News and Notes.

Southern Cross, Volume 2, Issue 1, 7 April 1894, Page 7

News and Notes.

Two petitions, to be considered on thej 12th inst., have been lodged against the validity of the recent Invercargill licensing elections on the ground of certain alleged irregularities.

A Manchester merchant named Samuel Weston has left Bishop Moorhouse £170,000 for church and charitable purposes.

Moody, the famous evangelist, is suffering from heart disease. Professor Brown-Secjuard, of elixir fame, is dead. Montgomery and Williams have been sentenced to death at Sydney for attempting to murder two policemen. Montgomery is a native of hTew Zealand.

That classic city Athens has fallen on evil days. It was recently thrown into darkness owing to the inability of the municipality to pay the gas bill.

The Pev.'J. McNeil, the celebrated preacher, will probably arrive in New Zealand in a few weeks, and open either in Invercargill or Dunedin.

Going home again. One hundred thousand negroes are leaving America to found colonies in West Africa.

A number of detectives have been killed in an endeavour to carry out the provisions of the liquor law in Darlington County, South Carolina, where the sale of alcoholic liquor’s is in the hands of the State.

Major Le Caron, the spy who figured so prominently in connection with the Clan-na-Gael, is dead. So is LordHannen, President of the Parnell Commission. Le Caron embodied his experiences in a book, a copy of which is in the local Athenasum.

At the Medical Conference recently held in Wellington the question of the relations of the friendly societies to the profession was considered, and a code of regulations to be binding on the medical men of the colony was unanimously carried. The new points in this code are that no member of a friendly society whose income is over £2OO a year can be placed on the medical list, and there can be no contract for mileage over three miles — that is, that the medical officers of friendly societies cannot in future be compelled to travel o /er three miles : to visit a patient under the lodge agreements. It was decided that children under 16 years shall be considered as members of a family. A journalist named Werner has undertaken for a wager with some Chicago pressmen to travel round the world in six months without begging or borrowing money. He recently arrived in Auckland, and goes on to Sydney. His doings have been telegraphed all over the colony. The wonder is that any fuss should be made about the matter. He is only doing what the majority of people have to do—work for a living.

The lighter Spec sank during a galein Wellington harbour on Monday night, and a man named Robert Young, who was in charge, and who had been advised to leave, was drowned.

The young lady who declined to say “ I will ” when going through the marriage ceremony in a Wellington church last week, altered her mind next day, and was duly wed. A well-known resident of Tapanui, Mr D. Knowles, died on 30th March from cancer, after undergoing an operation. ITis twin brother William also died on 2nd April from the same dread disease.

Complaint is made by the Bruce Herald that although tenders have been twice invited for works in the Matau district involving an outlay of £4OO, no offers have been received.. A third attempt is being made to let the works. Where are the unemployed ?

Mr J. Robertson Watson, who lately made his first public appearance as a Labour candidate in Glasgow, characterised the House of Commons as a hospital for incurablewindbags, and told his audience that there was a greater gulf between the Labour and Liberal parties than between the Liberal and Conservative parties.

Go-operation continues to root itself more and more firmly in the Edinburgh district, where the accounts of one society alone show that for the five years just over the sales amounted to £1,264,508, and the profits to £239,294. A Glasgow oil and colour manufacturer named Andrew Henderson, who swallowed his false teeth while in bed, has died in great agony.

The estimated income of the London charities during the past year, inclusive of what has been subscribed, for mission work at home and abroad, is £5,549,494.

An old lady recently died at Stoke Fleming near Dartmouth, with the key of her safe in her hand. She kept no establishment, although owning pro] >erty worth £IOO,OOO. Her relatives have just found hidden away in her house, in vases and jars, about £IO,OOO in cash.