News Items.

Colonist, Volume XXXIV, Issue 7005, 7 May 1891, Page 4

News Items.

Db Edith Teacher Phipson is the first woman who has been privileged to act as a senator of a University. Her appointment to the post in the Bombay University has been oordially approved of by the male members of the Senate. . . ; . ViscoMM Cfaandon ac Briailles and one of his gamekeepers were shot in the woods surrounding the Chateau de Oordeliere, through a misanderstanding. On his arrival at the forest at two in the morning • the Viscount saw an armed man and hid himself. The man, who was;.oria of his gamekeepers, pounced upon him and seized him by the throat in tbe belief that he was a poacher. The Viscount thereupon drew his revolver and fired two shots, which took fatal effect upon his assailant. The other keeper, attracted by the sho(s, fired at the Visoount, wounding him in two places, the most Berions injury being in the groin. The Viscount then again fired, slightly wounding the second keeper. 'H^ve you any evidence to offer as to the: oharacter of the deceased?' demanded the judge. 'Yes, your honor,' replied ihe witness. *He w^s a man- without blame, pure in all his thoughts, beloved and respected by all men.and —-' • Where did you learn all that? 1 ..«!._ copied it from nisi' tombstone, your honor.' ..; \ A- good; story in one of bur weeklies the other day. A lady Jfectiur(B^brovoman's rights was growing warni 6ver iier' subject, and exclaimed, ■'{ Where would man be if it had not ijeen for woman ?■'-' : After a paused arid looking round the hall; she exclaimed, •j I repeat, wherg would' man be \if it h!ad,.not t wefiifQX. :: woma,n3" 1 when a J "'*fiffl&V^a--»iflfli^:isWfts: heard M Ee'd be in3Baradiße^ma'am." -- :

'|^ironi -Wellington :—^ln order to assist "the Opunake , Wharf ©ptnpan^,' and '-also to develop trade at that port,,. which is the centre of an extensive;' I.'district,1 .' district, the Government will Consent to give £ for to the amount of £1100. The JEngineer-in-Ghief visits- Opunake . shortly, ior the purpose of mspqdting the works. An Australian woman at the late oensns pnt dowri her. age &b 114 years, and iajjorrbboratidn, prodnoed a love letter written to her in 1790. ; T Tarti:^fa been. a change in the destination 1 of wheat exported from Lyttelton lately (says the Christchnroh ' Press '),' and a trade has beea opened up direct with France, some 22,910 saoks of wheat being now afloat for the port of Rouen on the Seine. The French barque France Cherie sailed on April 7 with 8512 sacks of wheat onboard. The ship Weetland, with 14,398 sacks of wheat, will sail for the same port. • The JJbnolnlu 'Daily Bnlletin' announoes the marriage of Sißter Rose Gertrude (Miss Amy Fowler) with Dr Lutz, late of Germany. ' The Wanganui Chronicle ' says : — In February last butter was selling in San Francisco at 2s per lb. Colonial butter-makers would perhaps find it to their interest to test this market for themselves. ; ! Constant followers of the Earl cf Zetland's houads have brought news to Riohmond (the Yorkshire ' Herald ' says) to the effect that a large tiger Has escaped from Wombell'a meajagerie, and entering the Duke of ! Cleveland's Raby park, has killed a number of valuable deer and sheep, On Saturday the party travelled to Barnard Castle, and as they were journeying from the old Tees Bide town to Bishop Auckland on Monday one of the largest tigers made its escape and entered Raby Park, where it destroyed seven deer and five sheep. The latest accounts say the tiger has not been captured. A Mb Smallwood, of Chicago, has long been an advocate of triplicating steamship propellers, in order to provide greater safety and iucreased speed. His ideas were purloined by the -American Government, and carried into effect oo one of the new cruisers. Mr Smallwood, as he gets older, gets bolder in his ideas, and he has now arrived at the conclusion that if two or three propellers* are good, five would ba better, and he suggests plaoing one at each side and well towards the bow of the boat. Thfse propellers would, be. smaller than the others, and would be ' set in ' the vessel. Their chief usa would be to assist in quick turns and manoeuvres, aithongti, of course, they would increase the speed of the boat. Alfeed Rawiion Brknner, of the Medical, Transfer A gency , Melbourne , ,laa3 recently been br-ouglit "up at the •City Court on two charges of obtaining £100 and*£2oo by false pretences. His modus operandi was to advertise vacancies and' demand a cash security from. those who were to be accepted. The slow growth of population in France and the unwillingness of young people to marty are social faois which are forcing npon the attention of the Government, and there is now a Bill before the Chambers for the imposition of a heavy tax on bachelors. This is Miss Amelia Edwards' estimation of the characteristics of three great English novelists : — Dickens showed men not quite as they were, Trollope painted them as they appeared, bat Thackeray read them through and through. In her opinion Thackeray was the greatest master of fiction the world has ever seen. . , Women in America have begun a new crusade. Forty wives have commenced actions against publicans for selling liquor to their husbands. Take in your hand a crystal of quartz, ft stick of deal, a daisy, an acorn, and you will not find in them a single element of matter that is not also found ia your physical frame.