GENERAL NEWS.

West Coast Times, Issue 2848, 20 May 1878, Page 3

GENERAL NEWS.

At a meeting of the Melbourne Metropolitan Gas Company, it was resolved to borrow £700,000 on debentures at 6 per cent.

The Earl of Leitrim who was recently murdered in Ireland, is thus described in Debrett's Peerage :— " William Sydney Clements,- 3rd Earl, born in 1800 ; succeeded his father in 1854; entered 51st Foot, and retired as Lieut-Colonel in 1856 ; has been Colonel in the Leitrim Militia since 1843 ; was a magistrate for the Counties of Leitrim, Donegal, and Galway and sat as M.P. for Leitrim from 1839 to 1846."

"Atlas" says: — "I hear from Berlin that Prince Bismarck and his Imperial and Royal Master do not quite hit it off on the Eastern question. Kaiser Wilhelm is completely absorbed by his attachment to tlje Emperor of All the Russias, for whom he has just testified his affection in a very practical shape, by making him a present of a hundred Krupp guns, a trifle in the way of surplus artillery which he happened to have on his hands. As for the German Chancellor, he is England's very good friend ; but he has been heard to remark that the Turk is dead in Europe and that the future of Bulgaria will prove a hard nut to crack. The three colonies of New South Wales, Victoria, and New Zealand have each a revenue which places them in a higher rank than some of the European States. A fact not yet explained by the scientists is, that the electricity does not move as rapidly from New York to London as in the opposite direction.