ABSTRACTS AND CHRONICLES.

Observer, Volume 6, Issue 154, 25 August 1883, Page 14

ABSTRACTS AND CHRONICLES.

-■— ♦ " THE ABSTRACTS AND BRIEF CHRONICLES OF THE TIMES. Kindly, Musey, Lines that greet ; Neat and newsy, Short and sweet, I'll indite 'em, Each of them, So each item Is a gem. Don't want stalings, Long reports ; Crisp curtailings, All in "shorts"; Terse the shiiidy Of my tale is, Not so windy As the Dailies. •—France conciliatory. — Prince Bismarcko ill. — More fighting in Tonquin, — Swell bicycle club formed. — Archbishop Vaughan dead. — Old fogeism in the Council. — North committed for trial. — Typhoid fever in Newmarket. — Grog 0 ! at tho Police Court. — Count F. dc Legrange dying. — Gf-aiTard petitions the Queen. — Stout on the stump in Sydney. — Police sniffing for incendiaries. • — Daphne disaster due to defective design. — Two hundred deaths from Cholera in Bombay. — Relations between France and Spain strained. — N. Z. unrepresented at Annexation Conference. — Gladstone fencing on the Annexation question. — J. A. Tole come up to study up that Cemetery Case. — Latest novelty — A Maori minstrel troupe at Taupo. — The women want to vote in electing Licensing Boards. — Prorogation expected about first week in September. — Thomas Cole, Cartcrton, arrested for embezzlement. — Princess of Wales enthusiastically received in Denmark. — Drownod body of John Beaton found near Whangaroa. — Sultan of Morocco cried Peccuvi. Italian fleet recalled. — Connolly's Settled Land Bill is to be settled — kicked out. — King Alfonso enthusiastically received in Southern Spain. — Two deaf mutes married at St Matthew's. Mute-ually happy. — House of Lords passed Tenants Farmers Compensation Bill. — Sir Anthony Musgrave leaves England for Queensland on 15th pros. — More Maoris stopped on their pilgrimage to the N.Z. Mecca— Parihaka. — " Members on both sides of the House.'' Just so. As circumstances suit. — Fancy Shera refusing the request of the old man I Tempora nuUanluv! — Canon Barry appointed to the See of Sydney. Low church party don't see it. — John Ferguson, cheating a storekeeper at Kaikohe, sent up for six months. — Charge against Moore, fireman, dismissed. Why didn't they settle it outside ? — An R.M. at Clyde drew £719 in travelling expenses last year. Happy man ! — Body of a child found in a WRter-hole near Timaru. Suspected infanticide. | — Bryce has excised Rome objectionable pro- ; visions from his Native Laud Bill. . — Total cost of electric light in Parliament estimated at £25,551— a mere trifle. I — Josephiue Green arrested at Wanganui on ; charges of larceny and iufauticide. — John Bull becoming irritated over French high-handed doings at Madagascar. — Tawhiao calk himself an " Incn."' We should imagine he is more of a " drinker." — Garrard crushed again. What a good customer he must be to the stationers. — The British King took 7000 carcases. And the British Queen has interdicted lamb. i — Catholic v. Protestant free fright near GlaeI gow, and several injured. All for the love of God. —Some boys, fooling with a toy cannon, at Epsom, plugged two pellets in Harold Brill's neck. — Dummysißm in Otago exposed by a Parliamentary Committee, a Royal Commission talked of. — Melbourne Chamber of Manufactures rejected Twopenny's proposal to hold a Colonial Exhibition in London. — French fleet captured the mouth of the Hue. We wish we had a fleet. There's a girl's mouth— but, " nufit sed !" — The latest feat of the telegraphic correspondents is to wire the full cast in amateur performances. Tea-fights next. | — Brogdens thrown up the sponge, and abandoned their claims against New Zealand. Too Brogdenagian altogether. — One law for the European and Maori— and peaceful native travellers stuck-up on the Queen's high- | way by Armed Constabulary. — Wright, M.H.It., is the " bones *' of a new "corner party." This is because a Canterbury man always bones nil he can get. — N.S.W. Government intend to amend the law of libel, so as to prevent bogus actions against newspapers. What about Tole' s Bill? — Pyke is likely to lose the sight of one eye. No matter, he will see well enough with the other to •jsiern a voucher for bis honorarium. I *"■ — Timaru wants to foist its paupers on Auckland. No go !. And yet the Southerners boast about nisliutainiug Auckland ! All blow ! i— Walker and Grice serving native trosspassers with writs of ejectment. Old women holding tangis, and pickanninies making bonfires of the writs. _\\yhat does De Latour mean about " not beingdesira v feiG to encourage the settlement of this country ?" Is bis ctefi£ e °^ views attributable to Rc(e)s scverae? WaSak Black, gum-digger, Northern Wairoa, took in too iisS£k w^t cargo, and fell overboard from a punt. Blacka^ 8U PP csea to have joined the angels. .'Oaptam Teddy contradicts the report about dousinjr the glim in the Newton schoolroom, and threatens to go for " Zamicl." The latter hftß gons into —Tlie^Jdunedin Bqard of Education and tljtel school CQO&mxfcteegjite not in "sympathetic" accord."* Tbe latter. cba*go^tt?*£C2^'aGr !^ith being "ia heathen darkueua." f . ,,. •