MISCELLANEOUS.

Timaru Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 2883, 19 December 1883, Page 3

MISCELLANEOUS.

San Fhascisco. Fifty cattle and sheep brought from Nev> Zealand on the last trip of the City oi Sydney, were quarantined for ninety days or arrival at San Francisco, the time dating frotr when 'they were placed on board the steamer A London despatch of the 20th enys the Queen's health is improved, but from the effects of her late accident she is still unable to stand or walk for more than a few minuted at a time, and that it is etill impossible for her to walk up or down stairs. Her Majesty left Balmoral for Windsor on the date mentioned closely guarded by special police all along the route. At Windsor there were large detachments to guard the arches after Her Majesty's arrival at the Castle. On tho 22nd a fire occurred m a bootmaker's shop at Windsor, near the castle wall, towards which the wind blow flaming sparks. They fell all over the Palace and and slight ignition took plaoe on the roof of St. George's Chapel, but this wns ooon extinguished. The affair bus given rise to the wildest rumors, one of which was that the Queen's apartments had been blown up shortly after she hud retired to rest. Her Majesty was m a state of nervous excitement, and manifested great anxiety ug to the condition of the fire-engines and the men attached to the Royal Fire Brigade Charles Dickens' grandson has entered the literary world, and is writing a story for All the Year Round. The Earl of Duuraven is agitating for protection. Ho was chairman of. a large " fair trade " meeting at Lemington on the 11th November, and his remarks were strongly m opposition to the present trade policy m open land. Another London despatch says tho Queen's health is now declared perfect. De Lesseps told the London World's correspondent on November 11th that he had no doubt that " from coachmen, peasants and concierges alone we could, if we tried, raise all the money needed for the completion of the Panama Canal " A syndicate m London is diseasing a project for a Bhip canal aoross Ireland. London physicians are about to commence a campaign against canned goods, as several cases of sickness have recently been traced to their use. . Tho Lord Mayor of London refused, on November 11th; to allow Dr Stocker, a Chaplain to the Imperial Court of Germany, to lecture m the Mansion House, stating as a reason that Stocker had originated the recent persecution of the Jews on the Continent. The Doctor lootured at the Memorial Hall instead, Nov. 14th, on tho subjeot of "Q-erman Socialism." A large and unrnly crowd was present and frequently hissed tho lecturer, some cheering and others groaning. He was frequently interrupted with insulting cries and epithets. Stocker finally left the Hall indignantly, and the meeting broke up m confusion. Mr Henry Chapman, M.P. for Lincoln, has renewed his efforls to induce the British Government to restrict the importation of cattle from the United States. The trade is rapidly increasing. The Zululand monument was blown down by a whirlwind at Portsmouth on November 18th. The surrounding country was also damaged by the heavy gale that prevailed at the time. Oscar Wilde is about to try political life. He will join the Irish party and aspire to a seat as a Parnellite. The oarsman Elliott has offered to scull Bube&r on the Tyne for the championship of England. Dr Schliemann has abandoned his excavations m Asia Minor for the present, and has returned to Athens m broken health. Lord Eipon has offered hia resignation as Viceroy of India. Mr Goßcben ib spoken of as his euccepsor, and will be made a peer. Mr Thos. Sexton, M.P. for Sligo, was attacked by seven men, according to his own account, m Seven Dials, London, on lfith November, who gagged him, pinioned his. arms and rifled his pockets of his moDoy and gold watch and chain. All the footpads but one escaped, and at the trial one of the jurors asked Sexton if he (Sexton) was m liquor at the time he was robbed. Sexton, with considerable temper, answered m the negative. The robbery took place near a public-home where he had called to get brandy and soda at,two,o'cl66k"a.mi ;'■■'; ... A strike among the laborers and freight handlers , m the Panama railroad on Nor. 12th culminated m the wreok of a train, the striken at the earns time firing on it. Many were seriously injured, but no one was killed. The .business failures throughout the United States apd Canada for the week ended November 3ri numbered 215. i . Ponald Dinaie, the Scottish' athlete, leaves by the City of Sydney eu route for Sydney, but may probably change his mind and go to Dnnedin. An Extra of the Pall Mall Gazette of November 3rd contained a statement that the authorities were, anonymously informed that an attempt would be made to destroy a- trsia on which the Duke and Duchess of Cqnnaught would proceed to Dover from London, on their way to India. Large failures m the cotton trade were reported m Liverpool on Ootober 30th. The house of 11. and F. M. Banger was one of those which collapsed, with liabilities estimated.at £600,000. B. H. Foreman and Co. ' and Hollenahed, Talty and Co. followed. New York dealers were affected by these failures to tho tone of £100,000. ' On the 31st' the Liverpool house of Miller and Fenton also suspended, with Henry Pearce and Joseph Taylor and Co., cotton brokers. A warrant was Umed on Ootober 81st for the arrest of the sub-manager of the Preston Banking Company on a charge of embezzling The Steamship Owners Association of London' have written to Earl Granville} urging action m the matter of cutting a second canal across Sanz. Lord Granville has sent a communication to the Frenck Government insisting upon a proper apology for the behavior of Admiral ; Pierre towards Commodore Johnson at Tamat»ve. The question of the conduot of the Frenoh towards Mr Sbaw is treated by Barl Granvilla as a thing apart. The hearing of the suit for a judicial separa- J tion which Lady Colin Campbell has brought ngainst her husband, and whioh wilt come up i m a few weeks, will take plaoe m private. It ia of suoh a character as to render this courea necessary.

und The English Liberals have lost <• .n '* \ ion. the recent municipal elections, which, thong cere fought m iaolsted places and •with siutn loci rerc topics ns " Ihe Salvation Army," " '!'• o ' ■ hrir Town Hall," <c Blectrio Lighting v Ghs," ( " Teetotalisni t. Beer," were generally o 'en' political lines. Some Liberal journals m roll despondent and thick the result prcmgca to defeat on n wider Held, illustrating the genert last election of 1882 when tbo Conservatives wer wti? overthrown. lO af It ia proposed by a committee of Gla?;>o\ one people to buy the house of the late Thomn ors Cnrlyle at Cbe)«ea, and convert it into a Cor ci- lylo Club House. The building at present i i nt empty, dirty and dilapidated. 200 ihe marrihge of the Princess Louise Vio no toriii Alexandria Dagmar, the elrleet daughtfi lh 0 of tho Prince of Wales now sixteen years old not tc tho young Puke of Portland is mooted, roe Sir Moses Jlontofioro reached hie onf nel hundredth year on October 24th. Man; t e d conoratalutions from all parts of the world md were Bent him. Among the letters was one !■<.. from tho Princo of Wules. WB Tho deafnees of the Princess of Wales has ■nt been relieved, find she now drives around m London daily with her daughters. , r0 An action baa been brought ngainst the tal Duchess of Montrose hi rolation to her late „,.. husband's will. Tho validity of it is disputed. Her defence is that her husband m making; it )( ] used a stamp imtead of a pen because hie right , re hand was uusteady. ne The Duko of Leicester has refused the he vacant Order of the Garter becauso tho offer dv came from Mr Gladstone. tie Curnctio, a millionaire of Pittabui'2, nnd au d ironmaster, proposes to stand for M.P. for the li e Borough of Kirkcaidy. i. A miners' conference, held m Manchester n f on Oct. 31st, representing 200,000 men, m resolved to fend notices to miners' employers demanding an advance of fifteen per cent m 'q wasep. re Humfriea and Co., engravers, of London, so failed on Nov. 6th for £200,000. if Lord Lome is suggested as Viceroy of r. Ir.lind. 11 An explosion look place m tho Moorfield Colliery, Lancashire, on Nov. 7th, by which 70 miners were killed. 110 wore m the colliery at tho time. The Queen, m her impatience, has had a temporary atunco cast made of John Brown's " statue arid crectod on the lawn at Balmoral, m front of her royal apartments. The cast n baa becomo the subject of so much dipcustion n m artistic circles, that the sculptor has had to '• speak m self-defence. He admits it is far 0 better-lcokin* than John Brown ever was, but c . says that Her Majesty came to his studio 9 weekly to superintend tho modelling, and a iusisted on one change or another until he thought ho was doing the Apollo Belvedere m • kilts. 3 Several of the London newspapers recently V published articles suggesting tho establishment ia New York of homes for the recep--1 tion of English girls who emigrate with the intention of becoming domestics. English ladies have expressed their willingness to ° orgaiiee a eyßtem of selection, and send a » continuous supply of well-qualified girls. f IRIBH AFFAIRS, No publio meeting of the National League , I was beld anywhere m Ireland on October 28th, the Government having forbidden them. Some disorders occurred at Castle Lyoo, County Cork, where tho Police with fixed bayonets charged upon a procession, breaking' it up, and capturing the banners and musical instruments. When tho Police withdrew with the military, a meeting was held, and the purposes of the League m part effected. Michael Davitt has expressed, privately and publicly, his dissatisfaction with the want of support that tho Irieh people are showing towards the National League, and that neither Mr Parnell or his following ara making any serious efforts to carry the resolutions into effect that were passed a year ago by the National Conference held ia Dublin. The Parnell fund is expected to reach £35,000. Lord Eooamore, Grand Master of Orangemen, hag written to a newspaper to the effeot that if the Parneilite League and other disloyal meetings are allowed to continue m Ulster there will be bloodshed and p6rhaps a civil war. The law restraining Orangemen from marching cannot be reckoned upon. Tha Londonderry Hall, m whioh the Lord Mayor of Dublin was to deliver an address on November Ist, was taken possession of by the Orangemen, who held it. Upon the arrival of the Mayor ia the city he was driven to his hotel, his etcart carrying green bannorß, and bands playing Irish national airs. During the passage of the procession a man and a boy were shot. Tho Orangemen planted tho Union Jack on the roof of the City Hall. Later on they vacated the buildipg and withdrew from the vicinity. The Mayor of Londonderry issued a proclamation appealing to the people to refrain from' violence and retaliation. The chief organisor of the obstruction was Lord Ernest Hamilton, son of the Duke of Abercorn. The Times and the Tory journals applaud the arrangements, and the Radicals call for their prosecution. The whole business has strengthened the National party. The Dublin Lord Mayor's visit has caused the Irish Government muoh uneasiness. Disorders incident to it did not cease on his departure. Hostilities between the Nationalists and Orangemen continued, and breaking of windows was general. A, Nationalist was stabbed on the 3rd. Several hundred factory women went out on etrike the same day, beciuee their proprietors refused to discharge a man m the factory who moved m the Corporation Council to rescind a reDolation graotiDg permission to the Mayor of Dublin to lecture m the Town Hall. They paraded tho streets orying, "God save Ireland." They were attacked oud stoned by a mob which they fought desperately until they were dispersed by the police.. An investigation as to the cause of the disturbance will be held. This, m the opinion of Irish National League leaders, is likely to prove a farce. A bailiff was shot dead on November Ist m a house at Castlo Blarney, Galway. The trouble m Ulster has given riso to a proposition to form a constitutional organisation apart from Orangemen, and uniting Catholics and Protestants for the country at large. The Archbishop and the priests of Tuam have come out fiercely against "assisted" emigration, and the Government announce that not more than £50,000 will be spent for this purpose. ...... The Cabinet having hinted to Earl Spenoer. that the policy of stopping League meetings on the assumption that they will be attacked by Orangemen cannot be approved, the Lord Lieutenant has taken great umbrage, and threatiDs to reeign if hia polioy is interfered with. There is great excitement throughout Loughrea m consequence of a wholesale eystom of evictions put into operation there on November 9th, and tho result has been the rovival of feuds between Orangemen and Nationalists. Mr J. M. Healoy, M.P. for Monaghan, on seeking admission to the Irish Bar, was blackballed on the 13th inßtanl by the Law Students' Debating Society of Dublin. Mr Richard O'Shannassey's place m Parliament as M.P. for Limerick has been filled by Mr Edward MoMarton,. a Parneilite and Nationalist, who received 992 voteß against 494 for Jas. Speight, Conservative. The election took place on November 15th. ' Lord Spencer's prohibition of the Orange and Parnell mooting m Dublin on 12th November is bitterly denounced by the National Press m Dublin and London as a surrender to the Orange factor. Ho, however, believes this course to be the sole means of keeping peace without troops. The wildest license of speech is meanwhile accorded to Harrington and Healey m the south of Ireland. Healey openly advocates the complete pillage of landlords. Joseph W. Poole, found guilty of the murder of Kennedy, was sentenced to death m Dublin on 20th November, to be banged on 10th December. The prisoner criad out, " Three oheers for Ireland republic ! Down with English tyranny !" Tremendous efforts are being made to tare t the murderer of Carey fromvtbe gallows. 0