VICTORIAN NEWS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 224, 17 January 1880, Page 3

VICTORIAN NEWS.

F. McPherson, of New Zealand, bought several fillies at a sale of thoroughbred horses held at Flemiogton.

It is proposed to add a genetal system of life insurance to the Postal Department.

Mrs Boldt, the wife of the captain of the schooner Mooibnrg, was presented with a handsome gold locket and a purse of sovereigns by a number of citizens in ‘ recognition of her herioc conduct during the voyage from China t© Australia. The Insurance Companies aso presented her with a.purse of sovereigns, A warrant is out for the arrest of Alex•ander F." GMg, head clerk to Jas. Patterson and Co., Coal Merchants. He disappeared on New Year’s Eve. It is proposed to hold a public meeting " in Melbourne to organise extensive snb-l-scriplions towards the Lush Relief Fund. * • Mrs -George Darrell, long connected with t the Australian stage, died on January 3rd Her funeral was largely attended. At a fete at Stawell on New Year’s Day, Gough, a competitor in the sports, charg d Murphy, the starter, with unfairness. Gough insisted on fighting him after the ' sports. At the first blow which Murphy struck, .Dough. fell dead. His death resulted from excitement.

. ’FRISCO NEWS. The Presbyterian Synod of Long Island, by a two-thirds vote, sustained Dr Talmage by dismissing the appeal from the decision of the Presbytery. In this oasehe won’t secede.

The Vatican has congratulated the Irish clergy on their attitude with reference to the political situation in Ireland.

The "Government has granted pensions of LsoQto the widow, and LIOO to the mother of Sir Louis Gavagnari, who was murdered at Cabul.

An Englishman won a seven days bicycle race at Chicago, after allowing his opponent a handicap of one hundred miles.

Three men were killed and several wounded by a boiler explosion on hoard H.M.S. Pelican.

Humbert, a returned communist, states', the torture is practised in New Haledonia.

The Imperial Government is forming a reserve of 10,000 men in Canada, composed of Dominion militia for service at home and abroad.

A brigade of pioneers and surveyors have left France to prepare for cutting the Panama canal. The New Bedford , whaling barque Mercury was broken up and abandoned in lat. 71 and long. 172, on October 11th. The crew were brought to ’Frisco by the whaler Helen. A severe Arctic winter has set in and fears are entertained for the entire whaling fleet ■during 1879. This consists of 30 fishing vessels belonging to Gloucester Massachusscts, with 240 lives. Relief contributions are being made tor the widows and orphans. The General Council of Switzerland were memorialised to take steps to suppress Mormonism, but decline in view of the promise that, the American Government will suppress polygamy at Utah. During a recent cyclone in the Bay of Bengal a storm wave swept over Monkishal Island, drowning several people. British funds are being applied to Mdbe relief of starving ' Mussulman in \ Eastern Ronmelia. _ The steamer Go-ahead., engaged in towing Nicholl’s patent slip, had to cut them adrift to secure safety, and the progress of that much-needed work tat Livuka is retarded in consequence.