BRITISH AND FOREIGN TELEGRAMS.

Taranaki Herald, Volume XXXV, Issue 6990, 13 February 1886, Page 2

BRITISH AND FOREIGN TELEGRAMS.

" ' CR'AWFORD-DILKE DIVORCE! CASE.

"By Electric Telegraph—Reuters Copyright - ■—Received 1&12J56— 3.30 pun. .

London, February 11. • The divorce case, Crawford v. CrawforcVaud Dilke, concluded to-day, -\vheu >. Sir.Charles Dilke was acquitted by ... the jury of the charges brought; agaiust him. \ STRIKI3 IN HOSIERY FACTORIES. Jl' The; operatives employed |iv the t hoaiery factories at Leicester; are out ...on strike.. Since yesterday tlie town • has--been- a-scene of riotous proceed- " ings. A mob of' operatives :paraded the "town, smashing the windows of the factory proprietors and other per- " dons who were obnoxious tp them. They "* then proceeded to wreck the factories,[/aud quantities of valuable . machinery are being destroyed. The police are totally unable to cope with the outbreak, and a large number of residents are obliged to be sworn in as speoial constables.

' j A couple • of tourists were recently married on un iceberg. A walled-tip room has been discovered Jn Windsor Castle, in which wore deposited large quantities of valuable lace which belonged to the ill-fated Anne Boleyn. . " Come here, Walttr, and let me shave you too," said Uncle Alfred, j who was •tonsorially employed, to his' five-year-old nephew. " No," \\ as tho prompt*response, «' my whiskers ain't ripo yet." I -' A Miss O'Reilly appeared at a. ball recently in v pink and blue sillc. and an admiring Jenkins wrote :—": —" It seemed as „if tho hues of her native skies draped in contented admiration their fleecy folds ..arouud her." ' A'donkey died lately in Scotland which had been 106 years in the possession of ons family, that of Rosa, of Cromarty. Its death was the result of a kick from a horse. "Oh !" exclaimed MissDaubwell, " what a clever man that Mr. Fogg is! He is really quite a phj siognomisK I was telling him last night that I had become quite proficient in painting, and he said, ' I was sure of it madam : your face shows it. 1" Chorus: "Indeed." j King Humbert intends, if possible, to make Italy the wine-producing land nature has fitted it to be. He allows none but native wines to ba served at his table, and offers valuable prizes to the ;firms that can chow.the best results in wine-makiag and export. Striking proof of the advance in the material prosperity of Spain is that the nation, which a few years ago only held one-third of the national debt, now possesses at least two-thirds if not three-fourths of the debt,' becoming-her own creditpr to the extent of this difference, both in capital ftfnd in inter'est'due thereon.- ■ \ There is a" rage for libraries among the newly rich in Chicago, and various stories ure^told of the manner in whieb/books are ordered. One buyer said: " Two hundred dollars.' worth of books. My library carpet is red. Have the books match it." Another gave the order : " Just fill the shelves with books, and put it plenty of giltbacked ones." It is well known that what is called a thorough purging of the Judicature is now taking place in Fiance. In other wordß, the Bench is being packed with partisan judges of all grades, from ihe lowest to thti highest. Bearing this fact in mind, the following " echo," which appeared in La Liberte, is interesting as well as significant. A well-known Parisim nobleman has just engaged v valet by advertisement, and as tho latter was living in the South, he sent him fifty francs to pay for his journey to Paris. Imagine the comte's surprise when, on the day he expected liia valet to arrive, he leceived instead this note, enclosing the fifty francs,which have been mentioned —" Monsieur, I am very sarry to be unable to keep my appoiutinent ; but if you turn to yesterday's Journal Offic'xel .>ou will see the reason "why I cannot become 3'our valetde chumbre —I have, ia short, been nominated Juge depalx for-this commune. Acccples, &c. v There arc no less than thirty-eight im-portant-yatch clubs inEnglandKvhich have their own houses, and many of their own superb establishments. When the Royal -Thameß Yacht Club was started, in 1823, a yacht was from ten to twenty tons, opm ' fore nnd aft, without any topmast, and carrying only a mainsail foresail, and' jib. The demand for carp iv America has become ho ex tensive that the United Stati s Fisli Coiniitission has sent supplies to 95 per c.nt. of the Congressional' diatricts in the country, and about half tliejcountrics. Woman: "If I give you something to eat will you saw a little wood ?" Tramp: "No, mum. I'm too weak to saw wood, I'm not lazy, jest weak, but I'm willin' to co what I can. You give me a good dinner, an' I'll nit out in tlie cornfield for a scarectow while I'm eatin' it."; ! Ihe'Duke of Norfolk, an ardent Roman ' Catholic, or supposed to be so, denounced 'the Liberals from the platform for attack- *"* ing '' 1 hat sound bulwark of civilisation, the r:i .Church of England." About'2oo reeidonls of Queen's County, j: Ireland, were recently arrested for boycotting. They preferred goiug !to gaol to rgiving bail, unl tlie magistrate gave them a fortnight to consider'the matter. ! At the.opening of the Munster Apsizes the Judge, said that , the increase in the ' number -and gravity "of the crimes in Ireland was alarming, and the Government must net forthwith to supples them.