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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume X, Issue 3122, 6 February 1889, Page 3

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James Gordon Bennett has bought, .ait is said, tlio plant of the London WGlobe, and that paper will be transferred into an edition of the New . York Herald. O'Connor, the oarsman, is en route for Australia, and will probably . leave San Francisco by the February boat. ' It now turns out that the famous Murehison letter, which coat Sackville West his position as British Minister at Washington, was written by an Englishman-named George Osgoodby, of Pomona, California; ' who is a member of tlio St George's Society. He hart no political design whatever in doing so. The Buffalo Courier- on Jauuary 18th prints a doubtful story concerning The Times being hoaxed by a meohanio of that city named Black-, roclt. He wrote to the publishers saying that he had access to some

documentary evidence which would of service in tlio Parnell inveatigaiflH&on. Thoy sent out a trusted agent interview the correspondent only to V find his story a ,fable. Letty Lynde, of the English Gaiety Company, recently from the colonies, _ and now playing at the Standard, New York, has retired from that combination to marry an Australian stockbroker. It leaked out in New York on 23rd December that the Marquis of j Queensbury, who has just left that city for England, has been following tlio London Gaiety Burlesque Company around the world out of a wild devotion to Marion Hood, the prima donna. Charles Gleck, a 14-year-old boy, entered a dynamite magazine at Mount Pleasant, Ohio, on December 24, smoking a cigar. The magazine ' ]Kn cases of dynamite. Gleck was Mown to atoms. Several men were badly hurt, and .nearly every house within a mile of the scene was torn to pieces. Less than 80yds from the magazine were 80 tons of dynamite which did not explode. The London police have received

and traced to their origin, letters which -lead them to believe that ■'"Jack the Bipper"is living in the vicinity of Drury-lane, and seem confident that the clue upon which they are now working will result in the murderer's capture. ... Mr Gladstone has recently written a letter to tlio Bome correspondent of the Tablet denying that he lias at anytime recommended the restoration of the Pope's temporal power to be made tlio subject of international arbitration. There were SO,OOO people present when the " Te Deum" was sung at St. Peter's, Borne, on December 30. Speaking of religious matters, tlio

Pope's encyclical complains that the tendency of the present age is toward interest;, and that such tendency is strengthened by worldly pride in an evil press and drama, a demoralisation of arts and education in the schools. Materialistic and atheistic teaching is obscuring the true notions of light, Socialism, nihilism, and communism it says, are also the outcome of this tendency toward material things. Cardiual Manning has prepared an exhaustive paper on the American

school system, v- The Pope Las consented to the of the Russian language in all the Catholics Churches, except in the liturgy, an innovation not appreciated by the Polish element, Strong efforts are being made by the National Woolgrowers' Association before the United States Senate Committee for an increase of duties on all grades of wool, particularly on carpet and washed wools. There is probability, however, that the jppmmittee will increase the rates over those contained in the proposed Revised Tariff Bill. The Canard liner Umbriit, which leffc'New York on January 5, passed Crowhead at 5 o'clock on the afternoon of January 11, making the passage to Queenstown in 6 days 2 hours 45 min., beating the best record. The American hotelkeepers are to have a trust called the Hotel Mutual Association, which will be almost world-wide in itsscope. The scheme originated in England, and is thoroughly organised for that country, and it is nearly ready for work on the Continent. According to the prospectus of the Association the capital stock is placed at £150,000

for the present. ' Later reports from the Consul at Samoa continue to urgently call for another American war vessel to be there. Several Berlin evening Uppers of the date of January 7th, commenting on ' the condition of

affairs in Samoa, emphasize |the fact of the preponderance of German * Commercial interests over American, and expresses a hope that the American Government will recognise this, and stop the intrigues of Americans, and facilitate an agreement between the contending parties. The United States warships Mohican.andVandaliahave been put in commission, and ordered to Samoa with all speed to reinforce the Adonis and Nipsic, now at Apia.

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