NEWS IN BRIEF.

Manawatu Times, Volume III, Issue 20, 11 January 1879, Page 3

NEWS IN BRIEF.

■• ViJHr fepnrfpcl thai the Caj'tr'ls'y.ery ill. r y : The, epizootic is btvakin<£out at JVfufhr .#"V '■•■.■ t ,-•■•■ ' ■'• : ;; The Pans Exposition was closed Nor ...jo ___.„...,_ : r. .. '-.'■• „ ' ... There is? a. f mnypmont m JVfexico to ex-' '<end ffee ]wisuf<*htal term to sjx years / ", Wy-^iic ln'fts; is pirhiilinff to m f*terfnm£exfentJu ill sections of Amer rira. v . ;. . „. , f „.. "•:. ' ; • >.■ =. '•'. 'IV report f^ (SWrrent W-fert'ljn I We' Austrian' Em ).ress \|oar-s -a Ja-lse tn/oat of was, . .-, ; . ? /"» : v'Th*"hat.worri bjJNapoUon^f; (Ivrou^iiOtit hi«- Knssiari <fimpaign,owas receiillv *pliltffi-}?s}fmpc*. \ "..'■' : \ ; A terrible -.(ii>pnse, grp tbront,,is vnsjpz m Bpj-k-r County, f ifjefen pereons.djecldfit'iittw / V«' f 'V*i; } . ■;' ' ! -^.-v.:;.^ ■ . Thr* c^mfngisuararcrop m Cuba pro;'w»^s tj; be .iriwHcnt, The estimated \MrM. wfl 1 ren( ; li' yiin/Min tons. | Paii« . has '^oiitriKiitpd 20,000 francs to ydloK f'>v;n- differ***, of, whidi sum Jlar>-liaJ..Alatfalaljon jrave one-fourth. Jho Pnncoss of Wales is. so floaF that «n- fttfl<t f/> -hijre left a v^,V !,« f l imr J^r 'f^C'V'diirirja; h<»r recent visit at PaTTsT .' Jh«44t« Twtj'ii* u-ii« super-

siitsiMis, and bt-iievi-d that wlioevera/iook hands with her over the threshold at parting would speedily die.j "" ~* It is not uncommon for Spanish ladies to posses3a hundred fans. They collect and hoard them— as a German' collect* pipes, as geoligesl hunts after, specimens. iXaylor, a restaurant keeper at H*iniVton, C1 M was attacted and bitten severely by his entire " flock " of ho^s lately, and but for assistance lie would have beenkilled. Margaret Chapmat, wife, of a labouring .(g&a*, has been sent to prisbD^foisereVday.s, from the Dun mow Petty' Ses^oiiH,,f6r stealing wheat, valued Id, •from -a-yivanjing fieid. •-■• ■ On ..Uje of Oct. 23, a frightful (fiirncane swejit alonjg the region between the Atlantic and; AUeghairies, damaging property to the amount of millions. ' It is- said that friafly of the Lancashire millowViers are ibdldng forward to' the time- when -they may be tempted to move their capital and tht'ir machinery abroad, • Lord Beaconsfield has done a rery generous thing. He has sent kin cheque for IOOiJ ijuiiK'a.s to the survivors of the agonising disaster of the Princess Alice. Mr. J. William Miles, son of the late Sir W, Miles, Bart., has died at Bristol, He sat for Bristol a short time m the Conservative interest m 18158. • . Colonel Henderson has issued a notice m London, warning publicans that all CiYristinas draws for geese, &«., are illegal, and that offenders will bp p-o. secuted. A destructive prairie fire has traversed from sixteen to twenty counties m Uikota, but woeii Jim river and the Misr soun river, The destruction of property is large. ' A man named Clapham. of Tailor^ lane, near Bchon, who was bitten three months ago by a dog, has just died m great agony fioai hydrophobia. Owing to the depression of trade, Messrs John Rider and Co., the Clyde* shipbuilding fii'in, have ■ resolved on a large lvduction m labour, and it. is stated that 1,200 men will be discharged. The Ainericau Arctic: exploring ship Priiu'^fowu has returned to New ifork m a leaky state, without prorisions.aiul her crew e.\-|ja.ii.sted. Ti^e men suffered great distress during j their explora^ tions. • Messrs. John Elder and Co.» at Q- »>an, Glasg >w, owul' a of the Lie go-it shipbuilding yard iv So >tland, employing three tlioustihd n^n, have reduced the., .working hours from iifty^oiie to forty- five per yeek. It is understood th^t the Bishops have cQuie to that iv future licences shall not be aranted for the marriage, according torhe rites of the Church of England, of divorced }m* sons. j A panic has been created at Odessa by the di-soovery that the cashier of the Odessa Bank of Commerce had appro* priated G5,000 roubles, and stock to the amount of Ui),(JQ ; ) roubles. Vienna has 200,000 .fews. The.lead' ing banks, business houses, newspapers, hotels, and restaurants }>re controlled b}'' them. The prettiest w^omen m the city are said to be Jewesses. - The name of the inventor of "the lumir nous watchidial is Mfiiitg. His employer M. Hu-sspr, of Chaux de Fonds, Geneva, has already) received lapge orders for watches on this system. The Italian, Minister of Public. -Instruction is about to name, a.t'auimission to undertake t-lie translation of the ashes of the great composer, Uo.ssini, .f.i'oinParis to the Church ofi Santa Croce at Florence, [ About 14,000 telephones, says the Polytechnic Ifeoieio, has been intro•ducod Into the United 1 States up to the close of year's"ld/7, aiid the manufact■'urers are rejieiviiig. Orders at the ra.te of •abootril thousand a month, . Ari artesian 32{>Oft deep has been Jip.re'd'iii Pesth; Hungary. It is the deepest m the wor,ld, bfiny nearly twice J.he de^th q| tluVt fn Paris.' "Et sentts* rt p a jet of nearly boiling water 42ft. hi^h. ... (J.reat act-iyify continues to lie Wisinifest m Vesuvius^, and volumes of lava are 'projected' to, a height of 100 yards above the' new crater, aceoiftpariied by loud esplo.sions. Hosvever/'uo flames are as yet visible. •M. : Le G-ualctv a Jersey farmer, and John LnaYv his dampstio ser\ f a' tit," Were -UUled-by theiex'pldsion o£ the boiler- of a sjeam, tlireshing machine, their Ucdie^ being dreadfully 'mangled, and a youth •'wa'^'dangero^^ly-injtired, A site has,' says tqe British MeMeai Journal, been secured for erecting' a "crematorium near London by the ■ Crema-tion-Socit'ty been instructing to erect upon it a pyi'e' bf*the kind; designed^ by Gori'ii^antiftiow m lise at Mil^n,. • .^JovernQr- E(enne&s|y has received ffbm /IVJiv Bililios, a director .of th^e Houy -Kong and Shanghai Ba\ik> f.fu» sum' of '£1000 for the erection of V-stStuq \6: the Earl ef BearOTi^Serdat^ngK^Mj,