Miscellaneous.

Te Aroha News, Volume IV, Issue 168, 4 September 1886, Page 3

Miscellaneous.

London,- August' 11. — Mies Florence Nightingale and some other ladies have* been admitted members of Cobderi Club. .. ' Mr Guardrail has expressed* -a hope that the report that Dr. Kauion ' is to be offered the vicarage of J Blackburn,! with a view to' his appointment as coadjutor to the Bishop of Manchester ia unfounded. He considers that* the nomination of Dr.'Kenion an vicar of "Blackburn would-be- likely to weaken the connection between the Anglican Church and the colonies. • ? .'■>"• ;r t , , ' The" Daily News" announced that the British protectorate has been established over the JSHlce Islands/ a 'era all group on a coral* > reef«BUrrounding 4 'a lagoon, 'in the Pacific Ocean. ■••' ' > I J* <»-<* ' .-» «,- - Considerable uneasiness has been -created by ; the publication of a report that .General Ignitieff, the distinguished Russian diplomatist. has been publicly denounced in Germany; on the'ground of his alleged' ingratitude. General Ignatieff uttered a prediction that the French and Russian forces combined^WouiVd'bHbrtr^^attJErckfGdrmany. August 13 —A Paris .correspondent ,of .the "Morning Posf'aeserts that the declaration made by the Republique, Francaisejs approved in- French official circles. "JLe Rationale," :in,an article on, t the .subject^ advises Australia to abandon the agitation concerning the aotisn of, France relative, to the Hew Hebrides. France, it ia asserted, is fully Justified in occupying the Islands, and it ia a matter of certainty that she will never withdraw her troops from.them* -. .<■ London, August 14.— : *&aliU>ertie/' coinmenting upon the action ; of jthe English Government in .establishing a t protectorate over the Ellice Group, /declared" thatj, : tX© matter has an important bearing .upon the Mew Hebrides dispute because while England continues- to . extend} her, .possessions -in t othe ; Pacific „she > .cannot i object ,, to France) acting in.a similat manner., .The! : »,« -Journal Official "c ,, contends that , x ,the \ Franco-German; protocol to; .come? months ago affords luffioientrjustifiCAtion for the annexation of ; the New, Hebrides.-. 5 - t ; The , Provost-Marshall s of , Mandahar j has been publicly, reprimandod^ on acoount of - cruelties fwbioh «haye t4aitely«been praotieed on Brlthh subjects in Burmah.