EUROPEAN NEWS ITEMS.

Inangahua Times, Volume IV, Issue 27, 11 June 1877, Page 2

EUROPEAN NEWS ITEMS.

Benjamin Daniels, the last of tlie. East j Anglican giants, died near Yarmouth a few days ago. He was 6ft 6in high and ' could carry loads that three men failed to move. The King of Burmah has determined. to throw open his ruby mines. Perhaps they are worked out. Xn a case of burglary tried; at the War« wick Assizes, the prosecutor stated that he w#s wakened by his, cat patting his face, puss haying discovered the, burglars rummaging in his. bedroom. Since. Mr Gladstone delivered his address on, pulpit oratory, a number of Nonconformist ministers have offered him the use of their pujpits with the view of enabling him to give a practical example of what he considers the best styls of pulpit speaking. The quarry men and miners of parts of Gjermany are in the habit of spreading on, their bread a fine unctuous clay found in the crevices of th& rocks, which they call " stonecutter," and eal wish apparent relish. Some of the " wants " advertised, in the Broad Arrow do not appear to be always quickly supplied. The p,p«t of regimental goat at last appears to have been filled, but " A New Zealand's Head— taftoed,' is still" wanted."