MISCELLANEOUS.

Patea Mail, Volume VIII, Issue 986, 19 January 1883, Page 2

MISCELLANEOUS .

Matters are quieter in Ireland. than they have been for some time past. • The small-pox at Cape Town is declining, and the medical staff has been reduced. ■ No confirmation of Midhat Pasha’s rumoured flight from Taif has' yet been received. A seat in the New York Stock Exchange ■ sold recently for 35,000d015., the highest price .yet Obtained. ■ - < U Michael Davitt has resolved to inaugurate a movement for starting boy’s national clubs throughput.lreland. ; An English County Court Judge has de* cided that an editor might alter an advertise ment to prevent a libel. r A great fire has occurred amongst the wood stacks on the banks of the Neva. The loss is estimated at five millions of roubles. A combination among - the New York brewers has led to an advance in the prices of ale and beer because of the dearness o hops, The highest bridge structure in; the ; world has recently been completed in Pennsylvania. It is the Kinzua viaduct, on a branch of the New York and Lake Brie railroad, running through the Bradford oil region, into the Elk . county coalfields. It is 301 ft high, 2062 ft' long, single tracked, contains 3,soojooolfas of iron, and cost £55,000. The roadway; of the viaduct is 2,065 ft above the sea-level, on a" spur of the Alleghany mountains. A boy named , John Brogan, aged eight years, son of Mr J. Brogan, Contractor was ; drowned in the .’ Wanganui .river near Kirkwood’s Hotel on through falling off a rock whilst Although in thirty-five feet of water, body was recovered half an hour afterwards, by a young fellow named Alfred Gray diving for it.

The scandal in connection with Colonel Wellesley (heir presumptive to the Duchy of Wellington), who left his wife, for the danseuse and actress, Kate Yaughan, will doubtless be remembered. The Hon Mrs Wellesley has now sued for, and obtained a divorce, and Colonel Wellesley . means to marry Miss Yaughan. As the latter is consumptive, the' happy (7) couple mean to spend their- honeymoon (II) at the Antipodes, and will probably make a protracted, stay amidst what a.society paper calls the “ Hot Lake Won* , derland of Northern New Zealand.” Two workmen in a shoe factory in Leipzic have'been condemned, one to two years’ imprisonment, and two years’ supervision, the other to four month’s imprisonment, for selling a number of Herr Most’s; journal, the Freheit, containing an article, on the Emperor. A classic institution has been restored. ‘ " The baths of Agamemnon or Lidja, in the. Bay of Smyrna, were in repute ages ago. They were still frequented of date years by casual visitors, who had to camp out. They are now regularly occupied', and a Frank quarter and a native quarter have been already built. ; .. * • A Hindoo historical relic, called the Lingam god, ”i originally taken from one of the most ancient temples in Delhi, -is now on view. : This relic is supposed to ' be 1700 years old,--and is remarkable as containing one of the most curious and brilliant cbrysoberyl catseyes known, set in a very large.yellow topaz.. . The sale of milk by the glass at railway refreshment bars is becoming- quite general, and deserves to be encouraged, seeing that it is a model temperance beverage—at once nourishing and refreshing, It is ieported that the London and North-Western Railway Company have recently bought'soo cows to supply milk* to travellers on their system. * The initation that exists at Constantinople against England is said to be much - keener than is generally known. The success of the English.expedition wae-an-noying to the Turks, but the feeling-' caused by that event would have.. i»een transient. The Porte is alarmed and angry because it fears that England is about to - propose the abolition of the suzerainty of the Sultan over Egypt. ‘