HOME NEWS.

Southland Times, Issue 3180, 22 August 1878, Page 2

HOME NEWS.

Amongst other parliamentary questions, was a BUI introduced to the Lords, by Lord Cairns, for the encouragement of secondary education in Ireland, to which purpose he proposed to devote £1,000,000 out of the surplus funds of the" Irish church commis. sioners. The Bill * passed its second readings A debate extending over four days . ensued upon the introduction of a Bill to prohibit the importation of live cattle from . the continent, the object being the suppression of contagious diseases amongst animals. The most important provision was one compelling the slaughter of all fat animals brought from any part of Europe, whilst the importations from Canada and the United States were to be allowed to continue. The first part of the clause was rejected. The Bill passed the second reading, but it -was thought would be very much modified in Committee. It created immense excitement. Amongst other social measures, the Per-' missive Bill of Sir Wilfred Lawson still ' keeps its place. It would make the licensing of public-houses dependent upon the vote of the district in which they are. situated. For some years teetotallers have rallied to this project as if it were their chief hope of legal reform. It is exceedingly doubtful whether '■ ■ if it became law it would accomplish the good they expect from it; but that is.one of - the points in the debate. Its introduction to the House of Commons is always heralded by a meeting in: Exeter Hall, ; which this season not less enthusiastic than usual, andunited in the temperance cause speaker* as opposite in cfiaracterlas Cahoii';Fairar r aßd ;; Cardinal Manning; - The ;bill J was,;; however, ; : Rejected by 278 to 84 TOtes,ofl^;a^o*^^ of 19k r :.-.-..M:,:r.-, TU.-^ii//.\ v.-^:^; ■ The. HabjLtuak Drunkards' Bill, introduced, fry Pr," Cameroa stands a, »ucfc

better chance of becomW l *"^ 5 indeed, it has already passed the se ond reading. It would .empower the loca! authorities to .establish 'retreats' am* any drunkard, who voluntarily enters / one of these houses may be detained for'syear, even against nis will, should he chame Ms wind after ,<nu» submitting himself to the treatment, me tJatives to place 'an habitual drunkard in charge, liave tnaen'wisery dropped, aa liable to abase. * . Tlie Pan-Anglicaii'Synod opened early in JulyVas attended' by 85 bishops. No invitations were issued to thfe. retired Bishops in England — a fact whicr^ occasioned some ' soreness in the mind of Disjenner, formerly bishop of Dunedin, and a member of the 1867 conference. „He has to The Times, stating' that there does not' seem to be much justice^or indeed sense, in the exclusion, as. the episcopal 'character is indelible, and the utility of a bishop as regards' consultative functions is not affected by. the resignation of hti'diocesan jurisdiction, The question of precedence when the 'Bishops .entered the the private Chapel at Lambeth was settled as follows:— The Colonial and Scotch, prelates wentffirst, fchen the Irish and' English suffragans, and American,and English Bishops last the prelate bringing up t the t rear, immediately preceding the Primus of Scotland.andthe four Irish and English archbishops. The Colonial Institute conversazione on Thursday, the *27th ultimo, was a great success, t the ~< numbers, present being larger than on any previous occasion. In the report for the year which was presented and adopted at the annual meeting on the following day, reference was made to the necessity of obtaining a more appropriate building than that where theinstitutenowhasitsroomftThenames of tKe right Hon. Hugh Culling Eardley Childers and the Earl of Dunraven 1 were added to the list of vice-presidents,which now contains 19. ,-

A "mysterious" tragedy, resulting ...14 the death^of 'a ydiing' Irishman 1 named William Morrissey, has occurred near Rhyl. He was a passenger by the mail' 'from Holyhead to London to embark on board, the Lusitania for Melbourne/ Two other Irishmen occupied the same compartment of the railway carriagejand bnV^bf -them gave him some brandy^ He remembered nothing., more ; .till. he .was picked up insensible on the the line hear Rhyl with both legs shattered,"his"nose smashed in, and :seVgraT wounds i dp. the head. v He became Bensittfe before his death; at the hospital. It jreemsrithe'dther^two'm^ gave' no information fo'the officials a'tßangorwhfen the train stoppgdjrior has anything been heard of them since. .' ' - v: .' "■'-'■'•'. \ ;" -.' "■ " '... An 1 for breach of promise, in which damages were laid at £?000, the ; plantifE bein^a'Mws Nellie Baptiej of Edinburgh, and {he- defendant a" successful gold mine ownef, r '-James Bowden Ross, of TownsviHe, has resulted; in a compromise, the young lady accepting ;. £3001' c A correspondence had been kept up from the gold-fields, and when Mr Ross came 'home, with the intention of manymg-his engaged, he left his specimens of gold-quartz with her, but went off with fcfr old' flame^. named Triiefitti Hind ilia laehrynice^'i' i - : ' ; ; '^ •■■■■■■■\-', Xhe-weather for about eigtm ilajs from tbe 20th nltimb was hot enough for an Australian climate. In London a shade temperature of 91 was recorded,;at Nottingham 95, and in the west of: France the thermometer rose to 97. ,2lnv.the sun, at Kew Observatory, it slightly exceeded 146deg. Near Wigan the gun nearly caused a railway accident. The metals were found bulging for eight lengths in the form of an S, at one time the metals and sleepers having been bodily moved two feet the rail hads been set too tightly, and the heat expanding them they had been twisted out of their original course. The mishap was fortunately -discovered just before the arrival of a passenger train. Several fatal cases of sunstroke occurred during the heat.

ThurlSay l^^ff „..._^T3">- ;<