'receive a step in the Peerage, and will become ><■■ Marquis of Rosebery. ,t»At' a meeting of Masonn lately held in t.oVjcspriat .oVjcspria a Masonic Belief Fund was formed on • '„ jthe scheme adopted bjr many lodges ia America ' Six thousand five 'hundred persons were re- , leased, from imprisonment or delivered' from. . police supervision'in 'Russia on the pecasion of *' \ t the' Czar'ri birthday artniverasry; April 29'h. _ ,;;( "The' annual cost of each ban in the English •' : - 'array has just been totted up— it is £140; '•■' '. There are only 500 people living at the place '<• where gold was first discovered in California.: . ':^The students and teachers. at the Training ...College at Adelaide are exercised iv the ait of . bandaging wounds. , ■ . , ... 'lreland ,aendVtp the new Parliament'fifty- ' '.seven Catholic, members, being the largest nnmb,er Bhe ever sent there. ; Fifty brigands have been' killed at Salonico. ' '.Captain Bogardus proposes taking a team of ' shots to England next spring. • o' ! A BroDze statue of Lord Byron, has been I '.-ereoted- in Hamilton Gardens,,. Hyde Park, j London. - •• • ■ , <■ - -i JJy famine in the north of Hungary, 1400 per- •-, eons are .living on gras*, nettles, and mushrooms. \ '. ," The Swiss arniy numbers' ,215,063 men, of] whom 95^116 belong to the landwehr and! 119.947. to the elite. , ' j ' r '' Captain Burton stateß that the western Gbats °of Arabia are proving' rich in precious metals. , 'The census just taken at Boston shows the population to- be about 351,000. I Apure white native pigeon was recently shot 1 ia Westland. Queen Isabella of Spain, is going to visit England. . , . Tbo jubilee of the Royal Geographical Sqciety . was held on May 31. A Melbourne contemporary says that the police on occasions of emergency should be clad in mail. '- : ' ' ' v> ' • •'■■■ • .-A, P.-Rigsdale, a prominent citizen of Texas, was murdered by cattle thieves, whom he had followed four miles. • ' The organisation of_ the new British Arctio Expedition is progressing; surely and steadily. The North British Railway Company have laid aside £120,000 to cover the loss by the Tay bridge disaster. The Claimant is again to tbe fore ; his cage, it is now finally settled, shall be heard on June 14.