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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XIX, Issue 6295, 16 February 1892, Page 4

In Germany a labor paper was so prosecuted that four editors in succession were " gaoled," and the fifth is now on his trial. Coolies are being introduced into the Northern Territory ; Italians and Javanese into Queensland ; and the Ballarat Trades and Labor Council are raising a war-cry against a threatened influx of Russian Jews. The revenue of the Victorian railweys for the year is expected to be L 300,000 below the expenditure. Too many political lines constructed during the land boom period of prosperity. A good deal of excitement was caused at the Melbourne Aquarium the other morning when the alligator got loose, and for a long time kept the whole establishment at bay, and threatened to turn some of them into mincemeat. He was finally captured, however, and safely caged. There is a glut of potatoes in Sydney, the supply being much greater than the demand. The Clarence River has sent an enormous quantity, and the farmers there are now sorry that they planted so many. What is called a real ice "rink has been opened in London. It is laid in the form of a warm chemical liquid, and when cool hardens, and possesses nearly the slipperiness of real ice, so that ordinary skates can be used. Secretary of State Blame was smitten down at Washington, January 6th, with an attack very much like apoplexy, but which the doctors, on investigation, pronounced the result of indigestion. He recovered, but there is a great deal of uneasiness amongst friends in regard to his health. The Adelaide Advertiser states :—Beginning with the fact that the annual output of wheat and wool together amounts in value to about £30,000,000, it is estimated that the exports of our forests, if properly managed, may be expected to reach £37,000,000. Those who have an idea that Australia is an arid treeless waste, may revise their notions by pondering the fact that there are about 50,000,000 acres of forest. A county-seat war broke out in southwestern Kansas between the towns of Woodsdale and Hugoton, January 3rd, and resulted in bloodshed. Sheriff Dunn was killed on the 4th, and Judge Batkin was compelled to flee for his life, with his family, to a neighboring town. Several people were killed subsequently in a running fight with a sheriffs posse. The Duchess of Edinburgh inherited her famous furs from the Empress of Russia, and Mrs Mackay has a mantle of black fox made up of 10,000 separate skins, which eight years ago cost L 2,800. The most valuable set of fur known to exist is worn by the present Empress of Russia. It was a gift to her on her coronation by the town of Vikoutsk, in Siberia. It weighs 16oz, and is priced at L 12.000. Rev. John Hargrave, a preacher, while returning from a religious meeting in Indiana to his brother's house at Mentor, December 19th, was set upon by a gang of masked " white caps " and beaten horribly. After cutting the letter "V" between his shoulders the assailants left Hargrave for dead. His sole offence was that a lady in his congregation had expressed a willingness to marry him and her brother was opposed to the match. Rev. J. T. Abernathy, a clergyman of Snow Hill, North Carolina, who was recently shot at by a man named ( Jrimslcy, who caught him in the act of kissing his wife, met the insulted husband on the street in that place, December 14th, when both immediately opened fire with revolvers. Abernathy received four shots in the face, and OJrinisley one in the thigh. Both are considered seriously wounded. Abernathy had resigned his pastoral charge immediately after the kissing episode. Advices received at Sydney last week from Hongkong state that two steamers had gone on the rocks under peculiar circumstances near Swatow. It seems the steamer Yunuan went ashore at the place mentioned, and the Tongshan, sent to her assistance, had been carried by a heavy sea into quite as bad a position as the vessel she went to help. Both steamers were eventually wrecked. At the inquiry into the loss it was found that the Tougshan was improperly anchored too close to windward of the rocks, but, as the error was committed in the desire to save life, all parties were exonerated from blame and certificates returned untouched. It is not considered worth while to try to raise thje Tongshan. The remains of theYunmui have been sold in Swatow for TOOOdols. , but in the strong monsoon and heavy seas now prevailing it is likely the purchasers will not get their money back.