FROM OUR EXCHANGES.

Temuka Leader, Volume 2, Issue 118, 1 February 1879, Page 2

FROM OUR EXCHANGES.

Native opinion at Bombay is strongly in favour of I lie Indian Government annexing Afghanistan. The British troops at Cundahar and Jellalabad are well prepared for a winter campaign.

General Primrose, advancing from Candahar, is rapidly approaching Cabal. The most important fortress on the route was occupied without resistance.

The military authorities have determined to supervise all telegrams and correspondents’ letters sent from the advance column. Where Aii is now in Russian territory. lie ■will be hospitably received, but not materially assisted by the Russian Government. A disturbance lias occurred- between the Russians and Chinese on (ho frontier.

There is great distress am >ngst the working classes of Glasgow and ShetlioKl, The charges of theft and embezzlement against the directors of the Glasgow Bank were abandoned.

The new Turkish Prime Minister proposes the reduction of the army, and the decentralization of the provinces. Victoria will support New South Wales and ‘.Queensland in regulating Chinese immigration.

A New South Wales Chinese Bill imposes a landing tax of Ll‘i per head. The weather in Victoria, South Australia, is fearfully hot, and bush fires are raging. The International Exhibition at Sydney will be opened on Sept. Ist. The buildings will cost £IO,OOO. 250,000 feet of space hare been applied for by European exhibitors.

The insurrection in New Caledonia is said to be completely suppressed. .Both hostile and friendly natives committed acts of cannibalism.

Rust has greatly injured the crops in South Australia. Wheat, is not expected to average more than seven bushels per acre. Over a million English capital has been lei i out- in land in Adelaide. A very unhealthy sympathy with the Kelly gang exists throughout Beech worth. Moln.mrne larrikins re-enact the Kollv’s doings n the low parts of the city, and the theatres of Telbniirne and Sy ln»w bur’osque the faiilurj of the police to capture the gang. Mr Varley i.s in Dunedin, ills addresses attract great crowds. Ho spoke very strongly on the exclusion of Die Bible from schools, e.mraetericung it as the greatest disgrace to the colony. The question of Bible reading in school was made a strong “ ticket " at the election of committees in and about Dune 1 in. Twelve hundred tons of goods passed inwards through Moorehouse Tunnel last Tuesday, in four trains.

The suburbs of Christchurch have suffered much from sickness during the past month, the death rate being' 100 per cent, over the average. The city itself has not suffered similarly. A company has been formed, and a directory appointed for the building and conducting a large temperance hotel in Christchurch.

It is reported that the dead body of a specimen of the NotornU lias been found on the Maroaroa diver. Southland. The bird was supposed to have become extinct, only two specimens having been previously found, and these are in the .British Museum. The Nutornis was about as large as a turkey, similar in shape of body and head to the pukaki, and beautifully variegated in colour. The early explorers obtained the two specimens now in London from this Island.

A] fire at Greytown, Wairarapa, on Tuesday, caused damages estimated at L 12,000. A heavy bush lire is raging around Caterton, in the same district. A tender for the erection of new railway workshops at Addington has been accepted. Two new locomotives of the “Saladin” pattern have recently arrived at Lyttelton. At the Christchurch Police Court a man was sent to prison for three months with hard labour for begging, lie had induced a tradesman, by spinning a pitiful yarn, to give him a shilling. He had only just come from gaol, and was without not money. The work of relaying the main lino with steel rails is progressing as quickly as possible. About four miles have been laid south of the Selwyn. It is expected that it will take four months to relay the line as far as Ashburton. The directorate of the Colonial Bank this week declared a dividend of eight per cent., besides carrying L 9120 forward and to reserve.

The crops throughout the Mataura district are reported to be in fine condition, and and a heavy yield is expected. Round Invercargill the crops arc not first rate, but grass is very plentiful. The much talked of case, Jones v. Wilson, Principal of the Wellington College, was heard on Thurcday. Plaintiff was nurse in Wilson’s family, and afterwards matron of the College. Defendant caused her to be dismissed, and swore an information against her as being of unsound mind and labouring under delusions. One of these was that he had frequently made improper overtures to her, but the p aintiff said a person now in Christchurch could testify that he had done so. Judgment was given for plaintiff with costs. The claims were for illegal detention of effects, and for wages in lieu of notice. Mr Field, Mayor of Blenheim, is to be called to account for threatening to kick a settler out of the Mechanics’ Institute. The Old Men’s Home at Ashburton is said to be thoroughly disorganised. The master is to receive a month’s notice. Evidence taken by Mr March went to show that the inmates of the Home were in the habit of going out, getting drunk, coming in late through windows, and fighting generally, and that the master of the Home allowed such things to go on knowingly. The nor’-wester of Thursday was felt pretty severely at Oamaru and Dunedin. A heavy stone chimney was blown down in Oamaru, falling through the roof. The in mates of the house had a very narrow escape.

Recently, within six weeks twentyfour thousand rabbit-skins were delivered at the "Wnutwood station. This represents a value to die rnbhitters of two hundred pounds. Not such a ba i paying game after all ; and as a further proof of (his we learn that a rahbiter trapping on Croydon station has within the last month earned twenty-five pounds. Yet, with a I tins s ; anghter, the nuisance does i!"t mv.virunlly abate one jot.— ‘ Erne Herald.’ Th-' ‘ Taranaki News ’ s-ivs :—Matter* are not so peaceful at Waiimte as we could wish thorn to b■. Some of the worst of the Maoris thereabout are growing insolent, and a feeling is gaining ground among European ohsnver- that aPbough th 1 survey of the district may not be interfered with, a stand will be made against European sotbement. We do nor wish to be alarmists, and we sincere] v hope that these anticipations may not be realist d, but we cannot close our ears fo all that is sad on t !, o subject. The Standard of Eohrdm is the title of a new journal started with the object of advocating the idsotdy of tlm Britsh nation with the kingdom of Israel. The question has a tractod the attention and interest of so large a portion of the L umceston public that the spa-e accorded to its discussion iu the columns of the local journals is not now considered sufficient fo meet the requirements, hence the establishment of this serial. The publisher is Mr J. S. V. Turner, Brishanestreet, Launceston, Tasmania, and the journal wi 1 be brought out on the Ist <md Isth of each month. Surgeon David has expound ’d before the Academy of Sciences his new system of dentistry. He extracts (he diseased tooth, (deans it with chemicals, replaces it in the gum, where, in nineteen cases out of 20. it r • mots. It is tho sumo process employed now by surg ons for grafting hones and flesh. It is stated that a well-known and weahlty Hiwke’s Bay mu-chant lost LOO,OOO by the failure of the Glasgow Batik. S > large are his resources however, that this heavy hiss did not even temporarily embarrass him. Some 200 men (says “Afticns”in the ‘Leader ) are employed in trying to capture the four youthful bushrangers, and still they are at large. I don’t want to enquire whether tho police and detec-' fives are inefficient, or whether the Kelly gang are too clever for them, but rather to contemplate the matter from a purely business aspect. “It is an ill wind that bums nobody good,” and certainly the endeavour to capture the outlaws has financially bene fitted the district in which they are located. Money has circn'ated fre ly. and an impetus lias been given to the tnde of up-country sleepy hollows. Ot course, on the score of morality, the inhabitants i f BeruUla and Mansfield have no sympathy with the evil deeds of the K.-llys, but iwhile attempts to take the bushr mgers arc accompanied by such an open-Irmded expenditure of Government money, from a business point of view, they would not object to the presence of a couple of desperadoes in tiicir midst all the year round.

The followimr anecdote is told to show the informal and domestic manners cf t!ie Crown Prince of G -Timmy, and th * rigul etiquette of the Gemini Court : (toy, at a ball in, Potsdam, the !< Judd not find iho Prince, and, meeting tlie Empress, asked where her husband could possibly be. ‘ I do not know where your husband is, ’ said the Empress, ‘ hut I can ted you where the Crown Prince G.’ The Princess made no reply, but soon after seeing her husband she complained of the rebuke she had re-

ceived. The Prince bit his bps, and walking up to the Empress, said : ‘Mamma, will yon please be good enough to tell me where my w ife is V An important discovery of rich deposits-' of phosphate of lime has been made.in Ottawa County, Canada, and the pi ice of land within the supposed area of the deposit has gone up enormously on the chance of if# containing the valuable mineral Quite 3 new industry has suddenly sprung up iit contequeiice; ‘rushes ’ of speculators ami labourers are taking place towards the district, and ail is activity and bustle. The ‘lumber’ trade is quite neglected in face of the new source of wealth ; new roads are being cut in all directions, and fresh country is rapidly being op-ned up. In Templeton alone some three hundred men and fifty trams of horses are engaged in removing the phosphate, besides large numbers in Hull, Wakefield, Portland, and other places. Large quantities of the phosphate of lime have been shipped to England, and to the Continent, where its quality has been highly approved. The care displayed by producers ami shippers iu the dressing and sorting of their produce h is placed Ottawa pnosphate iu the first rank, and it is believed that the new workings will develope into the largest and richest in any part of America.