ABSTRACTS AND CHRONICLES.

Observer, Volume 6, Issue 152, 11 August 1883, Page 15

ABSTRACTS AND CHRONICLES.

T^EE ABSTRACTS AND BRIEF CHRONICLES OF J'P. ' ' ' '■' THE TIMES. , r^-Vesuvius active. 1 --King of Annam dead. —Pilot Murray resigned. . - — De Leseeps still cheeky. — Petty thievery rifo in Auckland. ■^jfißrious anti-Jewish riots in Russia. — Oetawayo come to life again. — -Plot to murder Irish officials discovered. -r-rGholera epidemic in Egypt abating. . — Military insurrection at Badajar quelled. ii-'Coal and iron discovered at Cabbage Bay. —Bogus diamond companies in Ohristchurch. — Application for new trial in Hunt v. Gordon. — French preparing to attack Hue, capital of Annam. —Auckland Hospital suffering from internal ■disorders. — Christchuxeh diamond excitement fizzling out. Paste. — Kelly, Irish informer, reported murdered in Philadelphia. ■ — Garrard intends to fulminate another petition . Poor Cotter I — •No more watering grog if Dick's Adulteration Bill pass. — French garrison at Tamatave threatened with attack by Hovaa. —117 British soldiers died of cholera in Egypt in a fortnight. —Legitimist Conspiracy discovered in Paris, and nipped in the bud. ,js%_Auckland Board of Education proposes to J&gaiice school holidays. Parcel post system in England successful. Wake up. New Zealand. Hot •' Coffey " over secular education in Wellington. Ritualism. — The Marquis of Lanadowno succeeds Lome aa Governor-General of Canada. 1 — Hop Bitters Co. give a handsome trophy to lie rowed for in Australia. —Deported Irish informers placed on board H.M.S. Nelson. Safe there, anyway. — -Government still acting dog-in-the-mangor re Thames.Valley and Rotorud Railway. —St. Paul's churchwardens have a keen eye to business. Want a better site, you know. — Hanlon rows Lavcouk in Australian waters. A. ahillirig to a China orange on the result. —Union S. 8. Rotomahama struck on Waipipi Beef, but got off. No lives lost. More light. — -Fire, Lorne-strect, destroyed a stable and the Toots of several small tenements. Damage, £200. —Michael Costello, of Hokitika, for concealing 1*420 from his creditors, sentenced to 18 months. — Egan and Scranlft". 'or robbery under" snr? in N.S.Wf" sentenced to i\v««lv« rears on the rwl». — g}s °m f devil's own" exitrainivr-inn now ou. Nott ' jSL asaasßsiaation wi^Rrjate^thenuisunco, •^^^BSrnataTiirh O-.iinonKtratkm nTl.ron.-W} jSw&SBJmA'tl Queen prayed to dissoir:- Parls'sia^n' j — Government dismissed Dr Muckellar, "" • | Sas-g-jofif AUcklind H^pitai. with three ifconths vu ;- | -Soberfc Mayne cut his throat at Welling;-. ! tb.e ovh-sr day. Verdict jußtificable suicide— iitiu. ' " •: —Tha **■ grand old man " etill opposes annexation. Agent-Generals holding councils of war. Much ory and no w:ool. Healy, M.P. fer Monaghan, wants to know ' show many convicts there are in the Parliament and (Government of N.B.W. Cheeky 1 The Invincibios deported to Australia desiro to be' sent to Calcutta or England. The Australians want to «end them to — Jericho. —A man named William Ivens, at the Thames, walked in his sleep through a window 15ft. above the footpath, and sustained severe injuries. . -fO'Donnell, murderor of Carey, committed for trial.' " Invincibles " playing the rols of the " Kilkenny Cats "—mutual destruction. Wants encouraging. Dick Seddon has joined the Blue Ribbon Army. H he would join a deaf and dumb asylum the vote (or " Hansard " could be reduced about one half. ' —The Marquis de Bays, who tried to raya the mXxA by a swindling scheme of emigration, is to be tried ifor fraud and deception, Kays will be dimmed, or d— — .