GLEANINGS FROM THE PAPERS.

Samoa Times and South Sea Gazette, Volume 2, Issue 97, 9 August 1879, Page 3

GLEANINGS FROM THE PAPERS.

A case which affords a wholesome warning to English girls who fall in love with foreigners is now before the civil tribunal of Paris. At the beginning of 1.578, M. Julian Gallois, a young gentleman belonging to a well-known family in Paris, was sent to London by his parents " to finish his education," which ho accomplished in a rather unexpected manner. He was first of all confided to the care of a friend of the family but having just left college, he sighed for liberty, which he forthwith took by entering a fashionable boarding-house at tho West End. The establishment was kept by a widow, who po3Bossed two charming daughters. M. Gallois paid court to"one of them, named Selina. After much remonstrance on th i part of the mother, the young Frenchman secretly married the poor girl, and then returned to France to announce the fact to his parents. His father, however, refused to listen to anything, and sucee ded in estranging him from his you.eg English wife by the prospects of n rich mamaga in France. Tho young woman came to Paris in search of her young husband, hut finding herself repudiated by both him and his parents, she instituted lega. proceeding* for alimony. The father demands that the marriage shall be declared null and void, on the ground that it was performed clandestinely, and that his son was not of age when ho contracted it. Eu attendant the decision of tho tribunal, she has given birth to a boy. —Standard. Some time ago tho Aborigines PjfOteotlon Society brought before Bir Michael Hicks-Beach tho conduct of tho Kcv. George Brown, of Duke of York Islan.i in milking war upon tho natives of Now Britain, who had been guilty of the murder of four Wesleyau eoteehisls. Attention was called to Mr. Brown's estimate that, in avenging this massacre, between 50 and 80 of the cannibals were killed, by tho force under his command; mid it was Mr. Brown's duty, instead of tok-1 inir .'bo iaw into his own hands, to communicate on th' subject with

'"' r 'I •**» Hi '•• •'. ntadakNiw m ■ . •', . ton a . L . CO! ] j- I. "' ■• ' •..• o. ,-r H....,a aged in the ii«- i-1 foiljwiug rptyl . .-i : - 'Dowokg•tre I •!..;. 27. -Sir, -Willi reference to your letter of the 2tith of December la*t, ami to the npljf from this department Of tliu 3rd of Janary, I am directed by the Secretary of State for the Coloniee to request tlmt you will inform the Committee of the Aborigines Protection Society that, after consultation with the lligh Commissioner fortheWestern Pacific it has been decided by h-r Majesty's Government to instruct him on his return to the Pacific to hold a.s full and complete an investigation as circumstances will admit into the proceedings 0? the Rev. George Brown in New- Britain on the occasion to which attention has been drawn. 1 urn glad to add that Sir A. Gordon's inquiry is not likely to tak» place before the autunp of the present year.—l am, &c, Edward Williamson To the Secreteiy of the Protetction Society."—Truth. The Pall Mall Gazette says the anxiety of the Victorians that their exhibition at Melbourne should 1« opened by the Prince and Princess of Wales is nntural enough, and it may be hoped that the Prince at least will be able to visit Australia in tho course of the next 12 mouths True, it may bo diubtful whether the heir apparent to the throne should travel so far from home. But there are many reasons why a Royal visit to these colonies would be specially grateful just now and certainly more loyal communities are not to be found under tho English Hag. The jealous y between Now South Wales and Victoria might be excited by any apparent preference forthe younger colony, and this of course would be avoided. The Prince of Wales has done so much by his activity in a non-politi-cal sphere to produce a most wholesome imd advantageous political effect that much might be hoped from nis presence in these flourishing colonies. Their growth of late years has been indeed surprising, and all that is needed to ensure their continuous prosperity is a damping down of that political ill-feeling which has now and then burst out in the most democratic colony. The corning Exhibition will give an opportunity to. all Australian* to show their pride in their common c< untry, and will probably do more to remove the foolish partitions bui'.! up betv.e.'i: ike different colonics th« ,v am mm .;' uogoiiati in for a custom Jariii'. It .no Priuceand Princess »• Wain e:-e • e nt, u still ili her !>•■ • ■ mi./ would 'pro lii - su'j" ■' .story has advanced n step in too direction of the marvellous, us can be seen by the following communication to the Hiogo News:—Saturday, April j, at quarter past eleven a.m., Cape Slitano distant about nine miles, the chief officer and myself observed a whale jump clear out of the sea, about a quarter of a mile away. Shortly after, it leaped out again, when I saw there was something attached to it. Got glasses, and on the next leap distinctly saw something holdbig onto the belly of the whale. The latter gave one more spring clear of tho water, and myself and uhief mate then observed what appeared to be a large creature of the snake species rear itself about thirty i'ect out of the water. It appeared to be about, the thickness of a juuk's mast, and after standing for about ten seconds in on erect position, it descended iuto the water, the upper cud going first. With my glasses I made out the beast to resemble a pilot-fish.

The Bendigo AJvortisor relates the following generous net: —A director of Australian and European Bunk, who had implicit faith ill the humaneness mid stability of its prospects, recommended BOine of his friends to invest in the shares shortly bofroe tho late stoppage. These persons hud invested nil their little savings in the shares of tho hunk at current rates, and tho sudden downfall of tho institution and depreciation of tho shares was a snd blow, which promised utter ruin to them. The director, feeling that he I hud been the unintentional cause, of 1 the catastrophe to theso poor people, evolved "that they should not surfer ough 'i , and, with n large-hearted ." Id im seen in toil world oueque tor their shares at 5Qs per shore. The joy and gratitude o/ tho recipient* o* this geueroua treatment may be imagined, as it kumhl them from tho depths of ffliserv to, peace of , mind again. Sueh a,pt« deserve to 1m roci-et that we are compelled to with-

The wilful murder of the helpless children — or " infanticide," as it is euphoniously termed —seems to be now carried on to such an extent, and with such impunity (remarks an English paper), that the question may almost bo raised whether, on the ground of humanity, it might lie as well to legalise the "destruction of superfluous babies, ami ensure by a system of official inspection their removal from existence with ns little Buffering as police. This step would also enable arrangements to be made for tho decent disposal of their remains, and render unnecessary the objo.tionablc jiatiee whio'i now provails of depositing their bodies as luggage at railway stations.