GENERAL ITEMS.

Waikato Times, Volume XIX, Issue 1607, 21 October 1882, Page 4

GENERAL ITEMS.

As Mfk {Mok T Patrick. Tub aiiulVcraaiy oi the battle of Seilan (September Ist) was celebrated, tliioughout Germany with umi«ifi! enthusiasm. Ax attempt was made on the 2nd tembcr to destroy Hoiwv C'omacho, Spanish Minister of Finance, by dynamite. il. DcCifVKi), writer oi Le Petit Capov.vl, killed Dcmastes, the editor oi the Vom'tnt , \M a duel at Paris on the 2nd September. Six thousand Stafl"ordMiiio nnnois mi\e given notice of strike, miles* tliuu wages aroad\aneod 10 percent. Tin: failure of George Reid and Co., of Dublin, distillers, is repoited. Liabilities ■ nearly £400,000. Ix accordance -with the wish of tier brother, thcicmains of Miss Parnell a\ ill rest in America. Tlic London Time denounces tlic nationalisation of land theory, onunciatcd by Davitt, George, and otheis, as only socialibin in disguise. TnhNnv YorL Iroh Wwhi has been debarred tbu English mails. Seveial bundles leecivcd by express in Liverpool have been seized by the Customs authoiities. At Be\ infort, Counhy M.iyo, Septcinber 19, a thousand ejectment decrees, were posted at the Court house on the H suit of Lord Dillon. No rent liab been paid on Lord Dillons cctatc since 1870. H Tnoor.s are being sent into Utah, to provide against the contingencies that may aviso at the coming election, under H the Edmund's anti-poly«ainy law. H Mormon* misbiou.ivics, proselytising in South Caiolina, have been warned out of H the State. If they delay they are threatH ened with hanging, H A "NVOMAX near Ghcnties, County H Donegal, was shot by a piocess-sei\er on the )Bth, because she objected to the seizure of her cattle. H Pnoinmriov is being generally acccpted in the State of lowa, and saloon H keepers and others engaged in the Junior H business are shutting up and tunmig their I H nttcation to other pursuits. H Hknky M. ScKir.NKit, brothor of the H New Yoik publisher, was knocked down HandH and robbed by Thu^s recently at Ues H Moines, lowa. He died in a bhoifc time H after. Outrages of this kind arc becomH ing frequent in the large Western cities. H Alvruu Tkn\vm» is among the most H active piomoters of the scheme to give I the Amei ican poet, Longfellow, a bust in H Westminster Abbey. He has been joined I by Chamberlain (Piesident ot the Boaul I of Tuulc), Wilkie Collinfe, and John ■ Briglit. ■ Steimiuv J. MfcVNY, the Irish- Amei ican I correspondent, sunendercd hio lecogI nisauces to be of good behaviour to I Ptircell, tlic icsitlcnt magi & tiatcof Knnis, ■ on the 6th, because he could not, "as an I American citi/en carry the .stigma of a ■ British bondsman." He taken in ■ custody. B UiAJv->ro\i, %\as a pall-bearei at tlic I iuneialof J)r, Pu^oy on tho l2Kfcin>,t, and ■ Cardinal Newman walked beside the ■ collin. Bishop Macaiknesfc, Dean LidI dell, and Cannon liiddon, ofheiated .it the I service. The (lags of Oxfoul wcie at I half-mast. All the dignit.ities of the I univcisity weic preHont. ■ The Biooklyu llridgc. over the East I Uiver, New Yoik, us being line^tigated ■ l»y the New Yoik Woild. It showo, I what it calls, "ovmvhclniiiiij pioof of ■ &ybtcmatie jobheiy and corruption."' I'hc I o'nginal estimate of 7,000,000 dollais is swollen to -22,000,000 dollars. Cm hi' Engineer Moh illo, one the sun ivori of the Jcanneltt: Aictie i'/'sptdition, lcturnsto find that hib wile ha^ become insane fiom long continued anxiety collecting his fate. A peculiar Icatme of the .sudden malady is th.it hhe is intoleiant of Jiei liusb,ind s picsonee. Anothei account says the tioul)le conies iiom the ie\i\al oi an old dispute between husband and m ift <is &oon as they met. The lad) has been sent to an insane asj him. tfbvi.\rv->i.\ i.n pei -on-, were wounded in the distiu bantcs at Dublin on the '2nd 3rd, by bayonet limits, blows and batons. Mdllo. IJeithtV de llothschild, daujihtei of tlie head of the KiauLfyit blanch of the family, was iiiamcd on the 7th to Pi nice Alexander de Wagiam. The bude iucei\ul Clnisti.ui biptisin, and foi'tiKvlH al)juu*d the Htln'ow f.utlv. A KuiuiK \iii-i ii-atuioof Sir Garnet s succcoa is a cei tain lettei which lie wiote to hi-5 wife at the outset of tlic campaign, in m Inch hesud " The lighting p.wtot my work will be o\eib^ SeptLinbei lolh. ' The Eibti'in ])apjis though they had a huge joke in his l;old asacit'on, :nnl ha\ c ncvci since ceased to jibe and ]L"ji at ■vvh.it they ternicd cmpt> !)iaggadocio. Yi't it in on tins -3.11)10 )~>Lh ot hepteinbei tli.it we leccned the complete new a tliat the " lighting put of the woik' ib ovei. An article on the Sue/ Canal question iv Pi nice Bibinaick's oigan, the Xvuf(((((IhIh Alliji until' /tit'tni/, li.iaattitVi.tcd much attention. The aiticle cippo^es tlic pioposal to place the Canal under the I contiol of n mixed commission, ;is m the ease of the Low u Danube. No statesman woi thy of the name, it f>:iy-, really think* it possible to cauy out .such a plan. It docs not buhe\ c that the other Paw cis would expect England to huboidinate hci \ ies^s to tliuu-> iv a matter ■where her nitcic^tb aie bo much moic iinpoitant. A meeting, com cued by a Democratic faction, was held in London on the evenng of the "21st August, to discuss the proposed intioductiou of Chinese labour into Great li'itam. A motion, calling upon the Government to ftame a measure to pre\ent .such linpoitation of Chineso, was adopted. Mr Pair, of San Fiaucisco, .said that it the Chinese came to Gieat Britain, the English woikmcn might as ■well «ro and die. Loud KniHuu.KY has sent to the Queen the piescnt-> which the Maori chiefs brouglit o\ er heie, md Her Majesty has acknowledged them. They aie great cniiosities, the JNlaon mats aie especially fine apecin.cns of woikmanship. The most cuiious picsents of all, howevei, aie the greenstone ates, which the Messrs Paroii and Te \Vhangi have sent. They are beautifully polished, and ought to belong to a brave nation, if it la ti ue that tlic hhovtci the ucapoiib of a people the braver they nie. One blow upon the Jiead with either of iliese "greenstones " ■would destroy a man's life. There v, ould I>o no need to knock again at his door ; and he would have the satisfaction of iiixlei standing that he was killed by as " illigant "' a weapon as e\er was wielded by a savage. Tiik San FfitiH isco Sen \ Li'llvr says :—: — In spite of the fact that Sir ( Jarnct fccley has conducted the Egyptian campaign "without paying much regard to the gratuitous advice of Ainciican editois, he seems to ha\e got along pretty well after all. Of coin.se, the Gencial did wiong in refusing to disclose bib plans to the lepresentative liars of the New York and Chicago papers, and, since the rest ot the jienny-a-liiiers in the United States take their cue from these vciacious and unprejudiced sources, it is no wonder that our local editors pronounce poor YVolseley incompetent to cope with the cueniy. It i apneftVSj however, that Sir Garnet had lapriie faint, idea of wliat he was aliout, for tlie "bkityi i oi' Tel-el- Ko.bir has knocked >> the Bgyp^an rebels into a cocked hat, • Jfland. •/Clie.reis no,, inctaphor about this * Vftei*bJdsiVy>v/ Tlie other Powers may as they will, but tho A|i]felitißbißiintDog!ha&^ot a 'firm hold on a%ieai*«^6ftherPbftroahB, and ha ."won't t'li^tfbtwifiiQii^'W^Wyoonsidei'ation,