ENGLISH CLIPPINGS.

Inangahua Times, Volume IV, Issue 51, 6 August 1877, Page 2

ENGLISH CLIPPINGS.

A terrible case of hydrophobia has occurred nt North Moi ton. A game- keeper to Lord Portsmouth a few weeks ago spurned a strange dog with his foot, and tbo animal bit bis leg. The slight wound healed and he thought no more about it, until last week, when hydrophobia symp« toms were developed, and he now lies awaiting a horrible death, having been given up by the doctors. Tho magistrates have ordered all dogs to bo kopt confined for three months. On the Bth May, Frederick Ford, a cleric, pleaded guilty, at a London Criminal Court to a charge of stealing New South Wales three percen'. bonds of the value of £2000- from his employer, Mr Arthur T. I fcewi it, solicitor, Nicholas line, CiU and forging an authority toa stockbroker lo dispose of some of them. Tie prisoner whs arrested at Sdn Francisco and hrnujit buck to rlnglind, with bonds of the value of £1000, have been recovered. The Recorder sentenced him to seven, venr*' |>''n«l servitude. A uevr idea is about lobe put if practice with regard to tha color of the Untish man-of war Wien ordered to hot climates, the regulation whitewash and. blacking hoing superseded, 'as far as the exterior of the ship is concerned, by tho substitution of a delicate light, tint. The first ship for tbe West Coast of Afiica which is to be painted a light color is. the Swallow, orders having been given for hor to have a coat of the same tint as that supplied for the Indian troopships. In the Sheffield county court, a chemist named Jenkinsou was sued lately by a publican for £20, the value of a dog alleged to have been poisoned by the defendant's negligence. Some jalap was purchased at the defendant's shop and administered to tho dog, but the animal died shortly afterwards : and au analysis of the jalap proved it to contain a quantity of nux vomica. A verdict for £15 with, costs was given. The defendant had previously been summoned and fined for selling the adulterated medicine in the county court. Mr Gillott, the owner of a do* which lost its life through the poison, also obtained a verdict of £5 with costs. . Tbe principal merchants and commercial mon of Bristol have privately subscribed a sum sufficient to secure to Mr Conrad Finzel, who was until lately one of the Invest susar refiners in the country an income of £500 for life. Mr Finzel, it is statedi bas spent a large fortune in trying to compete with the French bounty system, and was lately compelled to suspend payment. The Daily Tele2raph states, that Lord Rivers that Mr Guilford Onslow, by permission of the Home Secretary, have visited the Tiohborne Claimant at-Dart-moor prison. During the interview the convict attempted to dwell upon the exceptional hardships of his treatment, but be was reminded by tho warder in attendance tbat that was a forbidden subject. The Claimant, it is stated, seemed greatly disheartened at the failure of any efforts to obtain an amelioration of his condition ; but Mr Onslow and Lord Rivers both admitted that he was apparently in better health than they had previously known him. to have been The lock.out in tbe Clyde shipbuilding trade took effect on Saturday the 15th May, at noon when about 10,000 men were dismissed from the shipbuilding yards in the upper, reaches of the Clyde will be trebbled in the course of a few days. At a meeting, of shipwrights held on Saturday at Partick, near' Glasgow, it was reported that a communication bad been received by the executive committee stating the Government were prepared to employ a large humber of shipwrights for the navy, the terms offered being £68 8s 9d per annum, for four years and £73 8s 9d per. annum for the. next ten years, food and clothing to bo provided by Government. The Sultan, in commemoration of tbe capture of Sukhum Kaleh by the Turkish troops, has granted a free pardon to prisoners who have served two-thirds of the term of tbeir sentence. The greater

part of the men thus pardoned will, it is stated, enter the array. The commander of the garrison of Ardahan will be tried by conrtmartial. It is stated that a great number of Russian ladies in St. Petersburg have pledged themselves neither to wear silk or satin or costly ornaments, nor tb givo balls, not to indulge in other luxuries during the war, but to devote tho money which they would otherwise havo spent upon such objects to the nursing of tho sick and wounded of their countryThe following information with regard to the relations between Russia and Persia reaches Vanity Pair from a reliablo source :— " Some two months since a special envoy was sent by the Czar to the Shah of Persia, for the purposa of indue* ing the latter to enter into, a secret troaty in view of difficulties with the Porte. The reception of the envoy was most cordial, but the Persian Court for some time contented itself with a long and protracted course of what may be termed Oriental diplomacy, which was difficult to mcct v Despite the well-known power of fascination whichj^Muscovite diplomatists, undoubtedly proved a failure. The final reply of the Shah, which bas now been re* received, i 9 a recapitulation of all the previous treaties entered into between Russia and Persia since the time of Peter the Great, in every single case showing, beyond the shadow of a doubt, that they have always ended most disastrously for Persia. The Shah puts theSpiestion in, the most pacific terms, but submits that since the friendship of Russia has alwaya led to suoh unfortunate results, he could not in the face of these facts, accept a treaty, which his own people would most certainly not only protest against, hut even oppose. Under these circumstances,, all he could agree to would be a pledge of strict neutrality ia case of war ; and even that he declines unless some substantial guarantee is given that Russia will respect the state of neutrality.'' Something, like a gun (says Coming Events) has been invented by subconstables Keynau and Patchells, of 1 Waterford, and will (so we are informed), i shortly be brought over to the War Office i for inspection. It consist of forty chambers: of regular rifle 6ize, inclosed in a single cylinder. The chambers can be j simultaneously charged with cartridge, i fired and cleaned out with such rapidity that the weapon fires 890 rounds per minute. The inventors calculate that if 10,000 men were armed with 1666 of these, guns, they would fire 1.332.800 shots per minute; whilst if 100,000 men" were armed with the Martini-Henry rifle, they , would not fire more than 1,206,000 per ■ minute, Iv other words, RXOOO men, , armed with 1666; of the " Irresistible Guns," as they are called, would be I equivalent to 100,000 men.each provided; with tie ordinary British, rifle. The gun , is budt on wheels, and is cased with, j bullet-proof steel ;. and in case of retreat ! the men could still fire about 800. shots i per minute.