GENERAL NEWS.

New Zealand Times, Volume XXX, Issue 4434, 5 June 1875, Page 3

GENERAL NEWS.

The complaint is pretty general at Constantinople of the continued interference of. Austria, Germany, and Russia in questions between the Turkish Government and the Principalities. Left to herself, it is maintained that Turkey would arrange her domestic affairs and her differences with the Vassal States. Yet on the slightest pretext the three Powers step in and create much difficulty. At the annual spring exhibition of pictures in the galleries of Messrs. Thomas Agnew and Sons, Manchester, among other attractions were four works of Millais. One, " The North-west Passage," has already been sold to Mr. Bolckow for 4500 guineas. The companions, "Winter Fuel" and " Scotch Firs," were sold to a London gentleman for 7000 guineas. A fourth picture, "The Gambler's Wife," has not yet found a purchaser. It is priced in the catalogue at 1000 guineas. In his pastoral Cardinal Cullen speaks of Messrs. Moody and Sankey as itinerant preachers or singers, who have endeavored in Ireland to do away with all good works and the necessity of baptism, promising to save men by leaning on the Lord, and by a foolish sensationalism, without requiring of them to be sorry for their sins. At the Mansion House, London, Henry Dobson, the boatswain of the ill-fated La Plata, and one of the men picked up on the raft, was charged with having deserted from the Koyal Horse Artillery two years ago. He admitted the fact, and was allowed to go home with his brother until he is sufficiently recovered from his very serious injuries. A Denver (Colorado) paper notes the return to that city of Miss Mattio Gaylord, of Boston, " the great tourist of the North-west and the Pacific coast," and says :—-' Five years ago she and her sister made this eity their initial point of departure for a wonderful journey of 13,000 miles, which they accomplished with their own carriage, visiting every camp, settlement, village, and city in the territories and on the Pacific coast; Miss Gaylord is now en route to Australia, where she will spend the next two years in a similar journey." At the last Prussian census, there were found to be living in Berlin 12,251 persons who wero born before the end "of the last century. Among them, 3 men and 6 women were 91 years old ; 4 men and 9 women, 92 years; 1 man and 5 women, 98 years ; 10 persons were 94 years of age ; 4 women wero 98 years old; 2 men and 2 women, 97 ; one man 98 ; one woman, 99 ; and another woman,

101. Of the persons between 90 and 100 years of age, 5 were, unmarried, 5 married, 57 widowed, and 1 divorced. A widow named TCajelsky died on February 10 at Kamionken, uearLotzen, at the age of 103. She is said to have been extraordinarily active even in her hundredth year. A man died a fortnight ago at the age of 105 at.Horzitz, in Bohemia.— British Medical Journal.