NEWS AND NOTES.

Greymouth Evening Star, Volume XXXI, 18 January 1901, Page 4

NEWS AND NOTES.

A loss of .£3468 was the result ot the Royal Agricultural Society’s Show at York last June. The Italian Government recently offered a reward of £B,OOO for the capture, dead or alive, of Musolino, the celebrated Calabrian bandit. ” There are now three distinct electrical railways in active operation in London, and there are nearly a dozen others authorised or under eonstsuction The consumption ot tea per head in 1899 was In the United Kingdom, 5.981 b ; in Germany, o.lllb ; in Holland, 1.391 b ; in France, 0.051 b ; in the United States, 0.961 b ; in Australasia, 7.701 b ; and in Canada, 4.721 b. Among recent deaths recorded in the papers to hand by last mail are those of the Rev. S. J. Stone, author of the wellknown hymn, “The Churehe’s One Foundation,” in his 62nd year, after a long and painful illness, and Mr J. Lawson Johnston, “the inventor of Bovril.” The London Society for the Extension of University Teaching recently held its annual meeting under the presidency of the Rev W. T. Sharpe. The report showed that the last session, 152 courses of lectures had been arranged, 12,141 students had entered, and 1544 certificates had been awarded.

It would appear that a good many of the former opponents of the change in regimental nomenclature have been, like Sir Eedvers Duller, converted by seeing how beneficially the change has worked in rousing in each country not merely an interest in the Army as a whole, but a practical regiment whose name is associated with the country. The expenditure of the Shah in Paris and in Vienna was so lavish, that it is estimated that by the time he gets back to Teheran his tour will have cost him upwards of half a million sterling. The Shah has fully decided to return to Europe next year for about three months, and half of that time will be spent at Marienbad. The Shah will then pay a visit to England.

Mr John Bari b • ■>§ London journal, in an tftkvw the t> i of the Hocligant into bio jwri The other day, re was riding though Tooting on his bicycle- when he saw- font young ruffians raoieotiijg ae- '1; : a-. c* Mr t3urns, who is, as Uie Hooligan:- acty. “slippy with his hooks,’’ dismounted, laid two of the scoundrels on their backs, and sent the other two scurrying for safety. A remarkable occurence took place the other day during a stag hunt which started at Pentreath, Anglesey. The stag ran for several miles in the direction of Menai Bridge, the hounds being close behind. Close to the Menai Suspension Bridge, the animal jumped into the water, and despite the strong tide flowing at the time, it reached the Carnarvonshire side in safety. The hounds then crossed the Suspension Bridge, but they failed to trace the stag. The Sydney newspapers have had an enormous circulation during the Federal celebrations. By 1 o clock on the afternoon of the day of publication no less than 120,000 copies of the Daily Telegraph Commonwealth Commemoration issue had been sold. Miss Constance Ellis, M. 8.. 0h.8., was appointed resident physician of the Melbourne Children's Hospital at the meeting of committee on lOtli December. She will resign her recent appointment as lecturer on bacteriology at the University to accept tie position.