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Dunstan Times, Issue 942, 7 May 1880, Page 3

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19,000 Volunteers partic'pated in the sham light at Brighton. A fog rotarfed the operations. Several thousand men in the ImiUling trade at f.ivorpmil have s’ruck against the reiluetiuu of a halfpenny per hour in their waves. Thu Fn null Jesuits are making preparations with a view-of purchasing several buildings at Monaco ami Jersey, whither they will withdraw in case of expulsion from France. Edison me! Adonis have imvnt'c 1 a plan ! >y which they can extract a greater amount of gelil n oui the reji cted residuum of auriferous quartz or sand than is ohlaineJ by the present process from virgin rock deliv civil fresh from the powerful triluratiou of a crushing mill liion Boucicunlt Was arrested m New York in a ilivorce suit brought by his wife. She charges him with adultery, continued through many years, with an actress named Catherine Rodgers, otherwise Mrs Davis. An awful famine has occurred in Brazil. In two years 15,000 people have died of hunger, and 300,000 from disease After this year, the Derby is to be run at Gravesend, not at Epsom. The manifesto of Prince Napoleon approves of the decrees against the Jesuits, and affirms the State’s supremacy over the ocracy. He rejects any alliance of the Bonapartists and Legitimists. The Sultan and Porto are much alarmed at the result of the English elections. The Queen’s continued absence on the Continent occasions sharp comment. A Berlin letter says Her Majesty is exasperated against Lord Beacouslleld, alleging that he deceived her as to the real feeling of the country and alienated the most loyal portion of her dominion. President Grant seeks nomination for a third presidential term. A stone cross lias been erected hy order of Queen Victoria on the spot where the Prince Imperial fell. Italian brigands captured the Duke of 1 Saxo Meiningen, Int liberated him on payment of a heavy ransom. I Without approving the measure, the Pope I submits to the expulsion of the Jesuits from Franco. j The Czar will not visit any German watering place this summer. The Duchess of Marlborough, in a letter to the Lord Mayor of London, says that all fear of famine is now at an end, but there is much distress in the mountainous parts. There is great need of clothing and seed. Nearly 3000 immigrants lauded at Now

York on the 22nd March from Europe, and 40Q0 on the Cth April. Many are well-to-do Irish farmers.

The Winchester Arms Company have an order from the Chinese Government for 20 millions of cartridges, the first ever given to foreigners. In the Callaghaii-Magnire prize-fight, near Philadelphia, on April oth, the latter was nearly beaten to death ; his life was despaired of. Callaghan and his seconds Hod.

Ten thousand hales of printing paper have been ordered by a Chicago firm from a Canadian manufacturer.