NEWS BY THE MAIL.

Waikato Times, Volume XXIV, Issue 1966, 12 February 1885, Page 3

NEWS BY THE MAIL.

An Umbiella Loan Society is to be rstahlishid in Bdlin. Blanch ofhees will, it i-^ nsieited, be openeil all ovei the citj, whore mcinbeis can obtain umbifll.is in case of ,i sudden shower. An impoitant find ot old documents has been made in Koine. A pile of w hat appealed to be waste papei turns out to be a colliction of \eiy v.iluable documents, including the sccict corruspoiulence of the Constable do Boiiibon. In Fiance if a Mian divoiccs his wife tliey c.innot many each other again it j either has, since the first maiiiage, con- ' ti acted a, fiesli ni.uri.ige. followed by a second divorce ; otherwise they can re-marry. A lespondent is never allow ed to many % co lespondent, 01 an accomplice vi adnlteiy Adulteiy alone, by either party, is sufficient giound for a divoicc. At Moto, near M.mlstone, England, the ceremony of opening a silo was lecently pei formed in the piesence of a large nnmbei of ugiieultiinsU The eras*, to the evtent of eighty tons, was placed in the silo in June last, and was found to bo in splendid condition. It was eaten by the cattle with gieat avidity, and the sm< 11 was, all tli.it could bo desiud Tins has been a very bad Near for cabbage-groweis in New England. In one titld in Mass-ichusetts ten thousand heads were not hai vested, bt cause nobody would oflei a cent a piece for them. (Tieat quantities have been stoied, awaiting a. demand. How to hold cabbies safely is a question which Kistern fanneis would gieatly like to hear answeied. Theie is a woman living at the village of Aubeuves on-Kojans, Department of [sue. Fiance, who is subpo-ed to be \-27> jears old. The piiest of the local church testifies from the lecoids of_tbe vestry that she was married in 1783, or 101 years .mo. Her name is Mane Dm and tmvi Girard. She does not remember at what ag* she was nimried. The Porte has sent a formal protest, to be deliveied by its Ambassadoi m I-"*' I',1 ', igainst the Ficnrh occupation of Tadjunh, in the Gulf of Aden, opposite Pciim. The Porte declares that the Aiab sheiks have no light to sell oi cede the tenitoiy in (|i'estion, and that the ecs<i< n is altogether ddleieut fiom that of Assab to the Italians, and of othei places occupied by England. The Ambassador is asked to lerjucst Fiance to withdraw her troops. Much sensation has been cieated by an outiage committed on the i ail way between LeiguiU and (Jolbcig, m Silesia, l>y a young lady, the daughter of a landed pi opiietor, whotlnew a llask of vitnol in the face of a gentleman in the same carnage, who had deseited her in favour of another lady. After throwing the vitriol she diew a icvolver -and fiicd on the man, wounding him, befoio she could lie arrested. Bismarck has again been beaten in the Reichstag, ai.d this time the beating seems to be something over which that celebiated legislative body e\eicibcs more than nominal power. The question 'at issue was an appropriation to defray the expenses ot the Afiiian Colonization scheme. This scheme apparently does not icoeive the enthusiastic suppoit of the Reichstag, and, as that body is a representative one, it is to be presumed the German people aie not thnsting for Afiican colonies. At any Kite, th p ciedit asked for was reduced by one thud. It is more than piobable, however, that Bisinaick will Hud some way of setting at, defiance the mandate of the people's icpresentatives Ladies bavt not very often distinguished themselves in the Held of invention, so when one of them comes foiwaul in that line it is a pleaMiie to locoid hci work. An Kimlishwoniiin has invented an ingenious instiu men t for dividing a stiaight line accurately into a detined nnmbei of equal parts. Another, Mine. Dulong Tiiysisiisian, htm, after a com so of e\penments, extending ovci eighteen jeais, constiucteda machine which cuts plates of metal of consideiable thickness, ac cording to any elaboiate design oi pattern. Her invention is well known to Fiench architects, but it has only vciy lately been introduced into England. Tlia despeiate and bloody deed which occurred in O'Donovan Rossa's oflice, in New York, last week, is (siys an American paper) well w oi thy of the attention of the Ameiican people It is a broad intimation of the fact that this band of foreign ciiminalsand des>peiadoe&, who have been oigani/ed in this countiy, under the protection of our Uoveuiment, foi the avowed pin pose of assailing the peace and pro>-peiity of the people of a friendly power, may, by traiisfening the theatie of their opeiations to this country, and making each other the object of their fiendish disposition, gi\ c organised society untold tiouble. Nor is the fact that this incident lias impressively demonstrated that one object of tins reckless and criminal oiganization is to place dynamite on board thips carrying passengers objectionable to it, with a view to their destruction, a ciicumstance to be lightly considered. Thousands of American citizens and their families aie crossing the Atlantic each week, and if, one ot these days, a ship or two is blown to pieces, and a few bundled human lives scacrificed by these cowardly brutes, the great American people will piobably pause in their hunt after the almighty dollar, long enongh to inquiic if it was quite the conect thing to not meiely permit this organised band of ciiminals to exist in their midst, but also to permit them to do pretty much as the) pleased. A couple, of the name of A. J. Bennett and Orpah T. Giubb, belonging to Pies ton, England — being nephew and aunt — travelled 3,000 miles to Milwaukee m older to be married, which ceremony was pci formed by a Congregational minister at the house of a icl.ttiou on Nov. ,')OHi. A letter from Milwaukee, dated Dec. Ist, ■»ays that Mr Bennett, who is a n'ch man, had tin veiled all that distance to " overcome the English mauiacje proscription relative to that kinship which induced them to cro-is the ocean to have the cereii'ony peiforn cd. The dusty volumes of law in France, Belgium, Switzerland, Uei many, and othor European countiies were examined by Mr Bennett, but the maniage was forbidden in all those conntries. After a good deal of correspon deuce with the Ameiican Consul, Mr Bennett found that in the law of Wisconsin there was no clause foi bidding such a marriage, and as Mrs Grubb had a bi other on the west side ot Milwaukee they went there to have the knot tied. "But will you not experience tiouble when you ictuiii to England' 1 Mr Bennett was asked. •My dear sir,' he replied, 'trust me : I took care to look into that. lam an expeit on mariiage laws m all the countries of the globe. 1 made it my special study foi months. As artilleryman belonging to the ganison in the Island of Ftioul, at Maisnlles, has just been the victim of a singular accident. Being fond of fishing in his leisure moments, he laid down some night Hues as usual. On rowing to the spot the next morning he found that one ot them at least had a bite Drawing up his line with consideiable efforts, he saw with pleasure that his capture was a veiy fine eel of the iinnaiw species. Unaw.uc of the voiacious disposition of the fish, as well as the formidable nature of the teeth with which it is armed, he mean tiously seized it. The eel at once snapped «it his light hand and inflicted a feaiful bite. He swooned fiom the pain and loss of blood, and the boat drifted to shoie at tho Prado later on, where he was taken out, still unconscious, and at tended to at the Custom House theie. After having his hand temporauly dressed he waa sent to the mihtaiy hospital. One species of this fish, the murwnn Itihna, was much estcamed by the ancients, who fattened it in a reservoir expressly constructed for the purpose. The history of Va'dius Pollio, who caused his transgressing slaves to be ilung into these ponds as food foi the nwxowo, is well-known. — Ovcilaud Mail.

Onk thousand fhe hundred and fortyone out of 3,887 magistrates of pett\ sessions in Ii eland, nc\ei attended com t at all last yeni ; 1, VU attended tnc timeor less : '2'i attended 10 times ; and only, t •J3 attended fifty tunes linn is something for polity people Loi-l (iieville's ii-covcty from a- seveie attnclc (>F gout lias been aeceleiatid In the application ot the new and ettii.i eions lemidy of enci-iny the aflected limli in plastoi of Pni". llu is well enough to contemplate a speedy retain to li eland, to pa«s the winter amidst his tenants and Ins "o«n people " HKMiiLni.ui. castle was spared the thuty Mar and the flames of Louis XIV. foi what piomises to he an ingloiious taking oft, which wdl mak< T olin l.inkin lun 11 with lage. A nil load tunnel has been run undti tin citadel. The lepeated blasts began the woik ot unsetthug the walls, and the heavy tiains aie cai tying on the tics truction. Several patches of wall have alieady fallen, and the towci is con sidered in danger. A u'KAi-Tin Irish fanner, intending to " send his son to college,'" recent 1> wiote a, short letter to the heads of the Oxford Univeisity, in which he said " Please say what are your terms for a year, and will it cost an) thing e\tia it my son learns to wiiteagood hand am' spell proper, as well as tow .v boat ? '"— Couit .Journal. Thk e\poit of Japinese folding screens increased fiom 000, in 1574, to 9,000, during the Hist ten months of last jeir, while at the same time thrir <|iitility has so detoiioiatul that the average price is only -2 .">0 yen, instead of .)' jeii. A movement is on foot to introduce improvements in the method of manuiaetuie and the m.ittiial cm ployed. It is repotted in London that the j Hon. Abi.im S. Hewitt, of New 'SoiU, will pi<>bahly be tho succeshor til Minister Lowell. The Pall Mall Ua/ette says 1 hat Mr Hewitt's eminent position ns a philantlnopist, and his Fiee Tiade \iews, tit him for the position, but whoever comes to England will find Mi Low ell a vci y ditheult in in to sueeu'd TliK Sultan is going to liave a l,u g>- plio togiaph album m.ide, wliieh is to Oontain fit a t. the " phi/es "of the ladies of the haiein, many of whom aio iepoitc<l to be stiangeis to him at piescut ; ne\t, ) his household employes of a Mipeiioi order; then the sen ants and woikmcn ; linally, his chief ministers of State and their cleiks. Tho order is Oriental. It is stated that a gentleman who is more likely to know what is transpiiing in Egypt and the Somlan than most ot our guides, philosophers, prophets, ministers, editors and correspondent*,, says that the Mahdi has a large force of Egyptian soldiers and officers, and that cv'en if he weie to wish it he could not allow Gordon and the garrrison to withdiaw, because this Egyptian force is closely allied with the National party in Eyypt, and wishes for the tuuinph of Nationalism in Egypt ai well as the Soudan. Prudence suggests the pro pnety of taking this statement dim gmno i Good "Wokps— From Good Al liiorii\ — We confess th.it we are perfectly ama/cil at the run of \our Hop Hitters. We never had an) tiling hLe it, and nc\erhe.mlof the like, lhe writf (llcnton) h.is been belling drujjsherr ne.irl) thirtj \i-nrs, and his seen the rise of Hostetter s \iiUK<tr and all ollit-r bitters md p itent medu incs, but never did an) nt them, in their bpst d.^)^ ) begin to have the run that Hop Hitters ha\c. . . \W c.in't get enough of them. We .in out of thim h ilt the turn I'xtrict from It ttirs to !!<>,> l!ttl< r-, (," , \u^w~t ll,'~^ trfimHiM'is, Mmks^Lo WlioUb.ilc drugn'l^t-., Iliii ! mci, t). ]5i- Mm mil su