NEWS BY THE MAIL.

Taranaki Herald, Volume XXXVI, Issue 7999, 18 October 1887, Page 4

NEWS BY THE MAIL.

Mr. W. T. Stead, editor of tho Pall Mull Gazette, is about to make a run round the world in orde» to inspect tha British Empire and ascertain what requires setting right. He will not bo mcro thaa six months away.

That venerable cantatrice, Mdlle. lima de Murska contemplates inflicting tho relics of her once superb organ yet again on Australia and New Zealand. Her voice, saya tho paragraphist, has completely gone, but her execution is as good as ever.

Loid Cairns (Gumboil) has got back as;ain from Australia, and was present at the Pope's Villa pei Zormance of " A Midsummer Night's Dream." Ho seemed greatly interested in Miss Fortescuo's performance of Flermia, anil applauded vigorously. The great George Augustus Sala again onnctcxl Bottom.

It is really a great pity that voter.m actors and performs, who "lag superfluous on tho atftgo " at Homo, should invariably fly to Australia and N«w Zealand as a final refuge. Poor old Fred Maccabo, onco a vcriublo princo of ontoriainers, has loug boon past doing moro than quaver out a song or narrate a jrooil story at the Savage Club. It is therefore painful to read that ho is meditatm.* another Australasian tour, aud will sail for Melbourne by the Orient liner Garonne a week or two hence.

Lord Augustus Loftus has been known to be in "queer street" for some timo past. The announcement of his bankruptcy, therefore, created bnt littl'i surprise. Lord Augustus resides at 52 Stanhope Gardens, in company with Sir Walter Buller ani other Anglo-colonial notables. He ia of an affable temperament and a hopeful disposition, and talks much of tho greab things tha Governm°nt are going to do for him "some dtn." His nephew, Captain Loftus, who married a notable Sydney bell, Miss Libertouch •. is much in the same predicament.

How heavily the depression of trude is telling on some income-tax payers apponrs clearly from the lately published report of the British Inland Revenue Commissioners. The figures relating to Schedule D for the year 1885 86 show thai incomes derive! from trades and professions were ussesssd at upward o£ three and a-hilf millions less than in the previous year, or a decrease of 2*36 per cant, for England alone. The county of Lancaster and the City of London show decreases of over a million each, and Middlesex, exclusive of tin city, of. half a million. The heaviest decrease of all is in tho case of incomes derived from ironworks, which ara 22 percent. less, and not much more thin half the fUurcS for ISB3 84. In ScoLl m 1 the fall in incomes from trades ami professions is as much as 5 per cent.; but in uiosl other respects Scotland has not suffered severely. As a rule the incotm from foreign securities shows gen -nil increases for Great Britain and livhn'i. Even now the rate of income tax is 7 1 in the pound; and the facts quoted sho%v how much reason there was for Mr. Goschen's remittance of Id in the current year's Budget.

Another of M. Pasteur's patients ia likely to die. At the beginning of the year Lord Doneraiie, an Irish peer, Yvas, together with his coachman, bitten by a tame fox, which was kept about the stables as a pet. Shortly afterwaids the animal developed signs of rabies. Lord D jnemile and the coachman at once set out fo r Paris, and were placed under treatment by Dr. Pasteur. Since then Lord Doneraiie enjoyed excellent health until a day or two a<?o, when he complained oi feeling unwell. A doctor was aunimone;}, who at once pronounced symptoms o£ hydrophobia to be apparent, ilia Lordship bee vine rapidly worse, and the latest accounts concerning him are that his life ia despaired of. [Se has since died].

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