ABSTRACTS AND CHRONICLES.

Observer, Volume 7, Issue 161, 13 October 1883, Page 14

ABSTRACTS AND CHRONICLES.

THE ABSTEACTS ANT) BRIEF CHRONICLES OP

THE TIMES,

The Queen of Madagascar wants peace. Thomas Graham,bushman,Dargaville,drowned. Auckland Herefords considered eqital to English. Lock Hospital ready, and '80 women on the books. Coetloy properties,. tinder the hammer, realised. £35,495. Bishop Sheehy is the new Archbishop of Sydney. New Libel Bill to. be introduced in N.S.W. Parliament. Blue-Ribbonites preparing for a champion tea arid inViffin struggle. - r ' General Campagnon new French Minister' of War. Plenty of work. Charge of perjury against J. C. MacCormie'k, solicitor, withdrawn, Gfovernor Jervois and Lady Jervois come' to Auckland at Christmas. Negotiations between French and Chinese Governments broken off. ... Danial Lane, gumdiggor at Hakarau, chlorodyned himself to the golden shore. Sir William Jervois preparing a scheme of' harbour defence for the Colony. Councillor Wad dell intends to run for the Mayoralty. And what for no' P Marquis of Lansdown sails to Canada- to-day to assume Gover.uor-G3uoralsb.lp. . Redmond nobbled £225 in Auckland. Wot a bad haul for one night. Licks tiie circus. : ' Taamanian Legislative Council unpopular owing to its rejection of the Railway Bill. South British Insurance dividend 15 per .cent. And yet there is no diminution in fires. \ Fijian s petitioning for federation with AuJj^L liisia, or incorporation wil h one of the colonies'.' Mail steamer took away £155,888 worth of ' gold. Wlien shall we have am hit of our own ? Cctcwayo surrendered to British authorities, and ordered to settle in reserved, territory. , Natives in Tnh.ua- country scared away Roehfort's survey party by firing yollies over their heads. „ The jSTibilists have sentenced the Czar to death. The date of execution has not been fixed, but he.-is Gzatr tain to die some day. Lively controversy proceeding regarding the? legality of colonial action m excluding Irish informerg, Qui hono, they are excluded. . " ' ,';; A homicidal maniac nanied Antliony\ Gschnell bashed in the head of. a fellow lunatic named janies John Mills, in the Auckland Lunatic Asylum. •''•*• Spaniards wrath at insult by the Parisians to KingAlphonao, and consider the apology by the French. President only made it.more Grevy-ous.. ••'-'• r ; «t A ■wa.tclimakcr who died in England" f lias -left j £1000 to the Duuediu Hospital, of which he' was once an inmate. . Watchmakers, ought to have a .gpoct time -in. the colonial hospitals after this. . . . «.