NEWS IN BRIEF.

Manawatu Times, Volume III, Issue 25, 25 January 1879, Page 3

NEWS IN BRIEF.

' " Vesuvius .continues increasing inacti- ' Sfitj. -.■• ■■/'-■=■-'. Cruikshank illustrated 113 works m ■BOyelarf. * Jkrupp.since 1847 made over 15,000 ;„_riona; v ' """'" Th*ehte£, street of Amsterdam is tailed Kalver straat (Calf street). XA'Tht English, army authoriri-js are or--Sering Spanisn mules for their bat"teiier ..:■/.'.' ' ... ,Tfie stsamer Eurydice will never float mnain.i for she isbeing broken up. The-^legrapljW'cabi'e' between France . and Corsica "has been successfully laid. y .'There it a,rumour That Mr. Walter '»_the'_o_^^ be raised to 'j^'tpemgeiv.;,.."' ' ... "... , "'- • '. ,;^;ai^nd;phineße mission has left C"hiria accredited to the United. States, 'tfjpaifai and Peru. - : yl'SMii. Tic*'", .crop of America is .'the .. largest for^irirtwelve years, and .will Bpm^cK barrels. ;^ 1 "3:rfloi--e^4ro-^^^^ persons * at (^■^inigha and Millisimo. > .' j^ej^nicipality pf ■Paris buys 35,0d0 year", .; . are u.«ed for v "JU^IHJ l f^. e J*!*'^_«.of the great, capital. '■:. An _Au»'tnan .Catholic ha.*} been»cpnverted tp ;Bud3hisn>.'*Mr^Si^ is eaid }os>o a sripririrschoijar, knd of fare att^ihmerit^iri literaturer sbienee and MrtX'-iA' -A '-,- -Ay.:- f ' "~ '" TWJWwlTorifc fytiune :sft.ys : — Tolal . ferer^ It is estimated thai \ t^e_people ,£re*" 'losers ;of _ai,ooo,ooo "iii •iM^sequence of this visitatioA of the yellow, fever. k " I *■■■ • Tte,%:v.M;r.G. D.^'Kay, one -of the inißßionarieß ~pf ' the "Bresby.e.rJAii Church -ata" Honed at ; Epriimsa, Chineu Has m_rried a Chinese girl, Miss Ciiang^ 1 X-: JyX 'J '" " L ~ t At HfitrtJe.pool* a man" ga*® hi mself to Wret-ra.4- to'jhia regimeijt and pun.shed for desertion. This lis the only way" i """VBielrta"^^ himself as the lfen> to.a fortune of 435,000. The -^Electrician a Bri ish jourria'l devote .tp^elegraphic inte rests£siate T s . that at#»e present time th re elista m •»ork'ujji^bm-** over '62,d00 biles If. sub,v.jnftrih;e^c-^^ 18 coin? ■ panic.i. .'.A; A. ■■■': r: y The. contact. for the New Four per Cent. £ tis-dsn Loan of 60,000,000 marks waa signed -on October 2oth -by the Mini»ter of Finaneev. a«_ by Messrs Eothschild, .Ueiehwier, 4nd N the Digcx>ntp Oesellsßbafti the contractors for tbelbfiir. Notwithstanding Till their talk and fine writing op the imbjtct, the feeling of the Italians with t||e Eastern Christians is not verj- decftr. The subscription m- Italy last year ffor the Servian wounded auioun ted to-^lrancs, 3""orph y^'lias&eon discovered m the -moujit-ains between Cannes and Tbnlon by; a :,con;irae»«r *of public works at Cannes, and as porphyry sells for 2,500 franos-the cubit metro, this discovery will Uo* vi-ritable source of wealth to " thsit ohttrming region. A fresh; flying- machine has-been m. "▼erite"! by-art Oregon electrician,'' "Tlie "fttftehine is egg-shaped, mad-- of ■s'beer-

diameter,, and. is* ta he propelled by electricity produced by a= -generator of •"00 horse-power. The inventor declares that electricity will carry the traveller from N»w York -to San Francisco m 10 minutes. The uhinese population of SanErancisco numbers 32, i X.0,.. classified as follows :— Merchants . and professional wen, looo ; eigar'iiiak;ers,.sooo ; laundry, men, 1000- ssrVririt!-* Zooo; boot and shoe makers, 2ooo ; sligperuiakers. Sob ; gamblers, !4oo;" rrialc^.s of clothing; *Jpdo; pedlars, 25oo; fi-hermen, looo; labourers, looo;. other occupations, y«*-joo ; women, 2000. 'The rage for exhibitions has spread even to Central Asia*.. The latest hews frog_y_."ashkehd states ithat an agricultural rind Industrial exhibition ..-'about to be held there. Great preparations are being made foritatSauiarcand, and the Government has promised gold aud silveruiedals to the exhibitor*} as Well as honorary Kaftans. The magistrates of the village of Awa, Japan, being unable to discover the author of a series of mysterious crimes, opened a poll, inviting every citizen to uanie on his ballot the person whom he thought guilty. One notorious ne'er-do-well was elected as the culprit by a gi-eat majority, aud having confessed his crime was promptly executed. A French steamer of 750 tons, called the Junon, arrived at Gibraltar recently, having started on a/voyage round tne world, which is to occupy I«> month**. *San Francisco, the Sandwich Islands, Fiji, New Caledonia, New Zealand, and the Vustraltan ports are includeu m ihe programme. The. passengers are of various nationalities, but there is not Englishman among them. The Marquis of Lome and Princess Louise sailed from England for Canada on Nov. 14. The steamer Samaritan was chartered to convey the. new Go-vernor-General and _.oy a f consort. The Samaritan was met at **ea by the British North American squadron, now at Queuee, and>eseorieu to.Halifax, where it is now definitely arranged that the Marquis and Princess shall first set foot ou Canadian soil.