NEWS BY THE MAIL.

Temuka Leader, Issue 2147, 8 January 1891, Page 4

NEWS BY THE MAIL.

GENERAL. The Reiohitag will be asked for 60,000,000 marks for army purposes, partly to provide new ammunition and partly to alter uniforms. Henceforth no glitter of headpiece or arms will be permitted. Sombre are considered necesuary 6inoe tho invention of itnokelei i powder. The Emperor William, in the oonrse of : conversation after a Parliamentary dinner given by Herr Oaprivi, eondemned all dogmatic diecußsion and animadverted upon the futility of the Sooial Democratic Congress. It ii the intention cf the French Government to oonstruct an entrenched oarnp at Toule, Department of Meurthe, on the left bank of the Moselle Oanal, and on the railway from Patis to Straoburf. The defences of the camp Will be capable of resisting the itroageik 1 German Artillery. AMEBICAN. King Kalakaua, who is now in th e States, is believed to be on a mission 1° get the States to annex Hawaii, and it i 8 considered the Washington authorise 8 a-e favourable. It is'believed the suga r planters have prorated the mission so tha* they can benefit by tho advantages of the McKinley tariff. The latefinineial crisis in London is said by a .returned New York financier to hav« been as tight a squeeza as London could stand without going under.

English capitalists have lost nearly thrqe hundred million dollars in South American speculations in the last five years.

Tin plats mines are springing tip in the United States. One plant alone costing half a million do'lsre ia to ba erected at Brooklyn.

A young man named Harry Alcorn, of Hasbrock Heights, New York, was bitten by a mad bulldog one night, in the hand, 'lhe wound did not heal for bix weeks. Afterwards he fell ill, became mad, and died of hydrophobia, barking like a dog, He died a terrible death.

In a drunken riot at Farinirigton, Virginia, two men were killed and twelve wounded. The participants were liquor men, many of whom used revolvers with a deadly effect. It is reported that Canada will shortly inaugurate a vigorous foreign policy as a result of the McKinley Tariff Bill. The Government intend to establish commercial relations with South Africa, China, Japan, and Australia.

Seventy Syrian craftsmen have arrived in New Tork from Europe. They rill make exhibits of their handicraft for the World's Fair at Chicago in 1893. It is stated that a number of wealthy Syrians in New York are shortly to establish a colony in Pennsylvania, to be called the New ■ Damascus.

The body of >j Mrs Theresa Trentman was created at Freßh Pond, New York Crematory, on December 10th. The cremation of a woman is unusual.

It is probable that a Bill will be introduced to legalise the union of New York, Brooklyn, Long Island, and fotaten Island into one great municipality.

The oarsman, Teemer, is now at San Francisco awaiting the arrival of Australian scallers. He rows Henry Petersen next month for three miles for anything over 500 dollars. Captain Lyall, master of the British steel ship Buckingham, bound from Mauritius to New York, was murdered at sea on October 11th by two Lascar Bailors. His wife was with him. He was buried at sea. The sailors are in gaol at New York. Several immense financial failures occurred in Tennessee, Chicago, Denver, New York, and Arkansas, about December 9th. The Franklin Bank, Nashville, failed for 20,000d01, and the American Bank, Arkansas,for nearly 200,000d01. Joe Thompson, the well-known sportsman of Melbourne, is building a big race track at San Francisco. His first outlay will be 100,000dol. At its opening next autumn he expects to see 15,000 spectators. "Win. Clark, owner of an electric light plant, came to Milwaukee and drew 20,000d01s from a bank. When near a depot he was knocked down by two men, who had been following him, and relieved of the money. The robbers escaped.

At New York success seems to have crowned the remarkable Burgical operation of transplanting a bone from a dog to a boy's leg. The boy and dog at the Charity Hospital are one, their flesh has grown together, and everything indicates that their booes have begun to unite.

DR. KOCH'S CURES. San Fbancibco, Dec. 13. A despatch from New York of December 12th says : —" Physicians who ha?e been spending most of their time at the bedsides of the patients in the hospitals in town for the past week watching experiments with Dr. Koch's lymph are beginning to reap their reward. At tbe German hospital probably tbe most interesting case is that of Wilhelmina Kleiaerb, a cbarity patient, who has been for years suffering from lupus on one side oi tbe face. A visiting physician who saw the woman inoculated, in describing the case, said that it was a singular case in some respects. A rapid rise in temperature is the result usually observed in four or five hours after inoculation, but in this patient's case the temperature went down about two degrees. This was not remarkable, yet rare, but it was noticed that the temperature did not rise above tbe normal, even after negative reaction. Most important, however, was the result observed ia tbe woman's disease. The lupus affection gradually swelled out, and became first pink and then as red as though it had been painttid. This was the condition of the patient to-day. Ifc is expected that soon the sloughing

process in the exterior swelling and the formation of granules in the skin beneath, which ia the first indication of healing, will follow, for so far ae the experiment has gone the case has behaved as cases of lupus that have been reported from the German hospitals. The swelling already sfaowß signs of collapse."

THE ANTI-JEWISH LAW IN RUSSIA.

The Russian Government will; probably promulgate the new anti-. Jewish law at the beginning of the coming year. One of the most im--portant clauses forbids selling, leasing! or mortgaging to Jews,any real estate! in any part of the Empire. Another! clause provides that the Jews shall be: dispossessed of any real estates theyJ! may hold. Jewish artisans are also to J be deprived of certain rights, and are! to be kept strictly within the limits' assigned to the Jewish population,! Repressive: measures will be taken ( against Jews infringing the new law,| as well as against Christians who may: be found abetting tbem. . A meeting of influential persons: wasj held in the Guildhall on the 10th ult.,[ to consider the position of the Jews inj Russia, and to take action for somej alleviation of thoir distress. The Lord| Mayor presided. A telegram from the Archbishop of Canterbury was read/ in which he expressed the hope that a: that a resolution would be adopted that would convey to the Government; of Russia an earnest prayer for the; immediate reconsideration of the; regulations affecting: the Jews. The; Duke of Argyle sent a letter ex-| pressing sympathy. The Duke of Westminster moved the adoption of a! resolution declaring that the renewed sufferings of the Jews in Russia fromj the operation of the severe and exceptional edicts against them and the die-j abilities placed upon them 9 re deeply! deplored, and that in this last decade of the nineteenth century religious liberty is the principle which should be recognised by every Christian com-; munity as among the natural human rights. The resolution was adopted, and ft Committee appointed to conrey the view of the meeting to the Caar.