NEWS IN BRIEF.

Manawatu Times, Volume III, Issue 9, 23 November 1878, Page 3

NEWS IN BRIEF.

The Empress of Austria wears a train SO feet long. . Six hundred Mormons left Liverpool'recently for Ifew York. President M'Mabon has pardoned or commuted the sentences of 80 Communists. Garobetta is making a political tour m Fnmce, and bat been enthusiastically received m Lyons and pther towns. A gold nugget; weighing 107 ounces, has been found at Soke wood, New South Wales. ■ ■ •' j At Phosnix, New York, recently, Robert Corvella, a trapese performer, fell fifty feet from a balloon, and was killed. Tbe editor of the Bohapartist journal, Le Pays, has been fined £60 and imprisonment for three months for insulting President MocMahon. Miss Tapitha A. Hotlon is the first woman ever addmitted to the bar m North Carolina. She is the daughter of a clergyman, and but 22 years of age. Prince Bismarck's daughter, the Countess Marie, hat been betrothed to Count RantsW. -. :" "/■'■■ '-'■'-: Ay-'-The largest flour mill m the world is being built at Niagara Fails. Its capacity will be about 1200 barrels per day. Mrs Dixon, an inhabitant of Silsden, -Torkshire, England, has just died of excessive joy at the return of her son from America, where he hod been for nine years. : Germany and Italy hove tent identical instruction, to their naval commanders relative to action against Chinese pirates. They say that"when a Chinaman accumuUtes five hundred dollars he is a rich man, goes back te! China, and lives altfe of pampered luxuxy. If he should happen" to tunass a foil thousand, however, he it considered a bloated capitalist/ The success of wholesale heating by Steam at Lockport, X, T., were during last winter a large section of the city was comfortably warmed by steam distributed through street pipes, has hsd to the formation of a company with a big capital for the introduction of the tyttem m New Yorkcity--. '''•'■ '- V :",■■-•."'■" ;V :' ■ The Italian Consul at Tangiert has telegraphed repeatedly that the situation there is intolerable. The British Consulate and Italy will probably send a man-of-war to /Tangier.. A coloured preacher m Norwich a while ago gave out the following announcement ; *' Brothers and sister-, next Sunday, the Lord willing, there will be baptising m this {>lace, the candidates being four adults and hree adultresses." The buHrfigh ting season it over at Madrid. There were 13 performances— four poor, four passable, two good, and three very good— and 90 bulls V and 1« horses were killed, 11 other hones recovering from their wounds. The tale of Queen Isabella's jewels yielded £14,435,426, to be exact. The celebrated diadem was. broken, and the fcrilliants were sold by weight to Mdme. Clone, widow of the gambler-king of Monaco, for £6664. • So perfect were the Egyptians m the manufacture of perfumes, that some of their ancient ointment, preserved, iii an alabaster vase m the Museum at Alnwick, still retains a very powerful odour, though it must between 2000 and 8900 years old. , Thus far Chicago has contributed about £12,000 to the yellow-fever fund j Botton hat given jB9O0O; New York, £42,4000 ; Philadephia, £14,200 ; St. Louis, £10,000 j end other large cities have contributed similar sums. - •' I