News Items.

Colonist, Volume XXXIV, Issue 7048, 26 June 1891, Page 4

News Items.

Reports from Brisbane state that the shipping trade in Queensland is in a depressed condition, and steamers are leaving the ports of the Colony almost empty. On the A.U.S.N Company's wharfs m Brisbane, only 75 men are employed, and they average 30 hour's work a week at Is per faonr; Every hour of the day applications are made for work, and the wharfinger states that, if neceßsaty, he could get 500 men within twelve hours. One significant indication of the depression is that four of the company's vessels — viz., the Blamang, Glanworth, Victoria, and Bulimba are laid up. This discouraging state of the shipping trade ia attributed to the strike.

A small farm property oi 20 acres, olose to Waimate, changed hands last week for £300, or £15 an acre, with improvement. Mr Woodman Hawke was the purchaser.

A fabmer, sis mileß west of Timaiu, loßt eight sheep recently, it is believed by stoats, as the only visible cause ef death was a wound on the jugular vein. A stoat has been seen abont the farm.

The * New York Herald ' states that Lady Macdonald will obtain a peerage in recognition of her late husband s services.

GOOD MOBNING Have yon used FEABS' SOAP? It is reported that the GovernorGeneral at Yemen and his entire staff were killed in the recent fight with the ! rebels who defeated the Turkish troops. The exhibits of the Victorian Agricultural Society and Chaff ey Bros at Doncaster Show attracted considerable attention. The Victorian Agricultural Sooiety also exhibit at the Stirling and Dublin Shows. A fund has been opened in Ohristohurch for the purpose of relieving the poor of that place, and already a large amount has been subscribed. One gentleman sent a cheque for £100. OADBUBY'S UOGOA. "A perfect Food. '—Health. Mrs Gkimwood, who lost her hae' band in the Manipur rising, has been granted a pension- of £800 per annnm, and a gratuity of £1000 will, be distributed among the soldiers who took | part in Commissioner Quinton's expedition. A Russian General, named Tsohagin is in Paris arranging for the delivery [ of five hundred thousand rifles.

The Emperor of Germany denies the statement in 'Truth,' that he had written to the Qaeen condemning the conduct of the Priaca of Wales.

The sum voted for public school buildings last year was £35,000. Of this Auckland received £6100, the largest share.

Jack the Kipper" is not forgotten in London. The la&t heard of him before the Tongariro's mail left was that a " peraon of gentlemanly appearance," .who had committed suicide on Wimbledon Common, and about whom there was not found the slightest cine for identification, was the notorious Whitechapel murderer. TBRRjiio rainstorms! the ether day ranged over the country between Ottawa, in Canada, and Peoria, in Illinois, continuing for four hours. They were accompanied by violent thunder 'and; lighting; Telegraph lines were destroyed in all directions, and the Lake Erie railroad rendered impassable. The town of Utica was submerged, and great damage inflicted on the cattle and sheep. Several deaihs by drowning have been reported,?';;- 'A;,,'? 7'? j.. .„..-.. A A.:..

.The Rnsßian (jtovernment baa prohibiten* the circulation of London 1 Puuoh ' within the Empire owing to verses whioh bave appeared in it rerenfcly condemning the treatment of the Jews. As the Glenmark (Canterbury) Estate, comprising 65,000 acres of the beet agricultural land in the Colony is now open for sale, Mr Meredith, M.H.R. (says the 'Dnnedin Star '), is inviting tbe Government to enter into correspondence with the owner with a view to /acquiring it for settlement purposes. On May l9 the, police found inthe Mersey ' a sailor's olothing bag in Which was the dead body of a boy apparently not over fifteen years. His throat was out from ear to ear and his legs severed from his body. A new knife and saw were found with the remains. On the bag was painted the name " Tarn Girvin," but further than this there was no olue to the murderer. An Anckland woman who lost her husband recently advertised in the following manner :— " Lost, stolen, or strayed, an individual whom I, in an ungarded moment, adopted as my husband. He is a good. looking but feeble individual, who answers to the name of Jim. When last seen ha was in company with a cross-eyed woman, walking, his arm round her waiet, up a blank road, looking more like a fool, if possible, 5 than ever. Anybody who will batch the felow and bring him safely back, so that I may chastise him for running away, will be invited to stay to tea and see the fun, and no questions asked," At the time th© last mail left England potatoes were averaging from £6 to £7 per ton. York Magnums were averaging from -S6 15s to £1 6s per ton. If the experiments which are now being made to export potatoes from New Zealand, to England prove successful, as one small shipment has already done, it will prove a grand thing for our small farmers. We believe that in a few years there will be a market opened up in England and Europe for New Zealand products little dreamt of at the present time. — 'Pelorus Guardian.' A mangel wurtzel of immense size (says the * Post ') is now in the possession of Mr Q. H. Gillespie, of the Shepherd's Arms Hotel, Tinakori road. It was grown by Mr Arundel, of Patea, and weighs 77f . ■A gentleman, well-known in commercial circles in Christchurch, who has just returned from a visit to Sydney, expressed to a member of the • Lyttelton Times ' staff his astonishment that people should leave New Zealand in the hope of finding work in New South Wales. The unemployed difficulty there, he states, has reached a pitch of acuteness such as it has never attained here. He saw hundreds of men waiting about the wharves in hopes of getting a job, and numbers of people are sleeping out ill the public parks at night. On one occasion a baker's cart, which stopped near a meeting of the unemployed, was looted by the men. A Lovely, Delicate, and Fork Complexion, soft and fair hands and arms, reassured to those ladies who use Rowland's Ealydor, a most soothing, healing and re* freshing preparation for the face and arms* It prevents and removes freckles, redness, roughness, ohaps, irritation, cutaneous eruptions; soothes and relieves priokly heats ii.ilan-ELi-tiou of the eyes, barns, scalds, stings of :. rots, eozema, pimples, &o. ; is tno most perfect emoll'ent preparation for softening and beautifying the skin, and pre* serves it from the effects of cold winds or