NEWS IN BRIEF.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume II, Issue 82, 21 November 1874, Page 7

NEWS IN BRIEF.

The Duke of Cambridge is about to retire from the British army. He lias fallen a victim to gout, and for three months has been unable to take any exercise. George William Frederick Charles, second Duke of Cambridge, is the grandson of George 111., and a cousin of Queen Victoria. He was born in Hauover, in 1819.

The Peruvian G-overnment, too, is following in the footsteps o£ Bismarck, and has decreed the banishment of the Jesuits in the Huanaco district ; and the Bishop of Pune is to be tried for having sent in his resignation to the Pope without consulting the Government. Dried oysters are among the imports into San Francisco from China. They are simply taken out of the shell, dried in the sun, and packed in wooden boxes. The Chinese are the principal consumers. Mr Marcus Clarke, the author of " Long Odds," a story that has achieved a great reputation, has commenced another tale in the c Australian Journal ' entitled " Childrock Tichborne." The demand for the first issue was so great that the whole of the publication was bought up at once, and a supplement has been added to the bast number containing a republication of the first chapters of the above work. It is stated that there are 1,000 miners out of employment at Sandhurst, 1,200 at Ballarat, and many at other places in Victoria. The second son of the Khedive of Egypt is expected shortly at Berlin for the purpose of military education. The Khedive, it is stated, has determined to dismiss the French officials now in his service and to employ Germans. In British Columbia, Oblate Fathers and Sisters of St. Ann devote themselves to the instruction and support of the Indians, about twenty thousand of whom are already baptiseti or iinder instruction. Grotesque colored prints find a market in South Africa. Not only unusual colors of the flaunting kind go down, but unusual figures as well, such as those of imps and demons, are highly appreciated there. They are no doubt chiefly disposed of through the system of barter. Another item, glass beads, is a very important one, and gold-dust, ivory, and palm oil are usually taken in exchange by the merchants. Mr Michael Banim, the surviving member of "the O'Hara family," whose delineations of Irish rural life and scenery are known throughout the whole reading world, died shortly before the departure of the last mail. The death is announced at Paris, in lier nineteenth year, of a sister of the Ex-King of Naples. The princess married, only a few months ago, Count de Bordi, nephew of the Count de Chanibord. The issue of naturalisation papers to nine foreigners is gazetted. Amongst them appears the name of Shing Hee, a Chinese gardener at Invercargill A herd of 20 red deer have been'seen in the Nelson provinco by a traveller. A bank clerk in Victoria has thrown up his situation and dissappeared because the manager objected to Ms wearing a velvet coat. A new hospital is about to be built in Auckland. The following editorial notice is decidedly clever and cool : " The editor has gone up the river for a few days. All good articles, facetious remarks, puns, and typographical errors, may be attributed to his absence. In order to give variety and vigor to the paper he will frequently leave it for a week or so. It is to be hoped that the readers of this journal will appreciate his endeavors." The Vincentian Fathers, from Cork, have given a successful mission in Charleville. Sixteen publicans of the town met the Fathers and gave a pledge to take out a six days' license at" the next renewal of license, and to prohibit, as far as in them lay, Sunday drinking from thence forward. It is estimated that no less than 37 tons] of butter were sold at Skibbereen market one day this season, which is calculated to have amounted to upwards of £3000. Cremation is prospering in Germany. There are 'now 82 cities with cremation societies. The cost of payment of members in Victoria is £28,000 per annum. From the news received by the steamer Hero, from Sydney, according to the latest advices from the Palmer Gold Fields, the miners are leaving in hundreds, and a famine is feared next winter, unless the Government open up communication. A Dutch member of the Pennslyvania Assembly, having returned home from a session, was asked what had been done by the Legislature. " I don't know what others have done," replied he, " but I have cleared one hundred dollars for mineself." Corsica produces the largest quantity of wax of all countries in Europe, if not in the world. In ancient as well as in mediaeval times the inhabitants paid their taxes in wax, and supplied large quantities annually. Since -wax is to honey as one in fifteen, the Corsieaus must have gathered each year some millions of honey. r Xhe Italian Government has arrested at Rimini, Signor Aurelio Saffi — the former Triumvir, who was long resident in England — and twentw-six other Republicans who had held a political meeting. Eight leaders of the International have been arrested in Rome, two more at Bologna, and others at Florence and other places. A correspondent of the ' Pall Mall Gazette,' writing from Geneva in reference to the resignation of Pere Hyacinthe, says there are numerous signs that the dissolution of the Old Catholic congregation in Switzerland is close at hand.