RUNNING.A BLOCKADE.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume VII, Issue 1925, 26 February 1885, Page 2

RUNNING.A BLOCKADE.

Captain Kennerley, General M'lver's quondam associate (writes a London correspondent) is one of tho minor heroes of the hour, owint; to the plucky way in which he refused to submit to the highhanded conduct of the Portuguese authorities at Madiera, Captain Kennerley is now in command of the yacht Tyburnia which has been chartered to convey a party of pleasure seekers for a trip to the Mediterranean, Madeira, and the West Indies. The vessel put in at Funchal, towards the end of last month, and the. custom authorities, taking advantage of an error into which the captain fell, through their own neglect, of the port regulations, threatened to make a prize of the yacht. Captain Kennerley, whose experience as a blockade runner at Wilmington 10 years a?o now stood him in good stead, called his passengers together, and informed them of the threats of the Custom-house officials and the Military Governor. The passengers—ladies and gentlemen—applauded 'his determination to run the gauntlet of the forts. Atmidnighfc tho Tyburnia put to sea, and tho Loo Fort, after filing two blank shots as a warning, opened with ball, The first shot carried away some bowsprit ropes, but otherwise the vessel escaped unhurt, though she was exposed to the foe of the fort for nearly an hour. As each shot was fired the British ensign 1 was- politely dipped, the ladies remaining on deck the whole time, apparently heartily enjoying the adventure. .

ROUND THE WORLD. During the past year 17,402 Germans have been sentenced for. ondeavoring to omigrate to avoid military Bervice. An edict has gone forth from the Parisian police that public gambling must cease. Twenty-three gambling clubs are said to have already been closed. Twelve thousand persons are reported out of employment at Detroit (Mich.), Dr Mary Walker created a panic in tlio Governor's office at Albany (N.Y.) .just beforo Governor Cleveland vacated. ~ She did not find Mr Cleveland in, much to ' her regret, as she said, because she wished • to apply for an office fed to give him some advice about matrimony.

According to the ■ report of E. R, Hutchins, superintendent, of labor in- the ■' State of lowa, the average yearly earning of a head' of a family in that state is £IBO, and the average family expenses ; • only £BO. This is'£so better, showing than Illinois,.£4o better than Ohio,'and ■" "• £9O better,ihan Massachusetts.'- Five-' sevenths of-lowa's working men pjgfc ■ homes, while but one-third of Ohio's iwp • two-sevenths of Illinois's working men. ? enjoy a similar luxury! Carpenters in lovfa average 2dol 25c per day, masons" j ; 3dol 66q; blacksmiths 2dol 80c, painters' 2dol 50c, plasterers ■ 2dol 5()Jc, harnessmakers 2dol, and laborers Idol 45c. A railway clerk named L'Hoste niur- \i dered his wife in Paris recently in a paroxysm of insanity. The woman had > ■ applied for a police officer to protect hec from her husband, but on the arrival of the officer she stated that L'Hoste had become quiet, and that a friend having great influence over Mm was coming to take him to the infirmary, . The officer ' [ accordingly left, but the woman shortly afterwards went again for him,-as: th» : friend had not arrived. A doctor wassent with her, but on. the way he stopped*' :' to call on a patient. "When, he arrived"' L'Hoste had struck his wife down .dead, with a hammer, wounded, her father, and attempted to commit suicide. - •;" / TheHacknoy coroner held.an touohing the death of Herbert Rich, -aged - ■ fifteen years, who died from strangulation. - - The mother testified that deceased a very lively disposition, and very fond p" reading. When she last saw him alive He was in excellent health' and spirits'; she next saw him henging by a piece of cord,. which was fastened to a rail of a half-' tester bedstead in his room. She could] not account for his death, 'except that-he had been playing at hanging. A-verdict' of "Death by misadventure" was returned,' A case of parricide is announced som; Angers. M, Edouard Coulon, eighty-six' .-, years of ago, formerly counsellor of the • Angora Court of Appeal, has been ' murdered by his only son who has for years lived with him, While father and son were at dinner last Sunday a quarrel arose respecting the division of some property left by Madame Coulon, the mother who lately died, The son rushed upstairs, and. bringing down a life-pre-server, knocked out the brains of the old man as he sat at table. He then gave himself into custody.

A school of colonisation is to be estab- . lished in Paris. The French have very ■SL serious and systematic intentions with rev ' gard to developing colonies, n| Is it publication in the legal sense of word to write libellous matter on a post card ? The English Courts have shown a disposition to.answer the question in the affirmative. The Frenoh Courts, however, have just decided for the second time ttyat to send a message on a post card does not constitute publication unless it'is : expressly proved that as a matter of fact the message was read by a third person.

' Freckle painting' is a new profession just introduced at the fashionable American watering place, Long Branch, Freckles are so in vogue this summer that Transatlantic belles who cannot obtain those 'golden beauty spots' by exposing their faces to the sun resort to artificial means. First they rubbed their faces with wet fine sand, and the announcement, 'Freckle sand sold here' might be seen all over Long Beach, But. this method damaged tender skins, and now several have succeeded in exactly imitating Nature with a paintbrush, The charge is two shillings a freckle,-and,v with care, ono treatment lasts'three days. „ Young wife (new to marketing): " You may sehd me a saddle of mutton for dfflk ner," Butcher Yes, madame. WnSr kind will it be Young wife (thoughtfully): "Well, as my husband is away and there is no one in the house but mother and myself, and the two servant girls, you had better send a side saddle, 1 think." •: The St Bernard dogs are carefully trained by the monks. At meal-time the dogs sit in a row, each with a tin dish before him containing his repast, • Graco is said by one of the monks; the dogs sit motionless with bowed heads, Not one atirs until the " Amen" is spoken. If a frisky puppy partakes of his nieal before, grace is over, an older dog growls, and gently tugs his ear. A discovery in the art of teaching deaf mutes to speak which is not the'least marvellous of the many employed, has been mentioned in several of the Home papers, A comparatively recent departure is to teach the deaf mute to understand speech by watching the motion of the tongue and lips whilst the instructor is speaking. Professor 8011, when completing the arrangements for intrbducing ■ the telephone into England, brought hat wife with him—a pretty' gentle girl, deaf and dumb from her birth; This formed no obstacle in communication with her husband. When he spoke he „ turned his face fully upon her, and she, watching the motions of his mouth, understood him as perfectly as other persons did when he spoke aloud, The new.' j discovery, passing beyond this method of teaching, enables a deaf mute to understand any person who speaks to him,, even without the peculiar care exercised by the ! teacher. The pupil, holding the back of his hand with the fingers tightly .closed ' within about two inches of .the mouth of the person addressing him, at the same .f. time watching his lips,. can understand ■,i every word that falls from them." This is explained by the assertion' that the. tightly stretched membrane between thß:io> wrist and knuckle is so sensitive that theO vibrations of sound act upon it (in depree) 1 as upon the tympanum of the oar. . • • rJi The engagement of Miss Eva Mackay,td Prince Ferdinando Colonne addsanbtheihy; name to the already long list of Americaii yjte* ladies who have married Italian noblemen»A ? The leading names on this list may. be- ■■ briefly mentioned Miss Field, Princess Brancaccio; Miss Larillard Spencer'; Princess Yicarara Cenci; ,Miss-Broad-wood, Princess Zuspoli; Miss Com<JS| Marchesa Tudoli; Miss Kinney, CouhP ess Gianotti; Miss Fisher,' Countess Gharardesca; Mis 3 Roberts, Countess Galli; Miss Fry, Marchesa Torregiam'jJ Mibs Dewis Countess Barbanoli Amadei ;.- 1 .. Miss Gillinder, Marchesa di San Marsanoji 1 and Miss Hungerford, Countess Telfeno'r. v. A telegram from Wheeling (ya)' t .says 7, that John M'Sweeney, the' great' Ohio" criminal lawyer, was engaged' to deferi'd 1 :! Emmet Mitchell, for Murder,.. butj oiw, arrival at Wheeling was objected, to ** counsel of the leading attorney for M' 5 defence. M'Sweeney started •to leave thairj; place in disgust, but at tho last moment.'j was retained by the commonwealth, ana 1 will now prosecute Mitchell. ■;, , v > Don't die in the house.—'' Rougnon Eaii'i clears out rats, mice, beetles, foacHfci; "bed-tugs, flies, ants, ipsecta, moles; iaok-re,bbits,.ropheriF 7jd—N./5. Drug Company- *Ad h d Thick heads.—Heavy conditions—"Wells' May .Apple Pills"~antfH bilious, cathartic. 6d and Ib, N, Z. Drug 00,