ENGLISH NOTES.

Te Aroha News, Volume IV, Issue 160, 28 August 1886, Page 5

ENGLISH NOTES.

(FROM OUE LONDON OOBRESPONDENT.) ' The Rev. F. B. Dutton and J. Edwards, of 'theUuited Methodist Free Church, have f been appointed to the New Zealand Mission - contingent on their passing the fina' examination before the Connexional Committee next week. Mr Gilbert, the famous Gloucestershire cricketer, was caught in the act of stealing > money from clothing in the Cheltenham cricket pavillion, and has been sentenced > to a month's hard labour. A gentleman farmer has been sentenced, ■ at Chesterfield, to three weeks imprisonment for starving a cow. At Rouen, a gentleman, whose wife had - run away from him, discovered her sing■in a theatre. Drawing a revolver he shot her dead on the stage. A panic occurred; - and the husband was arrested. A mummy, recently discovered in Egypt, was unwound in, the presence of the Khe- - dive, and turned out to be one of the Pharaohs, Rameses 111., who lived twelve hun- ■ dred ysars before Christ. The Emperor of China, who is fifteen .years of age, has. just been selecting three brides from thirty-two ladies assembled at his palace. As the ttain neared Swansea, the driver observed two children playing on the line. The elder child ran away, leaving her sister, aged two yearei by herself. The little child became frightened, and fell across the metals, where she lay apparently paralysed.- It becoming evident that the engine would, not stop in time, the stoker jumped" off, ran" in front, and enatched up ' ~the child just as 'the lifeguard of the engine ouched. her. Another instant and the child would have been cut in two. A man 102 years of age has just insured his life. His father, he says, lived to be 110 years of age, and his grandfather 133. . ■ Two creatures from Burtnah, covered entirely with hair, and said to be human beings, are on exhibition in London.A Parisian doctor has coined the word " Ultremia," as the name of an illness, whicn he says, has as its most marked symptiom " an unconquerable aversion to getting out of bed in the morning." At last a lady — Mrs Mary Emily Dowson, — is legally qualified to practise as a member of a College of Surgeons in Great Britain, she having recently obtained the diploma of the Dublin College. Mrs Dowson is the wife of a practical engineer in < London, and was educated at the London School of Medicine for Females. She attended the various lectures and fulfilled the prescribed duties— which wouldinclude dissecting, dressing wounds, &c, and assisting postmortem examinations — required by the London College of Surgeons. She Is possessed of the "double " qualification — that is, the right to practise both medicine and surgery ; as she had previously obtained the licentiateship of the King's and .-Queen's College of Physicians in Ireland. Before this, ladies have been compelled to practise on the strength of the University degrees, because the examining corporations would not admit them to the tests. Mrs Garrett Anderson managed to compel the Society of Apothecaries to exatnine her, and got their diploma ; but the right, of which she had availed herself, was at once withdrawn from the rest of her sex. The ex-Khedive of Egypt, I6tnail Pacha, has lodged a formidable claim on the Egyptian Exchequer, amounting to some £260,000 a year, and the restitution of private property, or a sum equivaleat to both of these item 3 and expressed in millions. It is averred that the claimant has secured the favourable opinions of- some very eminent counsel ; and he bases his claims on an annuity of the above amount promised in return for the cession of valuable Egyptian lands, and on the value of property of his that was confiscated after his abdication. On the other hand Ismail's accounts are disputed, the alleged promise is said not to have been legally ratified. Egypt has since been declared bankrupt j six years have gone by since the transactions in question took place, and, to crown all, Ismail is credited with having been 'the cause of the financial ruin of his country, and his original title to what he now claims is said to have been exceedingly shaky. His chanceß of success do not seem to be great.