NEWS AND NOTES

Kumara Times, Issue 842, 12 June 1879, Page 4

NEWS AND NOTES

Prosecutions of eight Internationalists for conspiracy against the safety of the State have commenced at Florence. The electric light has been found a valuable accessory for surgical operations, in dull weather and after dark, but it is also an expensive one. An English missionary named Penrose is supposed to have been murdered with his entire party by the natives in the region of Victoria Nyanza. At a poultry show in Birmingham. England, L2O each were given for light brahmas and silver-lace bantams, Ll 5 for a Houdan hen, and L 9 for a dark dorking. Numbers of Socialists are being arrested in Austria, where house-to-house visitations are being made, and confiscations of Socialistic pamphlets wherever they are to be found. A proposition has been placed before the Victorian public for the construction the canal with tributaries through the south-western districts, solely for irrigaIt is understood that the experiment of illuminating the reading-room of the British M useum with electric light has proved so laras is yet ascertained, perfectly succesful Another handsome young actor has attracted the amorous attentions of a titled dame, and the result will shortly be brought before Sir James Hannen in theDivorce Court. Messrs. John Bright and Brothers are now wrking the telephone between their warehuse in Spring Gardens, Manchester, ad their works at Rochdale, a dis. tanceof 15 miles. Anopinion is afloat that the late Duke of Newcastle met his death by an overdose of homoepathic medicine. Several of his friends were in favor of a post-mortem examination. Mr Mudford, who was made the irremovable editor of the London Standard by the will of the late proprietor, was a few years ago a reporter in the gallery of the House of Commons. The Saturday Review, in {a notice of Smith’s life of Cobbei, says that Gobbet was the one original Socialist of his day, just as Mr Disraeli was the one Tory who could educate his party. Telephonic exchanges are being started in all the principle American cities. Each telephone costs 4s 6d, and each subscriber pays a rental of from 9a to 13s 6d per month. The people in the interior of Bolivia are suffering from famine, and an Oruro correspondent of the South Pacific Times says that the people have been dying of starvation in large numbers. The London Times says there can be no doubt about the certainly and value of Crookes’ discovery of the ultra-gaseousf state of matter when the number o molecules are reduced in the radiometer For nine years the number o r iron-built ships fluctuated between 300 and 480 ; but in the last two or three years it has passed the previous maximum, and last year 454 iron vessels were built. The English pictures sent to the Paris Exhibition, and insured against risk of all kinds for L 200,000, have all been safely returned to their owners, save one, which was slightly injured. Mrs Scott Siddons, who, at last accounts, was in Canada, visited Ottawa, the seat of Government, and gave a performance, at which the Princess Louise and the Governor-General were present. The London Tablet of April 19 states that Father Geo Harold, P.P. of Wicklow, has been named to the Catholic *wwprio of AtjcWand. - )