NEWS IN BRIEF.

Manawatu Times, Volume III, Issue 5, 9 November 1878, Page 3

NEWS IN BRIEF.

of Sef ton in the Derby, '■fow&&t*irto^iiiaa. £21,000, Mr " Pay^e v and Captain Arthur Paget £4000. The "American Agrictilturist " states that 40,000 trees have been planted m avenues and streets of : Washington gome thirty kinds being used, '. A society has been formed m London called the Sunday School Union, to provide the means of spending Sunday evening m an intellectual and social manner, Tlie gatherings are to take the shape of cbnversaaoßes. The latest -reports indicate that the Antonelli • estate 'is not worth over £240,000, instead of £400^000 which has heretofore been supposed to be its value. Queen Victoria's new saloon railway ear is one of the most beautiful of Us Irind ever built, as niay well be imagined from the fact that its construction and fittings cost over £6000. - A failure " of tremendous magnitude has taken -place v m London— -that ©£ Cobett and ; M'Elpmont, builders and contractors^ for no less a sum than £1,300,000. T | According to the latest newspapers from the United States, Mr Moody, the evangelist; is sufferihgfrom over-strain, and it is said that his nervous system has received a shock which will necessitate rest for, some time to . come- ',-."• There is a keen competition between two lines of steamers running • from. Glasgow to Dublin, and the fares have been reduced to 2s 6d for each jour- . »ey. ".--- At Martin's Bay 17,250 acres of land are to be declared into hundreds under, the provisions of the Land Act, 1877;. At Cooktown a pitched battle -has taken place between- the Europeans and 1300 Chinese at a new rush. Several were killed and- wounded. The finding of big nuggets is a very Tare event nowadays. "A man named' Betts lately found one at Bunihyong, weighing 2563J0z; - . '"' . • Ex-Ganpn Mouls, a Belgian mesmerist of some notoriety^ has just died of consumption at Chapelle les Her-, laimonk He leaves all his property to Mme. Cambier, a somnambulist and clairyoyante.: • The future Duchess of CoanaughA . trill receive £10,000 for her. do«ry.. Edison, the inventor, has two sons named " Dot " and **Dash, " after the two characters of the Morse telegraphic alphabet.* Madame Bonaparte of Baltimore, who is about 96: years old, ; : is m the enjoyment of f air^health,. haying recently afccovered" from a severe attack ©£ illness -'.>■'. \' . Jeff Davis is the poundmasfcer at3)ubnque, lowa, and the \" Times "-' Of that ; city calls him, "a superstitious, conceited, cheeky American of African* descent." '-■'.■ Marshal Bazaine is living m- Spain m very embarrassed circumstance; He has appealed for aid ta all oT^hiiS; old eomradesancludmg President M'Mahon hut m vain..'!The lady whom M. Rochefort has \v|*%t married is of German, extraction, "' and is 'described as having literary faster and talents. She is twenty-one of age. Paul de Cassanac, the pugnacious Bonapartist editor m Paris, will soon marry a niece ©f the Ifcte ©ferdb^ Antcnell.u. A proposition. has been made to Pittsburg,. Pennsylvania, to light the entire, city by means of three large lights placed on elevations. Pine-tree seeds should he sown at the en#o£ - September or beginning ot October,. The ybung plasts. should he feto another hjed-ipA^riL^:" ;. h A -train of nine cars loaded With i&re oystetSiis the shell .has ibeea sent frdm "New York to San Francisco, where they a*e to be planted.. It isiestimatedthat on Ailsa Craig,. Ayrshire, there are 10,000 ganneters and that- thev feathered inhabitants of this rock i consume^6o,ooo herrings a day, l,m)&Xn herrfings;; a month,, or 21,600,000 herrings iyeaa:.. Said the Kaiser to Dr Langerbech, vrlicn he was examining his head just after being shot,. " My dear Langerhech my hair will not inconvenience you> very Jmuch: there isa't m*ch of it left sow."' The morganatic wife of the King of: Holland sang and. played Violetts m "Taviata,"at the Kaliens m Paris recently, while her. royal lover, power-, less to prevent it, famed and fretted, m" a stage box. Miss Hal!,, the daughter of an Englishman m practice at Paris as a French advocate, has successfully passed her second examination at the Sorbonno. This entitles Miss Hall to the Univcrsily diploma: of Bachelor- of Arts (Bachelier des Eettres)i' The growth of New York has obsorbed nearly 100 farms, which m the beginning of the present century trere under cultivation or m pasture. Rev Walter Bullock of Foulkbourn, a retired clergyman, has died from drihktag a poisQneus lotion by mistake..