MICELLANEOUS NOTES.

Te Aroha News, Volume V, Issue 237, 14 January 1888, Page 4

MICELLANEOUS NOTES.

The Government haB'i^questod':Momson, ; the leader of the crofter mo venaent/tb go, to British Columbia aud' report upon the i' suitability of that country for settlement by i, his following. lithe, report be favourable^ Government will assist the crofters' td, emigrate to that country. , , Balfour was vigorously kissed during his address at Manchester on Deoember 14th. Because of the warning of a plot, to assassinate him, the hall was Btrongly guarded, , and a line of police extended from the town hall to the hotel, where .he slept under guard. Tho " Eighty" Club gave a banquet to Earl Granville in London on December 13. In the course of his speech, the Earl said, if the Government undertook lo settle the Irish question upon a reasonable basis of self-government, they "would have the hearty support of the Liberals. The "Pall Mall Gazette " of Docember 13, says that General Willoughby, until leccnlly Ambassador of Madagascar in • London, was convicted on his return to the former place of embezzlement of £12,000, and sentenced to imprisounient for an indefinite period. A true verdict for murder was. found against Dan Doherty for the' killing of Colonel Graham by shooting, at the Criterion Restaurant, Piccadilly, by the coroner's jury on December 13th. Doherty pleaded accident, which the coroner disposed of by saying that the second shot tired at Graham forbade the idea o .1 accidental shooting. Doherty has been arraigned for murder, and will formally be tri^d in January, Sir Charles Russell, Q.C. and barristers Besley and G. T. Gill have been retained for the defence. The seed and oil mills at Duffield were destroyed by fire on ' December 12. Los?, £150,000. Armstrong, Brothers and Co., operators in iron, failed in Glasgow, December 9th, owing to a rise in pig. John L. Sullivan, the American pugilist, boxed with Joe Ashton in the presence of the Prince of Wales on December 9th. The Prince is represented to have been delighted with the Bostonian's work. He presented him with a watch. A meeting of the Baptist Union will soon be held to take action concerning the withdrawal of Rev. Mr. Spurgeon from that body because be does not consider it on an evangelical basis. Adeline Patti, who was reported suffering from cancer in her home at Craigy-Nos, gave a farewell concert in London on Dec. b"th, previous to leaving for her tour in South America. A number of Bradford firms have received notice from correspondents in Germany and other countries on the Continent that Volapuk, the new universal language, will be used after a certain date. Kindon's extensive floorcloth factory in Bermo'ndsey was destroyed by fire on Dec. sth ; loss, £250,000. Twenty- two persons were drowned in a hurricane on Dee. 10th, off the Orkney Islands. On the re-asßembling of Parliament, Bradlaugh will move for a committee to inquire whether or nob Salisbury sent a cheque to assist the fair trade meetings in Tratalgar Square in 1886. The Royal London Yacht Club will not challenge for the American cup, being deterred on account of the new conditions laid down by the surviving donors of the " American "Club. - The London "Times" of December 7th publishes a letter from a landed proprietor near Dolgelly, Wales, which says that the result of a hundred men's work 'for several months has been the stoping of 2,500 tons of ore, which, it is estimated, will yield 6ozs. of gold to the ton. The letter also says that thousands of tons of rock, richly laden with gold, are ready for stoping. An application on December 7th for a warrant against Mr Bradlaugh for perjury in the Lord Salisbury afFair was refused, as the matter was not vital in the case in which Mr Bradlaugh gave evidence. On December 7th, Mr Labouchere received from an unknown corre s pondent two bags containing 10,000 new sixpences, accompanied by a letter asking that he distribute the coins among the children of the London workhouses, and their schools and infirmaries. Mr Labouchere is made an almoner* in this way every year, but has no knowledge of the party. Negotiations between England and France looking to co-operation in the working of the Channel telegraph wires, promise to result favourably. France, as well as England, refuses to renew the concession to the Sub-Marine, Company, which, thus nonplussed, will be obliged to sell on England's terms. England, it is thought, would reduce the rate, to twopenc eper word. The Northampton factories began a \o?k-, out of 15,000 men oh December slh. ! The project of the late Sir James Mathewson, to convert the Island of Levia into productive property and "to improve the condition ot the inhhbitants has fallen through, owing to the indifference aad laziness of the crofters. . It is now relegated to deer forests. Mathew'son spent £280,000 before he' abandoned his first idea. The British Consul at Genoa has received instructions to rent a villa at San Reiuao, 'where the invalid Crown Prince of Germany is, for tyieen Victoria., She will take possession m January or later. Lord Salisbury 501d,,- December 2, the fee of property in Cecil and Salisbury Streets, | the Strand, London, comprising over 83,000 | square feet, for £200,000. When Bradlaugh, was cross-examined in the London Police' Cp,urt,' December 2nd, in the Graham-Trafalgar Square case, he was asked by counsel for the Government i whether ,he remembered ,tho meeting in Trafalgar Square in 3 885, which resulted in a detachment of the crowd looting the, 'shops. He replied, "Yes; the meeting ! was got up and paid Jjor by Salisbury., I have seen the cheque."\Salisbury promptly I pronounced the statement absolutely uniourided. [ Dean Seb.tt, the great Greek scholar, i died in London, December 2. A sh'6ck of earthquake was felt at Chorley, Co. Lancaster, JEn gland, on the morning of December 2; Buildings were shaken,. f an,d'fpeople ,Jeft p their- homes ; affrighted/" '"

• , IRELAND. ; he " Mojening Post", of .Desember 3, printed a story^ to tb.e effect that American i Fenian^ had planned t6'n\urd.ei* Lord .Hart- „] ington and Mr Goschen' on their tour in J Ireland, i or to carry theta 'into the Wicklow Mo'untaihs'd'B' 'hostages for' the release' of ' political" prisoners; v-butv -but ' the plot' failed through' minor changes in HartingtpnVline ' j bf ! travel,' arid t the,VatehfiilrfeWof thk'p'olice. ' JTh6* r plan wa's'Jtb '^remove rails on the fdaii j betwee'ii iCingst'own an'd-B l ii''bHri, I ,atVd" irl'th'e, pxciteriierit of the n wreck ?r thaf followed t'6' ire-4htd: f tHe >l^rria^e<ocq i upiM-.by' ll fcKe ! 'j ! 3tf gU^vftitbri. < Flilrnf W, p to 1 caWre { I ib6!^arti^Bodilyi;^d $upf th'emfpfi *\ into' rio'uni&inßj'ft la, th'o ttri'gan'ds of tne^brhzzi^" arredte'd *kti Trit-' ! eS- '6h !JfsBfab&Jk»iiiFM]ilfe^ : l^Wspap^er ' pr 66e v edi)&s J ot, v {iHe : 'siipjfjresseci 1 )fa / n6ltof the'Letpe throxighorip Kerry/',! 'ParrielHs'f ivxtigincOgMmri tlie Vill W it ! Jraßkiyn^eii^na^th^ n^ni'eHjf'^resißn';' : lis^e'alblHsf^rv^liQ'^e^" l^ <: 13 / ti -'* u }* , Thfe «insftrik6ninent 'of'-^ord^Mayor tM^i

stir in Irish political circles. Ho was re- 1 i moved to, .Tdllamore,- /ori, Decemtierji whi Sexton, on the Ist December, was unanimously elected Lord Mayor to succeed Sul,livan. ' .•• . ' i Eight persons who~ were present at the 'famous midnight meeting of the Nationalists of Woodford; (were sentenced otfDecember sth to various terms of imprisonment. Their counsel raised a rumpus, and was for cibly ejected irom the court-i'6om. There was a numerous meeting of Orangemen at Belfast on December 3rd, at} the Government was urged to introduce a bill to disqualify men who have been imprisoned from sitting in Parliament. A warrant is out for the arrebt of James Cilhooly, M.P., who has taken refuge With Pyne in his castle, : ' Most Key. John Power, Catholic Bishop , of Waterford, died December sth. Cleavy, one of the men charged ' with complicity in the murder of Constable Whelchan, at Lisdoonvarna, County Clare, has been acquitted for want of evidence. O'Leary and -four other prisoners were found guilty. The libel suit of Joyce against the Marquis of Clanricarde, hid former employer, for £10,000 damages, resulted in a verdict for the plaintiff. The Marquis will have, to pay in reduced damages £2,000. The memorial to the Manchester Martyrs was inveiled at Limerick on December 9bh. The police were surprised, and did not interfere. Six thousand persons were present. The delegates of the Scotch Home Rule Union, who have been making a tour of Ireland, returned to Glasgow on December 9th, and report that the Irish people are eager for peace, that their demands are moderate, and that the National League is the chief agency for the maintenance of law and order. The delegates believe the present measuros taken oy the Government are unavailing. • ' ' In consequence of the imprisonment of his colleague, Sexton, Mayor of Dublin, will abandon the usual shrievalty, banquet, and distribute £100 among the poor instead. Mandeville, political prisoner, Tullamore gaol, was recently subjected to a broad and water diet for forty-eight hours for refusing to clean his cell, Edward Harrington was sentenced, at Tralee, on December Bth, to three months' imprisonment, without hard labour, on the charge of publishing reports of meetings of suppressed branches of the National League. The court offered to release Harrington on his own recognizances if he would agree not to publish any more reports of meetings, but the prisoner refused to give any such promise. . . Three hundred peVsbna have bought their holdings of the Duke of Aberconvs estate, in Tyrone and" Donegal; on the 'basis' 6t tweniy years' rental. The amount involved is £300,000. The sale has rediiced the Abercorn estate to one-third. Payne, M. P., who'hod been barricaded in Liefinny Castle resisting the efforts of the police to arrest him, left his fortification early on the morning of December 13, eluding the police sentinels, arid taking the car that was awaiting him to drive to an unknown place. The police scoured the country for him.