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Colonist, Volume XXII, Issue 2765, 5 October 1880, Page 3

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[PER REUTER'B AGENCY.] f . London, October 1., The Porte .to-day has addressed 'request to. the Powers through their Ambassadors here, asking, that it may be allqw^d.t?, delay until Mondays wlien it promises' that1 definite steps shall, he tal?en tq bring about the solution of the" Montenegrin difficulty. There is' considerable excitem.ent'. throughout Am erica, over the approaching Presjdeny tial election,* speeches 'aife being delivered by prominent, leaders of üboth parties. Both .Grer}§ral Grajftt ftnd ¥? Eyarts, the Secretary of S,tate, have delivered speches in favor of tbe candidate of their respective parties. October 2.

the proposal to be made fay the ,Pdft« ok Monday regarding the cehriio&.of Duldigfid to the Mofltene-grinsr'^ ,J . "<; /r" k . /' EWtheil idvices state;'1 that,the' Albanians are mustering in strong forts at Dulcigno. H.M. transport Hecla has. taken torpedoes and boats to the Island of Corf a. 1 ';--,i ;■• A reward of £1000 uha« been^offered for the discovery of the murderers of* -Viscount Mountmorris, who was., shot dead in-his t carriage ktp)6nburri a few dayVagol' L •"'■' •i-i < Consols;*, 97|. , . . Adelaide wheat ex!" warehouse,* )47« 6d; ' • Adelaide flour ex warehouse, 33s 6d. New Zealand Wheat ex\;Bhip,^43s;. JTh».',{dt»l quanltityi'f wheat'afloat for Great Britain is 1,330,000 quarters. Australian tallow-:- best U'eef 345; best mutton ; 365. T,he stpok of tallow in London to-day is 16,000 casks. [Special to Melbpur.no Taptrt.} ■; .\ > "' w'- London,' September 217 General Skobeloff is returning_to Russia in order to take command ,of the Russian , army! an tne event 'of the invasion of- Turkey. It is stated that the continued contumacy of the Forte will lead:to the,blookade of the Hellespont by the combined fleets. - - r x „- , • September 22. The Albanians' 'threaten- to burn1 Dulcigno!, Admiral Seymour has been, -directed to bombard Dulcigno and the 'other' Albanian towns If Dulcigno is not surrendered within two day 3. . , „ , „ The Standmrd states that the' overtures said to have been made by Russian to France last year wertf made,' not to M.' Waddingtdn, • but to Gambetta.' September 27.. ' Mr Parnell presided over ■ a meetingLh'eld ' at New Ross at which 20,000 persons were present. It was proposed that tenants shou}4: pay a fair rent for their holdings and that after 35 years the. l&nd-should become,their own, '■ A meeting of Orangemen has been held at Portadown : tpnexpress .sympathy with;the, i' Rev. Mr Kidd 'who recently suggested that' they should retaliate for the , attacks on the landlords Iby shooting -the' priests and' I Catholics. The strike in Lancashire, has been averted,, the workmen have abandoned'their claims,' [United Pbkss, AaaapuxiaN TBK«uifiv] t . WeliilNsspon, October %. • ; A man, named J/p.hn Andrews, better ! known as John Murphy, a cabman; met with his death to-day under somewhat peouliai; oiroumstanoes. It appears that he was driv-" , ing home aboutS}so this, rnorning,.when his ! vehicle struck another? cart,,,and thel shock , precapitated'fiim jfrom his s|at't6 the gound.; He was,pickedjaptand placed in,Ms own; I vehicle, when a constable made his appearI ance, and there being no. apparent injuries , the deceased -was < taken.'into} fCHstQ'dy: pp V charge pj 4mnkenness., He. was pjaied in. ' the cell ar^dlgiven-blanket's %v aleep*'6'n|' ahd J 'he was visaed by tb,e *ergeant .several,times_ |dur*ing' the early jh6ursroi the'mdrnihgi and imade no complaint of haying, Buatamed.any injuries. At 9 o'olcok he' was1 a*gain 'visited, but appeared to be asleep and breathing heavily., He : was examined byJihe* sergeant and found to bein anuhconscipus state;and medical assistance waS-sought,'and Andrews was conveyed to/the Hospital.* *: He,.however, never regained consciousness,' and expir«ft %\ I noon.- The cause o| d,efttfe w^s. epmp"rass,ion !of |he • b^jnr-Ajr- inque,s,t • ypU;;he hejd ph j Mpnda^ m$ rjrihah.ly &4 inve|tigatfon]:as to ■ jwljetbe? me' police are to'blame." Andrews' |was aged 25, and leaves a wife ami two, iohildren. A friend, of the deceased states •that he saw him at^l*3o this morning, whjn. ;he was perfectly Bober. x>>, ilt is understood that the Government have {determined %o dispense with the, services of iMessrs Cpnyerj.'ariid Lawson, Commissioners ;of Rjailways.j and that notioes to this effect jhave been 'sent to them. Mr Maxwell who is at present Inspecting Engineer of Public [Works is to? be Commissioner for both Islands, and Mr Hannay, the traffic rn.an.ager/ iof the Oamaru section, is to bo assistant,,' ; The Magistrate dismjssed tl\Q ehargea, against the two constats," far- aUegpd i^l-. treatment of a. pfistonap a.s heipg wly an ierror of; ;judgm,emV He pointed out Several d^eqts. hV the poliae system, arid hoped to gee them .remedied without, delay., [ '] (V >•-: ; i Another man who had,been locked up for drunkenness'last night has been removed ;to the hospital with a sprained ankle. | October 4. :At the inqueifc to-day on the body of tbe young man' named Murphy; who Was removed from the Police Station to the .Ijoipitil on Saturday, a verdicV -wfii i returned) that death remlted frgrn^a f%U from a cab through polliaicm with were! (jf dpiniori thai no blam^ attached 1 to the police, and they thought it wai notAd»iiable to bring in a rider to tbii effeof/, * No' acouia^ tipn, hai heea w'»de;agaiDa't »ha polioe.i'>':: '-! AupatAND, October 4. , i The output of coal at Kawa-kawa mines for September was 5,000 ions. iAt the football'match: Nejr; Zealand' ,v. World, Qoo'd of "the World received kiok in the,ribs-whiob knocked him down, and he bad to' be' helped "from' the field. Henderson, captain of the New Zealand received a gash over the eye which was an inch aqd % half i« length. s.yK-iO"/.-;] Ka r,i\) i-l ,;!'; iAt the Supreme Court session, George William Kiog, for selling arms to the Native! wa.t sentenced to one day*. imprisonment. The Judge thougho prisoner, beiag .a^new arriTal,.did.nofc'know the.law rejpieotin'g-armji ■ The sohoorier Edith brings news from Samoa to the 4th September. Sir Arthur Gordon hat issued a proclamation prohibiting Walter j. Huny'rom^^ for two years, on the ground th.%t h\* presence is dangerous tp the pe%ca apd good order of the Western P-aoifio Islands. The proolamatipq hag heencissued on the depositions of a number of persons. \a j fj ! ; A little child was'dedoyed and stripped of its clothes in the suburbs this morning. It \ is supposed to have been the act of some drunken woman. | Subscriptions are being raised j for i Mrs Rees, the widow of the man murdered by tb,<? Fijian. v . , „ if) (r-,} .(I I FbJlT^brs,xon., Qctpber. V I Stftn|ey t ' pchd^s* J^B \w\ through., injuries received ftl the'Rimutaka'1 accident, W&M iwQ oi this family ki|led,-,' - • ; BoNEnitNi October 3," t ; 4 boy t.on yearsi of age. sonksfMr* Rehton', a! farnjer of Otakaio, was cU^owiwdN while sc.u,llmg a boat in the TaieriJßiY§j4t^t,night. iAt Palmerstontoday two Ohinarpen ,were fined :625'0r1 three''months^imprisonment e!aoh for takingtrout out of Hhe 'Shag River with sluice -forks. :It wasl stated thai some miles 'of the-river we're completely stripped intjiis way by thei-Chinese, >'•"■! !' :i! ::}i"^ r': j The Mount Ida-@hranicfc< says '< that lthi; Chinese have subscribed £1000 towards the" defence of Ah Lee and Lee Guy, charged, w^th the murder of Mrs Young, the ' collectors' having visited' every, mrt o\ : Q^o. t The Chinese "say that1' if the 'accused' aire hung the Europeans w|ll npt in future employ' Chinarnen;,,and'therefore they are'odmb'iningto get their coi^ntrymep off.' So far they have put every obstacle in the way of the police* ; -f.--! I! '»"'.. - i;) N^PlEßvpotoher'a,-,;; Amah named Jackson, who was put pig hunting 'near Makatoa,' met 'with"'what he considered to be indications of a quartz reef. ' H;e returned and prospected the neighborhood," add has brought to Makatda several pieces^ of quartz which he states he obtained <fr6m'a rejef about nine miles from the railway line. The stone, on being rudely crpsh6d, gavjjfa . ,go|od percentage qi gold.] A party has left I

A PtWEttATj WtTtfOttt A COBBBB.- ----" Hamlet, Prince of Denriarky witt the part of Hamlet omitted by,;! particular desire;" would scarcely be a more remarkable performance than a burial from which the cdrpse had been " left out by mistake." Such inattention to detail on the part of alt;concerned fin tHe. ceremony of'sepulture <tto> is involved in the latter ommission appears 'almost incredible.2 ' Nevertheless^ a strange story publiihedin-the [leading Italian newspapers gives an example of this singular anomaly. It is slated that a native of Bosito, in Lombardy, lately suffered bereavement by the death of his wife,. and;,' his grief for the departed was so* poignant that his relatives deemed it expedient to" prevent him. being present at ; the final preparations for'the funeral ceremony, and from assisting in person at its celebration., Beturning to his house late in the evening, after, the burial and entering* his bedroom he found, to bis horror and consternation, the lifeless form of his wife, robed in its death cerements, reclining on the bier and still awaiting interment. The widower rushed into the street and lost no time in notifying what he had seen to the police authorities, who at first inclined to the opinion that sorrow had turned his. brain. Od ■ accompanying him home, however; 'llbey soon convinced themselv.es that his extraordinary statement was in every particular correct. Inquiries were.forthwith instituted, r;ari a 'resulted in ithe amaziug discovery that the village undertaker (had " forgotten all; aboutj the corpse," and had nailed up an empty coffin, which, had been, subsequently convened and consigned to the grave with due 'religious ceremony and sorrowful observance. - The most remarkable bill for election, expenses which has-yet appeared is that of Mr C. W. Wynn, the defeated candidate for Montgomeryshire. His; expenses were no less than £13,4)54 more than double those of his opponent Each vote he polled cost him theenor- j mous sum of £6 15a. Th^b man who.fired.at^opd^Lytton^ viberoy of India, in ' December, and. then declared himself to be insane; !has recovered and has been, committed-for 1 'triali^:^I'.";^- '^! * '^J^AMONtvihe strange freaks of the last Viennese Carnival has been the adoption by several of .the Kaiserstadt's leading beauties of imitation feet and' sandals, as 'apoegsorjes to mythological or classical costumes- Having1 procured flesh colored maillots provided with thin soles,; thesei ladies committed their delicate extreme ties to , the manipulation of skilled artists who deftly pointed thereupon, counterfeit presentments of toes, sandals and laces, all complete. It appears that the pretty wife of an eminent Viennese historical painter had chosen the dress or undress of a water sprite wherein to attend the " G'sohnas Ball" and solicited her talented husband's aid to *'make up" her feet in the manner above indicated. He consented] but being of;a jealous disposition, prompting him to be chary of enchanciog his wife's natural charms by adventitious means, he put off.the foot painting operation until the I'last; moment. When, however, the .carriage was at the door,, and the.water sprite's scanty toilet completed in all: Ve'spects but one, he seised brush and palette, and addressed himself, seemingly, in feverish haste, to his task, hurrying bis'wife off to the ball as soon as hejr mimic feet were ready* A witbout,givjng[ her time to inspect? theini ing; the gaily lighted ballroom, the lady "cast a/ hurried glance at her husq % band's artistic achievements. Her' horror may be better imagined than described when she perceived that the pink '.silk, -tights! in Jwh-iefrner dainty feet were imprisoned had been admirably illuminated by his master-hand with horrible representation* of chilblains, bunions, and inveterate corns, only tqo^true, tb-npure-kl That night she dancsd not, but she sat sadly in a corner'hidiug .her,|rav,esjbied feetunder her as best she might: v\ ■V; ( 11 SH Li Lashing Certain^ Wbiteb4.—ln the-July number of the horih American' Mr A, X, Ejske laches writers ,of (he '< Ouida " ana! Zola' ktemp^f ''!s§§£. speakingofthe 'purity" of tone^ the ennobling! influence, and the wholesome teachings of English fiction, the reviewer proceeds to deal wi^h ( the two coarse realists as follows!;-—'" Upon this fair domain of our literature these foreign 1 purveyors of infection—for 'Ouida' has no claim to the title of English-woman-^are permitted to intrude. They turn tho.guttera. into our wholesome gardens, and cast thV'uncleanness of the divoroe- coart/about our hearthstones. The rubbish which in taring pictorial weeklies is excluded .from respectable kitchens is elaborated and embellished in gilt bindings and admitted to the parlor table. It is the. last tricklings of, that ribald literature which has run through history .'in a happily decreasing current from the old times when human passion was deified; andthe ru.le of the senses/was hardly resisted. " Hi is the legacy of Sodom and Gomorrah to subsequent generations, the heritage that besotted Borne left to the nationalities tbafcdrew'blood from her bloated carcase. To the Anglo-Saxon mind and heart it| is,, or ought to be, an offence and' an insult. Concerning " Ouida's" last work, Mr Fiske says that if it is a truthful picture of human society we might well despair of the race; and anticipate an impending doomsday which should sweep the corrupt fabric away as the last failure of,^disgusted Creator." He asked a Cincinnati belle if these was; much!re,finepie^t and culture in that city, and she replied: " You just

Hb was taking the last look at the corpse of an old and loved friend, and the,room was as hot as a crematory furnace, almost. As he wiped the perspirationand a tear off his face, he whispered to a neighbor; " Well, he looks verycool and comfortable, don't he ? .\ It is to.be hoped lie was. .^here is to be a great, divorce case in the London Courts. It was instituted a few months ago, but through the^intervention of friends was hushed up, when the Queen's Proctor intervened. Four of the favorites of fashion will be dragged in. and still higher names are mentioned. A LT/DicaoTjs Mistake.—Most people (says a Home paper) know the story of the mob of Irish L rebels who n^ade- diligent - search for the < notes issued by a certain unpopular Orange 'banker and solemnly burned the securities coram publico, with the avowed intent of " ruining the blagyard's business^ entirely." 5 The banker, ib may be assumed was less ruined than refreshed, by this wholesale extinction of his promises to pay. Almost as) logical- a > mode of injuring the Saxon has been suggested by an angry "Dublin Merchant of Forty-five Years) Standing," who writes to a contem- | porary. to. complain that on arriving in London, and dining at the restaurant of St. 'Pancras terminus, neither the young ladies'behind the bar nor the station-master himself would have anything to do with a note for £3 on the-Bank of Ireland which he proffered for change. The angry, merchant thinks this a poor compliment to Ireland, and announces his retaliatory determination, when he gets home, sternly.ito refuse any . payment tendered to him in notes of the Bank of England. He also reoommends every man, woman, and child in "Ireland to do likewise! ' '' An Avvewabd Fix.—A thrilling en* counter'wiih a kangarroo is described by the JTralla Times as haying taken. place, at! Waterloo, station,'ten miles from Walcha. "Feed is so scarce hereabouts that the kangaroos, which are numbered by hundreds' oh the run, have become quite docile, "and" even insensible., to. ; ithe presence of their enemies-— men! and dogs. Qn the day in 'Question'a' laborer named Armstrong jwitli a lad, pf ;llyears of age, son of iJSJtr J. H. Head, the lessee of Waterloo, jwas engaged in cutting chaff at one of |the sheds, when an ' old man' kangajroo of unusual size hopped up to the jplace where fihey were working, and, in, (a most unconcerned manner began to ■eat the straw lying about^Armstrong |at once proceeded to drive tjhe animal loff but,the.;' old man,' prompted.by the jpangs of hunger,, resisted the intrusion 'and; r went1 for - his assailant in truly jOFthbdbx'fashibn, In less Mmc than it stakes to relate,, Armstrong was struggU jing in the grip of the marsupian, whose jshortfore feet, relieved at short inter* yala by applications of the-animal's teeth thereto, kept up by a constant play upon the features of his victim, while bis legs were engaged in the destructive work of * rippihgi' Master Head'possessing himself of a tomahawk gallantly attacked the L old man ' in the rear. The first blow lopped off one bf his front legs, and at the second the instrument^truck deep int'oj'the 'skull of the animal, which, relinquishing its* grasp, fell:back lifeless to the earth. But for the presence of 'mind and bravery displayed bythe;'boy, the consequences of the kangaroo's: attack bust have proved serious to Armstrong whose cHesti face and lips Were severe* iy'cutNihd scratched jwhii^ Ms clothes, Were almost rent to pieces'indicating some very rough usage at the hands, op rather feet of his assailant, and demonstrating the fact that the large centra toe or nail; which embellishes the hind fodt 'bf thekangaroo!, is "a formidable weapon at close quarters." ; ""Guest; "How comes this dead fly in jnyjßoup?" Waiter: "iln.fact, sir, I have no positive idea how the poor thing came to its death/ Perhaps it had hot taken any food for a long tittle, dashed upon the soup, ate too much of it, and contracted'an inflama-. tipn pi* ithe stomach that brought on ;; death. The vfly musts have a very weak constitution, for when I served the soup it was dancing merrily on'the iurf^ce, Perhaps-—and; the idea presents itself only at this moment—it endeavored to- swallow too large a piece of vegetable ; this" remaining fast in ... its Hhroalt,' caused a! chokitig' in the windpipe. V'Thii.'iajthe'^pdly/reasba I 6duld givejforthe deathofthe insect.'*,.;. { jEvipßxaEU Honob.—lt is estimated :; that the general election in Great Britain- cost #18,0005% the*'(basis- of•/.? the^cVlculatiohbeing^!that':the;ele'ction '! expeullit ure of each candidate averaged . jp2OPP>o L ltJis^a rsoandal to the country that money should continue to'be so. potest a factor in the composition of the House of Commons. ' "' A; local-philanthrophist :the other day stopped, a. ragged, bare-footed, little urchin-who had a dirty clay pipe , ,in bis mouth,and Baid: "'Why do you smo'k'e'i'my ,boy? l You kiip.w it is very wrongi" ' '* Oh," was thpi-response, ''My.,- medical adviser ordered it." Exit philanthropist amidst the hilarity of'sundry" small boys. ' The Count de Grasße' was' once . grounded- injthe knee with a musket ball. The doctor cut and hacked and made many incisions, when, getting; 'out of all patience, the 'co-tint,'asked why they cut.him up so much., "." We !a^e seeking," said'the-surgepn, " for a bilK".,,,W^y,. in the name ofVthunder, |dijdn'fc/>you>mention, thatr before? 1 'have the; ball in my pocket. v' .jA ,J foiixJLKX- is-'prbj'eci^J'inj'Mel-;' bourne *hc| r purposa of "electric