GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

Te Aroha News, Volume IV, Issue 202, 7 May 1887, Page 5

GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

London', Ajprfl 7 Tin- Viscountess Strangford died recently on board the Lusitania, in the Mediter- ' lanean, em her way to Poit Said, to open a now hospital. Wide and sincere l egret is expressed at the event Since her husband's death, the lad} h.id devoted lu-i.self hi the organisation m\<l administiation of some of the most .admuable <md useful changes in the world. .I'^eph Caldwell. company piomoter, of 'l\ U uuvph-stieet, London, has tailed. His liabilities aie liehe\t'd to bo enormous, lie failed once betoie to? L 1,000,000., 000,000. The I2niili<h pubhe me said to be amazed at Lend Tennyson's "Jubilee Ode.' The \eises aie called unmusical, the plnases awkwaid and meaningless -such coinages a*< " Loid TenitoiKil" and " Lord Manufacturer/" foi evunpltA despatch irom London, of .March oOth. jays aix attempt was made 1 on Balfour's lite by means of a miu-11 packtt of MippoM-d dynamite, sent through the post-olliec The pat eel \\.i«- handed over to Col. Majeudie for analysis. Many believe tUe uti'aii to be only a practical joke. Tyndall'.s lcsignation of the I'iofessorship of NatuKil Philosophy in the Royal Institution, which he has held since ISSB, has been accepted with di op i egret by the nuuageis. Lotd liayleigh succeeds him. Tlu> French aie making a fuss ovei the lailmeof the Duke e)t Edinburgh to return the French Adnmat's salute at Cannes. The Duke * explanation is that he had no siluting-cannon ; he left England in a huny and forgot, oi had no time to get thtm on boaid. Dispatch from Vienna, April ,">th, says Morgcustoin, the eminent Hebrew scholai, had drowned himself in the Danube. Since he became implicated with Dr. Steeeher in the Anti-Semitic prosecution he had been unable to gain employment and was reduced to penury. The town of Kuty, in Austrian Galicia, was almost completely destroyed by tire on April (ith. About 1,000 persons aie homeless. The fire was of ineendiaiy origin. The " Pall Mall Gazette's " story, copied from a Vienna journal, that the Prince of Wales won nearly a quartei ot a million of gulden in one night and 80,000 florins on a fcnbseeruent occasion, during his visit to Buda-Pesth. Hungary, eighteen months ago, is absolute!) denied. It is called a flagrant example of the "lie circumstantial." MSS. of Burn-, the Scottish poet, owned by Gibbon Craig, Esq., weie sold in Edinburgh recently, and i called excellent prices. "The Whistler" fetched 2o() guineas ; it consisted of 2\ falio pages. Loid Itosebeiry was the j)iu chaser. i The Count aon Beusfs " Memoiis" appeaied on Apiil 4th. Ttu book is chiefly noteworthy fiom a lengthy introduction to it b> Baion ele Woims. The Watts collection, of pictui es aold at Christie's, London. April .">th, bi ought very high pne.es. "Lo\e and Death' anil "Love and Life" biought L 1,200, 200 each. The total lealised was LI (5,000 lor 57 pictmeo, including man) small designs for larger compositions. The Beilin police, on April Gth, made a raid on the social demoeiats and confiscated many of their books and journals. Arie-ts were also made in Hambuig, Stettin, Koenigsburg, Mannheim, and many other places. Antoine, the protesting delegate to the Reichstag, expelled fiom Geinumy, had arrived, April 3rd, at Pagny. He details his method of expulsion briefly. "I was sitting m the Cafe Tun- at Metz, as was my custom at 10 o'clock at night, when a detect i\ e enteied, glanced aiound, and departed. Then a -üb-inspot toi of police enteied and placed me under arrest, and informed me I must lea\o the country immediately. The police- accompanied me to my home, wlieie 1 bade adieu to my wife and family, who did not lci\e me till I was o\er the trontiei. The >oof of the church at Liugnagloss, Sicily, fell without warning during the sei vices, on Sunday. Apiil '2nd, buiying beneath it one bundled persons, toi cy of whom were killed, and nine injuied. A hoa\y landslide near Mon^e Cailo, on Apiil 7th, of immense masses of earth and rocks, neaily blocked the railway and carriage roads. The trams fiom Cannes and Mentone, loaded with tourists, had marvellous escapes from destruction. The slide is the lcsult of the ieee-nt earthquake shocks. Right Hon. Lord John Manners, Vice-Pre-sident of the Committee of the Council on Agriculture, stated in the Commons on March 29th that aftei Governmental inquhy, the Depaitment of Agriculture decliued to recommend British farmers to inoculate accoi ding to Pasteur's system for the pic\ention of anthrax and othei dis-ea-cs Mrs James Brown - Potter, a Chicago society lady, of whose proposed theatrical (hfiitt the American papers have been teeming for mouths past, came before the London public at the Haymarket on March '29th. in Wilkie Collins's " Man and Wife." the dabalavic in the character of Anne Sylvester. The le.sult was a failure. The paper*, speak of her over-acting, over-dress-ing, ungratefulness, and ignorance of stage /" /; tii(/ue. There was a large representatiem of the aristocratic element present.