LONDON GOSSIP.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1552, 12 February 1887, Page 3

LONDON GOSSIP.

I ■ (From,.the Press,) .. j LoNnoir,.Dec.,Bo. : , < The; Jubilee iprvice in St Paul’i Oathedral will be on a truly, magmfioenfc scale. The' ode will be by, Lord. Tennyson, and the imueio by, Sir. Arthur .Sullivan, j , - < : - : A clerk'got'into a rMlway bafriaie. the ! other day with a bag containing £7OO in cash, which he waa ’ tb pay away as wages to the . workmen of the firm with which he waa ; connected. After a time two men got into the same carriage with another bag, the very counterpart of the one in the olerk’a posaeasion,, The, bags were cleverly changed," and the two men got out at the first atation; The clerk was horrified to find that the bag that waa left contained only 1 iron aorewa and bolts, the men having bolted with the cash. Arrangementa have been made for/widening the She* Canal. From Port Said to the Bitter Lakes it will be’44'metres, and from thence to Suez 65‘metres in width, and by this means much Convenience will be : aifforded/-' ■“ "' 1 A new Boyal warrantjwill f be issued, next month revising the pay in the army. It will alio notify a ‘scheme to.facilitate proinbtioni •; When the' young Lord Olifden -became poaaeiied •of Dover House, he must needs sell a valuable Louis Seise table te a dealer for £I6OO. It : » estimated 1 that it is worth £IO,OOO. However,; the property was not hiaybat his mother's, and on ■ setting us a plea of Infancy the table baa been restored, much to the diguet of the dealer,,. ~, The famous Thames Embankment is to be extended up stream. . The..,extension will commence from the Putney Bridge ;■ up, to Barnes, and will be a great boon to the neighborhood./ „; ‘ , Many.farmers are going in for silos now-a-days. One man inventjed a sort of tank, by-which he collected the juices that ran from the, ataok* floipe laborers improved the oocaeion, and, by fermenting thi* liquor, obtained what they called silo beer,” with which , they ipade themselves indeed. ' : The following uriique Instance of gratitude; and generosity ribtebinedi is reported s Al Mr T; Abbott;aboiler-toaker at Nottingbara,; failed, and hia workmori volunteered a week’s. labor free, as some assistance to him in* ihia> etoergenoy, . -The. offer waa gratefully.ap- j Ceptsi.-Soh-'.-.iMry :-.)7 vm' t ! The humble face, is,popularly stated to bo; an iddispensablcjertjliwr; of. clover. , Profesior Skelton; noticesi, that, in gansaa tbo; crop* of clover, seed'afle ,^ better than jii any other par.t ot tfle Umted States, where this beo is nnknowril It jfi.’however, riot stated; iu the source from whipb this information is gleaned iwhether ftjlusibu' is rflafle W the; white or tha red clover j the same last with, reference 'to - the former kind .having bofl already -clearly .demonstrated in New Zealand//,., - i.-„r . !'i ' At last the order has been made that dogs are no . longer required to wear the regu-* lation mn?zl«- Thus the misery that these animals haye soiong endured will be alleviated. Whether deaths from rabies will ! be sensibly deoraaeed; by i tfl? re-; movsl of this restriction is a question to ba decided. •-■■■.■. ■■ ‘ .The landlady of public-house has adopted 4 noyel plan of serving a eummens upon a with wbozof enclosed in which, was the summons. The man, hpfever, “ smelling a rat,” refused to accept it. Thjs pqt- ■ man, notwithstanding this, swore that the summons was duly served, and the victim way sent to durance vile for oontemptfor SO days, After serving eight days ho obtained i axehearbg aad was released, and the: costs . were taken off the fljebt, the Magistrate remarking that the landlady had laid herself open to an action at law. The Magistrals 'I also stated that phe had no longer, any I i P '*Xbe Thames has told its. ghastly tale for ‘ the year. As many as 7o bodies have been 1 picked out .of ithe river, of, which 32 .could 1 not be aficoyntpA for ,w;l> regard to thp ) causes of death, wtstoer hj fxxipxde or : wise, and|7 War# unknown,

t -V , wool sales ihow a tin of eomething like i Viiponoo in the pound, while wheat ha* -alien..two pr throe shillings. . 'The "weather on Christman Day w&» most ‘delight- A slight frost had taken, place .during the*night, and the »un ghono out in a ‘perfectly übolouded aky throughout the day. On Sunday evening, however, a very heavy downfall of snow occurred, to the average depth of about 18in. The storm was accompanied by »; violent. wind, and the damage dona .both by sea and land has, been yery considerable. Traffic in many parts .was entirely impended, and the overhead telegraph .wires mapped in all directions.' The next day the snow ploughs , were busily at work in the streets of London.

A party, bad been regaling themselves at a certain hostelry the other day, and after having broken up they decided ,to return, and to appear before the windows of the bonifaee in the character of, amateur waits. This ip inoenicd him that he got hia revolver and shot indiscriminately at the party, one of the bullets taking effect, and ita recipient has ainoe died. The plea is that the deed waa not done intentionally. , The next batch of emigrant! for New Zealand will leave England in the Arawaat the and of February. The facilities offered to small farmera are being fairly appreciated, and the number who are availing themselves of the proviiione is on the whole aatiifaatory, The Natural History Mnieum at Kensington - baa recently received a valuable acquisition. It ia in the form of a perfect skeleton of the moa, probably one of thoeo which were on view at the recent Exhibition.

. The memoirs of Sir Pater Soratohley, late High Oommitaioner for New Guinea, are announced for early publication. Morethan £4OO have been paid to the Hospital Sunday fund, being the proceed! from the mechanical begging boxes at the Exhibition, the invention of Dr Aveling. The attention of agrionlturilts hen has been drawn to the suoceiifnl experiments vyith the African • barb wheat at the : Agrionltnral College in South Australia. If, aa it is stated, the yield is as high aa twenty bpshels to the acre, ita introduction will be aj godsend to that colony. This calls to my remembrance the days of anld lang syne in New Zealand,rwhere on the upoountry sheep itations scarcely anything’ was need but Adelaide wheat. ' J I In Dundee the Albert Institute and Picture Gallery was' laboring under ’ the enormous debt of This sum baa been paid off in full by Mr IJi M. KeilUr on the occasion of the Queen’s Jubilee. > | The metropolitan Board of Works has vetoed the project of., a Jubilee Tower in London, but in Wales the Duka of Westminister ia . rebuilding the famous tower in Mofli which waajereofediin the time of George 111, but which had since fallen down by the action of the weather. - Colonel Malet has patented a new invention which be calls a drenching bit. It is fitted to the hone’s mouth by a headstall, «nd ia hollow, with a hole in the middle. Attached to this on the’outside ia a receptacle in the form of a horny into which the medicine is l poured, from, whence it rune into the bit, finding an outlet in the hone’s month at the hole before mentioned. Tbo cruelty of twitching is thusobviatad. touring the lastjtwalye years as many as 24,623’.Joint'.’,Stock . Companies have been registered in'Great Britain under the Act. with an aggregate capital of £2,829,437,573. This is something like four times the amount, of the preeent National Debt. England is not yet bankrupt.