GENERAL SUMMARY.

Thames Star, Volume XV, Issue 4923, 20 October 1884, Page 2

GENERAL SUMMARY.

Michael Heymanson, well known in Dunedin, died in London on September 3.

Says the European Mail:—" It is noteworthy that the Orient steamer Lusitania, from Sydney, on July 19, and the New Zealand steamer Euapehu, from Lyttelton, on July 27, arrived in Plymouth Sound within an hour of each other on September 9. The former came via the Suez, the latter via Cape Horn. The comparison is a startling: one ; eight more days from Sydney than from INew Zealand, notwithstanding that the cannl route was adopted by the former vessel." Te Wheoro has been engaged in drawing up laws and regulations of good temp lar lodges, which Tawhiao proposes to establish in native districts in New Zealand. The documents are being prepared in the Maori language.

A stained glass window, in memory of the late ISir George Arney, Chief Justice of New Zealand, has just been placed in the South transept of Salisbury Cathedral.

The Bishop of Nelson has appointed the Rev. T. Russell, BA., late of St. James', Leeds, to the incumbency of St. John's Church, Westport.

Isabella Stuart, Countess of Dalbanie, who boasts to have the blood of the Pretender in her veins, and has for years disappeared from society, is Mother Abbess of an English convent at Braila, in Roumania. She is at present in England.

The team of English cricketers who will accompany Shaw to Australia has undergone somewhat important alterations. The team at present is as follows : —Ulyett, W. Bates, Shaw, Scotton, Shrewsbury, W. Flowers, Barnes, W. Attewell, W. Gunn, J. Lillywhite, M. Read, and R. Pilling.

Sir John Hall attended a meeting of the British Association at Canada.

The English Admiralty have respired to re-commission the Nelson for a further term of service on the Australian station. The present crew of the Nelson will be relieved by a new one of 509 blue-jackets and Royal Marines, taken from the Naval establishments of Chatham and Sheerness. The Nelson will pay off in January nest, and will then hoist the pennant of RearAdmiral Tyron. The troopship Tamar will convey the new crew of the Nelson to Sydney. It is rumoured the change in the rank of command will be accompanied by an alteration in the head quarters of the station ; a change in which New Zealand would not be uninterested.

The wreck of the Listingham has caused a crowd out of cargo to a prodigious amount in the Euapehu, from a duplication of orders for goods lost. For some time the Euapehu has been refusing passengers as well as cargo. Mr R. D. D. Mac Lean, only son of the late Sir Donald MacL°an, was married on the 4th September, by the Bishop of Killaloe, to the youngest daughter of T. Butler Stoney, Esq., Portland Park, County Tipperary, Ireland.

A piece of plate and purse of gold have been given to Capt. Jones, of the Greeley relief ship Loch Garry, at London.

A new steamer for the Cunard line, the Estruria, was launched in Glasgow on September 22. A great banquet followed the launching. The vessel is built to be the fastest steamer afloat.

According to a New York Morning News despatch, dated London, Sept. 24, the correspondent of a well known American newspaper had eloped from London with the young wife of an English noblemon, and they are believed to have taken passago to the Australian colonies. The journalist is old enough to be the father of the lady. The names are not made public.

A furnished house in Hampshire has just been taken for the Tichborne claimant, who will soon be released, An ample allowance has been subscribed for himself and his two daughters,

Xiate despatches say that the price of bread is much discussed in England and Ireland, the public being wroth that though wheat never reaches 40s per quarter, and barley not above 355, the price of bread remains exactly the same as when the price of wheat was 10s higher.

The Grand Duke of Hesse intends to spend sis. weeks at Balm,o^al a and this has caused renewed, discussion of the Madame Ifiiomine affair. That lady has announced her determination to fight her case in the Courts. She has refused all bribes and returned the first instalment of her ejUqvfance. Her case will be J^pjx?^ qq October l§th ;

Jl is uoi expected that the infant Duke of Albany will survive the winter.

Parliament will be asked at the coming session to make provision for the eldest son of the Prince of Wales.

An English Church mpe^ sa.*;age.ly attacked General Wolseley and Lord Norjihbrook for starting on tlieir Egyptian mission on a Sunday.

Queen Victoria is at Balmoral the autumn ; she is said to tfi \n an extremely gloomy state of mind, and visits John xjrov^ri's grave dajly.

Qvev 3000 people at Ijeip^sjie^ w,ere recently summoned fos defying $he. ya.c« cination. \&wu,, the feeling against which is inwed^ly fyUte? Ati over lagiand, T lhs Bey, Mr- Traoioton, a Presbyterian elei-yman, of Tullamoro, has brought a suit for £60,000, and Mrs Brown for £25,000, against the Dublin FreejWd Journal, for damages, % lh& Journal printed an article ja Ms columns stating that the ciergyman 'had elpped' with Mrs Brown id Palis. ' ' '

A fiiuQ will shortly be starred ©a kehalf of the Birminghamdynamjitess., Daly and Egan. "' ! 'M"" '

%\$ Lsrd Lieutenant prohibited, on tba

20th, a Nationalist demonstration an nounced for Barradow, County Kerry.

The municipal authorities of Limerick formally resolved on the 26th not to pay extra police tax or send a deputation to Earl Spencer, the Lord Lieutenant, whom they denounce as a tyrant. The vote stood at 18 to 2. An extra police force was appointed by Government on the plea that the local authorities did not furnish sufficient protection against outrages, and the cost of their maintenance was assessed upon ihe communities to which they were assigned. This is the tax that Limerick refuses to pay.

At a meeting of the Land League in Dublin ou 16th September, Mr William Eedmond denied that Irishmen were becoming apathetic to the national movement, and he expected, during the coming winter, that the cause would receive as great a support as it ever had.

Mr Gladstone, speaking at Carlisle, said, "In the present crisis the Lords ought to study the best means to provide that the Bouse of Lords should not fall. This end could best be secured by their acting with moderation and prudence.

The authorities have ordered increased I precautions at Dover to prevent the landing of dynamiters endeavoring to reach London from the Continent. English detectives accompany each steamer crossing the Channel, subjecting each passenger and all baggage to t'-e closest scrutiny. A special from London, of Sept. 24th, says a curious political rebellion is now in progress in County Mayo. Mr Parnell desires the present representatives to con test the County again at the nest general election, but a number of the Mayo Nationalists have decided no longer to permit Mr Parnell's autocratic sway, and will nominate Capt. Boycott and John William Nalley. The growing popularity of Capt. Boycott is one of the most curious facts in current Irish history, and moderate observers consider it a sign of the waning influence of the Irish National League.