CHIT-CHAT.

Taranaki Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 10157, 12 November 1894, Page 2

CHIT-CHAT.

UP TO DATE. Fine weather still continues. It was slightly chilly during tho night. r Thermometer " under the verandah ' at 2 p.m. to-day, Gl degrees. In the sun in front of office 103. Opera of " The Yeomen of the Guard," with sixty performers, will bu' r iven in Alexandra Hall on Wedncsd-.v."" .jht. French cruiser fired at ftt ' English steamer on her voyage from. Japan to Hongkong. Some unmanly individuals destroyed a settler's wire fencing on the Veale Road the other day by cutting it into small pieces. The gun case in Victoria, Ilollis v. Abraham, has been settled ; defendant pays £1250 and consents to a perpetual injunction. Natives at the frontier of India have broken out into rebellion owing to the tyranny of the Rajah. There has been a rise in the price of colonial butter in London. Late C/ar's body is clad in the uniform of the oldest regiment, and is covered with a purple mantle. The " Tammany ring " lost at the late elections its chief stronghold in New York. General Harrison, the late President, says tho result of the elections in States proves that the people are in favor of Protection. , Formosa is demanded as well as Corea by the Japs. Japanese have captured all the Chinese warships in Port Arthur. A Chinese war levy, equal to 12s a head, has been proclaimed in Hankau. Suicide in Auckland tlirough distress. Two boys, sons of tho Hon L. Walker, M.L.C., fell over the cliit at Godley Head, Lyttelton, but were rescued. Captain Templeton, of the steamer Dorunda, wrecked on coast of Portugal, has had his certificate suspended for six months. A little Maori girl was burnt to death at Whangaruru, in Auckland district. A writer from Coolgardie to a Dunedin resident say :—": — " This place is not what it is made out to be." In Vienna the hatred to the cyclist is so great that in half an hour, sixteen cyclists were knocked off their machines. There is a tax on commercial travellers in Europe, and in Germany the revenue for them is about £30,000. Railway Hotel at Gore, which lost its license at last election, burnt on Saturday morning. Several other buildings were burnt, and post office had a narrow escape. Gladstone censured by the Radical Press for interfering with politics after retiring from leadership of party. Twenty-five thousand of tho poor are to be feasted after tho funeral of Czar. Major Inglis, of Victoria, a well-known artillery oliker, has committed suicide. Financial trouble. Two American inventors of torpedoes have undertaken to destroy Japanese Iteet if Chinese give large reward. Forts at Pckin aro being; strengthened. Russia and Great Britain are appointing officers to try and bring about reconcilliation between China and Japan. Diplomatic relations between France and Madagascar b'-oken off. Fight between Germans and Waihete tribe in East Africa taken- place ; several killed.