The Hawaiian gazette., 1879-03-26
News Hens.

Z Mr.. Butt, home rule, M. P. of Great Britain, is
dead.
Ostriches three months old are worth $50 apiece
at Cape Colony.
A dispatch dated St. Petersburg, Feb. %, says +:
The Russian Governor General of the Province of
khakor. was shot by assassin and severely
wounded.
The Duke of Newcastle died February oath.
Field Marshal Won Room is dead. (See biogra-
phieal sketch of his life in another column
An English and French frigate have gone to
Alexandria to watch events in Egypt. f
The first call in the city of Glasgow Bank yielded
two millions. The estimated Liabilities have been
reduced the assets increased, and full payment of
the bank deposits is expected.
The French Imperial Prince is going to Natal to
witness the campaign with the Zulus.
The London Times in a leader recently announced
it its belief that the colonists South Africa will
eventually adopt the system of Federal Government.
The electric light erected at Sydney has been OBJ
served at distance Of eighty miles.
Great preparations being made for the Inter
national Exhibition at Sydney this year.
The FIJI Times of a recent date says: that the
Government of Fiji has appropriated funds to send
representatives to the exhibition and to have Fian
products exhibited properly
a gang of outlaws in New South Wales, under the
lead Of man by the name of Ned Kelly, and known
the Kelly Gang Of Bushrangers. nave been com
hitting great outrAges, such as murders and rob
berries of the lost daring characters. These outlaws
have carried things to such extremes that the Gov
eminent has offered reward of 600 fog the ap-
prehension of the ringeaders but it appears that
such s the sympathy Of the lower order of the people
in the colony with the outlaws, that all the efforts
of the authorities bafied and the Kelly Gang 60
scot free. Recently law has been passed in Para-
ment, authorizing the shooting down of any of the
Kelly Gang wherever found, aud placing large
reward for the apprehension dead Or alive of any
member of the gang.
There are SO4 lvings in the Church of England of
FL 900 year and upwards.
The late yellow fever epedemc in the United States
cost 10000 lives and $40 900 0O0
The German Free Traders intend calling IN onster
public meeting in Berlin soon, for the purpose of
protesting against Bismarck's policy of protection
Ffty-one metals are now known to exist, thirty
of which have been discovered during the present
century. Four hundred years ago but seven metals
were known. l D.
Mr., EdisoS has invented an improved receiver for
his telephone which enables any person standing if
teen yards from the machine, to hear distinctly a
whisper miles away. ....
Some of the spots craterl in the sun are 100 600
miles in diameter, and one such would easily swat
low up the whole of the planets. Jupiter himself
only making mOuthful.
1t is stated in Berlin Journals under reserve, that
as soon the Socialist Democratic Deputies come 10
the opening Of the Rechstag they will be expelled
by virtue of the existing petty state of siege.
At an Influential meeting of Corn Merchants in
London lately it resolved that grain of all kinds
should be sold by weight and that the GENITAL 100
imperial pounds the most convenient selling standard
should be legalized for general use