BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

Dunstan Times, Issue 878, 14 February 1879, Page 3

BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

i (By Cable.) (From Exchange:-!.) London, February 3rd. 1 Baron Albert Grant has failed for L 650.000. The Czar is seriously unwell, suffering 1 from asthma. General Pratt is dead. February 4th. There are 150 Austrian exhibits for the Sydney Exhibition. The Colonial Office has undertaken the conveyance of the British works to Sydney. An Austro-Genuan treaty has just been concluded, abrogating the clause in the Treaty of Prague, which provides for the retrocession of North Schleswig. Nerther Russia nor the Spanish Colonies will be represented in our Exhibition—the former for want of time and the latter from financial embarrassment. The corrected list of the new French Ministry are as follows Lc Pere, Agriculture and Commerce ; Leon Say, Finance ; Waddington, President and Fo ei.cn Affairs; -Vlarcere, Interior ami Public Worship ; Admiral Jourquiherg, Colonies and Marine; Freycuite, Public Works; Greechy, Interior and War ; Fery, Education. February sth. Lord Augustus Loftus has been appointed Governor of New South Wales. The President of the French sent a message to the Chambers which expressed devotion to parliamentary affairs. The Sirdars are leaving Cabnl, and fighting for the succession. Turkey has ceded IChotona to Persia. Astrakhan, where the plague is raging, is completely isolated, and surrounded by a military cordon. February 6th. In consequence of the plague, three weeks' quarantine is ordered at Malta against arrivals from Southern Russia, ami increasing rigorous measures are being taken against the advance of the plague on the frontiers of Germany, Austria, and Turkey, and into the ports of Italy. The English Ambassador at. St. Petersburg has been recalled. Earl Dufferin is appointed his successor. February 7th The Marquis of Hartington, leader of the Opposition, in a speech delivered at Liverpool, said the verdict of the country on the I foreign policy of the Government would be j the piincipal question for the next general election. I A skirmish took place on the 12th January between British troops and Zulus. The British 1 isi was trifling. The Zulus are retreating to the interior. Fehruory Bth, The Marquis of Hartingtou, at Liverpool yesterday, explained the prog'amme of the I iherr.l party to be the extension of the fr mchisH to the county, ■ to re-organise the , seats, local government, religious equality, and a largo reduction - of taxes'. M. Grevy's address to the Chambers reviewed the crisis, anil p'enounced in favour of peace and the Republic; Thirty thousand wharf labourers are on tl e strike at Liverpool, and nuts arc occurring. Wheat and flour are sixpence ’ower. New Zealand securities arc unchanged, February fllb. A column of British troops has occupied Tui risk, Cabul. It is con i.lered unlikely that any further operations will take place in the direction of Uelatzile. February Bth. The barque Kite Waters, from Sydney, was se ; xed and -cuttled, and the offiesis m rderad, by the Chinese crew, on the voyage from Hongkong to Foochow. The mutiaeeis have been captured. Pride and a Lot summer goes before a fall. Even the hest-to-do dentists have to lead a band-to;mouth existence. Why is a Gtecian nose like a correct racing prediction?— Because it's a straight tip. •’ Young Mother: “ What do children say when they get candy?” infant Recipient of Confections: ” More ?” ” One is glass in eyes and the other is isinglass.” That is the answer, and & very clever one it is, too. What we want now is a conundrum to meet it. Individual (fresh from bis club): "My good sir (hie) can you (bio) tell me where this w(hic)ay leads to?” deflate party: ”To the churchya.nl.” Fun. There may he a destiny in every man’slife, but the most interesting moment eomes in when you sit down in a tonsorial chair, and trust to the mercy of a cross-eyed barber. A Seaside belle loft her bathing shoes hanging out of her hotel window to dry, and the next day the local paper announced ” that such an hotel had pntup new awninog of unique design.—Philadelphia Bulletin. The times are changed indeed. A man used to be able to pass himself off for a genius by wearing spectacles and letting his hair grow long, but that racket don’t work now. The conditions of life are growing harder for the poor man all the time. There is a smart man in Ran Francisco who thought he had discovered a new method of advertising bis business of tailor Ho swore that he would make the very shark in the sea declare his fame to the world. He went about his hnsiucss systematically. He placed some poisoned meat in a bottle and threw the bottle with his own name and address enclosed, in tho sea, where a huugry shark finding it swallowed it and soon turned his month towards the sky. Being picked un in the bay, the shark declared in tho memorandum, found entire in the bottle, the means whereby ha had come to his end The nojice was, as the tailor expected sent to the papers. But the journalists out West are cute people. Instead of his name and address being published in the paper, the tailor received an intimation that he might by applying to the manage:'s office receive the publication of "il/Tawa at tie usual rate*.