NEWS IN BRIEF.

Patea Mail, Volume VIII, Issue 998, 16 February 1883, Page 2

NEWS IN BRIEF.

Chicago is trying to close her gambling shops. Coalfields in Tennessee, U.S., cover an area, of 6100 square miles. More marines will be sent to Ireland from London to do police duly. The shop-assistant population of London is estimated at about 320,000. ; / The new suspension bridge across Niagara is to be completed Sept. I, 1883. The property tax for the financial j’ear amounts to about £IOO,OOO. Mr W. Izard, 8.A., has been appointed Law Lecturer for 1883, at the Canterbury College; A trout was hooked in the Selwyn a few days ago 31 inches long and 21 inches in girth. Its weight is close upon 20Ibs. French army surgeons says that a great deal of the sickness among soldiers is caused by the use of tobacco.- . One out of every ten of the inhabitants of Chester, England, ha«, it is asserted, joined the Blue Ribbon army. A remarkable large aerolite, weighing more than half a ton, lias fallen at Aix, in (he department of the Haute Garonne, France. . . A Liverpool telegram states that the English steamer Winton has been lost off Ushant, when thirty of those on board were drowned. A proposal is under consideration at Rome to eslablish Catholic colleges at Oxford and Cambridge, to prepare students for the universities. ■ A It is stated that in consequence of the long continued depression in the Bradford trade seven or eight largo manufacturing concerns will cease 'work. Already a good many hands are idle. The Ottawa correspondent of the Montreal Gazette asserts that a largo number of artisans and others are coming into Canada from the United States, bringing .their families with.them, for the purpose of settling. A vote was moved in the French Chamber of Deputies on November 20 to abolish the Embassy to the Vatican, but was de- ' feated by a large majority. A second motion to replace the Ambassador by a Charge d’Affaires was also defeated. In Yeovil fair a panic occurred in a show, owing to the fear of the people that a “ performing Zulu ” was going to , assegai them. A number of persons were thrown to the ground and trampled upon,; and the front of the show was forced but. The French police are making efforts to discover the perpetrators of a very clever robbery, by which registered letters to the value of 1 about £24,000 wcre<;recehtly| abstracted from the van of v tbe expresa mail between Paris and. Bordeaux. 1 During the past year there were. 41 persons dismissed from the police force, in , New South Wales, 25 men, were dis charged, and 95 resigned their situations. The Times correspondent telegraphs from Durban We have just heard from Zululand. 1 The people there 1 say that Cetewayo sent the comet to notify Ins return. William Schroeder, drank, ten'whisky cocktails in five minutes, to win a wager, at {Denver, and bis life was only saved by (he use of a stomach pump and galvanic, lottery. After a lapse of three-quarters of a century the colours lost at Buenos Ayres in 1808 are about to be restored to the 71st Regiment, now the Ist Battalion Highland Light Infantry. The Glasgow Herald says that it is ‘‘estimated on excellent authority ’’ that the United States borrowed 38,000,000dbl«. in Europe during the present year to aid in constructing railways.