NEWS IN BRIEF.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume II, Issue 73, 19 September 1874, Page 7

NEWS IN BRIEF.

It is understood that Mr W* Kennaway, late Provincial Secretarr ot Canterbury, has been appoinced Secretary to the Aijent-GteneraL and that he will go home very shortly to enter upon his duties Mr Beveridge, the Provincial Solicitor of Auckland, died after a protracted illness. Te Whaka, the chief who murkered NuTju at Hokianga in 1868, and who was sentenced to death, which was afterwards commuted to imprisonment for life, but who escaped from gaol three months afterwards, and has been living concealed with his friends, has received a tree pardon. It is understood that Mr E. J. Creighton assumes the editorspip of tho ' New Zealand Times ' at the end of the month. The « New Zealand Times" says thnt Mr Vogel anticipates he wilL be back in Wellington within five or sis months of the date of departure. It is understood that before his Excellency leaves the colony ha well exercise his prerogative of mercy in the case of M'Donald, now undergoing a sentence of penal servitude for shootin ' a mail-coach horse. ° The Keform League at Auckland have held a public meeting, the Mayor chairman, and passed resolutions in favor of the abolition of provincialism throughout tho colony. They intend establishing «otnmittes and branches of the Society in all parts of the colony. Captaiu Daldy was the chief speaker. The * Coromandel News ' again asserts that another evening paper 13 to be started in Auckland. The artists of the manufactory at Sevres are at present engaged in the painting of two .exquisite cups, intended for tha Duke and I Duchess of Edinburgh, as a wedding present from Marshal MacMahon. in a Massimo Ims presented the Pope with the sura cf J.O,OOOfr. on t.ie part of the Comtesse de Chambord. M. Edmond About's newspaper, the ' Dix-Nouvieme Siecle,' has been prohibited from entering AlsHce-Jlorraine for threo months. Mr Samel Wilson, of the Wimmera, has olTered £I,OOD to the Acclimatisation Society towards auetfort for the introduction of salmon mto-Victorio. A new organ of public opinion lias been started at the Fijis, under the name of the ' Fiji Argus.' It is owned by Mr W. Cook, aud is pubashed once a week. A ' History of Victoria,' from its earliest colonisation down to tha , end of the year 1873, has been undertaken by Mr Q-. D- Macartney, L.L D. It will embrace the political and soc.al, as well a3 the industrial rise of the colony. The work U nearly completed, and arrangements have been made for its publication. If is to be illustrated with portraits of the more illustrious among the founders and prominent men of tho coluiiy. Memento and relic-hunters in the New World are as indefatigable as Old World tourists to JEgypt and Rome. The visitor* to the late Senator Sumner's house have become so unsparing, that it; became necessary to close the place to prevent its bt'iiig carried off bodily. One day the person in clmrgo ha i all the buttons cut; off liv dress coat by a party of ladies and gentlemen, who found the coafc lying on a bed, aud supposed it to have been Mr Sumner's. In 16D3, VV. Anddrdon, a man of probity, was exoeuted for printing a pamphlet, entitled « A French Conquest neither Pmcticabb nor Desirable." In all Bengal there are rather fewer than 21000 Europeans of all natious, and of non-Asiatics nat more tlum 22,000. A Chinese paper has been started bp a company of native shareholders. It is called ' r lhe Nutivo Circulating Herald,' and is the first daily veuacular papee issued under purely native auspices. The quantity of milk consumed daily in New V rk is estimated at 2.000,000 quarts. This is more than two quarts to each individual. In tho little country of Holland, with its 3,513,316 inhabitaut9, there are no fewer than 1004 booksellers. In no country in the world is there so large a number of booksellers compared with its population. In Italy it i 3 proposed that a law should be made to prohibit oe regulate the tide of emigration. A thunderstorm iv London flooded the streets. Several person* were killed by lightning. L'Univers newsp iper has been suspended for a fortnight, for publishing offensive articles against Marshal Serrano. After Baznine's escape was known the ropo was found, from tho top of a precipice to the sea, stained with blood as if from B.izaine'a hands. Madame Baztine has published v letter stating that she ulone, with her cousin, planned the escape- Bazuinc is in Brussels. His extradition will probably be demanded. Some assert thai tlie rope waa put over ihu rock with tho \iew to mislead the authorities and this guards, through whose connivance it is believed the the escape wai accomplished. Tlie inquiry into the assassination of Marshal Prim resulted in the indictment of fitly ur more persons. Advices from Ireland stato thnt the reception of John Mitchell, tho Fenian exile, on his return to Cork, was most enthusiastic. The streets were alive with bands of music and bonfires ; a torchlight procession also took place, in which 5000 persons participated. A riot took pluce at Armagh during a parade of the Orangemen. Tho military cleared the streets at the point of the bayonet. Many " were wounded. The ' Church Herald ' snys :-— " Another noble family — recently moved to the highest grade in the peerage — is about to lose its son and heir, who beeoraes a convert to the Church of iiome, if he lias not ■already actually seceded. Mr Carey-Elwes, v landed proprietor in tho Midlund counties, and recently High Sheriff of his shire, has, with hi* wife and family, likewise joiued the Anglo-Roman communion ; and, from what we hear from quarters which are well informed, there can ba little doubt that another large and influential exodus in the ea ue direction* is imminent." We are unable to ccc how a noble fauiil/ '' loses its son and heir " by his conversion to the Catholic Faith.