GLEANINGS FROM THE PAPERS.

Samoa Times and South Sea Gazette, Volume 2, Issue 102, 13 September 1879, Page 3

GLEANINGS FROM THE PAPERS.

Thinking that lie heard a burglar, a Kansas City man got out of bed, armed

himself with a pistol and weat on tiptoe into mi adjoining room. His wife followed him. The room was dark. The woman in nervous fright, got her husband about the neck, and he, thinking it was a thief, shot her dead. The Rev. George Brown, the wellknown pioneer of the Wesloyan Mission at New Britain. New Ireland, and Duke nt' York Islands, was a passenger to Sydney on August the «, by the steamer ilero. The ».-v. gentleman's health has been benefited by the vacation here, nml it is trusted that a idisrt stay at Sydney and the sea vovngo to Fiji will fully restore hiui, and -enable him to retarn to his scene of labour with renewed health and vigour. Mr. Brown will proceed from Sydney to Levuka, to ho present at the inquiry that Sir Arthur Gordon. High Commissioner of Polynesia, has been authorised to make into the recent event* ,at New Britain. The eloquent defence of himself and coadjutors that was.made sit Pitt-street, on Tuesday leaves little doubt that the result of Sir Arthur-Gordon's inquiry will terminate as those of the German and English naval eeinuiaivders have done.—Auckland Weekly News August Kith.

Cnmmedore Wilson, uf H.M.S. Wolverine, has sent one of his crew to gaol bu' forty-two days because ho disobeyed the order, " l-easo firing," when an attack was made on the St. <'hristoval natives. The sailor liit-d a shot after tho bugle call. The New York Herald thtie bitterly contrasts the sons of Queen Victoria with the son of the Empress Eugenie, the unfortunate Prince Imperial :—'• They dine here. They wine there. They hold a levee to-day and lay u cornerstone to-morrow. This gracious High ness is the ornament of a garden party ; that other is the cynosure at a ttnwor sh p\v. So much for the suns of the Queen. Now turn tn look at the stranger Prince. What do you see Y A dead young face that stares to the sky from a Zulu corn-

field. A body .stripped and ihwcrtnl, gashed with eighteen wounds, thu least a death and ovary one in front. A corpse borne iijwu .crossed lances, lit bier for as brace u soldier an over faced death." A German satiric*] weelrfy shows Lord lieaconsliold in ihduland talking with a Herman, oud examining tniis "i English nuumfacturo. "Is it possible," snys the Oti'jnan, " diat England sells guns f; tho Zulus -while she is fighting them:-" "On the contrary, uiy dour sir," replies Uenconstiold, "we sell them arms tirst, and then declare war. We have no other way of onc.iirnging home manufactures." The Emperor William is tee fifth nude member of thu Hohcnzollem family who has lived to Celebrate, his golden wedding.