REVOLUTION IN BRAZIL. Rio Janeiro, December 1.

Te Aroha News, Volume II, Issue 425, 4 December 1889, Page 4

REVOLUTION IN BRAZIL. Rio Janeiro, December 1.

It has now transpired that General Fonseca refused to confer with the Emperor Pedro before the latter took his departure.

Strange as io may seem, sea captains who arewrecklessare the moat Dopular with com panics Th * press and people of Johannesberg, agoldneld township in South Africa, are considerably exercised in consequence of the decision of the Transvaal Government to enforce the closing of licensed public houses on Sundays. One thirsty journalist says : "On Sunday evening last about 600 people assembled at Fillis' Circus to witness Mr Cam Severn's capital entertainment, and we would ask what harm could have been done in allowing the audience to obtain the much-needed refreshment? We cannot imagine any reason why they should not be allowed to obtain refreshments." The Port Elizabeth «■ Telegraph' " commenting on the above, says:— 41 Sunday prize fights, Sunday night concerts, Sunday legerdemain, and clowns in evening dress singing songs of pathetic sentimentality ought surely to be sufficient to kill what to the choice spirits and advanced thinkers of Johannesburg, are the weary, dreary hours of a Sabbath evening. But no Even these are poor solaces for Transvaal go-aheadism. The journalists, speaking for hundreds of desiccated throats, • cannot see any tenable objection to allowing persons the opportunity of obtaining refreshment on Sunday as well as on a wsek day.' Just so ; but the Government, in the interests of peace, law, order, sobriety, morality, and ordinary reverence for the day, see every possible objection to it."