GENERAL SUMMARY.

Otago Witness, Issue 2157, 27 June 1895, Page 11

GENERAL SUMMARY.

Viscount Hinton, who for many yeais has been grinding ap organ throu.h the slreuts of London, is now acting as showman for a kinetoseupe. A memorial is to be erected to the late Uev. Dr Dale, of Birmingham. TLu Dosvogev Duchess of iVfarlboroiifdi will only be uceivul by the Queen as Lady William L'oresforJ, so that her new hu&land has cost her her title. 0. L. Taylor, 1 >nd a«< nt lot f lie Marquis of Ely, was shot and lull on May 2 while standing outside the courthouse at ' New Ross, County Cork, by a bailiff whom he bad threatened to evict from his holdings. The ixfiJte caused great excitement. The Duke of Hamilton and Brandon is reported to have died on May 17 in Algiers. A mysterious explosion took place on May 17 in a railway carriage which was just arriving at the Walw rth tail way station, on the London, Chatham, a^d Dover road. The Fole occupant Of tho carriage was badly injured. Near him was found a brass cylinder nine inches long. The total realised by the sale of the art treasures of the late Mra Lyncl Stevens in London on May 24 was £141,000. Mrs Stevens was formerly a well-known French dancer, and retired from the stag - to many the lato Lynol Stevens, who was a wr-nhy member of Parliament. She became leudwuc 1 for h<:r charitable actions. 'J lie Friinit've Methodi.'t Cuiife crsce, in session at-Durlky, Knglnnd, rxpelled on May 7 the Rev. Jonathan Bull from theministiy and communion. Bell had been lutmiog amuck in a moral sense, it is alleged, in both JSurcps and the "United States. On the 7th the Pall Mall Gazette printed a column article, alleged to be based on police inquiries, suggesting that an ex-soldier named Grainger, a Dative of Cork, is the real "Jack the Ripper." Gi'aingur is now moving a 10-j ears' term of penal servitude for stabbing a woman in the Wbitecbapel district last March.

The Queen returned to London from the Continent on May 3 with her daughter Beatrice and son-in-law, Prince Henry of B:\tteuburg. The Prince, with the Duke of Orleans, went junketing in Spain, and had a narrow escape of his life at a fair in Andalusia, where he kissed a rustic beauty. Iler sweetheart and several hundred of his fellow peasants resented it, and there was a regular right with knives. Had it not been for the police both Battcnburg aud Orleans would have been kill id. As it i.°, the Frenchman, according to common report, is now laid up from the wounds received in the fray. 'iho London Daily News of May 11 says it is undei stood that an agreement has virtually been arrived at with representatives of American miues by which the export of copper from the United States during 1895 will be restricted to a certain fixed amount, which is Eomewhat below the exports of 1894. The Prince S3 of Wales will have two sketches io the comic g amateur art exhibition. John Lawrence. Toole, the well known English actor, is suffering from paralysis, and it was annouueed on May 9 that he would permanently retire Ironi the stage. An English syndicate of many members have quietly secured a site in a central part of Chicago, and intend to erect a music hall similar to the Alhambra and other mu-ic halls of London. John Burns, the Labour leader, was hodted while making a speech on Labour Day in Hyde Park. " Why don't you support Keir Hardie, traitor ?" someone shouted. Burns said : "If 50a don : « want to hear me, I'll go home." This was followed by cries of "Go home. You're no working man." The Queen of Holland, accompanied by the Qutieu Itejjpnt (her mother), visited her Mojoaty at Windsor on May 24-. It_ is expected that the visit will mean preliminary anangementa for the marriage of the eldest son of the Duke of Edinburgh to Holland's young Queen. A deputation from the Associated Chambers of Cjmmera! urged Lord K<.s bery and the Marquis oF ltiponthe desirability of the Government granting adtquate help and encouiagement to-'the propoFed steamship and cable lines via Canada to Australia Great Britain should contribute her share (£75,000 yearly) to these schemes. Loid Uofebery did not reply, but infoimed the deputation that the Government were considering the matter. The TinSes considers that the Government are justified in bestowing an annual subsidy of £100,000 on the Pacific mail and cable service, and ifc sugg<s's tbat the amount now absorbed by Bechuanaland might be liberated by giving Bechuanaland to Cape Colony under a protectorate to a chartered company. The historic glories of Warwick C<istle have been revised thia week, according to a London despatch of May 18, by the present Earl of Warwick and his wife. The latter v»ill ba recognised by her former name, Lady Brook, the iriend, bs all the world knows, of the Prince of Wales. The castle has been full of company, including H.R.H., and the highest of high jink* have been going on. The Pxincq and Princess of Wales left London within an hour of each other, but the Prince went west; for Warwick and the Princess proceeded past for Saiidringhaui. For a lady usually so amiab'e aa the Princets of Wales it is remarkable how oftsn and how strikingly she manages to let people know that there is no love lost batween herself and Lady Brook. The Prioce of Wales presided on May 8 at the annual banquet of the Printers' Pension Corporation —an organisation, under the auspices of the Typographical Society, which has for its object the cr.re and maintenance of worthy aged printers who are without means of support. The society provides for journeymen as well as employees who have been unfortunate in business Five hundred guesls assembled in the banqueting ball of the Imperial Institute, at South Kensinglon, and the Prince, who was given a. hearty reception, made a donation of lOOgs to the funds. While Oscar Wilde's case has absorbed public attention for weeks, the records of the London Police Court show that persons accused of the offence of which he id convicted come frequently before the magistrate. On the very day he was convicted John Goodchild, 28 yeais old, raid f aid to have a One education, v/as Reutc-nctd to tv\o yeara' hard labour for the crime. Tho Judge remarked that no country can remain great while such persons are allowed to live free in it. He Lelieved, indeed, tha!i they should not be allowed to live at all. The Marqui-i of Queeusberry wants the Treasury to reimburse him the £2000 that he j expended in defence of the libel suit which led to the prosecution of Wilde. Lady Mary Hamilton, thß young daughter of j the late Duke of Hamilton, will be the richest peeress in England, and probably in the world. She is only 10 years of age, and has inherited the bulk of the late duke's estate, including the Isle of Arran, which alone is worth £1,000,000. The whole of the Duke of Hamilton's property was at bis own disposal, and the rentals already amount to £200,000 a year. The present Duke of Hamilton inherits Hamilton Palace, and barely enough to support tho title. / The race for the Derby U desciibed as one of tke most important for yearn. Lord Roscbery, the owner of Sir Visto, who has more than onca owned "a classic :': ' winner, is said to be the luckiest man in England; The Priace of Wales was cheered when his two-year-old bay colt Courtier won the Pints earlier in the day. It is estimated that there were more than 10,000 people from America present at the race. j A great demonstration was held in Phcenix Park, Dublin, on Suuday, May 12, in favour of

the amnesty of Irish political prisoners. Arohbinhop Walsh scut £5, with which it is proposed to starb an amnesty fund. Timothy Harrington, tho Parnellite M.P. for Dublin, in his address said that whether tha Irish political prisoners were guilty or innocent of the crimes charged, they had fully expiated them. A resolution wa3 adopted by tho meeting to the effect that the further detention of the prißonera is vindictive and revengeful, aud cruelty unv/orbny of a civilised Government. If the case of Mips " Birdi-i " Sutherland, a choi us girl in the G u'ety Theatre, against Dudlty Chuichill Majoribanks, eldest _ son of Baroa Tweecnioutb, for breach of promise ever comes to trial ib will (according to a London despatch of May 18) be the most sensational affiir since Miss l f orteaiue, the actress, won £10,000 from Lord Garmoylo on a similar charge. Miss Sutherland's 'real namo ia Annio Louise Wat kins. She Hrat met Dudley Mnjoribauhs at tho Prince of Wales Club. It was a case of love at fkbt tight. He propose! aud was accepted. When his parents learned of the affair they were very much disturbed. Mr Majoribank^ went to Canada on a visit with his mother to tha Earl of Aberdeen, Governorgeneral of Canada. The young man did not return wi'h his rr.oiher to England, but remained iv Canada, and the match was broken off. Misß Sutherland then placed the case in the hands of a well-knowu theatrical lawyer, who retained ia her behalf Sir Edward Clarke. Mr C. V. Gill and several other legal ligLts have also been retained.