NEWSY NOTES.

Observer, Volume X, Issue 621, 22 November 1890, Page 10

NEWSY NOTES.

In consequence of the strike, the railways of New South Wales lost £60,000.

English Socialists condemn General Booth's scheme for reclaiming the masses.

This Sultan of Turkey takes forty minutes to say his prayers in the morning.

Birchall, who murdered an English tourist in Canada, was hanged on Saturday last at Ottawa.

A ctjre for consumption is said to have been discovered by Dr. Koch, a German ; but he himself, having got inoculated with the curative lymph, was made dangerously ill.

Turning the tables. The Free Labour Association at Wellington refuses to receive trade-unionists into membership until they have been six months clear of the union.

Mb Phonograph Garland (says the Bulletin) began life in the drapery trade in Auckland. On his tombstone it may be written that he had married a lady who could write and bought an interest in a machine that could talk.

The first prize in the fifty thousand pound sweep on the Melbourne Cup was won by a Miss Muir, who has hitherto followed the avocation of barmaid, but who will soon, no doubt, blossom into a lady of fashion with the .£25,000 which Carbine's victory brought her.

It was expected that the tailoresses would march in the front at the recent Eight Honrs procession in Sydney. At the eleventh hour, however, several of the principals found that they could not have their new dresses in time, owing to a number of dressmakers refusing to work more than eight hours, and thus the most attractive item had to fee wiped from the holiday bill.