GENERAL NEWS.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume II, Issue 59, 13 June 1874, Page 11

GENERAL NEWS.

The • Hiogo News ' published tho following proclamation of the Japanese Government . — " The mage of every male who has not on or before the 25th of present month (January 1873), adopted the' European manner of wearing the air, it will bo cut off' by the policemen at the time and place of apprehending such offenders, for which purpose said policemen will be provided with scissors, 4c."

The Bishop of Olinda, in Brazil, was sen fenced by the Supreme Tribunal of Justice in Brazil to 4 years 1 imprisonment with labor, for courageously interdicting various semi-religious brotherhoods and secular societies. Tho Emperor, by advice of the whole Council of State, held that the Bishop be required to undo bis work and remove the interdicts. The Bishop refused to obey the Emperor's order, and denied the jurisdiction of the temporal power. The Cuban insurrection has cost the Spaniards 10,000 to 15,000 soldiers and 40,000,000d015. per year since the opening of hostilities, in other words, in the last five years Spain has wasted 200,000,000d015. and lost between 50,000 and 75,000 troops by bullet and disease, in a vain effort to subdue the Cubans.

It is stated that Cardinal Antonelli has invited all the Catholic bishops to visit Rome, as the Pope is anxious to Bee the prelates of the Church assembled again before ho dies.

The London carmen have decide'! to ask for a royal coiumUsioa to inquire into their grievances. rr- v^ V Hawlius ia reaping the fruits of his Buceessful conduct of the licnborne case. He has been retained in six election cases, the fee* in each case being a retainer of six hundred guineas and a refresher of a hundred guineas a day. The ' Nord-Deutscho Gazette ' contains an article declaring that Belgium is awakening to the fact that France would attack her in cisc of war with O-ermany. The article cained much discussion. The French Press scout the idea, and uffirra a peaceful policy. Prince Gortschakoff has invited the Powers to a Congress at Brussels, on international law to be observed during war, as affeotin* the treatment of prisoners. ° A Bonapartist candidate hns been elected to the Assembly for the department of tlio Loire. The Assembly met after the adjournment, but no ministerial declaration was made. Several Puri* papers allege it is contemplated at Madrid to propose a German Prince as a candidate for tlu Spanish throne. Bishop Reinkens has openad the first synod of the Old Catholici at Bonn. General Concha assembled 26,000 men at Vittoria, preparatory to an attack on the Carlists at Estella. *' A Sailor " asserts that England possesses but seven effective ironclads, the others having either boilers below pressure, shaky engines, or boilers, &c, worm eaten. A fire, causing loss to the extent of about a million dollars, has occurred at Punatna. The Grand Hotel, the city saloon, and over twenty other places of business were destroyed. Advices from Constantinople state tint the Bulgarian Bishop of Salonica, with the population of two entire villages, has joined the Catholic Church. It is worthy of note that the joiners of the Kirkcaldy district, before demanding an increase of wages, hare resolved to place the question before the men by means of n plebiscite. The death is announced of Lord Ros-miore from injuries received by a fall while riding in the Grand Military Steeplechases at Windsor. The ' Musical standard ' says that a rage for fetn.ale instrumentalists seems likely to set in. A trio of ladies has come out at Vienna and another orchestra of women at Berlin. The funeral expenses of men killed in the Hoosac Tunnel, U.S., and paid by the contractors, kave amounted to ten thousand dollars in flve years. The Commandant nt San Josa, Guatemala, has been sentenced to be whipped and then shot for the outrage on the British Vice-Consul. New Zealand loan, one hundred aud seventy-two thousand pounds worth have been taken at 98.