The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1878-12-07 00:00:00

EPITOME OF NEWS.

BRITISH AND FORRIOIV,

A collision occurred on Sunday on the Mississippi
between two steamers, one of which sunk instantly.
Twenty persons were drowned, including four passengers.
The execution of criminals by electricity is being
seriously talked over by wi4e professors of Milan. Un-
doubtedly, the method w, uld be summary enough, but if the
executioner by accident got in the current he would be
worked off" himself.—The " Tatler," in Pictorial World.

AU accounts respecting the speech reported to have
beeu made by Genend Kaufmann, on the occasion of his
presenting the Afghan Envoy with a sword of honour for
Shere Ali, are declared by the Russian newspapers to he
LibriCatiOnB invented for the purpose of influencing public
opinion.
Lina Berger, a young Swiss lady, has just taken the
degree of Doctor of Philosophy at Berm University, after a
brilliant examination; and two other ladles, American and
Austriap, have passed as doctors of medicine.
The total number of private Bills for next Session,
of which the plans were deposited at the Railway Depart-
ment of the Board of Trade on Saturday, is 105, as compared
with 111 last year.

A sailor of the el 4 Galutee, of Tynemouth, fell into
the harbour at Dover on Saturday night, and was drowned.

The Porte has (according to a Times telegram) at last
resolved to take a decided step toward., the rectification of
the Greek frontier. The project of rectification is at present
being prepared at the Straskierate, and as soon as it is ready
a commission will be immediately named to meet and con-
sult with a similar commission appointed by the Greek
Government.

On .Friday afternoon in last week, Mr, Gilbert
Collins, aged 50, was knocked down and killed by a passing
trait 1t7•4"1,/11. IMO/ .• q 1171.,
vate footpath over the railway. It appears tam e was very
deaf, and did not hear the train approaching.
Six engineers from Alexandria have arrived at
Larnaca to survey the harbour of Famagusta and draw up
plans for a railway to Nicosia.

Two captains of Marines fought a duel the other
day at Cherbourg with pistols. One of them received the
ball in the throat and died in a few hours.

At a meeting of farmers of the Liverpool district
resolutions have been passed in favour of the hundredweight
and its parts being retained as the standard for the sale of
hay, straw, turnips, potatoes, and farm produce generally
Official reports issued by the Labourers' Union
state that the lock-out of agricultural labourers in Kent
and Sussex is increasing, nearly nine hundred men being
now on the union funds.

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Near Balow, in Lusatia, have been found twenty-
four bronze arm rings, three collars, and other ornaments,
believed to be part cf the treasure of the but of the
Wendish kings, which tr idition had always represented as
buried in that neighbourhood, as, alto, his remains enclosed
in a silver coffin.

It is calculated that 30,204,000 tons of iron rails have
been laid down during th 4 past ten years, and that the
quantity annually required for repairs is 3 020,400 tons ; for
new lines, &c., 1100,000 tons ; a total of 4.110,400 tons.

Admiral Hornby, having inspected Cyprus, is well
satlsti, d with its capabilities, and thinks that a very good
port can be made at Famagusta, where there is good
anchorage close to the shore, by building a mole.— Vanity
Fair
The Metropolitan says that several workhouses in
the metropolis are getting inconveniently crowded.

A handsome casket, the gift of the English residents
In California to the Earl of Beaconsfield, has arrived in
Liverpool, and has been forwarded to London, to be formally
presented to the Premier.

The Telegraphic Journal says :—" We have seen
and heard a receiving microphone belonging to Professor
Hughes which gives very striking effects. The voice heard
from it is so natural and like the speaker's that we at first
believed we were overhearing the speaker, until assured of
the contrary by withdrawing the little instrument from the
ear.

The meets of the East Sussex Foxhounds are
suspended in consequence of hydrophobia haying broken out
in the kennels.

ThP number of medical men in Prussia amounted in
1878 to 8,223, that of surgeons to 149, and that of dentists to
251. The number of inhabitants was £25,724,404.

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Baron Munchausen's horse, tied on a snowy night
to a post, and discovered next morning by the melting of the
snow to be hanging to the top of a high steeple, has been
capped in real life by five cows at Pulaski, in the State of New
York. The floor oi a stable fell in during the night, and
lett the cows which were fastened to their stalls hanging by
the neck. Endowed with less vitality than the baron's
horse, however, the cows were all dead when found next
morning.— Graphic.
Coal is now competing with marble as a material
for sculpture. In the town of lionigAtitte, in Upper
Silesia, the Town Hall is enriched with a bust of the
Emperor, chiselled out of common coal. The sculptor is a
working miner named Dlttmania. It is an excellent like-
ness and is well executed. The town has bought A for 100
marks (Z 5. ) Mayfair.
The steamer John Bull, which is to be employed in
raising the Grosser Kurftlrst, has arrived at Folkestone, and
operations have been commenoed. The task of removing
the ponderous anchors (raised some time ago) to Dover has
just been completed. the John Bull towing them. The
anchors were kept aflpat by the patent pontoon by means of
which the ironclad itself will, it is hoped, be raised.
"Mr. Gladstone's sentence in his speech at Green-
wich on the Afghan War, 'lf Russia had sent a mission to
Cabul, why not have called Russia to account?' seems to
have met with a reception from his audience which the
orator had scarcely calculated upon. The people whom he
was addressing are reported to have burst out into loud and
prolonged cheering, acoompanied by waving of hats. Is it
possible that the right hon. gentleman has been mistaken as
to the opinion even of the majority of his own followers with
respect to Russia P'—Pail Mall Gazette.

At a meeting to consider the relief of the destitution
prevaiiing in Sunderland, Mr. S. P. Austin, of the firm of
Austin and Hunter, iron shipbuilders, stated that the iron
shipbuilding trade of the Wear, which has hitherto been
very brisk, was now showing signs of succumbing to the
general depression of trade prevailing throughout the
country, and he feared that it could not be depended upon
much longer to employ so many workmen as were at present
engaged.

The Queen and Princess Beatrice, attended by
General Pousouby and suite, left Windsor shortly before eleven
o'clock on Tuesday morning, on a visit to the Empress
Eugenie, at CUislehurst. Tue Royal party left in a special
train, and reached Chislehurst about noon. On alighting at
the station, where a ',umber of spectators had assembled, the
Queen and Princess drove up to Camden-house, where they
were received by the Empress. After stay, the Royal party
left Chislehurst and arrived at Windsor Castle at two
o'clock.
Mr. Morley, MX., presided on Saturday over a
meeting of the C ;linen of the London Hospital Saturday
Fund. The report stated that the total amount received
for the 3 ear had been £6,650, including a street collection
of £1,090, being an increase of £1,047 over the receipts of
the previous year; £5,000 had been distributed amongst 61
hospitals, 31 dispensaries three convalescent homes, and
the Surgical Appliance Society.

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At a meeting of the Cambridgeshire and Isle of Ely
Chamber of Agriculture, Cambridge, the provisions of the
Highways Act have been discussed. Mr. Hicks, JP., in
introducing the subject, disapproved of several of the clauses,
particularly that which had reference to the repair of roads.
The meeting passed the following resolution :—" That this
chamber' whilst it considers the sanitary authority is pre-
ferable to a local highway board, is of opinion that roads
should remain under the control of the several parishes.

The Cologne Gazette says that a Committee of ex-
perts having examined the document known as " Luther's
will," which is in the possession of the Protestant church lu
Pesth, has declared it authentic. Ihe document found its
way, wi, h a number of manuscripts ot the learned theologian,
John 13 otiediet Carpzoino' to Hungary, and came into the
hAnds of a private collector, a rich proprietor named
Jankovins, from whom the Archduchess Maria Dorothea
obtained it for 400 golden guldens. She presented it to the
Protestant church in Pesth, in whose archives it has since
lain, nobody being positively certain that it was authentic.
It is henceforth to be deposited in a special cassain the
Yational Museum at Datil

The Admiralty have at last given up all hope of
recovering the wreck of the Vanguard. Arrangements are
being made to blast the iron masts of the vessel, which at
pre.ent obstruct navigation. Torpedoes may possibly be
used.
Mr. Spurgeon is still very unwell, and WPS On
Sunday again unable to resume his functions at the Metro-
politan Tabernacle. A large congregation had assembled
there in the expectation of hearing the rev gentleman.
Professor Galloway, in a second lecture at the Royal
College of Science, Dublin, has insisted on the necessity, in

the iire.ent circumstances, of the country, to study the
more practical methods adopted in teaching national
science in Germany, in order better to fit students for he
coming successful owners or managers of great industrial
establishments.

A mission, consisting of religions services (to be
continued for ten days) was commenced on Sunday in Liver.
pool in all the places of worship connected with the Church
of England.

The Paris captive balloon has been successfully
" disinflated." It has been a financial success, 500,0001.
having been cllected for ascents. The number of auents
was 1,023, and that of passengers, 34,000.

At Westgate on-Sea on Monday night an expF,ri-
ment was begun of using six electric lights on the highway,
with a view of testing the coat as compared with that of
gas.

The Corperation of Liverpool have given notice
that they intend to apply in the ensuing Session for an Act
authorising the lighting of the public streets, places, and
buildings within the borough by means of the electric light,
"or otherwise than by means of gas." The Corporations of
several other towns ask for similar powers in the Bills which
they intend to promote.

Mrs. Tait, wife of the Archbishop of Canterbury,
died on Sunday night, at the residence of her brother-in-law,
Mr. Pitmen, in Edinburgh. The deceased lady left London
for the north, with the Archbishop, three weeks ago, imme-
diately after the marriage of her daughter at Lambeth
Palace.

"The death is announced of Mr. Alfred Wigan, the
actor, a man whose accomplishments and amiable qualities
made him as much esteemed and liked in private life as he
was admired in his professional capacity. One by one the
veterans of the stage are dropping off and their plaoes are
being taken by new favourites, but many will regret to
hear of Mr. Wigan's death, and it will be long before his
merits are forgotten. For thirty years he was acknow-
ledged to have no superior in his own peculiar line on the
stage, and older playgoers still say that they know not
where to look for his- sucoessor."—Daily New.
The Gobs publishes the following telegram from
Tiflis, dated November 27 :—" Telegraphic intelligence re-
ceived to-day states that this morning at two o'clock a severe
earthquake was experienced at Scram and Borjom. A fright-
ful rumbling noise was heard during the earthquake, accom-
panied by a shock so severe that people were thrown from
their beds. Nothing similar has occurred in the district
before."
The Sheffield Telegraph understands that several
colliery owners in the Barnsley district reduced the price of
their ooal by le. per ton on Monday.

The War Office has ordered that the Ist Company
Royal Engineers is to be brought up to its full war strength,
and that it is to be converted into a field service.
A very good example, which, it is to be hoped, will
find many imitators, has just been set by Sir R. It. Buxton,
Bart M P., of Shadwell Court, who has presented to the
Thetford Mechanic's Institute specially hound editions of the
works of Disraeli, Thackeray, Bulwer Lytton and Dickens, in
all 74 volumes.

Ile funeral of Mr. A. L, M'Callmont, J.P., the
late Mayor of Southampton, who died of typhoid after a
short illness, took place on Saturday. Nearly every shop In
the town was partially closed, flags were raised half-mast,
and there were many other token of respect.

The following cable message has been received at
the London office of the New York Herald from New York:
—"Depression, attended by rains and gales, will probably
arrive at the British, Norwegian, and affecting the French
coasts, about 3rd December

On Saturday, Principal Tulloch delivered a lecture
in enneetion with the St. Andrew's day services in the nave
of Westminster Abbey. He referred to the intellectual un-
belief among the leading thinkers of the present day, and
then went on to show how the doctrines of Christianity were
spreading themselves more and more widely through the
world.

Some misapprehension exists as to the statement
that the directors of the North Western Railway propose to
reduce the wages of their porters. The Birmingham Post
understands that no reduction of wages is aimed at, but
rather a restrangement of the working hours at affecting
those employed in the goods yard.

On the 31st of December next at midnight the
normal hour is to be fixed throughout Sweden All the
Government, railway, and telegraph clocks are to be set
simultaneously. In some places, as, for instance. in
Stockholm, the clocks will have to be put back as much as 12
minutes.

According to the Ardrossan Herald, the last razor
that Burns ever shaved with is now in possession of Mr.
Edward Quaile a Scotch gentleman resident at Claughton,
Birkenhead. its history is recorded on five silver shields
indented on the handle. The first states that it was "pre-
sented to William Dunbar by Itobezt Burns, jun.. 6th Jany.
1639.

Diphtheria has broken ont in a mild form at the
Princ-ss Mary Village Humes, Addlestone, and there have
been 38 cases.

A trial of the electric light was made in the nave of
the Bristol Cathedral the other evening. The Bristol Post
says :—" Although produced by a battery of low power the
light proved very effective, enabling small print to be read
with little difficulty at a distance of about 100 feet. Alto-
gether a vary striking effect was produced throughout the
spacious nave; and it is possible that the new method of
illumination will be utilised in the building at the special
services to be held therein during Advent."

The customs revenue of Glasgow for Novemberr
shows in a very marked manner the contraction of trade,
being lower than in any of the three preceding Novembers.
In 1875 the amount was £87,057; 1876, £97,147; 1877,
£88,991. Last month the revenue was only £80,939. This
heavy decline is due, it is believed, to a reduction paid in
the dutiea on tea, tobacco, and spirits, items on which it is
never attempted to economise unless in very hard times.
The unemployed in Glasgow are beginning to hold "demon-
strations," and the authorities are still feeding hundreds of
men reduced to destitution by want of work.

Mr. Samuda, M.P., addressed a meeting of his con-
stitutents on Tuesday evening at Poplar, and, referring to
the Afghan war expressed his belief that he Government had
acted rightly. Ile did not think that the war would last
snore than a few-months. Ile was not prepared to sanction
anything, which would allow Russia to carry on intrigues for
the disturbacce of our Indian possessions. A vote of con-
fidence in Mr. Samuda was passed.
AU immense grave outu wcatt.e.,-
Cemetery of Pere La Chaise in which to place the remains of
all the forgotten combatants of the war of 1870. This Ira-
mense grave has a superflces of 120 metres, and will be sur-
mounted by a monument, the design of which has not yet
been chosen. The works, which are of great importance and
likely to last a considerable time, have been undertaken in
accordance with an often-expressed wish of the Municipal
Council of Paris.—Paris Correspondent of Daily Telegraph.

"A Lover of Truth" writes to The Times:—" I was
surprised that any one should say that Khiva has not been
annexed by Russia. The actual throne of the Khan of Ktliva
was shown to me, in June, 1876, in the Kremlin at Moscow
by the official there, and I considered it a great curiosity.
The English Government has not, I believe, taken away the
thrones of the protected Princes of India."
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In delivering the annual address t 3 the Royal
Society, from the chair of which he is about to retire, Sir J.
D. Hooker on Saturday reviewed the advance made by science
during the five years that he has been president. He con-
siders that it is greater than that of any previous period of
the same length. He touched upon the chief features of the
advance throughout the civilised world, and concluded with
an outline of the labours and discoveti, 5 of those to whom
the Society's medals had this year been awarded.

The supply of American freih meat was again very
large last week, and the number of cattle and sheep was
otily slightly smaller than that of the previous week. Con-
veying fresh meat, three steamers arrived having on board
5,914 quarters of beef, 1,059 carcases of mutton, 416 dead
pigs, and 1,000 tubs of butter. Five steamers reached the
Mersey with live stock, bringing collectively 771 head of oxen
and 1,227 sheep.

"Town" is filling, and a walk in Hyde-park is no
longer the forlorn thing it was a fortnight ago. Of course,
the "Row ' has not the gay equestrian appearance it will
assume a few weeks hence, but it presents, nevertheless, no
lack of fashionable horsemen and horsewomen, aad plenty of
those who less ambitiously take their matutinal airing on
wheels.—Court Journal.

The Great North of Scotland Railway Company has
given notice that on and after the 16th inst, the wages of
surfacemen, porters, and others will be reduced to the ex-
tent of is. per week. _ _ _ _

A case of paper boots was recently imported from
Japan. In appearance they strongly resembled ordinary
leather goods, and are said to be perfectly waterproof.
Tuesday (the 3rd) was the 83rd anniversary of the
birth of Sir Rowland Hill, K.C.8., D C.L., F.R.S , the
author of the penny-postage system, who was born at
Kidderminster on December 3, 1795. Sir Rowland is the
third son of the late Thomas Wright Hill, Esq, of Totten-
ham, by Sarah, daughter of Mr. William Lea, of Birming-
ham. He was appointed secretary to the Postmaster.
General in 1846, and was secretary to the General Post
Oftlae from 1854 to 1866, when he retired on his full salary of
£2,000. and also received a grant of £20,000 for his services
in reforming the Post Office. Since then Sir Rowland Hill
has lived in retirement at Hampstead, but his name has been
recently before the public in the action brought against the
Metropolitan Asylums Board on acccant of the establish-
ment of a smaf Ipox hospital at Hampstead.
The search for the missing body of the late Mr.
Stewart is still actively carried on in New York, the reporters
on the daily Press taking their full share of the work. The
manager of one of the leading dailies, on being interviewed
the other day, said, "It has already cost us 1,500 dollars a
week keeping relays of reporters up all night at police head-
quarters and other points of pcsaible interest, and it bids
fair to keep up costing, and to end in nothing."

The Socialists who have been expelled from Berlin
have issued a manifesto in which they deny the truth of
the charges advanced against them, and protest that public
order and peace are in nowise endangered by their presence
In Berlin. The manifesto has been seized and suppressed by
the police.
At a crowded meeting, held on Tuesday night in the
City Hall, Glasgow, under the auspices of the Working
Men's Sabbath Protection Society, resolutions were unani-
mously passed condemning the action of the Glasgow Tram-
ways Company in running cars on Sundays; and it was
agreed to memorialise the Town Council to get a clause
p t by Parliament forbidding such running.

Pi 3re were 2,427 births and 1,624 deaths registered
in Liadon last week. Allowing for increase of population,
the births were 5, and the deaths were 1%0 below the average
numbers in the corresponding week of the last ten years.
The annual death-rate from all causes, which in the two
preceding weeks had been equal to 243 and 2213 per 1,000,
rose again to 23 7, against 281, the average rate in the nine-
teen large provincial towns. The deaths included 8 from
small-pox, 28 from measles, 70 from scarlet fever, 7 from
diphtheria, 80 from whooping-cough, 52 from different forms
of fever, and 14 from diarrhoea.
At a mreting of the City Commission of Sewers for
London it was stated that in all probability the elwitric
light would be shown on Holborn Viaduct ma Tuesday next.
The.engine had been delivered, the pipes had been laid in
the subways, and the lamps were being altered for the pur-
pose. The system would be that of M. Jablochkoff. The
lighting of the Royal Exchange and the street in front of
Mansion House would be by the Werdermann system.

In reply to an address presented to him at Moscow,
the Emperor of Russia has made a speech in which he said
he hoped that the definitive treaty with Turkey would soon
be signed. He afterwards expressed his g.ratltude for the
devotion manifested towards himself on the occasion of
recent events in St. Petersburg and elsewhere, and had no
doubt the same feeling would be displayed towards his suc-
cessors. In conclusion, his Majesty said he hoped to have
the consolation of seeing the country develop in a peaceful
and regular manner, which was the only means of Bemiring
the greatness of Russia.

The committee of the association formed at Man-
chester to promote the stoppage of supplies for the Afghan
war have, it is said, resolved to recommend as a first step
that a memorial be addressed by the electors of the various
constituencies to their representatives in Parliament, calling
upon them to oppose by every means admitted by the
forms of the House the ,voting of supplies for the Afghan
war.

Col. Ilolms, M.P., for PaWey addressed a crowded
meeting of his constituents at Paisley, on Tuesday
Afttr briefly reviewing the events of last session, ha Pro'
ceeded to discuss the queslion of disestablishment, which
was nut, he considered, at present one of practical politics.
With respect to the Afghan war, he believed that never had
a powerful nation sought a quarrel with a comparatively
night.
weak one on such frivolous grounds. As to the conduct
of Russia in sending a mission to Calm!, he thought we had ,
"be ground of cimplaint ; but had we not brought our
Indian troops to Malta, we should probably never have
heard of this mission. Instead of entering on a costly war
for the eatibliahment of a scientific frontier, he was In favour
ofitifsping the frontless it
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The drawing of the National Lottery, Paris Exhibi-
tion, will probably begin on Jan. 10. The operation will last
a fortnight, or perhaps even three weeks.
C tttlo plague is reported to have broken out in East
Pruszia

At a meeting held on Tuesday night by the. Glasgow
operative masons, who, for nearly a month have been on
strike against a reduction of wages from 84 to 7d. per hour,
it was resolved not to continue the struggle longer, but to
resume work.
The Loch Fyne, 1,213 tone, chartered by Sir Arthur
Bt, th, K.O M , Agent General for South Australia, left
the Clyde on November 29 for Port Adelaide with 435 Scotch
emigrants, among whom were 73 single female domestic
servants.
Sealskin jackets are more worn in Paris this season
than in any previous rear, and there were some especially
beautiful ones in the Exhibition. The best now comes fronl
Alaska, as none have been taken in the Shetland Isles for
some years. One of the actrerses wears a £6OO seaLskin on
the stage.—Court Journal.

Monteverde's sculpture, "Jenner vaccinating his
Son," which attracted so much notice at the Paris Exhibi-
tion, has been purchased by the Duchess of Gallfera for a
hospital which she has founded at Genoa.

The New Orleans Howard Association has issued an
appeal, in which it is stated that the sum raised for the relief
of the sufferers from the yellow fever in the South amounted
to 351 000 dollars, of which all but 485 doflars has been
expended.

It is stated by the North German Gazette that Prince
Bismarck, owing to the state of his liealth, which requires a
long period of quiet, is scarcely likely to undergo the fatigue
of the ceremonies at the reception of the Emperor on his
return to Berlin.

Baker Pasha has written a narrative of his personal
experiences in the Turkish War. It is now being printed,
and will shortly be published. Baker Pasha is a keen ob-
server, and his book will no doubt excite as much interest
as it deserves respectful attention.=Vastity Pair.

Nine Baptists between nine and eighteen years of
age have been publicly immersed in the Rhine at Worms.
Two boiler-makers, who were working in the Stand-
eap tunnel, near Huddersfield, stepped out of the way of an
approaching goods train without noticing a Manchester
passenger train on the other line. One of them was killed,
while the other suffered a severe concussion, and is now in
the infirmary.

Mr. John Holms and Professor Fawcett, the mem.
berm for Hackney, addressed a crowded meeting of their oon-
stituents on Tuesday evening, both strongly condemning the
Afghan war Resolutions were passed expressing deep re-
gret that war should have been declared before the nation
had an opportunity of expressing its opinion through Its
representatives, emphatically protesting against the conduct
of the Government in delaying the publication of the official
papers until alter the declaration of war, and pointing out
the injustice of laying its expenses upon the people of India.
An estate, consisting of 120 acres of level land ad-
joining the borough of Wolverhampton., has been secured and
is about to be laid out as a rae.cenrse for that town, the old
course having been purchased by the eorporation for the pur-
pose of forming it into a public park. The new raoecouree
will be in the hands of a company.

A weekly newspaper is to be published simul-
taneously in live languages, under the direct inspiration of
the Pope.

The coalowners of South Wales have addressed a
communication to the representatives of the men, stating
that in consequence of the competition of the northern
masters it is necessary again to reduce the wages, which are
hlready very low. A meeting of the men has been sum-
moned for the 13th, when this intimation will be considered.
The Chancellor of the Exchequer acknowledges in
The Times (" as Conscience Money") receipt of £35 in bank-
notes, sent anonymously.

Sunday (Dec. 1), was the 34th anniversary of the
birth of the Princess of Wales. The bells of St. George's
Chapel and St. John's Church, Windsor, were rang in honour
of the occasion, but the Royal salntes were reserved for
Monday.

A telegram received at Lloyd's on Tuesday morn-
ing from Wellington, New Zealand, reports that the South-
minter has been wrecked at Cape Campbell. The pas-
sengers, crew, and mails were saved. The vessel, it is ex-
pected, wUI become a total wreck, and her cargo be lost.
She had part of her inward cargo on board. Cape Campbell
Is the north-eastern extreme of the Middle Island.. The
Sonthminster is a British ship, and sailed from New York
on the 14th May, and arrived at Otago on the 2nd Septem-
ber. She sailed for Lyttelton, New Zealand, on the 7th
October.

The Russian Government has seriously made up its
mind to divert, if possible, the River Oxus into the Casphtn.
A party of engineers have left St. Petersburg for Krasnovodsk
to examine the course of its former bed and report whether
the waters that have recently overflowed the desert near
Khiva cannot be diverted into it. An impression prevails la
Russia that the enterprise, though a gigantic one, Can be
successfully accomplished.—.Kayfair.
On Monday evening the electric light was most suc-
cessfully exhibited at the New Steel Works, Swansea. There
had also been a previous experiment, which took place in
the morning. The smallest twe in n local newspaper was
read over with the greatest facility. The light produced was
from an adaptation by S,emens Brothers, telegraphists,
Lonaon, and should the system be found sufficiently econo-
mical it will probably be introduced into general use in the
tin smelting and other large works of the kind with which
the district abounds.

The friends of the late Dr. Livingstone, the African
explorer, will he pleased to hear that a memorial is about to
be erected to his memory in Westminster Abbey. With the
consent of Dean Stanley, it will take the form of a stained-
glass window.
Florence Nightin-ale has sent a gold watch to Cap-
tain Scott, of the Erl King, in gratitude for his kindness In
rescuing four nurses belonging to her training institution in
London, who were wrecked whilst returning home from the
Montreal General Hospital in Canada.

The Standard understands that the Admiralty has
decidea to have the new steel despatch vessel Iris fitted
experimentally with a number of electric lamps on the
Rapieff principle,

The national subscription for the relief of the share-
holders of the City of Glasgow Bank has now reached close
on £309,300. Of this sum £158,570 has been subscribed in
Glasgow. The sum which, in the first instance, was esti-
mated to be fully adequate to cover the distress of the
sufferers was £300,000, but the committee have now come to
the conclusion that at least £500,000 will be required to
effectually carry out the benevolent object in view.
The crew of the steamer Richmond were landed at
Cardiff on Monday. An explosion occurred on board he
steamer on November 21, when about 70 miles off Cape
Finisterre, which disabled the engines and caused a large
hole in the after part of the vessel. The coal with which
vyas_la.den fell.shroo.R.h 121•9)Een plates into the sea,
One man was blown out of his berth and had his leg broken,
and several others were severely scalded. The crew took
to their boats and were picked up by the Nellie, from which
vessel they were transferred to a tug and landed at Cardiff.
Several of them are now in the hospital.