Telegrams.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume VII, Issue 352, 16 January 1880, Page 14

Telegrams.

(Special io tee Melbourne Age.) London, January 10th. Several eminent physicians declare that Bismarck is suffering from a mild form of small-pox. The latest news is that he is worse. The Government have been warned that Fenianism is spreading throughout Ireland. A crowd plundered a number of provision stores at Cork. The Mayor of Dublin states that the British colonies are nobly responding to his appeal.

(BEUTER'S SPECIAL.) London, January 12th. Considerable agitation prevails in Ireland owing to the continued ejectment of tenants. Several serious riots occurred on Friday and Saturday, resulting in conflicts between the police and the mobs. No fatalities on either side are reported.

Headers of the Nation will not be surprised to learn that the gracious lady, whom they knew here under the norn de voyage of the " Countess of Hohenembs," has not forgotten, in the " pomp and circumstances" that surround an imperial throne, the kindly welcome which greeted her wherever she went during her Irish visit. Evidences abound in many a homestead in Meath and Kildare that the good empress has not allowed the smallest act of courtesy or attention to pass unacknowledged, The latest proof, I believe, of her Majesty's grateful remembrance of her Irish sojourn is the superb presentation with which she has, within the last few weeks, honoured the superiors and students of the Maynooth College. This beautiful gift has talAn the appropriate form (appropriate as coming from a huntress) of an equestrian statuette, in solid silver, representing the symbolical encounter of St. George and the dragon. The group of figures — dragon, steed, and knight — stand fully 18 inches high, and weigh nearly 3± lbs. They were cast, as an inscription testifies, in the imperial foundry at Vienna, and as a work of art are pronounced by connoisseurs to be exquisite in design and finish. The figures are supported on a pedestal of hard, dark wood, resembling ebony, carved after a delicate shell-like pattern, and embellished with emblematic silver medallions, conspicuous amongst which is the two-headed eagle of Austria. An immense amount of time and trouble in copying may be saved by the use of Marshall's Chromograph. All particulars will be found in our advertising columns. Messrs. Whittaker and Co. have opened in Maclaggan street, Dunedin, a glass and china warehouse, in connection with which they also conduct the tobacconist's trade. Their advertisement will be found in another column.