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New Zealand Times, Volume XXXII, Issue 4950, 2 February 1877, Page 3

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. The Cologne Gazette publishes a report,': which it announces has been presented to the King of . Italy, ygned .by, the-Ministers De-‘ pretis, Mancini, Nicotera, and Mezzacapo, -reBpeeting the step's to. be taken, by .'.the, Italian ■Government in the contingency, of the demise of Pope Pins the Ninth, nnd after that event. ThO proposals made by the Ministers; 'are as follow : —To immediately qqcupy by a military force the neighborhood of the, Vatican. .On , the’ death of his Holiness the Prefect of .Rorcje will'.at once request the Cjamalangq, the Majordomos, tKe'Maestro Della Camera, two Papdl physicians, and the ,Papal Secretaries to b)e present at the viewing * of . the, body, and the other' necessai-y formalities... In the event of refusal the Prefect will- forcibly enter rthe Va.tioan, accompanied by s the . Quaestor physician, two notaries,, and four witnesses, and, after viewing the body, will take possession of tbe fisher’s ring, and will send it, together with a formal record of the proceedings, to the Cardinal Deacon. .will-be attached - to * all .the furniture in the, apartments of .the Pope, and will remain until the body ,fh»U have been . removed. The necessary measures.jf^or-main-taining order, witjjjjj the Y.aticap, will be taken by ' file Quasstor. ’ An • ape,urate, , list of all i persons ; V^ic'an,as well* as; a complete inventory of all the objects found in ,it, will he niade.r m After[the ; expiration of 24 hours‘the body will be at; theisposal -of the qlergy; of the Vq-tican .Basilica. in order that they may make the'funeral arrangements. j The recent Liberal demonstration 1 at Keighley was likely tq , have-prpyed'.a far more iml portant affair,,than-any one) expected. The noble leader of the :Liberal party had, been entertained aft.er; the , opening of the club in the aftornoon .by Mr. Craven; of Steeton Hall, and in; driving back- from’ Steeton Hall to the evening .meeting; a.-- most serious acci 1 - dent ocourred,- one of the horses being killed ; and tHe’. other i injured; the ' carriage greatly damaged, and the pole smashed to ; atoms. ; Fortunately It ' was • -HO worse but Abw the'question (arose as'to' 1 getting to !Keighley. '■ There'remained nothing' for it- but to walk the .distance, and the patty, consisting of the' Marquis of Hartingtbtt.' L'otd Erederick Cavendish, and Mrs; 1 and uJlri Oraveny set ouj; in a’drenching'rain and along'a muddy road to accomplish the feat. .They arrived at the place of meetiug'half-an-hbut late, ' in rather a miserable ' plight. Lord ,Frederick' at y once apblbgised’ 'for being lirte,"and]eScoused hlmselt on’ladoouht' of ah accideht ; biit Ke' did not 'ex|plain its nature, and hi? Kearerahad little idea of (be danger,his Lqrdsliip andlhis brother, the *' 1 ”, (The following details have been published ‘of the iiinrder of thef'Turidsh’ Consul and hi« wife at Tiflis:—f‘, The, crime -tras'committed at iiihe ih the evening of ;tha;22nd of October, ■riffle two. victims were alone in ;thpir, apart-i ment; the secretary and . the'servants were the house... The secretafyl Clearing ah.unuspal noise,' went and pve infor-j mation • to'the poHce, and the*door’of My Behdjed’s room being looked; it was. broker) open/ ’ In the antechamber was found thq borpse of Mdme. Behdjetbland in the/next Chamber that of the consul, pierced withtwenty wounds made with-some sharp mstrumeht.' The murderer had left ‘behind Jam' a ‘colored hankerchief, and hod robbed the consul and his wife' of their -watches rind rings; The criminal is believed to bo a man of the lower classes, and his - motive to have beeri plunder.- He appears to have been acquamted with the interior of the house and the habits of'the* inmates. ' It' is also thought) that 4 struggle took place between the-murderer'and his victims, and he must: have been himself wounded, for traces of blood were found off the'.staircase by Whlchihe must have-left. '<No arms were foqddvon'! (the scene of the grirnel M. Behfijed was not a Mussulman; but a Greek by race and religion. His- wife was-born-iii Poland, but .had been brought up in Greece'. She had only arrived a fortnight before from Constantinople, where she had left her three children at school" , ; ,;The.Rariß Exhibition will.be opened on the Ist April, 1878., / ■ ' The members of- the Home Rule-Association in Liverpool held a soiree lately; under the presidency of Mr. Councillor Connolly. It was determined to cstabhsh a Liverpool Home -Rule Registration Society. 1

A movement via being started at Kidderminster to raise a statue to Sir Howland Hi]], •K.C.8., the introducer of the penny postage system. The : benches of the Middle Temple have determined to award -annually to students of their society four scholarships of the value of 100 guineas each, and four of 50 guineas each, under such regulations as may be recommended by'a committee, to be nominated for the purpose. This is in addition to £I2OO a-year paid by the; -Middle Temple for legal education. :

By a majority of nearly 5 to 1, and in opposition to the,wishes of the Federal Commissioners, the German Parliament has passed a clause in the Penal Code Bill which provides a welcome relief from criminal court troubles for newspaper employes. The clause enacts that no. publisher, printer, or .member of the staff of a periodical or newspaper shall be compelled to give evidence in a court of law in any case where the responsible editor of such paper holds himself liable for the offence.

An unpleasant sign of. the rapidly approaching winter is the. unwelcome apparition of wolves in some French villages and hamlets. Accounts of women and children attached by the dreaded enemy ; are already appearing in provincial papers, and it is said that Government intends augmenting tbe ; prizes given to wolf desti’oyers, ,in order to do something towards assuring the security of the villages. Terrible accounts , have been' received of a cyclone in the Bay of BengaJ and. in Lower Bengal on the 31st October.' Several vessels were lost, and others sustained great injpry. The Allahabad, from Melbourne,; with 153 horses, only landed nine. At Barisa, 3000 houses were blown down. In the Backergurige district the worst effects were felt. The total loss of life, at first 'estimated at 20,000, was subsequently -stated td be 120,000, and now a. quarter of a million. " i "