INTERCOLONIAL. [REUTER'S CABLEGRAMS.]

Waikato Times, Volume XV, Issue 1316, 4 December 1880, Page 3

INTERCOLONIAL. [REUTERS CABLEGRAMS.]

Cooktow.v, Yesterday. The Corea has arrived. She reports that news has reached Somerset that the of New Guinea attacked the natives of Rigo Island and massacred all except one woman.

A Wealthy Victorian squatter has had made, totally regardless of cost, a magnificent t>et of double carriage harness elaborately and profusely oruaniented with his coat of artnts in solid Colonial gold. Dr Phipfou, by enclosing a phosphorescent substance, such as the sulphide of barium, in a Geibsler tube traversed by a constant but weak electric current, so increases the phosporescence that a pretty uniform and agreeable light is said to be obtained. The Luxe Tunes thinks it would not be surprising if, during this or an early session of Parliament, the rights of a husband to make nuptial settlements to the detriment of his creditors should be considerably limited. The mother of the most children in New York City was found by Enumerator Matthews residing in district 301. She has 22 children. The enumerator earned 44 cents in taking their names. The unprecedented severity of the last winter ha.> caused immense destruction among the herds of the Kirghiz, in Central A.sia. In the district of Turgai, out of 60,000 head of cattle only 50,000 have survived the winter. Os r the Long Island Railway a traiu with Italian laborers passed under a derrick near Rockway. Just as the train passed a heaVy guy-ropo was loosened, falling on the train and sweeping the entire 27 laborers off. Seventeen were injured, several fatally. The Honest Angler. — An Oil City man went filling the other day, and he came hoinp with nothing but a little halfpound bass. "Is that all you caught ?" asked his friends. "That's all," replied the man. "How many bites did you have ?" " None," exclaimed the fisherman, and the whole croird cried, " He's found! he's found! Here is the honest fisherman." He'd havo had fifty invitations to drink in ton minutes if a small boy hadn't broken through the crowd and said, "See here, mister, yer gave me a bogus nickel for that air fish." And now that crowd has no faith in human nature. There was a sale of household furniture, at which a sowing-machine was sold for about half its value. A day or two after the buyer hunted up the vendor in order to obtain the little oil-can, value about sixpence, which he insisted should go with the machine. The seller disputed the claim, and hot words ensued. These interviews were repeated two o* three times, with invariably unpleasant results. At last the seller, greatly exasperated, said, " Why, conf-und you, I believe you're Yorkshire !" "l am," said the claimant, k< are you ?" "Of course I am — you can have that oil-can."—" JEgles." The entire teaohing staff in the 21 universities within the limits of the German empire numbered, in July, 1815 persons. Of these 949 are ordinary professors, 20 ordinary "honorary" professors, 388 extraordinary professor, 10 extraordinary "honorary" professors, and 458 privat doccnts. The Pope contemplate* reconvokingthe (Ecumenical Council, which after the proclamation of Papal infallibility in 1879, was prorogued, not dissolved. The object of this convocation would be to discuss the relations between church and state. The man who leaves two -thirds of a cigar in a dark nook on the front door stoop when he goes to see his girl will make a thrifty husband. In a Manchester parish, containing 1,233 houses, the clergymen found as the result of personal inquiries that the heads of 906 families openly professed that neither they nor their households attended any place of worship. Ninetythree families called themselves Church of England people, 94 families called themselves Roman Catholics, and the rest were made up of different denomination, the Wesleyans being strongest with 54 families. The Antonelli will case came again before the Italian Court of First Instance on July 28th. The Countess Lambertini claimed the right of proving that the register of her baptism is false. The Court, however, holding that the oase was fully gone into at the previous trial, rejected her plea. It is understood that she will appeal against the decision.