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Poverty Bay Standard, Volume X, Issue 1227, 16 December 1882, Page 2

behold the damsel crowned with rue 2 Lactiferous spoils from lecteal dugs, who drew, From that corniculate beast with tortuous horn Tossed to the clouds in fierce vindictive scorn, The harrowing hound whose braggart bark and stir Arched the lithe spine reared the indignant fur Of puss who with verminicidal claw, Struck the Wierd rat in whose insatiate maW Lay reeking mail that erst in Ivan’s Courts we saw. This is simply a paraphrase 6h the house that Jack built,” but it c*ttses to enquire why the damsel shoiifd be “crowned with rue.” This, however, ** easy of explanation by mistake she had not purchased her boots at Garrett Bros.— Advt. A report is current that the Sultan intends issuing a decree depriving Baker Pasha of his rank and decorations for having left Con : stantinople without permission, in sptta of his being bound by contract to the Government. The Emperor of Germany, through thd British Ambassador at Berlin, has complimented General Sir Garnet Wolseley on thd success of his stately and the satisfactory results of the campidgn. Her Majesty the Queen has forwarded through Henry Ponsonby, a donation of £iß in aid of the new Shetland and Orkney Island centre of the St. John Ambulance Association of which Princess Beatrice has graciously consented to become president. The Collumption magistrates have fined the Rev, J. G. Sydenham £5 and costa for ill-treating seven dogs. The inspector found the animals in a state of starvation, with hardly any flesh on their bones, their backs arched, and their thighs drawn up. The Austrian Government has taken prompt and effective measures to quell the anti-Jewish riots in Hungary. A large body of troops has been concentrated in Presaburg, and a Commissioner with full powers has been despatched to assist the local authorities. Sir John St. Aubyn, M.P., speaking at Helston, referring to the cloture, said he hoped it would not be found necessary to stop debate by a bare majority ; but if the Government deemed this expedient necessary he should be prepared to support them, as he was satisfied Mr Gladstone would take that step if he felt justified in doing so. A Reuter’s telegram states that a fire recently broke out in the electric exhibition in Munich, but the flames were immediately observed and extinguished.

We have on several occasions been asked as to what people are to do with themselves on New Year’s Day. There have been no sports arranged for, no public picnics or excursions, and in fact tne advent of 1883 will pass off as the humdrum every day life slips by us. Could not Messrs Kennedy and Bennett organise an excursion. The steamer Neptune, which was chartered by the American Government to take supplies to the Greely Scientific Expedition in Lady Franklin Bay, in latitude 81 N., has returned to St. John’s, N.F., and reports being unable to get farther north than latitude 79‘20 owing to an impenetrable barrier of ice. She, however, landed supplies at several ports. It is reported that Mr Story, M.P., has bought the “ Echo” newspaper for £BO,OOO from the present proprietor, Mr Edwards, M.P.

Addressing an audience of Conservative working men at Newbury, the Earl of Carnarvon criticised the acts of the Government at home and abroad. The British forces had won a brilliant victory in Egypt, but he distrusted the diplomacy of Her Majesty’s Government. The only course, he said, was to keep a firm hand on Egypt.

A telegram from Victoria, Vancouver Island, under date Sept. 25th, states that during the visit of the Marquis of Lome and the Princess Louise to the Waterworks a child fell and broke its arm. The Princess carried it into a house, remaiuing with it and endeavoring to alleviate its suffering until the arrival of a surgeon who had been sent for by the marquis.

Lord Randolph Churchill has taken a house at Wimbledon, and it is not likely that he will re appear in Parliament during the sent se.-ssion.“He had overworked himself, he docs well not to risk a relapse by a foo speedy return to the House of Commons. His absence is even more regretted by his political opponents than by his Conservative friends ; J indeed, both his leaders, and the small fry on tho front opposition bench whom he eclipsed, bear his absence with great equanimity.