HOME AND FOREIGN.

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume XXXIII, Issue 11278, 27 May 1891, Page 2

HOME AND FOREIGN.

Mary Anderson's^ married life is said to 0 have been an unhappy one, and she is as thin and pale as a ghost. The family have been obliged to practise severe economy. In the Houso of Commons the Bill xnaking permanent the closing of public houses in Ireland on Sundays, and including in its scope the cities of Dublin, Cork, Belfast, Waterford, and Limerick passed on a second reading by a vote of 240 to 94.' The Liverpool Star has caused some- '' thing of a sensation by attacking the Mancheater canal enterprise as an impracticable one, and giving some startling facts to uphold its assertions. It declares that an unforeseen obstacle has ;been encoun--1 tered in the shape of a huge deposit of rock at the entrance, involving the cost of excavating 400,000 cubic yards of solid granite. This would add a round sum of J21,000,000 to the cost of the work above the current estimates. The Star accordingly predicts the collapse of the scheme. The Freeman's Journal asserts that Justin Hunt McCarthy, 'son of the a.ntiParnellite leader, will shortly announce his conversion to the tonots'of Buddhism. The young man has been a zealous student of Orientalism, but it was not generally suspected that he had.more than a passing admiration for the mystic doctrines of Gautama. • • • The-body or a woman; identified as the wife of a tailor named Iniielaw, was found behind the military hospital at Benthen,*. on the Polish front'er. : The body was horribly mutilated, after the manner of Jack the Ripper. Some of the wounds evidently had been inflicted with the view of destroying |the identity of the victim. Her- husband was arrested, but was released on proofs of his innocence. A surgeon of the hospital, with whom it is alleged the woman wascriminally intimate, has also been, arrested on suspicion. The postal authorities at St. Martin'sr le-Grand are weE satisfied with the degree of success which has attended the establishment of the London-Paris telephone, although they of course anticipate a considerable development of its use in the future. The average number of the messages transmitted from London to Paris daily now exceeds fifty, these being principally Stock Exchange and commercial communications .As illustrating the satisfactory manner in which the telephone'works, it may be mentioned that a ■well-known stockbroker has transmitted a message of 300 words within the 'space of three minutes, which is the maximum time allowed a user of the telephone for the minimum fee of Bs.