NEWS IN BRIEF.

Manawatu Times, Volume III, Issue 94, 4 September 1878, Page 3

NEWS IN BRIEF.

The Jap* are a great fish-eating folk, and raw' <nish eating; is quire common. Men are now smoking" tar. excess,. /^Gbioh is pouibly a reaction on the lowLal persecutioniriwitli which: tobacco waao long ; visited. —.-■'■-.'" i^sbcwklng/inurdcri?; supposed tohave been prepared in.Dinmore Wood, near Hereford, where the (bod y of: a; young woman has been discovered, so much/ decomposed^ as, to be f:unre:Ji ;>.'.;':'■ -'■"•■i/: - 3/Vjc^pd ashes, haya been used, instead of soap, hitherto m Japon. . ' VY^i .Duplex-telegraphing has been adopted by the cable companies. ; :i t- v. ;<f£J The Mario concert given at St James' Hall produced no less than £1250, including a donation of 100 guineas from M^Sijtns Beeves, ;. ; -.- •',/ .- T .--,-. ..-. r . , ,- .- There are a score of offices m London which do no other business except preparing and transmitting circulars for An assooiatioa hat been established m London for the sale of ladies' dresses of all k : ids on the principle of then eooperatire societios.. The buildings ' mv- . ciude a.refreshjnent and- . waiting -.room for ladies. , .f' L ...... - ' . ' lady m America recently gave a party, and appeared before her guost» m paper] garments to show that she could dress well atacost of four shillings., , .-•.,,., In (England tha^late liord Clarendon was,ihe n^rstjMinister who T was a,- great habitual smoker, but hb example has not been followed by. Lord ißeaconsfield or Mr Gladstone. TrinceKamarck, on the other liandj transacts most of his official A bujdness with a cigar m his youth. ■ '"' ;■ , ;-y- '■-'- "■' *■-.-- -t The Bussians; are loathed by the Bulgarians, r who willS seize; the .first j opportunity to shake them off . ' V . Paris has <jver 76,000 housesl : '- '.^' T ' Tk&ff Lancet * ? advocates the imttoßiat«>appoinitn>nt of a<Royal Commission to inquire into. &c supject of Taccination. . "' "\ f^eaijeeely w monarch m Europe during tho/last nenety yearthas been) allowed t%reign long without having his days Miss emma How,son.has appeared m opera m London; : "' " t ~ ... Tfhe' - revolutionary Hprpsjle^ts 2i fo» 0 &e »nmTn«»r tpnwoii^iihiißf^xico'inay be de■eribed at fairly go#d. ■-'■'■ ~-