BRIEF ITEMS.

Manawatu Herald, Volume III, Issue 39, 14 January 1881, Page 4

BRIEF ITEMS.

_♦ "If you shoot my dog I'll shoot you," said Van Huron to Hunt, at Tuscola, TU. The dog arid Hunt in a , minute lay dead on the ground If, Emigration from the Neapolitan r provinces co America was never so great as at present; the streets of Naples aro encumbered with peasants waiting for transportation across the Atlantic. Ostriches were sold at Grahamstown at prices ranging from £Q6 10s to £121. A death from the use of chloroform during a dental operation has happenenedin Liverpool. Thb debt of Italy is now nearly dollars, yet a Rome journal reports that " Baron Rothschild speaks encouragingly of our finances l" Garibaldi is to return again lo the Italian Chambers. Of the last lots of Mormons embarking from Liverpool and Glasgow for Utah, 1,000 have heen Welsh miners. Taking 150 criminals, the proportion of single to 'married IS about t«co to one. The Irish land agitation is more vigorously guppor ed by the English than the Irish Press Bancroft, the American historian, celebrated his 80th birthday Jately. The wife of a wealthy Boston sugar refiner was caught stealing a lace shawl in a store, though her wallet was, crammed full of money, and her husband permitted her to spend all ahe wanted to. Spain, with only 17,000,000 of inhabitants, turns out yearly twice as much wheat as does Italy w'ufa 28,000,000 of inhabitants Lord Beaconsfield has returned 20 per cent, of their rents for the past year to hia Hughenden tenants. A girl was frightened to death by a dream, at West Chester, Pa. She was recovering from typhoid fever, and was so weak that awakening in tirror, the violent action of her heart proved instantly fatal. P. 8. — How do they know this ? Garibaldi says that 1 60.00 0d01a a day could be saved by cutting down f -^.ltalian arm y to 100,000 He looks f>r nothing good ftum the present Ministry and Parliament, however. Tbe latest official returns show that in New South Wales there are 37,557 stockholders, who own 360.038 horses, 2,014,210 horned oattle, 29,043,392 sheep, and 2 56,026 pigs. . . During last year, 200 miners at Lithgow raised 1000 tons of iron, which Are -Worth £1 0,000. The RilSsians have now an enormous force in the Pacifio waters, and next spring will be able, if the negotiations fail, to present an ultimatum to China. : It has been computed that tbe dresses worn by the ladies at the lato Melbourne races coufi one million pound* serling. During last year 394,60 -.'yunoes of gold were received at tae , Sydney mint, and the preceding ytar supplied 365,173 ounces. Telegramsyfrom Durban report that iWEom t skQ yewntly Centered' Natal and opposed the' advance of British troops, have re-crossed the border into the Transvaal, and have ;4 ftttaekiyL the British, garrison at. Wm&afroam.l i(A .staoig. AWfonc* ppr** offered, *nd the enemy wees sb- ' pulsed With conatf eWda* loss. - -■■»■ ' .Am. **■■■■