NEWS IN BRIEF.

Patea Mail, Volume VIII, Issue 952, 30 October 1882, Page 3

NEWS IN BRIEF.

A severe earthquake has been felt in Chios, but no damage was done. There are said to be in Dublin 580 Irish-Americaus without visible occupation. Twelve and a. half million artificial teeth are produced in Philadelphia every year. Lord .Randolph Churchill, M.P., has* qnile recovered the recent operation he underwent. During the mouth of July the public debt of the United Skates was decreased by 13,860,000d015. A common scandal in Paris is that of the" - "Oriental practice of a well-to-do Frenchman, of keeping harems. A St. Louis jury decided that a drowned drunkard came to his death “ while in a fit of voluntary insanity.” •The "rreat seal of Great Britain and I Ireland is affixed to yellow wax for j English documents, red for Scotch, and j green for Irish., | Mr Henry George, an American lecturer j on the Lind Question, was arrested in; Ireland as a suspected person, but was ; released. j Eastern Bulgaria, as far ns the river. Ganta, has been proclaimed in a state of siege, on account of the brigandage pre- j vailing in that district, ; Professor Henry A. Ward, of America, says that Australia presents a fine field 1 for a naturalist. While there be procured 1000 varieties of birds and beasts. I As an excursion train was leaving , Dovercourt a signalman, named Isaac , Meekins, whilst running to adjust the | points, fell in front of the train, and had both legs cut off. The British steamer Guy Mannering anived at Tripoli with her cargo on fire. The passengers were saved, but two of the crew were suffocated. The ship was j subsequently scuttled. The Wesleyan Churches in South | Africa are about lo separate from the j Wesleyan Conference in England, and to 1 rely upon their own resources for carrying on their work in that country. A company has been,established for the purpose of supplying the inhabitants of London throughout a long area with hydraulic power for the working of cranes, lifts, and other machinery. It is stated that 25 young men and women have arrived in London from the great drapers’ store of Messrs Jordan and Marsh, of Boston, to make a" lour in the Old World at their employers’ expense. Reports come from Patrick county, Virginia, to the effect that 5000 persons in that county are starving. In many portions of the county hundreds of people are crowding'around the settlements imploiingaid. In the House of Commons, Mr Childers said that as the"correspondent who sent to the Daiby Telegraph the telegram with respect to the alleged flight of British troops would not "be allowed to bo employed under the new.regulations, it was not thought that further notice of the telegram should be taken. At the Dublin commission John Fitzpatrick, a tutor, who was found guilty of pointing a revolver in court at the Recorder with intent to do him grievous bodily harm, was sentenced to five years’ pienal servitude. A St. Louis diy goods, firm recently offered a prize of 25d01, for the best essay on “How to Wait on a customer,” The man who wrote the essay that took the prize is said to be the most uncivil clerk that ever stood behind a counter. At the Manchester police-court a beerhouse keeper, named Charles Crofton, was fined £IOO, or three months’ imprisonment, and disqualified from holding a license for five, years, for selling beer during prohibited hours on Sunday. When a Canada girl loves, she does love. In a breach of promise suit the other day, it was shown that a young lady wrote to her lover eight times per day. According to the Otago Daily Times , the carelessness of the tradespeople of Dunedin is such that scarcely a night passes without the police finding some place of business unfastened. The following is a copy of an inscription on a tombstone in. the churchyard of Wrexham : “ Richard Kenrick was buried, August 29th, 1785. by the desire of 'his ivife, Margaret Kenrick.” Two pure white rats were found alive and killed at a grain_stack at Wyndharn the other day. Their skins are to be stuffed and placed in the Dunedin Museum. A pure white rat was seen in Queen-street, Auckland, the other day. It is stated, says the Electrician , that electric lights are being erected along a portion of the Surrey Canal, and it is probable that the whole length will eventually be lighted by the same means. This canal runs through the south-district of London to the dock. . Lloyd’s agent at Shanghai telegraphs, under date Aug. 7th, 6.35* p.m., as follows;—“ Jessie Burrill (British ship), New York to Shanghai, has been burnt at sea. Sixteen persons saved. One boat with four persons, missing, bound Foochow.” The master and crew of the ketch Pearl arrived at Auckland from Raratonga yesterday morning, Ten days ago their provisions ran out, and since then their daily fare comprised one biscuit and a supply of oranges. The trip lasted 34 days. Fifty thousand oranges were taken on board, but one-third are now unfit for market.