The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1875-09-18 00:00:00

Lerhood,

The annual convention of the Fenian Broth
which was to have met in New York in the latter part of
last month, has been postponed till January next.
Nearly 50,000 head of game have already been
received in Paris since the opening of the shooting season.

Lord Aberdare, the President of the Social Science
Congress, will inaugurate the meeting at Brighton next
month, on which occasion, it is said. he will give an address
upon crime and its repression.

Our (Pall Mall Gazette) Brussels Correspondent
states that General de Liem, a Belgian ex-Minister of War,
and for many years past first aide-de-camp to the King, died
on Saturday. He was eighty-five years of age, and com-
menced his military career under Napoleon L
A telegram from Calcutta to the Times of India, "1
dated the 12th ult., states :—Sir R. Temple has had a narrow .` Jo
escape from falling down a precipice at Darjeeling. SU ,
horse shied, and his hind legs slipped over .the precipice.
Sir Richard just managed to throve hinakellf off before the' gal
horse fell, and was dashed to pieces.. bir ,itichardresoapdd i ./
inahurt,
A private conference of ironworkers, from various ,
districts in the north of England and Wales, was held in
Sheffield on Saturday. It is stated that resolutions expees-
sing dissatisfaction with the current wages rate in the iron,
trade were passed. erns.%)
The total amount subscribed to the Hospital Sunday .
Fund in London this year is £26,703 Is. Od., as against
£29,817 3s. 9d. collected last year. This sum will be shared .4i4
among 122 institutions, according to certain bases of distri-
butlon which have been settled by the committee.
A serious accident oocured on the East Indian Rail-
way line near Jubbulpore on the 15th. The mail train ran
off the rails, and five passengers were killed and a number
seriously hurt. •
The long-contemplated experiment for introducing
the San Francisco salmon to Vistoria is about to be made.
A shipment of salmon ova will be made this season to the
Victorian Society, and the ova is expected to arrive in Octo-
ber or November.
A Parliamentary return will shortly be published
showing that the Agrieultural Children's Act has been almost
inoperative in increassng the attendances at rural schools. ..•
This will be no surprise to a large number of persons. By tia
them the Act was never expected to work.—Court Journal. .osif
The practicability of the 4.5 days' passage between jou
England and Australia by the Cape of food Hope route has
been demonstrated by the steamship St. Osyelj., which arrived diur
In Hobson's Bay on June 27. The passage was accomplished
In 44 days 23 hours, notwithstanding a delay of more than -
24 hours at St. Vincent. •,41.11
The gross receipts for land tax in the year ended Me
the 31st of March amounted to £1,105,811 7s. end the
net £1,678,145 Ca. lljd., leaving £27,446 as allowilices and
repayments.
A Simla telegram states that a resolution has been '
published in the Gazette of India, exempting from duty all
goods imported by and for his Royal Highness the Prince o
Wales and his suite on the occasion of their visit to India.
Half-a-dozen young Frenchmen who refrained from
joining their regiments to take part in the autumn
manosuvres have just been arrested and sent to their re-
spective corps. They will be tried on their return, and sen-
tenced to serve several months in the Army.
A religious ceremony was held at Pontoise on Sun-
day, in memory of Notre Dame de Bonne-Garde, who is
supposed to have saved Paris from a terrible- plague exactly
four centuries ago.
Mr. Frank W. Dufrey, 55, Parliament-street, Lon:
don, writes to the Yield :—"lt will interest your entomosvis
logical readers to hear that a fine specimen of the death's,
head hawk moth (Aeherontiet Atropos) was taken in Peril,-
ment-street on Monday evening. It flew into the dining- edi
room at the "Red Lion" Tavern and was captured by one
of the waiters, who was alarmed at its size and the peculiar
noise it made: Apart from its being rather rubbed, it is a :11,
very good specimen of the largest of our lepidontera, and is .
now in my possession."
In honour of the Duke of Edinburgh a new Russian tt!it
Ironclad, which has just been launched at St. Petersburg, 's=l
has been named after him. The event was afterwards ,fit
celebrated with a grand banquet, at which the Czar and the . f
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Duke were present. est
A German trombone-player has been imprisoned for .
constantly playing piano daring the fortissimo movements •
of patriotic songs. His excuse clld not 'serve him—" At OA
thirty-six kren.tzers a day wkere is the wind to come from?". „rya
During theiDuke of Eclinburgh's sojourn at Nijni *
Novgorod, a concert was arranged by Count liountairsov, at
the "Fair" Hotel, the orchestra of the Italian Opera being
the performers. The programme included the Galatea Waltz, :OA
composed by the Duke, and when the ciece was being played • z. 3
his Royal Highness noticed some imperfection in the execn-
tion of his music, whereupon he took the place of Mr. •
Illabov, the leader of the orchestra, and conducted the band is&
himself. After surrendering the baton, the Prince took the
first violin, and showed the company that be was as excellent ,
a player as they had proved him to be a composer.
A return which has been issued in compliance with
an order of the House of Commons shows that the number
of appointments to the commission of the peace in English
counties since the passing of the Act (34 Vicl. c. 18) to amend
the Law disqualifying Solicitors from being Justices of the
Peace for Counties was 1,358 ; and that that number included
nine persons who, but for the passing of that Act would
have been disqualified.
A meeting of a committee appointed at a recent '
town meeting, was held on Monday evening at Sheffield, to -
consider the question of erecting a memorial to the Mayor rm
(Mr. Alderman Firth), for his gift of the park recently
opened by the Prince of Wales. It was decided that the
testimonial should take the form of a statue of Mr. Firth, to
be placed in the park; there will also probably be a portrait
of Mr. Firth to be placed in one of the public buildings. The
committee hope to raise £4.000
There has been a general movement amongst the
Irish residents in the colony, originating in Melbourne. to
celebrate the centenary of Daniel O'Connell It was decided
to hold a banquet on Thursday, 15th August, and on the fol
lowing Friday, the day of the centenary, a monster prooes.
sion of Irish societies to same suitable place where sports; f
and out-door festivities should take place, to be followed in
the evening by a grand Irish "national' concert in the
Town-hall. It was also proposed to erect an O'Connell
statue. ,•,

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