General News.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XL, Issue 7918, 26 September 1904, Page 7

General News.

There was rscently, printed a atate.ment emanatiog flop) Esris, that General Kuroki, of the Japanese army, is half French. General Kuroki'o nephew, Josako Oshima, a student at the Berlin Teohnical University, has now writtoo a .letter to the Tageblatt correoting this (story. Oahima says General Karoki's rfather .was a Polish nobleman named ;Kurowski, who, after the ,revolulionr in 1821, fled from Russia, and after being in the Dntoh service in Borneo, settled •down in Japan, where 'ha married a |Japanese woman, '.On-.->his, deathbed, Oshima" adds, the father of General Kuroki charged his^son to: avenge the IwVonga of Poland upon Ruaasa. This, if. true, is indeed a' very piquant bit of 'romance. , ~.■■■•'..

: The British footballers, who are proceeding home via Canada," are evidently out to make the most of their visit to the Antipodes. They came out to Australia by the Suez route; and have chosen the Vancouver route, throunh Canada and the United States, for the return journey, so that by the time they reach Home again they will have seen as much 6f both worlds—the Old end the New— as it is possible to-seß in the round trip.' ■•;--■'!- fy^jetmiS^-^*^,-. *&,/■■;■■<,.

The case of the Glamorgan Coal Company v. the South Wales Miner's Federation, in which a large number of colliery owners in South. Wales claimed about jSIOO.OOD damages from the Federation;in connection with stopping the collieries on certain days, was again before Mr Justice Bigham recently. His lordship, at the previous lengthy hearing some time apo, found in favour of the colliery owners, the damages to be assessed. The tjtal amount which the: Federation would hs*ve to pay was fixed at £57,562. .

A heavy thunderstorm, accompanied by vivid lightning, passed over the Molong district, New South Wales, a few days ago. At-Major Smith's Nandillyan homestead 10 stud ewes, out of a flock oE 50, were struck by the hghtningand killed, their wool being turned almost black.

"I've seen a man on crutches get up a pretty.good rate of speed when he was after beer."—Unkind remark by Mr fiutherford, M.H.E. '

Wisconsin milks more thau a million cows' and turns put 90.000,0001b of cheese per year, says the Breeder's. Gazette. This comes from nearly 2900 cheese factories, all over the State. If this cheese were shipped all at one time, it. would make 3500 cartloads, or 125 trains of 25 cars each.