ENGLISH EXTRACTS.

Dunstan Times, Issue 923, 26 December 1879, Page 3

ENGLISH EXTRACTS.

Australian oranges have been brought to England as an experiment. They came in company with a quantity of lemons, from Adelaide.

Cremation in Berlin is being advocated by the Municipality, who intend to appeal to the Government to render the process legal, and subsequently to establish the necessary buildings and apparatus. The British Museum is to be illuminated by the electric light during the coming winter.

The floods of the present year have had a Very pood effect upon the Thames, according to Engineering, which states ( hat

the great amount of Hood water thoroughly changed its complexion. Fair hair has entirely gone out of fashion across the Atlantic.

The electric light is now in use on Waterloo Bridge, as well as along the Thames Embankment.

A sale has recently taken place in Hampshire (England) whereby 850 acres, with a good farmhouse and outbuildings, together with eight cottages, freehold, changed hands forLfi'lO. In 1834, the late owner paid L 13,000 for the property, and laid out a further L3OOO in improvements A walk from Land’s End to John o’Groat's has been accomplished lately hy a Cornish Pedestrian, who completed the distance, trundling a wheelbarrow before him, in twenty-five days. No less than L 42.000 in railway stock has been left to the town of Brighton by the late air W. E. Davies, better known as the “ Leviathan bookmaker” tor the benefit of such local charities and institutions as the Town Council may think fit. The widow has, however, given notice that she intends to dispute the bequest. To the already over-long list of remarkable verdicts must now be added the decision of twelve sapient men, who, at the Cheshire Quarter Sessions, after hearing evidence which clearly proved that one woman had been assaulted by two others, one of whom kicked her while the other bit her hand, acquitted both the accused, adding, “they are one as bad as t’other.” The ex-detectives Palmer. Druscovitch, ami Meiklejohn, and Froggatt, solicitor, having served two years’ imprisonment for complicity in the great turf frauds, have been released. Froggart was immediately re arrested for the misappropriation of trust funds to the amount of L9JOO, of which he was joint trustee Ceteway.i, is said to have given but little trouble to his captors since his arrest, except on one or two occasions, when being sulky, he demanded to have an entire ox roasted for his meal. At St Simon’s Bay he was taken on board H.M.S. Boadicea. expres-ing wonder and admiration at every thing he saw, remarking, “ I was only born yesterday ” On Sir Robert Peel’s estate, farms with an aggregate area of 7,000 acres are now unlet.

The conscience money sent to the ('ban c Ilorof the Exchequer during they.-ar ending last March amounted to over Ld.Tdtl A folding umbrella which can be camel in the pocket has lately been patented in America.

The Dublin police have arrested one of a gang of forgers, who, during a few days sucd-e led in passing. about, sixty furg d te i pound no'es, purporting to he of the .National Bank.

A Fenian outrage is reported from Durham, where an Irishman, named Grammy, who had repeatedly refused to join the local Fenian brotherhood, was recmtly wavlaid by three members of the lodge, who beat him in a dreadful manner. Grammy was found insensible His assailants were arrested tried, and were sentenced to 12 mouths' imprisonment each with hard labor.