NEWS IN BRIEF.

Manawatu Times, Volume III, Issue 29, 12 February 1879, Page 3

NEWS IN BRIEF.

The French vintage does hot p^omiae very well. j "'•■':. ■- ' .■:&■ ' '■■ ' The first watches were maw at Nuremberg in 1477. The first newspaper advertisements appeared in 1642. ■ '■■■■■ ■ The handsomest woman in Europe is the : Queen of Italy. . . Mr, W. C. Jones, of England,' has given £35,000 for Anglican mission wont in India. \ •:;■■'" ':',..■;;■•■,..'. •";„ ; A ' .. _. The Marquis of LQrne' nod; htaumoreli* stolen before he had been. in Canada/six hbura. | '..- ■'■'■ : '■■_ ■'■,■: ". '■ . \ '■'< '"• ='. The 'census, which h'as jU3t been comV . pletedj'b giyes the .papulatbn;of Japan at" i] TKevking of ■'Buwfaahhas married in^ acr cordance with the !cust6in- of the" country; uhxa own' half ;sister. ■ : . '■•'",'■ : '■ , ;' Bret ! Harte has made arrangements .:; to ' to give a series of lectures in, Londpn, i^4the proviricial towns. ..._.',.;' . i;..^ ., : The yoliiig Duke of Norfolk will sooit «e ; |of ago,' when hef'will erttoy an incom'eof,^3oo,ooo from his Sheffield estate. ; -'Ther* are over 4,000,000i Lathernrl^ in Tlussia. In Finland there. 1.^A000.. In i^land.there; are ■350^000. , ;'- The PrussMa Budget for-1879 show^ a de* : ftirit of some- 50i0.06,000. mark^w^uubt.kj to; 'bpvoo^aictijiy a;fea)iu ; \ „ :, . "

The entire Hebrew Bibl» was printed in 1488. . ■ The first iron steamship was built in 1830. . . . ■ •• • The fir*t- hone railroad was built in 1826-7 Coaches were first used in England in 15G9. ; - >•■-■• Tho King of Belgium will send Stanley to Africa again. '• Since 1&10 Atlantic steamer.* increased speed front eight to fifteen miles per nbuK^ r The Emperor, of Japiin'has adopted his" boy cousin as heir to thethrone of Japan. v . An earthquake at Montefalco, Italy, re ; ' ceritly rendered 143 houses uninhabitable. . Severity million bushels of grain' is annually converted into sprituous liquore in the United States. Cotton is so abundant in Gonzale3 County Texas, that farmers ure giving one half to pickers. A general exhibition of Russian produce is to take place in the First Garden of the Kremlin at Moscow in 1880. The Government of India contemplates the adoption of gold currency, making English gold coins a legal tender throughout the country. The Chinese government sent over' a large party of yoiing men to tho Paris Exhibition. They are said te be persons of great intelligence. An elder of the Established Church of Scotland, who has on former occasions shown his liberality to that Church; has handed over £8000 to its various schemes. By a majority of four vottw, the Bill brought into th'e Chamber by the Greek Government, for calling out the third and fourth class of the military reserves was rejected. , ' A pile of brush containing sumac branches was recently burned near a schoolhouse' in Wolcotville, America, and the wind blowing the smoke into the open windows poisoned the hand and face3 of the pupils and teachers. It is rumoured that on the occasion of her investiture by the Duke of Buckingham with the Imperial Order of the Crown of India,, the Princess of Tunjore will t ! irow off .her gotha veil ami appear in open Dubar. It may. be interesting to state (writes the "Anglo-Australian" inthe European Mtril), that Jim Mace, the ex-pugilistic champion, has two sons who are preachers among the Plymouth Brethern, one of them being a young man of unusual promise and ability. The domestic loan put on the Japanese market last May for £2,500,000 was fully subscribed .for by the middle of July. This was the first attempt of Japan to negotiate a home loan. A lady had her clothes set on fire at Reigate through her "train" sweeping from the pavement a lighted fusee which some heedless smoker had thrown on the ground. A doctor at Madrid has ,bean arrowed for compounding a medicine warranted to preserve human life for 160 years. The Bulgarian journal Bulgarine says that 5000 Bulgarains volunteered to serve in. Afghanistan against the English. ■ Peaches have been sold in the Western States of America for two pence half -penny j a bushel, and grapes for three farthings a pound. A contract has been, signed by a London firm and forwarded to Berlin for the purpose , of raising the German ironclad Grosser Kurfurst, Mrs. Mackey, of Nevada, has become the happy owner of some of the gorgeous jewellery, in tho Paris Expoaicion. She has bought diamonds and sapphires costing £39,000. , The British Government has appointed Colonel'^ Conway Gordon as delegate to the Commission for the demarcation of the southern frontier of JR-juiu ilia. At Cincinnati PetW Muchmeisser beat his his; wife with a flat-iron until he supposed herdead, and then went out and Langed himself. The woman may recover. The German Empress, being favourable to a reconeilation with Rome, is stated to have sent a birthday congratulation to Dr. Forster, the deposed Archbishop of Brealau. All the saloons and liquor shops in Richmond, Virginia, were closed" on fcJuiulay recently for the first time, it is said, , in. the memory of the oldest citizen. It is regarded as a triumph of Puritanism. .. ..The Vatican has. entrusted to the Algerian Catholic Mi «ion the creation of two stations in Gentral Africa — ono on Lake Tanganyika, ; the other on Lakes Victoria and Albert Nyanza. If General Ignatieff (as it seems he will) declines the new Bulgarian throne, Prince Dondoukoff, the Russian Governor of the country, will.probably be. elected Prince , of . Bulgaria. -'■ The; German lodges celebrated the 25th anniversary of the German Crown Prince's S" ining the Freemasons' League on Nov. 5. is Imperial Highness holds the dignity of Grand Master. . IttvOonclave of professors of the Belgrads University has decided that the Ru ssian language, shall not be compulsory for students of all classes,. but only for those studying philosophy;. - . -