Miscellaneous.

Waikato Times, Volume XVIII, Issue 1546, 1 June 1882, Page 4

Miscellaneous.

Sir "Richard Gilpin, Bart., died at Hoekliile Granc, near Lcighton Buzzaul, cai ly on Saturday, aged S4. Deceased foi'incily represented Bedfordshire in Parliament in the Conservative interest. A telegram lias been leceived at Kilmarnock, from Naples, announcing the death of Lady Hairiet Scott Bentick, \\ ho succeeded in IS7O to the Ayishiie estates of the late Duke of Portland. Her lady&hip was in her SOtli year. A Rangoon telegram in the Standard sa>s that reports have been received ftom Maudalay to the effect that another piince, the father-in-law of the King, and a high official, besides several petty officials, have been killed in prison at that place. They were charged with conspiracy, but the more probable cause is the ascendancy of the old King's party. Tho Foreign Office has issued a return showing the number of foreigners in the Egytian Government to be 132J-, of whom the English number 295, Italians 338, French 320, Austrian 1 ? 10(5, and Greeks 183. The other nations are l by a small nmmber of officials. The annual salaries paid to foreigners amount to £373,704. Mr Thomas Burt, M.P., speaking at Blyth, on Thursday, April 13th, said thit lie was what might be called an extiiMiie man, he would not abolish the House of Lords, but lie would reforVn ! i6 a little. They felt very proud as Englishmen of the gieat ability that wan con ccntratcd in that House, and when great debates weic going on it Avas an 'intellectual treat to listen to them. Mr John F. Slater, ,of, Norwich, Connecticut, deserves well of his country. He has decided to give a million dollars for the education of the coloured people of the Southei n States. The fund, which ■\\ ill be put in the hands of ten trustees, including ex-President Hayes, Chief Justice Waite, and other prominent men, will be ample to sustain from f>o to 75 teachers j-early, in the Soutli,^ a«d . be'as ' r great a benefit to the blacks as the Peabody fund has been 1 to the whites.! > . ' • The Central A T mV Croydon ( correspondent .telegraphs :— lt is • believed here that the young man Willoughbyvsup. pqs,esjto Jiavejbeen, murdered on 1 %o Tailway, between* Boulogne and Calais, * is, a bank clerk, be,arjng th,e name of one wlu) wa^ missed from,, Croydpn .about three y earl ago. The „d escription tallies in every particular. 'Mi James Willoughbyi partner /in fhef finnoof;-' Willougbby Brothers, ironfounders, Plymouth, states tlin^j }-hfi ,iypuj?ffi iuap ))t ,3vliosevljo/ly^ fas ; fpund pi) j;hp .railway t ,bpl}iY.eQn jßoti]ogn6 (andj^j^^aslji/sDn.f^, jr. ; !^ T jllong}ibyi ' .jpayftyuJtßVr ViMw J Tainar. " r : uw* v«tti4 T'l