GENERAL NEWS.

Tuapeka Times, Volume VI, Issue 305, 19 November 1873, Page 3

GENERAL NEWS.

In Canada — the largest, most prosperous, and best governed of British colonies — the members of tho Upper Houae, called Senate, are nominated for life by summons of the Governor-General under the great seal of the Dominion. The qualifications are not numerous, nor i 3 the amount of proporty necessary great. Each senator xaust be 30 years of age, a born orsa f .urali3od subject, Bud possessed of property real or personal of the value of £1000 in the province for which he is appointed ; and he ceases to hold his place in tno Legislature by losing the requisite property qualification, and by non-attendance in . | Parliament for two eonaeoutive sessions. In New South Wales and Queensland, also, the j members of the Upper Chambers are nominated by the Crown. Advices for some time past received from London, speak of the failure of the hop crop in England, and state that the hops in stock had been immensely enhanced in value in consequence. The largest and most costly cabinet in the Vienna Exhibition list is that of Lord "Bective, which cost £500% and vas in the hands iarJiearly 4jc»ca.

The first Victorian Lodge of Britieb Templars-*an order of the same kind n? the Good Templars — has been opened in Melbourne. Tne "Ceylon Catholic Messenger," which has been steadily improving since its first appearance a few yearn ago, now entertains hopes of developing into s bi-weeku paper. This will be the fiwt instance of a Catholic Triweekly paper in India. One hundred and twenty thousand pounds has been expended by the New York Legiflature upon an asylum for inebriates, besides £8,000, -trhich was spent in the first instance by the originator. A Chinese official, Provincial Treasurer of Hupei. has issued an edict forbidding the drowning of female obildren, which he says takes place to the number of 80 per cent. Brown- tinted note paper is now the fashion in London. The note sheet is cut in leg 1 shape, and turns at the toj) instead of at thy side. * It is currently reported that Messrs. Brogden and the Premier have buried the hatchet, ann then Julius is now leading shareholder ~ is the Press Telegaph Agency, which will be formed into a company as soon as there is an immediate prospect of the cable bein laid St Patrick's Catheiral, now being constructed, in New York, will, according to the. " New York Herald," bo the finest church in the Western World. Unhappy married couple? should go to the United States. We clip the following tempting announcement from the "New York Herald : — " Absolute divorces obtainel from different States : legal everywhere ; desertion, &c., sufficient canse ; no publicity required ; no charge until divorc<yjrauted ; advice free." The subjoined notice is clipped from an American paper: — ,' Why men don't marry. — Why I don't. — I desire to discuss this problem with some intelligent and refined lady younger than myself, 27- If defeated, I may terminate my wretched bachelor existence." The " Boston CHobe" of a recent date states that since the new prohibitory liquor law came into operation — a period of four weeks — there have been 841 persons prosecuted for drunkenness in Boston, a Larger number than has ever been known there in the same length of time. The crew of ship William Tapsoott wceivod £60 for tha run home.