General News.

Thames Star, Volume XII, Issue 3835, 13 April 1881, Page 2

General News.

The Municipal Council of Toronto lias offered Hanlan, the champion Canadian sculler the freedom of the city and the remission of the rent and taxes of his Island hotel for life.

Two Mormon elders paid Turakina a visit, intending " to hold forth " on Sunday, but as no one seemed disposed to give them a building.in which to do so, no meeting was held, nor were any converts made.

The capitalized wealth of the leading countries of the world has often been given, but wo have just received what purports to be the latest figures, aad they are as follows : —

Great Britain ... £8,900,000,000 France ... ... 7,840,000,000 United States .„ 6,400,000,000 Germany... ... 4,400,000,003 Russia ... ... 3,030,003,000 The Low Countries 2,781,200,000

A rare act of self-denial is recorded in the Times by a gentleman, who says his informant is" his brother, serving in the Horse Artillery at Candabar:—"A gunner of the Horse Artillery, after General Burrows' rout, gave up his seat to a wounded man, and marched in on foot over that terrible desert of fifty-two miles. They had had no food nor water since the day before, and it is difficult to exaggerate the suffering under that terrific heat. The gunner had had his own heel shot off, and had limped the whole of that weary distance without uttering a sound or letting a word escape, him that he too was wounded." Mr JYD. Murphy, a wealthy merchant of San Francisco, has just received, at the hands of the Pope, with much gratitude,

the hereditary title of Marquis, in recognition of the great services he has rendered to the cause of the Roman religion.

As much as 15 to 16 ozs of gold per ton of quartz has been extracted on the lately discovered goldfield in Southern India.