ABSTRACTS AND CHRONICLES.

Observer, Volume 6, Issue 150, 28 July 1883, Page 8

ABSTRACTS AND CHRONICLES.

THE A^STfe ACTS AND BRIEF CHKONIGLES OF ' „ THE' TIMES: • — Feltus crushed again. i — More meat monopoly. . .. • j — " No Rent " League at Rotorua. . i — Channel Tunnel Bill -withdrawn ; — Kindred methodist bodies fusing. ' —Greenwood G.M.Co. bust. R.1.P.! ; — John Gibbons' log brought in £700. — Coal and iron discovered at Pollock. — Cetewayo again licked, and wounded. — Calcutta -wants local self-government. — Maconnochie kicked out of St. Albans. — £100 struck off Captain Hume's screw. — Ulundi again burnt by the rebel Zulus. — Cholera spreading in Cairo — Ca Ir(o)a! — Cholera among British troops at Cairo. • — Lesseps proceeds with the second canal. — Stafford ironworks abandoned intended strike. ■ — Franco wants a convention with the Siamese. — French said to have " annexed " New Hebrides. — Dunedin Gaol inquiry draws its slow length along. — French sailors stoned by Chinese at Shanghai. — Swedish monitor Thornden foundered. Crew saved. — Firth had a. freezing reception from St. Paul's vestry. — Fight between British and French tars at Port Said. — Fourteen thousand American telegraphists on strike. — Devonport larrikins are to be " saved," Will yer gow-ow. — Lord Derby urges the federation of Australian Colonies, — Captain Barry marries 1300 acres of land — and a widow. — Tauranga Avants a loan of £25,000 for a water supply. — Fine Art Exhibition opened by the Governor in Wellington. — " Won at last" — by a faint. That's the way of the women. — City Council cried off bargain for Jagger's site. Too high. — John Prosser, butcher, Patea, butchered himself. Drink. — Burns, murderer of Michael Quinlivan, convicted at Melbourne. — Hazell Hazell-uded bankruptcy. Twenty shillings in tho pound. — Khedive accept c-d TfriHsh ine'lirrU -M f'.r suppression of cholfi-y. \ — Do Lesseps has a monopoly onl> ov >n .-.''.-. forming the Isthmus, ; — The next Imperial Reform Bill will ii*"--- ' : the franchise to wommj. ; — George William •■fiohniond •' anm-:c - ?. ■ ' overcoat, three months. : — Qxieenslanders riled at Imperial rojoc^oi. si ■, annexation, Cheap labor ? - — Pilot Murray suspended pending report of a Harbour Board Committee. — French bankers offering Lesseps capital for - second Suez canal. Bluster ! — Oppenbeimer has discovered a big gum-field in New Caledonia. By gum ! — Pipes Paruell water supply shortly. But what use without more whisky ? — Questions of reforms in Legislative Council to be submitted at next elections. — Has that memorial against Northcroft any connection with the ejection case ? — Opotiki is forming a s.s. Company for the Bay of Plenty and Auckland trade. — Harriett Ansell, 7», drowned herself in a well in Ponsonby. Temporary insanity. — North Shore residents want reduction in gas. Too much of their own manufacture. — Victoria raises a loan of £3,000,000 to meet old loans falling due. Micawborigui. —Salvation Army ]]^jigHPn Dunedin fined for making night huk£HH^H) a.m. — Burglars- raidOT^BßKiop of Louis, watchmaker, and stole £70 worth of jewellery. — rXoiiinean papers abuse " Perfidious Albion." Wfe shall have to annex New Caledonia yet. — " Duke Humphrey " makes some fell charges against tho missionary of the Sailors' Rest. — Garrard baffled, but not beaten. Says he was euchred by a cotterie of the devil's own. — Hanlon defeated Ross as he liked in a sculling match at Odensburg for £200 a-side. — Another Jervois (a brother this time) turned up at Newcastle. How many more Jarvises ? — Hnnt, v. Gordon, verdict £100 damages. Will Gordon want to hear any more of Samoa. — Waller, ' was that a Legge-timato affair ? The bearing of this remark lies in the application on't. — Stuart is printing a picture for Griffin with a big American eagle in the fore-ground. 'Igh hart ! — Emperors Bill, of Germany, and Joe, of Austria, intend to put their heads together at Gastlin. .. — Porte disputes Lesseps' monopoly. This will have an im-jjorte-nnt influence on the negotiations. — The British riflemen licked tho Americans at the International contest. John Bull is good at bull's eyes. — Christchurch correspondent of Press Association telegraphs reports of tea-meetings. Dogfights next. ... — Carey is not one of Mother Carey's chickens He remains in London. His life is, however, vei-y "pre-caroy-ous. . . , . . — Cambridge Town Board and County Council , got in -a-chbie'r and .fought sdogg'e'dly over tlieddg-' collar 'taxes:". ' ■ ••;-<-\ J -.v,' •;. , I ' ■■:*■■ V!\<"'-i-,' '•.' ' '•"-.■■ *■■' • >•■/■■: ,. •'.*_. > , ; . . 'I ."■■;.?■ .r.'.sm.:;-* .vSfr^ /vY''^ hr\>t/A:<--?'

:■■-.-■:■ )-.'-,-■ . f / ,•■-■--, - ± -r> .-■-,.■ j^r j'Lag 7^ *•• ,^' v ,-■ '•■ 'v- ■ ■■ *-■• •■.•:•."■ '■.--■ v..,:ivr Kr/j^^r^.^ii-.t^.'W?!^'-^-.)' & ■ --The (^ty^Ofi^i^V^^^.fnW^^^[Ml ' strefetsV'and yeV'tUey.'rliave'a .b^ufGla^k^|^gr|?Jl^/ side over them IV .; - •"; :. :; ■Yw';;}^ : sP^Ji<dvi —Religious views roll" of teachers"" ' tQ'^sf^i'ijigt^'i obeyance till Hobbs r and " Moss ' rett^;.-,; ; S()p^;^ they'll stay away. ' ' ,■''"'.,. ' ; [,'•■,.■'/■'■ '■■':^ioH —Bishop Cowie holds out'fo^'^iU^p^iS^^^ incumbent of All Saints'. . The> saints be;pi&ishsii]-fy This ain't ironical. . . , ■'••',. -■. |-i l V,v!^M ■■■'■'■ ■■■ ' ■ " ' ■ •,,> '. :-t\., '.•/•;-$$ —News is scarce. The, Star t ; pcnnyVa 4 lm<^iv,< makes a long paragraph about the escajpe'ioi;^ 1 ' a little sucking pig. . , . ■■ ■ •' ■, - r l-^.-fc — St. Matthew's Debating Society has >de4i<|p^t^. that the drama is morally and socially beneflbu^i?^ So's a dram -a whisky. ■•; :f ;;'- ':.':/$, — Egyptian officers thwarting .British.; Gassem^-j^ ment in regard to second Suez Canal.. -Thd^,;:^. can-al(l) go to — Cairo. . ' \' ' >y'f^- : : — Parliament is cheese-paring small. ■ sala-nef '<%*".• and allowances, while it swallows' extravagant- A*:, votes in other directions. ' , , :!' ; ' v^f ?.: — Plummer had a high old time drml4ing;V4jf? brandy and smoking with Cardvroll. He wantect^v-v to leani the newest wrinkles. - ''. '"V.Vv — New York Fenians attempted to assassinate; :_s> % McDemiott, an alleged traitor .to the cause.; iitf Kilkenny cats over again. Go it ! • / ... «;'v'. ! '. — Loch Ken went ashore off Tararu, but.gofc off without injury. The Captain never kcnnedvhe was going wrong. Compasses out. ' * — Squabble as to why there was no telephonic , response from the Asylum on occasion of recent fire alarm. De lunatic inquiriendo. — Ashcroft, of Wellington, has invented a new > gold separator. We don't want it. Our gold separates from us too easily already. — Great riot at Wexford election. Thirty of , the mob bayonetted. " Peace, to make it stick.* at all, must be druv in by baggynits." — Ministers preparing for the annual slaughter ' | of the innocents. Some people wish all "little t bills " could be as summarily dealt with. — It is jjroposed to substitute sewage gas in Auckland by Sanberger's process, for carboniferous gas. Good idea for the House of Representatives. — Union Sash and Door Company's Factory, Mechanics' Bay, burnt down. Insurances £12,000. Wake up, Messieurs, the old fogeys of the t ' Council. — £12,000 more wanted for the Parliamentary ' rabbit-hutch. And yet the Government decline to remit £10,000 legacy duty on the Costley bequests ! ' / ' — Two more Ancklnnders, a son of Judge Williams and a son of the late Rev. Lush, have obtained University honours at. Cambridge. Bravo, boys ! — The Peruvians have been defeated ,by * th.- Clii'hms with a loss of 1000 men. The Peru- f viai) hn:k is no good. The chilly 'uns use too vn::.- 1 !: c.nid steel. . . ■ , '.. '. Sir -• • iiur {rordon writing rt hook' on' : 'lhe .-.>-. ->i" Mjia.n.s. Wo thought rue Fijian w.omen •:.i Ji'.v -,io. woro v.o habits worth speaking... of* -". ■■•- hat John Weyniouth Lac bedlHßie^Rt Xfv~i>c,\t;''r of the Average Adjusters,. xinue 'toll . • • -••- ■■> adjiiKt t)i:it little difficult} 1 " Kjtwpeu ! t !„■ -.*-P. i, ;ind (.roldifi. - '■> ; — Battky wept over the poverty of the people " struggling for a bare living "'in 4 Engian<L v Look out for a reduction in the rate "of discounts* in the N.Z.L. and M.A. — Tynan (not No. One) fell through a' windowin Queen-street, and it cost him £14 and a finefor druukenosH. He was evidently , not able to v " look after Number One."' , ■• .]..'■ > — Atkinson has introduced a Bill to remove control of Legislative Officials' salaries b)eyond the control of Parliament. Who saj's the Civil Service does not rule the country? ' ■/>'>.' , —Cemeteries over-crowd,edT' ' Rumoured that' , ; Newtonians are drinking \ip their dead relatives ; water heavily charged with decomposed .matter, filtering froai the graves into the wells. ■.-.••" } -o>iw grand old man and Rolleston going ifc \' .hammer and tongs over the Doomsday Book, n which the Government will not produce =.till ' i Doomsday, and tl*tt move that it be remitted to the Chamber above. • ,

"Tins Morning Post."— "Ye Royal "'Avaei^V thyst Velveteen." (Registered.) Each pie'ce'is stamped ''"'"'i with the Trade Marfc, "Amethyst" and two small V Crowns. Manchester; London. Retail by all leadings v fe Drapers throughout the'Kingdoin. " Perhaps 116 textile ' : ; : fabric hns ever been offered to ladies so nearly adproaftH- ; < ing the quality und richness of real silfc velvet: ' 'liiV "r\ purity of colour and shade its draping leaves scarcely- S :v '"~ anything to be desired." W. Rattray, Sole Agent for?' v. Auckland . . ,"y"-t> :: . " Report from Paris Exhibition, copied- i^v from Manchester Courier, Friday, 28th June, 1878.'~ The" * K most comprehensive exhibit is that of '. • . • '■■;Y-- i merchants, manufacturers, ana dyers, Manchester'" > ; London, Paris, and works at Old lmm. They show- ■;■-''/'■'' ; velvets and velveteens, in various shades, lncludine? I " , '-Amethyst black," and "blue black" for costaihS '/>'s> trimmings, &c. These are admirably dyed/ and thW^'-vi arrangement of the shades for exhibition is exceeding!*, artistic and effective. Thare arc some well fthiefieo "" 4 : «*• white s velvets, and some of the printed velrets'sliowr: '*?, Kood design and careful workmanship j one shawl pattern ■'■■'' V is brilliant and effective. Some fancy cords are ueW an* '-■ the show of ordinary cords and moleskins is eoodV v ' < f'-« Tnere are also good samples of dyed and printed lttmb*A<<^ skins, satins, twills, serges, and cambrics for Mnii/gfc^t' W. Hattray, Sole Agent for Auckland. '. ™ t^ T 1 . "Report prom Paris Exhibtion, copied^ i-i from The Oldham Chronicle, Saturday, July 27th 1878.*'— : ' ' ' I now come to the exhibit of the only firm who fepre^' : , sents the Oldham cotton industry at the Paris, W' tI0 l l i" i* ' , : , ' • whose worfts nre at'Oldhami'"' I.''.'^1 .' '.'^ and who have a high rpputation as manufacturer^' ila'd '' ■ W dyers, lhe collection of goods belonging' to thjs i ,fiW '• ■' •• j 1 was worthy of high praise. The list of their goods '0 included cotton velvets and v .lveteens in various shades,; • ' 4 \ including " Amethyst blaefc," and "blue blac?;" foFif' ' costumes, trimmingrs, &c. ; cotton cords and molesfcras ! I for clothing; dyed and printed lambsfcins, satins, twills"^ ■'■'■' serges, and cambrics for linings ; ■ umbrella cloths," arid ■' 1 cotton fabrics of all descriptions used by waterproofers ilns, indeed, is a formidable collection, -and' may be • said to include nearly every description of cotton iabric -il Especial reference might be made to the cotton v«lvefcs : "'% which had a roally splendid appearance. „, They were : well-finished, durable-loofring, with ; a 'brilliimi' anS' ' l > 1 «}<>**? P ll ®. which only experts could distiuguyix Wui^ ''4 the finest velvet. The cotton cords and inolesfeins Vevc- "^ ■'- highly commendable, and in the dyed and printed goSk • were to.be seen some rich specimens of prints aiiddy«t Vj s " cloths. Indeed, the display of ,'. -. . i .>>.'••• . . ■■■{■ --•••/ -~].l* ■waß;second.t'ou6ae»u-the;fixhaHtiori,antl-tfr?'wtts^iiiiUV^- ; fying to find thafrin their sproducljs •■;th'eySttaiWKt-ddV- VV Q&W* cotton maiui&pJiarW'bif:^^ : '

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