GENERAL NEWS.

New Zealand Times, Volume XXX, Issue 4455, 30 June 1875, Page 3

GENERAL NEWS.

Mr. L. Alma Tadema has just completed a very remarkable work. It is in three compartments, and is entitled “ The Tragedy of an Honest Wife.” The Rev. Lord Francis Godolphin Osborne, rector of Great Elm, near Fromo, has been received into the Church of Rome by the Bishop of Clifton. It has been decided to provide a new Bishop’s throne in the choir of Salisbury Cathedral, at a cost of £BOO, to be raised by the subscriptions of the clergy ordained by Bishop Moberly and his two predecessors. Two items of news come from Constantinople. The deficit of the past financial year has been definitely ascertained to amount to £5,000,000 ; and the Hussein Pacha has been dismissed from the post of Grand Vizier. The employing printei-s of Washington city, U.S., held a meeting on the night of May 4, and agi-oed to submit a proposition to the Typographical Union to reduce the price of composition from sixty to fifty cents, per one thousand ems for piece work ; §24 a week for work of ten hom-s a day, or §2O a week for eight hours. The pi-ice now paid is $24 per week for eight hours a day. At a meeting of the St. Asaph guardians, the chairman called the attention of the board to the following rather remarkable entry in the workhouse master’s book :—“Elizabeth Morris left a few days ago to get married, after twenty years residence in the workhouse.” This highly amused the guardians, who inquired who the courageous bridegroom was, and the master informed them that he had been in the workhouse temporarily some months ago, became enamored of Elizabeth,then left the house, and is now working in Llanberris quarry, and earning 245. weekly.