Bird’s Eye View

Southern Cross, Volume 1, Issue 4, 22 April 1893, Page 12

Bird’s Eye View

Wool market firm. School Committee elections, 24th. Belgium socialists rioting. A good many lives have been lost. Ben Tillett, labour leader, found not guilty of using seditious language. The snipe-shooting closes on . 30th April. Waiau settlers favour Clifden as the site of a bridge over the river. Officials object to cost, Further enquiries to be made. ' Fear and festivity combined— Anai’chists arrested in Rome prior to fetw» in honour of royal silver wedding. “ It will require more science than ever to defeat them ” —Ben Tillett, re capitalists and the threatened strike. “Home Rule should be averted, even at the cost of civil war,’' says Lord Dalkeith. Small-pox at Perth (W.A.) Elections in South Australia —eight labour candidates returned so far. Mrs Clara Parker, who says Joseph Clarke of Melbourne was concerned in having her spirited away from the colony, claimed £IO,OOO damages, and received £1,260. The rush for the Woxld’s Fair is getting in. Passages by the homeward bound steamers are in demand. A snake of a venomous vaxiety was found in a case of bananas and killed in a fruiterer’s shop at Napiex-. The Rev. F. W. Isitt was the recipient of an address and gold w atch on leaving Nelson for Christchurch in recognition of his wox-k in the temperance cause. The Mayor of Christchurch and his Council are at loggexheads. Stack fixes fx-equent in the Oamaru district. Incendiarism suspected. The post office clock tower is to be taken in hand shortly. The contractor, Mi- G-. Morrison, wants 40,000 bricks. imatulpij,s. to-kg gpun. by telephone. Victoria is going in for x-etrench-ment. The Government want to save £750,000 a year. The officers of the Lands Department thi’oughout the Colony have been x-equested to keep a sharp lookout for cases of dummy ism. Three hundx-ed bulls were brought to Barcelona recently in a steamer. Through the breaking of a rope, 100 escaped, and terrox-ised the tow r n. They were not disposed of till nightfall, when two pei’sons had been killed and considerable damage done to property. The authorities in Victoria are taking steps to lessen the Indian haw r ker nuisance.

It is stated that “ Fx-ance exported nearly twenty millions of bottles of champagne to Great Britain last year. A Fx-ench judge has just discharged a mati who owned up to having been concex-ned in a burglary, after all five of his companions had pleaded not guilty. The judge was afraid the confessed burglar might contaminate the five honest men.