NEWS IN BRIEF.

Kumara Times, Issue 2960, 27 April 1886, Page 3

NEWS IN BRIEF.

There are over one hundred thousand paupers in London. Among 102,000 shareholders of the Panama Canal Company are 16,000 women. A white goiilla is on view at the Eoyal Aquarium at Westminster, England. Henry Terbush, of Huron, H.Y., butchered a hog recently which weighed 710 pounds. By next spring Italy will be able to place 800,000 men at a war footing in thirty days. Ten thousand unlicensed dogs have been destroyed in London at the Dogs’ Home alone since the hydrophobia scare began a few weeks ago. Austria is taking stops to swell her army to 2,200,000 men, counting all

reserves, and Russia is preparing to meet the Hapsburg Empire at all

points. It took a solid column of the smallest type in the Liverpool Post, to enumerate the several hundred wedding presents sent to Miss Mary Gladstone. Claims for damages exceeding £IOO,OOO are already filed, or prepared for filing, in the United States, on account of the maltreatment of the Chinese. The Welsh communities of the United States are talking of taking up 10,000 acres in one locality, and buying adjacent lands, for the purpose of establishing a monster colony. The Russian Ambassador in Constantinople has urged the payment of the war indemnity. The Porte is said to have sold stores of corn in order to obtain money for the payment of the instalment due in March.