NEWS IN BRIEF.

Temuka Leader, Issue 946, 4 May 1882, Page 2

NEWS IN BRIEF.

Up to last Monday 61,767 had visited the Exhibition in Christchurch. A. man burned his own. house dowa in Auckland because his wife eloped with another.

A free thought hall was opened in Dunedin last Sunday. Mr Stout lectured on freethought.

The schooner Kakino has been sent by the Government in search of the missing vessel Min-y-don. The Farmers' Co-operative Association recently formed in Cnristchurch numbers 750 members already.

A report heard at the Bluff from Stewart's Island leads to the supposition that a volcanic eruption has taken place there.

O'Brien failed in Auckland last Saturday to perform the task of walking 75 miles in 12 hours owing to ilt health.

Four larrikins in Christchurch last Saturday night set upon two men and beat them severely. A stroke of a stone destroyed the ear of one man. The managing director of the East Coast Land Settlement Company has been advised that 15,000 shares of £5 each have been sold at par in England.

A man named Robert Hudson com - mitted suicide at Kaiapoi last Saturday by stabbing himself iu the arm with a penknife. He had been subject to drink.

The Rev. Father Garin, of Nelson, adjourned a meeting of his parishioners so that they might be able to attend a concert in aid of the persecuted Jews of Russia.

It has transpired that the injuries from a gun sustained by T. Dodson, of iSTelson, supposed to have been the result of an accident, were inflicted by himself iu an attempt to comm auieide.

The residents of Fiji have petitioned for self Government.

Twenty miners were killed in the Durham Colliery explosion. The native mob in Egypt have assaulted the European settlers. Comio papers have been suppresed in Germany for ridiculing the Government. The Conservatives of England have a scheme on foot to buy out Irish landlords. Heavy rain fell in Otago last Tuesday. The Outram train was stopped by the flood. A movement to grant state assistance to families willing to emigrate is on foot in England. Father O'Hiugins on a charge of inciting to murder has been committed for trial in Galway.

Seven new Cardinals, including Archbishop McCaba, of Dublin, have been created at Koine.

The electors of Northampton demand that Mr Bradlaugh be heard at the Bar <s£ the House of Commons. Twenty of a gang of men who attacked a house in Kerry were wounded and arrested by the police. Mr Bradlaugh is earnestly requested to preside over the International Freethought Congress at Rome. For the week ended April Ist, no less than three cold-blooded murders were committed in San Francisco. Arthur Herbert, a landleaguer, was shot dead at Cartle Island, in Kerry. Three men have been arrested on sus-

picion. The Land Leaguers of the United States and British Columbia contributed £22,000 during the month of

March. The town of Essey, in Hungary, has been destroyed by fire. Three hundred and fifty houses weie consumed, and nine lives lost. It has transpired that Ismael Pasha, ex-Khedive, was the instigator of the murder of Arabi Pasha in Egypt, and his civil list has consequently been

Btopped. In Dorsetshire the inhabitants desecrated and wrecked the Roman Catholic Church. The police were powerless and - the military had to be called out to suppress the riot. It is believed the Fenians intend to blow up the London North Woolwich tunnel which passes under the Docks, and the police force has been largely increased in the locality. Mass meetings protesting against the detention of American citizens in Irish prisons have been held in America. The London Times says the attempt to excite indignation against England has failed.

A woman in Dunedin walked into a Louse in daytime and took £l6 worth of jewellery. She appeared in the police Court on Tuesday and was remanded. Eobberies are boauming frequent in that city. \ By an appalling earthquake at Costa Rica the towns of Alauguor, San Rowan, Greca and Herdia, were destroyed. Thousands of the inhabitants were swallowed up. The scene of the calamity is a nest of volcanoes. Sir Charles Dilke, Mr Fawcett, and Mr Chamberlain walked out of the House ©n a Cabinet resolution being introduced on the 25th by the Premier for the customary marriage vote to Prince Leopold's widow should she survive him. Therens some fuss also because Mr Bright kept his hat on while the Queen's message concerning an allowance to Prince Leopold was

being read. I Father Feehan, at Rathdowney, Queen's County, Ireland, having read t at a meeting papers purporting to be written by the Bishop of Nevada to the effect that had he been imprisoned as a suspect he would have issued a manifesto calling the people to arms instead of urging them to pay no rent, was put jJßder a bond for £4OO, or go to prison for six months. He was sent to jail, Blaryborough tradesmen closed their shops, although it was market '.'ay. Sydney Tawhanga, accompanied by Hare Hangi Hakn, son of the famous Hongi, and Hakena Paora, have left Auckland for England, to lay a petition on the native grievances before the Queen. They take presents of greenstone and whalebone meres, mats, etc., also baskets of Maori manufacture, dyed with nitiiu, kohai and other pigments, for the Queen's grandchildren. Paora's - grandfather, old Paora, pays the expenses of the mission, £3OO. The potitition to the Queen complains of breaches of the Treaty of Waitangi.