NEWS AND NOTES.

Kumara Times, Issue 870, 15 July 1879, Page 4

NEWS AND NOTES.

The Empress of Russia is a confirmed invalid.

The value of the exports of the Victorian manufacturing goods has increased from L 98,746 in 1870, to L 609,920 in 1878. There has been a considerable decrease in the exportation of Victorian candles.

The novelty for the ensuing season will be “ colored dances which, being translated, means dances at which ladies must appear in green, red or whatever colors of the rainbow the hostess choses to appoint. In California it has been enacted that nothing but the English language shall be taught in the primary, grammar, and common schools, and also that no public money shall be granted to sectarian schools.

Statistics have been published showing the good results of the prohibition of puhlicbouses on the Moonta mines, South Australia. Although there is a very large population there, scarcely any drunkenness exists.

The Governors of Australia and New Zealand have received a circular from the Secretary of State to the effect that, should ex-President Grant visit the Colonies, no official honors, but all proper courtesies, should be extended to him. The Pall Mall Gazette states that the Admiralty have issued regulations that all candidates for the naval service, whether officers, men, boys, or marines, must produce a certificate that they are able to swim, or they will be ineligible. Oxford is to follow the example of Cambridge in furnishing rhe means of higher education for women. A ladies’ hall is io be established in Oxford, under the superintendence of Miss Wordsworth, who is to he the first lady principal. The smallest living in the Church of England is that of Shipton, near Ludlow, in the diocese of Hereford, which is valued at L 3 per annum. The present incumbent is the Rev. D. More, who has been in the Church for more than half a century.

Miss Lavinia Gondsell, a Wisconsin young woman, having drawn a bill and procured a passage through the Legislature authorising the admission of women to the Bar on the same terms as men, has been herself admitted, and has conducted several cases successfully. A leader of fashion in San Francisco has had her chairs and sofas, and the cushions of her carriages, stuffed with aromatic herbs, in imitation of a practice prevalent among Oriental nations. It need hardly be said that she lives in an atmosphere of constant perfume. Among the English-speaking people of the world, Episcopalians rank first in number with 14,750,000 ; Methodists are next, with 14,000,000; and then come Roman Catholics, with 13,500,000 ; Presyterians, with 10,000,000; Baptists, with ,000,000 ; Congregationaliats, 7,000,000 ; nd Unitarians, with 1,000,000.