News of The World.

Manawatu Standard, Volume 4, Issue 121, 28 April 1883, Page 3

News of The World.

A very bare-faced case of robbing children of their clothes occurred at Aucko land last week. A girl about fourteen years old took a couple of children to the Catholic Cemetery and stripped them naked* being caught m the act of spoliation by a search party which the distracted fsther had gone out with. The unblush* idg effrontery of the girl maybe imagined frim the'^fact thafabe persistently asserted that the children were her sisters, and that she had a right to do what she liked \rith ; them. ( The ; girl ;was; given into enstoay of the police, but singularly enough, the authorities decided that it. was not their, duty to prosecute, and thai proceed* inga must' be m the fo;m of a summons.. Unfortunately the parent of the children did not feel inclined to prosecute, owing to the expense^ and thus the offender got off. A Berlin telegram* of Feburyjjp m the London Times says;— " According to ; advices jost received at the 'Admiralty, two Imperial war: vessel sent from the Austaiian station have inflicted oomdign chastisement ©nthe' natives of the South Sea Island of Lood, one of the Hermit Group, for having, last spring, attacked the German steamer, Freya and Pacific; and killed the captain of the Freya." . The progress made by Druidism since Its establishment m the Colonies, has been something astonishing. In Victoria and New Zealand. last year 18 new lodges have Men opened, making m i all 164 lodges under the jurisdiction of the Grand Lodge of Australia, 2,622 new members were initiatedj which chad, increased the total to 6,848 members with an.aggregate capital of over £33,000, showing a net increase for t^ea* & £6,276. During the, same pSho&'thiß s.u r m of £3,429 Had been ' dis> piiraed'f or. sick pay , for funeral claims, ' 4%035 '} and for surgeons and medicine, £6*061. A peculiar discorery of old silver has been made on,, the estate of Mr John Kae> the Valley/near Springwood, on the Blue Mountains, Australia. , A pig, rooting m a paddock near the homestead, brought Rome old coins to view, and by a very brief searcttiabout the spot a dozen were found, the oldest bearing date 1804, the moat recant4B26. There are among tnem Spanish dollars, bearing the heads of Carolos and Ferdinand; also, one of those rare old ooins known m early, colonial days as the " holey dollar," from which the dnmps w«re cut, a five.ahilling, dollar of the Bank of England, and four lion shillings, date 1826; also, two Indian coins m an excellent state of preservation/ The dates on the shillings would seem to indicate that they had remained buried for about 50 years. The body of the old .sea dog Francis Drake, enclosed m a leaden coffin, was dropped into the sea off ; Puerto Cabello, m the West Indies. The British squad* ron on fa& r N orth American station are atfoufr to visit the 1 place, and Tice- Admiral Sir John Oommerell is said to have taken tip a suggestion that an attempt should be made to recover the remains. A Southern paper remarks :— Archi* bald,,Fpr bea made, a pile by lecturing, and was banquetted m Dunedin ; Maccabe, the showwman^af ter a most remunerative ■easen m the same town, received similar honour; Not bad 'to cater for public amusement m Otago if you happen to be a Scotchman. Competitions between harvesters of various kinds have been held m various parts .Jn most instances i the favourite machine was Hornby's light draught string binder. Others entered .were Wood's, McOormack's, the Osborne, and aurambef o£ strippers; : A cwipuspccurrence of events happened (cays the Maryborough Advertiser) m the fSn^yiffißieiat'e'Mr. SHiittleworth, of Oraigie. On the day ; of his death one daughter gayebirtbttoa child, and another daughter was married. The latter was litlnTf^BiiHaratf and waa riot aware at the time of her. father's illness, which was of short 'duration.' ' The Chief. .Commissioner of Police m Victoria is opposed to the police having the franchise. ♦jPnjthe West Coast a few , days ago a man m crackibg his whip .dislocated his arm at the shoulder. . '. . ' . TH^ drapers of Nelson announce that m future they will observe every Thursday as a half holiday . Complaints are > being made by 1 -the public about havir.g to ride m sheep and cattle trucks on the Victorian railways. The Dominion of Canada is the biggest British dependency, : Western Aub« tralia second, and South Australia third.