News Items.

Colonist, Volume XXXV, Issue 7264, 8 March 1892, Page 4

News Items.

'' -At Chelabinsl-,a.on y^the C Siberian , western: frontier, a young ipeasant^not ■ yet of agei murdered : five__rien in their ; sleep for the paltry sum of _. roubles (8s). "A -till more horrible crime has just been committvd near.Mjcchoff, in {Russian PMaud, by three peasants, who lately enticed a- shoemaker, iamedfLevanO-f-ky, into a: forest and • there murdered him* believing that he. oarried a large sum of. money about; - his perMtfu %U jaWreWi: h r sgfr ;

to efioape deteotion, then but the body to pieces and endeavored to barb the reffiaitis on ah immense fire. . These attempts to hide the crime, however, only led to its more speedy recovery, for a hungry workman, whilst walking through the forest, found one of the piects ■of half roasted flesh, and brought it home to his fellow workmen, who devoured it with great relish, believing that it was game or horseflesh. The workman who had brought this strange meal to his friends, on being accused of having stolen it immediately offered to show them where he had found the meat: Arrived at the spot, the workinen theh discovered tb their horror that they had been dining off the roasted and mutilated body of the unfortunate shoemaker, Levanoffsky. When the telegraphic strike ooonrred some- twelve years ago (says tbe 'Marlborough Express') one of the leaders was Mr Peacook, and he among others was dismissed, and barred by other Australasian Governments from getting work under them. He started out on his own account for Honolulu, and by sheer hard work is to-day the possessor of a large wine and spirit store, owns foux hotels, acd has an interest in two others. He has been to England once, and all over the States on more than one oooasion, and is now en route . for Great Britain again. The best day's work the paternal Dr Lemon ever. did for Mr Peacock was to sack him. The • Wairarapa Weekly ' Fays :— "It is a startling fact -that between Wellington and New Plymouth, inclusive, there is : no: less than fifty- three days' racing during the year. This is a record which, comparing populations, is unbeaten in any part oi the globe." Two hundred thousand cases of apples are to be sent to England from Tasmania this season. Ajs* exchange says that in order to be suitably prepared for the advent of Lord Glasgow, the good people of Wellington are now dieting themselves on oatmeal, tempered with a dash of Burns' poems. A Masterton farmer informs the 4 Wairarapa Daily ' that a field of his wheat, which had been attacked by! the Hessian fly, has this year yielded only ten bushels to the acre His yield has been decreasing year by year. The Wellington 'Post' of Friday says; — The total amount of claims lodged in the estate of A. W Brown, up to the present time, is .-.1720 18s 3d. We ('Post') regret to learn., that Mr W. Wardrop, one ofthe Dtmedin representatives at the Wesleyan Ooiiference, had to return home on Friday morniog, on account of the death of his son. Bent on " licking creation," an American railway company ha3 been doing great things in the way of fast travelling. The manager of the Chicago Division of what iB known as the Pittsburg, Fort Wayne, and Chicago railroad states in his official report that a epecLl train lately covered 53 miles in 15 minutes, 11 miles being traversed in seven, minutes. Striking an average, tbe latter rate of speed means 94 miles an hour. During a recent race me&ting a special train was run out of Dublin, and two carriages were reserved, one for his Excellency tbe Lord Lieutenant and the other for Sir Edward Cecil Guinness, Bart., of brewing fame. A witty porter took a pieae of chalk and wrote upon the one carriage, "For his Ex.," and upon the other, •» For his XX." Nobody (says a north of England paper) laughed more heartily than the two dignified persons indicated, "CADBURYS COCOA, A perfeot food. — Health. The Bishop of Waiapu says, wiih regard to mission preachers — "Can we say," I venture to add, " that these efforts and methods which experience has proved efficacious in tbe Church at Home are not needed here ? On the contrary, is it not most sadly true that in the circumstances of colonial life the deadening influences upon religion are incessaot and most oppressive, aud that we can only hope to counteract them by persistent and special effort ? A mission teaober of proved spiritual power and equipped with the experience to be gained in this speoial work would seem to be muoh needed." Mr Oldfield, who purchased the wreck of the s.s. Wanaka, has sold his rights to the OnehuDga Iron Company. It is their intention (says the' 'N.Z. Herald') to break her up, and ha.e sent down a party of men to commence operations in breaking-up. The ' Times ' Vienna correspondent says that" Austria's efforts on behalf ol the maintenance of peace are quite as much a" necessity as a virtue. She has nothing whatever to gaiu by war. If ever the idea of territorial acquisition in the direction of Sa'onioa was seriously entertained, it has been definitely abandoned, and I may add that ill this opinion the late Sir William White fully concurred. If it be true that the Turk will never again Wage an. offensive war, it is not less true that Au-tro-Huogary will never fight, again, excepting in a war of defence." '; Several of. our contemporaries are advocating the establishment in this Colony of a National Arbor Day. The Wellington * Press 'says :— " It etrikes < us that, generations yet unborn would have good reason -to bless the man who . ;3 had; succeeded in; establishing a: Nation^ Arbor J3 ay in New Zealand.. .To<make;the scheme a thorough sue-: cess, the aid of the school-children should be enlisted.; ; The pupils attending the State schools' should be granted, once a year, a public holiday, in order that- they- might engage in what, to them,' would be' a most delightful fecreatioh^plantihg trees round their <. play-grpunds, and when that had been, successfully accomplished, extending their operations to every waste spot in their.towns or township. Arbor Day slioullrof course, be fixed to suit the ; ■season ..-best adapted for tree-planting ; throughout the Colony, or if, owing to the cUfferences^ of climate, it were thought desira|)le, .then every; Educationißbard should be empowered to fix its own Arbor Day. _ ScHWEiGEii, a broker, of Berlin, has been sentenced to four year*' im-: prisonment for frauds upon the? Deutßohe Bank, which were discovered- - :

Ai "-DoJNJBn^'-^Mr^^egedin, in Hutiigary, for BOmeptime past bad feeling< has existed rtnio erg 1 tli o pasant's against the great landowners, and the other -week a disorderly crowd .broke into the church and threatened to deniolisM the/jbmlding unless 1 their grievances Were; atfce-i^ed to. A <iom!pany of soldiers aud gendarmes were o ailed out, and several cf the rioters were 1 dangerously injured. .'ln hiß leotures'on " Life in Motion'' at the Boyal Institution, •• Prpfessor 0. G. MoKendriok used a spring myograph to illustrate the rapidity c>f nerve currents, showing that while in frogs the ourrent moveß at tbe rate qf 90ft a seoond, ia human beings it reaches a speed of 800ft a seoond, thus revealing the faot that nerve currents, instead of ruoying iu the rapid way. usually imagined, really travel with comparative slowness. An Auokland telegram says that Mr BL J_.ioholson, a member of .the Auokland Swimming Olub, endeiftvored to establish a record iu swimming a quarter of a mile at the Albert street baths. He swam the distance iu Gniin ISeeo, tbus lowering the New Zealand record, whioh previously was 7min lOsec. There were twenty- three turns in the quarter-mile. The world's record is smin 53see. A number of murders of a similar oharaoter to those perpetrated by the Sohneiders in Vienna, have been discovered at Magdeburgh. A man and a woman have been arrested. Ai the Royal Geographical Society's mesting in Madrid, a curious paper has been read by Dr Bide, a medical mao, who has recently explored a wild district in the province of Oarceres still inhabited by a strange people, who speak a curiouß patois and live iu oaves and inaccessible retreats. These singular remnants of some prehistoric race have a hairy skin, and have displayed an inveterate repugnance to mix with iheir Spanish aud Portuguese neighbors. Lately roads have been pushed into the distric. inhabited by these •' Jurdes," Bn<3 according to Dr Bide, they are beginning to learn the Oastilian language, and to appear at fairs and markets in the province* in order to purchase a few modern commodities and agricultural implements. GOOD MORNING Have you used PEAR'S SOAP "Puff," in the Wellington 'Press' says :— " "What a fillip Bishop Julius has given to the grog sel ers ! His 'name will be in all the ads. of the breweries and bottling shops in the Colony ! To puff up swipes and sing the praises of bad whisky I The Bishop evidently hasn't learned old Chaucer's first virtue — -" To restrene and kepen well thy tongue !" BBiLLrANTiira foe thb Haiis. — Everybody now uses this in preference to hair restorers and dyes ', tbe purest and most economical iB Rowlands' Macassar Oil, which preserves and strengthens the hair, prevents it falling off, imparts a brilliant lustre to it and renders it soft and silky ; it is far preferable to ordinary Brilliantine, being less greasy and not bo drying in its effects, and as a little goes a very long way it is in reality very eoonomioal for general use; it is tho best softener and beautifier of ladies' and children's hair, and is unsurpassed for whiskers and moustaches ; also prepared in a golden colour for fair hair. ■ Sizes 3s Gd., 75., and 10e. 6d. Rowlands' Eukoeia is a pure and fragrant toilet powder in throe tints— white, rose and oream. - Boxes Is. and 2s. 6d. _.sk any dealer in perfumery for Rowlands' artioles, of 20, Hatton Garden, London. 1