ENGLISH ITEMS.

North Otago Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 1929, 3 July 1878, Page 2

ENGLISH ITEMS.

Before long we art' to have another Royal Marriage. The Duke of Conn aught is to he betrothed to the Princess Louise, the third daughter of Prince Frederick Charles, of Piussin. The ceremony of betrothal i« to take placo nt Darmstadt. A very great und most serious blow hai fallen upon the Church in England by the death of the Bishop of Lichfk-ld. To ninny of your readeri, too, in New Zealand, the news will be received with regrot. Since he resigned his first see in the Southern Hemisphere, he lihs devoted all his pown and energy to work in his very Inrge nnd thickly populated diocese. In work among the collii>rs in the Black Country he found ,nn opportunity for exu-tiug that energy nnd dovotion which had distinguished his work among the Maoris. Such a man enn very ill he spared at this most ciitical point in the history of the Church, and his successor, the Rev. J. Maclauan, late Vicnr of Kensington, will have a hard task to fill the position of so great and deservorlly beloved a Bishop as the late Bishop Selwyn. In literature thoro is not much of any very groat interest to ohroniolo. Magazine literature seems to still maintain its popularity, and continually wo find now periodicals boing started. The last to spring into life is a weekly journal called "Piccadilly." It is to bo managed entirely by li'dies. The private view of the Royal Academy took place on Friday, 3rd May, but any attempt to give an account of its contents in tho very limited space now loft to mo would bo absurd, so I must postpono it until next month. The Grosvenor Gallery is certainly quite up to any of it* prodocosBors. By some it may bo looked upon as a ikrnhr resort for those who aro unfornate enough to be refusod at the Academy, but still it contains very many pictures of great intrinsic worth. Mr Holmnii Hunt has just returned from the Holy Land, nnd has brought with him a lar#o Knd important picture entitled "The Flight into Egypt." Tho picture is remarkable for tho individuality of its treatment, and is considered to be quite worthy of tho printer of tho " Scapegoat," which wps certainly tho most original of tho pictures of its timo. The now picture is not quite finished, but it is so far advanced that Mr Hunt expect* to finish it before his return to Jerusalem, which in to take place before tho end of Juno. Before tho next mail leaves it is probable that English politics will havo resolved themselves one way or tho other. Either we shall be at war or again peaceful rolations will be established. Which it is to bo no one can ponsihly toll at the present moment.

New discovery of gold, n discovery which pi omisos to eclipse and outdo nil previous discoveries, is tlmt which has lately been nmdc in the great restorer of nick people to sound health. "Giiom.ah's (iur.A'i Indian Cuhkh " is beyond all questioning the most marvellous dincovciy ; for health io more than gold," and by the uho of these meritorious medicines not only can health bo maintained, but persons laid aside by sickness of many years duration arc restored to health, and Biiatched fioni tho jaws of dcatli.