MAIL CLIPPINGS.

Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume VI, Issue 315, 12 March 1875, Page 3

MAIL CLIPPINGS.

(From Dunedin files.)

Mr. Tennyson is to be made a BaronetThe Empress Eugenie is-dying of consumption. " '

Brigham Young is preparing for : another bride whose name, his enemies say, is Death.

The Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath has been offered to Mr. Carlyle. .Several of the New York papers are calling for the impeachment of Grant. Dargaville has retired from the Auckland Superintendency contest but he contest City West. The whalers Dagoda and California have arrived at Russell Auckland with 300 and 900 barrels of sperm oil:

Mr. W. E. Forster is announced as the successor to Mr. Gladstone as the Liberal leader.

A French Act has been drafted authorisng a Government concession for the construction of a submarine railway tunnel between France and England,

The King of the Sandwich Islands has secured his million loan without New Zealand assistance.

T he ' New York World ' gives some of the results of the calculation? based upon the observations of transit of Venus. It that the distance now estimated is 88,44-3.726 miles, or three or.four millions closer than the last computations showed. According to the same ratio, in 1,447 years the earth will fall into the sun As motion probably accelerates thespeed, less time is likely to elapse.