MISCELLANEOUS NEWS ITEMS.

Te Aroha News, Volume IV, Issue 160, 28 August 1886, Page 3

MISCELLANEOUS NEWS ITEMS.

The concentration of German troop 3 , toward the frontier continues, but a Berlin '■ correspondent says that Gerniany is more bent on preventing the alliance of France and Russia than upon bringing about a war between herself and France at present. Jacob Gaudaur will row Beach, the Australian oarsman, on the Thames on September 18th for £1,000 a side and the championship of the world. Howard Vincent has written a letter to the newspaper?, in which he quotee from hia yearly reports while Director of Criminal Investigation, in order to prove the urgent necessity for an extradition treaty with the United States directed entirely against Feniana and dynamiters. At the second day's sale of the Blenheim pictures, Tenier's gallery, of 120 small paintings brought £10,000. The prices were satisfactory, The purchasers were mostly dealers. The parents of Eliza Armstrong, the young girl who figured so conspicuously in the "Pall Mall Gazette 3 ' ©xpoaure, have arranged to bring a suit for $40,000 damages against Stead, the editor of the •• Gazette,its, publishers and General Booth of the Salvation Army. The, claim will be 1 for libel on the girl's parents and for assaulting the child. The balloon " Torpillon," which is fitted out with a patent steering and profiling apparatus, and in which the aeronaut L'flost and the Astronomer Mangot ascended from Cherbourg, France, at 11 o'clock on July 29, descended in London at 6 o'clock on the 30th. The navigators re-? turn to Cherbourg, and will attempt a voyage from that place to Norway. A number of journalists have been in* dieted ,by the Government *or breaches of the Prees law in publishing documents relating to the Sarauw case when it was on trial in the courts. Captain Sarauw was convicted of furnishing to France regularly, while he was in the German military service, all information he could obtain concerning German fortifications and armaments. „ / -c " m , ' • „: The French , Government' has ordered 60,000 repeating .rifles to, be distributed among the troops before August, t This action is -, attributed » to the conduct of Germany, in arming her : battalions in Alsace Lorraine Mth similar wea pons, r , <<s ,a

..In some^thingsii'-apparently,! thw, British colony is "a long way behind Japan. In that gwsi'ibavbarous > oountry we., are told that- sixteen, .Agricultural have beenig^afelish^d, »s!iH&n sjha}l v ,wes£h,aye t a Parliament sufficiently enlightened > to talce WW<^^k fitfSfiHffiftdflJ 1 education