GENERAL NEWS.

New Zealand Times, Volume XXX, Issue 4475, 23 July 1875, Page 3

GENERAL NEWS.

The lie v. Mr. Stubben, vicar of Maston Lordship, Yorkshire, has committed suicide at Brighton by hanging himself. Fines of £5 have been imposed at Fardingbridge, near Southampton, on two gamekeepers who had cruelly ill-treated a dog by pouring turpentine on it and setting it on fire. The North German Gazette is informed from Asia Minor, that the Order of Jesuits is there making great efforts to widen its sphere of action by founding new establishments, schools, and churches. At Boyrout alone the order has acquired no less than twenty sites, which are about to be built upon. The question of instruction in signalling in the army has been taken up seriously by the Horse Guards. It is said that the Duke of Cambridge has decided upon establishing at Aldershot a school for the training of officer j instructors and sergeant instructors in signalling. On the 31st of March, 1873, the number of registered newspapers existing in India amounted to 478 ; during the past year 131 fresh papers wore registered, fifty-nine discontinued, and eight publications included in the previous- list were omitted as not being newspapers, thus leiving on the 31st of March, 1874, a net total of 542. Dr.'Kenealy addressed a meeting of his constituents at Longtou lately, and was received with noisy enthusiasm. Ho charged the Government with intending to suspend the issue of 1 a new writ for Norwich, from fear at the I idea of another Kenealy being returned to the House of Commons. A telegram to The Times from Berlin states that the clergy of tho 250,000 Poles, the socalled United Catholics, who are on the point of .abandoning Catholicism and embracing Greek Orthodoxy, in a memorandum presented to the llussian Government account for their intentions by the moral impossibility of accepting the dogma of infallibility. A young Scotch girl inquired of a gentleman in San Francisco, in broad Scotch, the road to Tremont House. He desired her to follow him, and asked her how long she had arrived from Scotland. "Sax weeks, your honor." On their arrival at their destination, she very coolly inquired, " Noo, sir, wal ye just tell me how ye kenned I was frae Scotlan' !" The Journal de Geneve says that the Canton of Glarus is threatened with a strike of doctors, which is to begin very shortly. Out of twentythree licensed medical practitioners, twentyone declare that they will no longer perform any official duties until the medical examinations be once more intrusted to a committee of competent men, and tho regulations bo so modi-

fied as to allow of the use of an effective sanitary police. - The Rev. Immanuel Halton, for nixty-two years vicar of South WingiieM, DerbyM/ire, has died at the age o£ ninety. For seven yearn he has kept in his house tho cofl'm iu which ho was buried. It was, at his own request, made of rough wood, with handles and other iron work rudely forged by tho village blacksmith. Toulouse is now enjoying tho Herniation of it, strike. The cigar girls have turned out l>ucauso tho Goverumont introduced lloiv rule* into tho manufactory, which thoy consider prejudicial to their earnings. Tho girln appear to have got up a public demonstration. Mounted gensdarmos had to bo callod out to clear the streets, aiidsuvoral arrests woromatlo. Somo of tho girlH woro at onco sentenced to short terms of imprisonment. "The town of Singapore," writes tho correspondent of tho JJavyalorc Spectator, " has recently been thrown into a stato of iutonso alarm under tho following circumstances. A compauy of jugglers put in an appearance at that place. They had in their train a goodly number of snakes, a bear, and several monkeys. Well, they commenced to show away to the inhabitants in the usual manner, and generally left tho town at an early hour every evening and returned to their abode, which consisted of a pretty large tent pitched on a sandy plain distant about two miles from that place. Presently robberies became rife ; ear ornaments, brooches, and lockets were nightly taken from some of the principal inhabitants, and the police could not possibly find a clue to the robbers. The inhabitants really fancied that the devil himself made nightly excursions from the infernal regions, and deliberately took away their property, and a little girl, aged ten, declared to her father that the actually saw that unpleasant individual retire from the drawingroom the night previous, and gave a very minute description of his dress and stature. She said that he had a ghastly face, long eyelasheß, bushy whiskers, wore a red cap, a tightfitting jacket, a pair of knee-breeches, and that surely she saw his long tail protruding through a hole at the seat of the trousers. Well, the doors of the houses were nightly closed and barred, yet the things were still missed, till one gentleman deliberately swore that he would shoot the delinquent if he attempted to enter his house. Accordingly he slept during the day and sat up at night, with loaded revolver, crouched behind his door. About 11 o'clock, p.m., he heard a loud ringing of his bell, which had been deposited on the drawingroom table, and presently he was jostled against the wall by the robber as he imagined ; he fired and floored his antagonist, who gave a fearful yell, when lo ! lay stretched at full length at his feet an enormqus sized monkey attired in the same manner as described by the child aforesaid. He was the principal actor for the jugglers, and was in the habit of ascending a long pole, from the top of which he could take a peep at the inside of the houses, and had been trained by the jugglers to fetch to them during the night anything in the shape of gold that he espied during the day; he thus laid hold of the bell, which had all the appearance of gold, the ringing of which brought him to an untimely end. Of course the jugglers immediately disappeared, and can nowhere be found,"