GENERAL NEWS.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume V, Issue 228, 14 September 1877, Page 19

GENERAL NEWS.

One of them is 87 and the other 88 ; and one of these two is so far gone that it took a long time to make it clear to him what the dignity was that had been bestowed on him. Sir Wm. Codrin«*ton was offeted the same dignity, but declined it. It is of little honour when it is reserved chiefly for men in a state of senility. The Army and Navy Gazette says .—Should the Siberian fleet •-c homeward passage from San Francisco make an attempt at 9E&S «! C *t Z a^ 1 7^ ich ' ife is under «*ood, will be closed against them, the duty of keeping them out will devolve upon MKillop Pasha, better known to the service as Captain M'Killop, and another British naval officer, Commander GeWe MoricHr (siVV w^ throu g h » very questionable, seeing that it is com. posed of wooden vessels, and might depend upon getting a very X? £ iJ Btlll l* t " P lam fchat th e orders just issue ito M'Killop Pasha tp keep the canal f ree from interference applies to the supBStfS? 1 /* 1 ! 8 -* 11111 " V ?* ela now in ±™™** waterl fcven if the admiral in command were satisfied to come as far as the entrance to the canal, there to do his worst on being refused admission and a free passage, he might work a considerable amount of damage to the thoroughfare, especially if he were prepared to sacrifice one of his ships in order to bar the passage. In these remarfcs we have left the possible part to be played by England out S^Z c ? I°?V1 °?V, bUt 1 i fc^° Uldnot be «°*s*i that thl admiral 2i2?S£v tbe ,Mcd, Mcd i te «anean has already received orders to if P Ki hlB .squadron to the Western entrance of the canal, and iA v tu ? e Russian fle et should arrive from the East we should be actively engaged in the struggle now going on, we may

c j" I .*® thafc * ne Rua aian admiral in command would as soon think of flying overland as attempting to show his nose in the canal. The American Catholics are under the impression that the Most Rev. Dr. Bayley Archbishop of Baltimore, -who has gone to Rome, will be elevated to the cardinalate. t» Tn ® * r *»* Monthly is publishing reminiscences of Richard Dalton Williams, the graceful poet, who first made a reputation of the old Nation over the signature of " Shamrock." The author in the sketches in the Monthly relates in the current issue, and in a footnote, a curious instance of fulfilled prophecy. We give the note in full:— "In the course of my 'Shamrock' gathering explorations I have come across what seems to be a very curiously verified prophecy. A squib, called 'Lord Clarendon's Pound/ published in the Nation of November 29th, 1851, contains these lines : — "Great Dan and Oe Grey are gone from m : That tbe first is in heaven let us hope,* And the other— do you think I may promise? One day will come round to the Pope." Twenty years after, this nobleman did ' come round to the Pope,' not in person, but by his representative; for Lord De Grey is now Marquis of Ripon." Whoever manufactured the squib could hardly have offered the suggestion seriously — indeed the atmosphere of squibs and lampoons is not favourable to gravity; and if he be alive to-day it must have occurred to him as a phenomenon that an apparently wild idea should be substantially verified in the course of a generation. Oriental Hotel, Cutting, Princes-street, Dunedin, William Gawne, Proprietor. One of the most convenient and most commodious hotels in Otago. Sleeping apartments effectively ventilated, and every arrangement made for the comfort of travellers.

IMnS? « ¥ Vtde ' S Aar^aß4A ar^ aß4i P% rtfi and Awards, New Zealand Exhibition Jurors: J. A. Lwen, J. Butterworth, T. C. Skinner. So far at the Colony is concerned, the dyeing of materials is almost entirely confined to the re-dyeing of Articles of Dress and Upholstery, almo»t useful art, for there arc many kinds of material that lose their colour before the texture is half worn. G. Hirsch, of Dunedin (DTOipi* DTK Works, George street, opposite Royal George Hotel) exhibits a ca«e of specimens of Dyed Wools, Silks, and Featners, and dyed Sheepskins. Tbe colors on the whole are very fair, and reflect considerable credit on the Exhibitor, to whom the Jurors recommended an Honorary Certificate should be awarded." Honorary Certificate, ?\u Gu ° tav Hl ™ch, Dunedin, for specimens of Dyeiag in Sill