CHIT-CHAT.

Taranaki Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 9967, 2 April 1894, Page 2

CHIT-CHAT.

PITHY, POLITICAL, AND PERSONAL PARS. Yesterday's violent S-E. gale has blown itself out. Sky overcast and weather chilly. Thermometer in the shade under " the verandah " at 2 p.m. to-day 55 degrees ; in front of office, 56 Several chimneys blown down ; and gardens damaged by the storm. Excursionists to Kawhia by Glenelg, have returned. They had a rough time of it coming back. Smart shock of earthquake felt at Wellington this morning at 1.41 oclock. Telegraph wires down this side of Napier, no communication with that town and Auckland. Waterspout seen off Kaikoura on Sunday, travelling eastward. Another burst on the coasts, about 20 miles north of Kaikoura. A man named Swain at Bulls, disappeared the day before he was to have been married. Thousands of peasants in Russia reported to be starving. Strike of gas workers in Vienna, men leaving being replaced by others. War between Germany and France is said to be inevitable. President Cleveland has vetoed the Bland Silver BUI. Rich reef of gold has been discovered 205 miles north-east of Melbourne. A married woman in Auckland attempted suicide with m#tch heads. Not through drink. Attempt to enforce prohibition in South Carolina has caused a riot. Twenty detectives searching for dram shops driven into swamps and killed. Troops have been disbanded for refusing to proceed and preserve order. Hull of wrecked vessel at Santander raised without further explosion. The grenadiers got their name from their original weapon — the hand grenade. General Blanks trying to suppress outbreak iniPhilippine Islands. Lobengula's brother has offered to surrender to Dr. Jameson. Railway Commissioners refuse to carry free of cost trees consigned to school committees. Payable alluvial goldfield has been discovered in Matabeleland. Australians are now divided into two classes, those who have seen better days, and those who never will. M. Flourens will probably be prosecuted for disclosing deplomatic secrets. Times are so bad in New York that even the pawnbrokers complain of bad business. Mrs Gordon Baillie been committed for trial in London oh charges of fraud. Twenty-five per cenfc of the population of England have then: lives insured. An ovation was accorded remains of Kossuth on arrival in Pesth. Velocity of wind in New Plymouth on Sunday was 204 miles per hour. Pension day. The warriors of old turned up to-day fine condition. Man thrown from his horse, when riding in from Toko, and killed. Another acridi-iik happened to man at Inglewood, who was brought in by the train in a frightfully mangled state. Wellington felt gale very severely. Several vessels ashore, and one went down. Man on board a lighter in Wellington harbour was drowned when swiming from sinking vessel.