GENERAL SUMMARY.

Te Aroha News, Volume II, Issue 61, 2 August 1884, Page 6

GENERAL SUMMARY.

London, July 5. The " Sun's" London cable special of the 2Sth says : Notwithstanding the dread of cholera, the season in London is uproariously gay. Marriage succeeds marriage in bewildering lapidity, and while the frightful heat, which has suddenly set in, interferes with balls, athletics offer compensation in being turned into gigantic picnics. Hallam Tennyson's wedding followed the novel fashion m England of being in the afternoon and marks the gradual disappearance of the wedding breakfast, %\hich is now loudly denounced from all sides as bieaking up the whole day, while at an afternoon wedding guests can do as they did after the Tennyson marriage— take a comfortable airing in the park. Oscar Wilde and his bride have returned to London, and he is reported as letting his hair grow again. The Princess Louise Ls not in good health, having neuralgic pains since her historic fal) in Canada. She goes to Marienbad. Her Majesty continues to send copies of her last book to console hospital patients. The public demand is so &mall that the librarians are offering it for 4?. The Duke of Albany left only £10,000, and the Queen has consented to pay a portion of his debts, including a share of the funeral expenses. There is a heartless clause in the grant to the Duchess, which takes away her £6,000 a year if she remarries. Another London cable special says : Frank Burges, the member of the Stock Exchange, who yesterday blew his brains out after the exchange announcement of his failure for £25,000, was one of the handsomest men in London. He was six feet three inches tall, marrio&l,and childless. He was exceedingly popular on tho exchange, and, although his failure involved a large number of brokers, nothing but sympathy is manifested concerning his misfortunes. Burgess failure was brought about entirely through his persistent bull operations. He built upon American advices that the market had reached rock bottom, and plunged heavily into purchases of American and Egyptian securities. The Congress of German brewers, which has been in session at Berlin for the past week, concluded its sessions to-day. Fifteen hundred beer manufacturers attended. Among the facts brought out were statistics of beer consumption in the German empire. These show that 6 per cent, more beer was drunk by the Kaiser's subjects last year than the year preceding. The amount used aggregated 530,000,000 gallons. The latest novelty in sport is a series of races between oxen, which have just been run in the suburbs of Munich. Unlike the bull-fights which prevail farther south on the Continent, the cruelty of this sport is chiefly toward the human participants. The oxen were saddled, bridled, and ridden i like horses by jockeys, armed with whips and spurs. The steers proved most untractable steeds, however, and all but one of the j jockeys were thrown, some of them being quite severely injured. The judge has liberated Lord St. Leonards, the British peer convicted of having criminally assaulted a servant girl. The judge thought his lordship punished sufficiently,

A conflict took place between the Jews and Armenians at Tiflis, in Southern Russia. Cossacks restored order. Despatches from St. Paul de Loanda, Africa, mention a report that Stanloy has sailed for England. The commander of the Portuguese war vessel ascended the Congo and annulled the treaties of Stanloy concluded with the natives, which granted to the African International Association sovereignty over a territory that had been doclared neutral. In the House of Commons, Lord Edward Fitzmaurice, Under-Secretary, announced that the whereabouts of Sheldon, the Englishman reported to be captured by outlaws in Kansas and held for a ransom, had not been discovered. In London a committee has been organised to dedicate a memorial window in Westminster Abbey to Dr. Charles William Siemens, the electrician. Mr J. Redmond (says the "European Mail") has brought under tho notice of the Houso of Commons tho alleged seizure and sale by Messrs W. McArthur and Co., of Auckland, of 250,000 acres of land in Samoa belonging partly to Mr Frank Cornwall and party to the native Princess Mandema, and the Samoan people asked as to what decision had been arrived at by tho Government in tho matter. Mr Ashley said that the caso was one in which tho complainant was left to his legal remedy, and not one in which the Government could interfere Threo thousand employees of tho worsted mills at Bradford have struck for higher wagos. Great disorder prevailed, and tho windows of the mills have- been smashed. The stonemasons of Bradford also struck. Tho Kolomine-llosso affair, arising out of tho inorganic marriage of the husband of tho late Princess Alico, has boon settled satisfactorily and tho marriage annulled. Mine. Kolomino has been created Countess Yon Romrod, and is to receive £23,000 and an annual income of JC 1,000. It is stipulated that she is not to resido in Germany or England. One report says that Queen Victoiia paid tho money. The Queen and Princess Beatrice loft Balmoral Castle and took a special train for Windsor. The Queen looked ■well, and it is evident that her rest in the Highlands has had a most beneficial effect upon her hoalth. Oidinarily tho Queen's return to London would bo the signal for a revival of royal levees and an increase of activity in socioty; but as the court is still in mourning for Prince Leopold, no such expectation exists, and modistes and milliners are in tho dumps. An investigation proves tho recent explosion to have been caused by an innocent occupant of the house of an electrician making experiments. Between 6 p.m. and G a.m. hereafter only the main entrance of police stations \\ ill be used. A constable is kept on special duty all the time at the entrances. Prince Wilhclm of Wurtemburg v ill visit Queen Victoiiaat Balmoral. He socks the hand of the Princess Beatrice in marriage. One hundred persons have been arrested at Kiel on a charge of Nihilism. Forty army officers are among the number. The elections for the renew al of half the members of the Belgian Chambor of Deputies resulted in the defeat of tho Liberals and the triumph of the Clericals in the chief cities. On the Continent tho chief item is tho subterranean row between France and Italy and Spain in reference to Morocco. Grevy and Ferry aro very indignant at the tone of scepticism adopted toward their pledges by the Italian and Spanish press, and a great deal of bad blood is being generated. The suicide of a Sw iss doctor at Monaco makes the thirty -second in the present season. Recent statistics give a startling view of the decay of farming in England and Wales. There were 25,964, or ten per cent, fewer, farmers in ISSI than in 1871, and eighteen per cent, more farmers' bailiffs. There were also ten per cent, fewer farm labourers. Seven men were executed at Jure/, Spain, by garrotte, for Black Hand Socialist outrages. The sentence of five others has been commuted to imprisonment for life. One has become insane, and one Avho had turned informer has committed suicide. The smallpox epidemic continues to spread throughout tho metropolitan districts. Already there have- been about 1,700 cases. The daily reports show a rate of seventy live per week. Parnell has been threatened with assassination if the dynamite outrages are contin.ued. It is said he has received several anonymous letters, and that each of tho writers warned him that an attempt would be made on his life unless the dynamiters ceased their outrage. Parnell refuses to condemn tho dynamiters, although appealed to by the English press. He said it was none of his business ; that the w ay.s of the dynamiters are not his ways, but that he has not, and his friends say he willjnot, condemn them in Parliament. Tho Australian cricketer aro making themselves very unpopular by their grasping ways and discourteous manners. After receiving nearly £1,400 the other day for gate money at one of their matches and their lunches free, they refused a small subscription for a cricket charity. Earl Spencer, Lord lieutenant, has staited for Belfast, where a meeting has been called by Orangemen to protest against the order regarding public demonstration?. There is great excitement in Belfast, and the absence of decorations is generally remarked. On one of the buildings the Union Jack is half-masted. Another is suspended across the street through which Spcncei passes with tho following words upon it : — " Remember Newry and Rossmore." Four hundred extra police and a troop of lancers have- arrived. Earl Spencer, on arrival, was received with great enthusiasm. The Orangemen of Newry, on July 1, celebrated the one hundred and ninetyfourth anniversary of the battle of the Boyne. On the hills bonfires blazed, and also in various parts of tho town. A procession, preceded by brass bands, marched thiough the streets carrying an elfigy marked, " The Traitor Lundy," which was afterwards burned. The police disporsed a crowd of Nationalists. A residence has been engaged for Emperor William in Gastein, Austria. Ho is expected to arrive there on July 15th, and will probably meet Emperor Francis Joseph at Salsburg. It is currently reported that a meeting will scon take place at Dantzic between the Emperor of Germany and the Czar. The Queen and Mr Gladstone are constantly quarrelling about trifles, which is the old lady's way of avenging her impotence to direct the Premier's policy. Their last trouble is about the appointment of lord in waiting. The Queen wants a man of her own, who is a Tory, while Gladstone insists on a Liberal. There are renewed reports about the betrothal of Princess Beatrice to German Princes, but they are strenuously denied. The Dutch Chamber has agreed to obtain a credit of 1,500,000 florins, to be used to enlarge the Dutch naval force at Acheen, , Sumatra, with a view to invigorated action against the dependencies of that colony and the rescue of the crew of the steamer Nieero,