MISCELLANEOUS.

Grey River Argus, Volume XV, Issue 1894, 1 September 1874, Page 2

MISCELLANEOUS.

The banquet intended to . have been given to M. RocHefprfc on. June has been indefiaitely^ pdstporied; ' He- does not think that the tiriie 'is farbrable for such a demonstrakon, 'ano! . counsels' E nis admirers to spend what .money. tliey haye to spare in relieving the. wants .of ,nis fellow-communists, ; who^ias. ..exiles^.iire suffering the privations of poverty. It is possible that he will take Hp his residence for a time in Switzerland/ .• .<.i The total &uin 'received by the Lord Mayor at the. Mansion House from the collections iri churcHes and chapels- within [ the metropolitan area on Hospital Sunday amounts to over L 24 ,000. , Many of the churches, and chapels have still to make returns. ; . '-&..■ The Turkish vessel Kars, " 'eti'route fcß Saionica, .was run dawn on July 19, m the sea of Marnloraj by the"Egypiiian ship Behera, coming from Alexandria. : r Out 350 passengers and" crew of the former vessel only thirty were saved, and taken on board the Behera,- which has likewise sustained severs damage. " iThe foot and mouth disease has again . broken out in several, parts of the country. '' "' " : : - ;i| o ; ' . The Cleveland miners strike, which has la3ted six weeks, is at an-erid.^ltlwas terminated on June 20, when : the. yminers' Council, at a full representative naeeting held at Saltburn-by-the •Sea, accepted the employers' term 3. ." > K The Lords have. decided in favor, of trying Mprdauat divorce case r " . .' " ;' !.'_, A boy eight years 'oW/' named Alfred Scott, has been . accidentally ' ! killed by getting in front of the muzzle^ ~a l t ithe''moment of -explosion, of ttie grin ' Which is ; fired at Portsmouth at sunset!' 171 ~- %1 " J . : H.R.H. the Field-Marshal .Command-ing-in-Cuief has decidedlltHat, until further orders, paymasters are to wear^the -uniform of •' the " corps with; whicfij; they are serving or to which; they ( mayibe appoiuted. .-^ - :-. Her Majesty :the-;Queen intends, it is said, to erect a. morium'ent to her father, the late Duke'of "ESsnt, in St. George's Chapel, Windsor;- : : ja/: GIHrT;V . A College of Science; and Literature for the 'South and WestV'of 'Englan : d%nd South.. Wales, iri connection with the University of Oxford, is to be established in Bristol. It is proposed !;lto taise^cagital of L 25 ,000 ;f or building :purpose3i A prize of 500. guineas has been offered to the medical fpji^l^sion by Mr Reilly, the energetic l pjpbprtefor of some public gardens in Manchester, for the " Treatment and Cure of .Hydrpphpbia." - -^ The HanHel; Festival; at the'tlryatal Palace has been a great "^