NEWS BY ENGLISH MAIL.

Taranaki Herald, Volume XXXVI, Issue 7994, 12 October 1887, Page 4

NEWS BY ENGLISH MAIL.

PER S.S. RIMUTAKA. leports from the west of Scotland state portsmen had a good time on August 12. Birds in Inverness-shire have seldom been nore numerous or healthy. Tho Westmoreland moora are reported to be unusually well slocked tins season, and sportsmen were out early. Tho birds are not only plentiful, but plump aud string on the wing. The long drought does not appear to have affected the birds, which are free from disease. The morning broke amid light rain in Fifeshiro, but at v very early hour an unusually large number ot sportsmen wero out on tho moors. Gauio was found to be abundant, tho birds fh ing low nnd keeping well together, so that excellent sport was obtained. Grouse are iii splendid condition, the coveys numbering from eight to ton birds. Not a single "cheeper" has been seen. Tin young birds are remarkably strong on the win^ and nowhere is there tho least siujr of disease, 81-ickcouk are also abundnnl and in a healthy condition, and the same may be said of* all kinds of wing game Hares and rabbits are very numerous, nnc altogether the prospects for the season an the best that have been known for manj years. An old man who follows the calling oi n shoeblack in Boar-street, Leiceste Square, was evicted from a cellar at 49 Charing Cross Road, the other day. Whei a warrant officer and the landlord attemp ted to remove some old bags and boxei from underneath a dilapidated bedstead the aged man and ;his niece, who, lik< himself, appeared poverty-stricken, re " fused to allow them to' be touched. Tin boxes were, however, ultimately brough out from under the bed, and were fount to be full of money. One box alone wai so heavy, being filled with , from four ti five hundredweight of coppers, that i took two mon to carry it. Some of tin bagß contained silver and gold literal^ coated with dirt and verdigris. The oU miser stated that the money was the resul of forty years' accumulation. A very curious story has been lately cv np into sensational pars, by the press. I relates to the lamented Prince Imperial The story goes that the lad had liaison with a Miss Watkins, and that tb result was a boy, now at Bellevue, i France. The alleged facts are bein; thoioughly tested, and Irathex fancy thai in the main, they will bo found to be trut The young lady ia said to have bee pietty, but with bad teeth. She belonge to the upper educated trades class, and i now earning her living in Melbourne a school mistress. If the paternity of: th child is satisfactorily established, he wi be well looked after. According to som ac-jounts, ho bears a striking likeness t the Bonaparte family. If he does, i would go far to invalidate the generall received statement as to the paternity o Napoleon 111., whose mother, Hortens Beauhamais, did not exactly die.inth odour of sanctity so far as conjugal fide lit is concerned. She had been on the ver worst of terms with her husband Louii brother of Napoleon 1., tor two year before the birth of Louis Napoleoi Strange storief, too, were circulated at th time of the Prince Imperial's birth; bul after all, the wisdom l hat can define vi erringly tb.3 paternity, of a chili is — wel not common ! A new process for extracting lime f ror hides, skins, &c, in the process of tannins i & describing by the Newcastle Dail Journal. The new process has been in vented by Mr. B. Planta JNesbir, who fo foriy years has been a resident of Sout Australia. One of the largest firms o tannerß in Bermondsey report in connec tion with Mr. Nesbit's invention that b adopting it they will be able to produc leather of a much purer quality, of fine finish, and at a considerably less co?t tba hitherto. The new process has been de scribed as simplicity itself. The hide and skins are simply placed in an nir-tis fc vac or tank containing clear cold watei into which carbo .ie acid gaa is forcec which opens the pores of the hide, an allows all the lime and animal matter t flow from the pelt, le .ving it like velve 1 and quite pure. It is claimed that th process must be thoroughly harmless t the pelts, water impregnated with thi ga3 bein°j drank in large quantities dail; under the name of soda-water. The Grernnns are eulogising Sir Arlhu Sullivan to the skies. Tausht by -Th Mikado" that there, was something to ad mire in the despised English music, the; have now gone iuto transports of fleligh ovei the aesthetic opera of "Patience. Thus spenl.s the Xo I lische Ztllung .- " The music from first to last is a proof o the extr ordinary tale it and perfect artisti taste of the English musician, of whom i Beeuis moreand more incomprehensible tha he s'lould not have become known on th Continent long before this. The music I 1 Patience ' is even lighter than that t 'The Mikado;' the movements are some what nervous, md here and there it i hurried, but it is always bright, fresh, an< am'able, and the listener has always th< impression that he is listeiing to a mai who is jesting, but who could also attrac in serious conversation. . . . There ii much in the music which is characteristic of the home of the compoeer, and besidei many other parts some of the chqrusei alone would ensure Sir A. Sullivan a place among the very first of our composers." ii. Jules Grevy'B eightieth birthday, or the 13th instant, was made the occasion ul Mont-sous-Vtiudrey of a sympathetic mani festution in favour of the President of the Republic. Numerous notabilities of the neighbourhood, including tho Prefect am; several mayors and magistrates, came tc congratulate M. Grevy. Tho musics societies of Mont-sous- Vaudrey and Montbarrey sirenade^ the President of the rep'.bh'f, wLo seemed very pleased at the num f oi9m rks of sympathy and attachment which were given him. Two f reeh ff ial Alpine accidents are reported from the mountains of Styriu. With regard to the suggestions the various Alpine Clubs have been solicited to send in with a view to diminish these disasters and prevent people climbing dangerous mountains, it is proposed to puss a law authorising the infliction of a penalty on all persons making or attempting ascents without authorised guides upon mountains declared to be dangerous. At Trantstein, in Upper Aualria, ascenta aro now only permitted by marked paths?, for which passes are issued by the Imperial Forest Office and tho Alpine Club.