General News.

Thames Star, Volume XII, Issue 3842, 22 April 1881, Page 1

General News.

Mr Hyndmann; a writer in the " Nineteenth Century," sees the dawn of revolution in the rapid spread of Communistic aspiration. The danger he considers moat imminent in Germany, where every man is a "disciplined soldier, an educated citizen, with the Moderate Liberals driven to America, and Prince Bismarck [sitting on the safety-valve. France, Austria, and Italy are also in everincreasing danger. The condition of Europe, favours the Communistic propaganda .;_ the. Jews,. furnish.it with leaders." Many people maintain that the persecution of the Jews, which now disgraces Germany, is far more founded on social than religious grounds. Even in Great Sritain and the United States, writes Mr Hyndmaun, and still more in Victoria and New Zealand, the essentially Communistic principle of State managemeot is gaining' ground on all-aides; —It—

is for England to " lead the; way with ; safety in that great social re organisation, which is the work of the immediate future, to secure for all the same happiness and enjoyment of life which now belongs to few." It has been arranged that Bishop Moran is to leave Dunedin for Europe on April 21. " On Saturday last about twenty men, engaged on the Taranaki harbour works, were discharged, owing to there not being sufficient work in band to keep the full complement of men employed.

There has been a flutter of excitement among the aristocratic Scotch families over a proposed change in the dress of the Highland regiments. The Duke of Edinburgh and some hundred of the nobility have signed a petition to live War Office against it. The Prince of Wales wrote a letter expressing sympathy with the movement, but stated that as an officer of the army it would be a breach of discipline to actively exert himself against the change.

A fashionable lady was unexpectedly left without a servant. She undertook to make her husband a cup of coffee, but it took so long he asked what in the Halifax was the matter with the coffee. " I don't know," she said, burstirg into tears, "I've boiled these beans for a full hour, and they are no softer now than they were when.l first put them in the pot."

A manufacturing wire-worker, in an advertisement, invites the public to come and see his invisible wire fence. .