The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1876-02-12 00:00:00

EPITOME OF NEWS.
BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

The death is announced, at Eastbourne, of Benjamin
Elliott, a Waterloo veteran, aged 91.
The Bank of Nicolajeff has been broken into by
burglars, and the sum of 900,000 roubles carried off.
On Monday Messrs. Moody and Sankey began re-
vival services in New York at the Hippodrome, which has
been fitted up for a tabernacle holding 15,000 persons.
. The Council of Neufchatel has resolved by 50 to 31
:on adopting the principle of progressive taxation, but their
decision is subject to a popular vote.
M. Thome de Gamond, one of the original pro-
posers of the Channel Tunnel, has died at the very time the
International Commission has pronounced in favour of the
scheme.
The first number of a journal printed in Arabic has
just been issued in Paris. Its object is to give information
to the Arabs of Algeria and the countries bordering the
Mediterranean.
"Rabbits are pestering the farmers in New Zealand.
On one estate 7,000 rabbits were killed last year without
reducing apparently the number.
The arrival in New Zealand is announced of the
Soukar, Shakespeare, and Conflict, which carried emigrants
for the Government of that colony.
The garland placed round the neck of the Prince of
Wales at the conclusion of the fete given to his Royal High-
ness at Lucknow by the talookdars, the other day, was (says
the Tmes of India) valued at 7,000 rupees.
The Agent-General for South Australia has received
the following telegram from the Government of Adelaide.
dated February let :—" Prolific harvest nearly finished.
Wheat four shillings and eightpence per busheL"
The importation of fruit trees from France into
Turkey has been prohibited, in the belief that an insect
which is now ravaging French orchards would be introduced
with the trees if their introduction was permitted.
The funeral of the late Mr. John Forster took place
on Saturday (the sth) at Kensal-green Cemetery. Amongst
thole present were Lord Lytton, Mx. T. Carlyle, Mr. J. A.
Froude, and Mr. Henry Dickens.

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A Sacramento paper says that in the course of a
report of the proceedings at a public dinner :—" The mayor
of the city, the ladies, &c., were appropriately and elegantly
drunk, and the party separated in fine cheer.'

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Mr. John krausslach, riding-master to the Royal
Family, died on Tuesday at his residence in the Royal Mews,
Windsor. The deceased came to Eugland with the late
Prince Consort, and was much esteemed by her Majesty,
the Princes, and Princesses. _ _ .

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The labours of the International Committee for the
construction of a submarine tunnel between England and
France have (according to telegrams of Saturday's date from
Paris), resulted in the establishment of a perfect agreement
on all points under consideration. A protocol, attesting
this agreement and giving a summary of their labors has
been signed by the members of the Committee.
The Journal de Liege states that for the celebration
of the Ruben% centenary next year the most celebrated
pictures of this master in the whole world will be collected
in a gigantic exhibition at .Autwerp, to be held under the
patronage of the King.
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of the Workshops Regul:tio BBL It was determined to
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work at two o'clock on half-holidays.
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studies, he was ordained priest.
At a meeting of the Neglected Children's Aid
Society in Birmingham on Monday Lord Leigh, who pre-
sided, expressed his regret that under the Reformatory Act
they were obliged to qualify children for admission to a re-
formatory by first sending them to gaol. Ile hoped that
something would be done to save children from the danger-
ous influence of the prison, and that the magistrates of Bir-
mingham and other towns would support the society which
had sent to industrial schools since its formation 571 chil-
dren.
The Echo du Japon reports that a meeting of women
was held on the 21st of November, at Osaka, with the view
of discussing what means should be adopted to ameliorate
the position of women in Japan. About twenty women at-
sanded the meeting, and the discussion principally turned
on the depravity of their manners. It was decided that
efforts should be made to remedy this evil, attributed to the
ignorance in which women remain, who, instead of passing
their youth at school, remain idle and are only initiated in to
the practice of music. It was also resolved to meet regu-
larly twice a month until the complete organisation of the
society.