NEWS IN BRIEF.

Patea Mail, 16 October 1882, Page 2

NEWS IN BRIEF.

An epidemic of measles has broken out at Wellington. The Wolverine costs New South Wales £6OO per month. Mr Brogden is to take his case to the Privy Council. The Masonic body of Wanganui intend erecting a Masonic Hall. A new penny paper, published weekly, has been started in Christchurch. An attempt is being made in Christchurch to start a co-operative Building Society. Church building is making very rapid progress in the diocese of Wellington the present time. Mr W. H. Herbert has been appointed assistant master at the Christchurch Boys ? High School at a salary of £250 a year. On the day of the football match at Wellington, trams carried 3000 passengers. Mr John Hosking, who was the first Mayor of Sydney, died on the 9th ult. Mr Archibald Forbes will return to Melbourne, and lecture during the Cup week. Mr Price, M.L.A., of Brisbane, has been fined £2 for interfering with the Salvation Army. Public attention is drawn to the extraordinary number of deaths in South Australia. Captain John Butler, of the North Shore Ferry Company, Sydney, has saved 26 lives from drowning. The publicans of Newcastle, owing to the scarcity of meat in that citj r , tablished a butcher’s shop of their own.' Within the next two years, Australasia will ask England for £15,000,000 more money. And she will get it. Some promising gold discoveries have been made near Rockhampton, Queensland, and are causing some excitement. Mr J. M. Meek has presented his splendid caligraphic tableau of the Past and Present History of Canterbury, to the Museum. The salary of the Lord Mayor of London, although £IO,OOO, is not near sufficient to do the requisite honors of the office. Mining affairs at Terawhiti are looking up, and it {s said that the Albion Company have a splendid prospect before them. It is expected that before long, complete reciprocity will be established between the Bars of Victoria and New South Wales. Larrikins are very troublesome in Dunedin. Their latest freak was to cut down the service time-boards of the Trinity Wesleyan Church. The Compulsory Vaccination Bill and the Bill for the Protection of Inventions have been rejected by the popular vote in Switzerland. Serious inundations are reported in various parts of Austria, as well as in Hungary, where great damage has been done to the crops and farming stock. The village of Lichen, Switzerland, has been almost destroyed by a waterspout, which washed down great stones from the mountain of several tons each, -

A Sydney clergyman announced the other day that in consequence of the high price of provisions, he would require an ■- increase in his stipend. . A jury in Fayette county, Texas, convicted a man of murder, and then drew lots to determine wether he should be hanged or imprisoned for life. He was hanged. The Attorney-General for the United States has given In's opinion that 60,000 cannot lawfully cross the United btateSTTmirc nay lurotioii Horn uuuJa. ™ Daniel Bolton, the Walsall champion bicyclist, has died in the Wolverhampton Hospital from the effects of a fall from a bicycle at the Molineux Grounds, Wolverhampton. It is stated from St. Petersburg that the Russian Government intends to establish regular commmercial relations with Afghanistan, and that a special mission will be sent to Cabul. The consumption of coffee is greatest in the United States, the mean average—which for the twenty years ending 1876 was 100,000 tons—having risen for the two last years to 180,000 tons. . The Vienna Presse publishes intelligence from Pesth stating that a serious conflict occurred in the district of Delnau, between the peasants and the laborers on the railway, Fourteen persons were killed. The people of lowa, by a majority, of 30,000, have ratified a amendment declaring that no manufacture for sale, sell, or keep for sale as a beverage any intoxicating liquor* whatever. The Russian steamer Moskwa, with tea, from China, which recently passed through the Suez Canal, has not been since heard of. • It is supposed that she has gone down after a boiler explosion.- 200 men were on board. The Rev, Abraham Smith, M.A., for many years principal of the Collegiate School, Huddersfield, and curate in charge of St. Thomas’s, Bradley, committed suicide by drowning himself in a canal lock near Huddersfield. A man named Fred Frier was remanded at Burton-on-Trent, on a charge of attempted suicide by jumping into the Trent. Defendant said he was an Army Reserve man, and rather than fight in Egypt, he tried to drown himself. On July 31, Poliok Castle, the Renfrewshire residence of Sir Hew Crawford Poliok, was totally destroyed by fire, nothing being saved but a few pictures and the family plate. The damage is estimated at from £20,000 to £30,000. A wonderful invention is reported by an English Consul in the United States. He states in his official report that “a cigarette machine which makes over 100.000 cigarettes per day (the work of sixty hands) has been invented. The electric light is making much progress in the leading manufactories of the north of England. One branch of trad© after another is adopting it, and it is now being considered almost a necessity in steel rail mills, engineers’ shops, plate mills, &c. Cardinal Manning, speaking at a meeting of the Society of St Vincent and Paul, at his residence, Westminster, one Sunday afternoon, strongly deprecated the religious excitement occasioned by such organisations as the Salvation Army and the Blue Ribbon Array. While James MacEwan, aged ten years, was enjoying a sail in a small boat with his father and uncle, off the Innellan Shore, Frith of Clyde, be observed whale and became frightened. He fell into a fit and died before his father could pull the boat to the shore. A discovery has been made which connects Major Hurzards Tichotzki,. an officer in the perional guard of the Czar, with the Nihilist party. The Czar has been painfully impressed by the discovery, and it is apprehended that the court will be ordered to return to Gatschina. The product of the bottle factories of the United Kingdom in a single year amounted to upwards of 510,000 or 73.440.000 phials and bottles. Fifty-nine establishments are enumerated, manufacturing window glass, flint or lime glass, green or bottle glass, and pressed ware.