The sun., 1893-04-02
FOREIGN NOTES OFF REAL INTEREST,"

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Employment is scarce and aborers are overpe INITIAL
in south Australia
London has 1850 licensed public cabs; $500 nrs
driven by the owners
Nine Patti Is to sail for New York on April % In the
| new Cunarder Lucania
The Chinese Government conten plates n considera-
| Bile extension Of railroads this spring.
! Emperor william OF Germany and the Empress
| to visit Ponpei and vesuvius on April ~.
| The ship canal across the Isthmus Of Corinth will
| probably be ready about next September.
Seventy cent OF tho people OF Ceylon live by aRr
| culture, The percentage In Britain Is 15<
| News from South Australia shows that employ yment
10 there and the number Of poycd great.
Two enormous breaches In the banks OF tho Yellow
River arc reported TO have occurred, most unusual
| pbenone winter.
| The price of private telephones in London is very
to be reduced from seo year to flo year. sub.
| ject 10 the condition Of n dve years. contract.
London had on the last day OF last month 100 IT'S
pnupers and on that day bly vagran,s were relieved"
The latest census 1891 returned the population
2l1 .0JG
The Duke OF York is ardent stamp collect and
| has just been made honorary vicePresident of the
Phate!ic Society OF London The Duke OF Edinburgh
| is the honorary President.
During 1891 there were 1851 desertions from the
British army. There 1903 court martAis. and
2os.19o minor punishments imposed. Tho general
conduct Of the soldiers is improving.
There will bo no Wagnerian performances At Bai-
ieu'h tus a NhkheF On Rrhuu tcblo
will be held there In 1894. however. when 'Parsfat"
"Tannhauser" and " Lohengrin" will he given.
Anron metcorite OF nearly ton and measuring four
feet two inches long two feet three inches wide
twenty inches thick was recently found In Younde-
gin Western Australia and has been sent to London
Now Zealanders are protesting against the annexR.
ton Of the Hawaiian Islands by the United States be.
that would give this country complete
the proposed Pacific cab from America to Australia
An illustration Of the condition OF agriculture in
OF England the a farm off 53O
acres good wheatgrowinR land in Suffolk, which was
sold twenty years ago Tor flsoo was resold last week
for $4,000
The method OF treating snake bite By injections OF
srychntne 10 TO be submitted to exhaustive trial In
India under the sanction and supervision OF tho Gov
eminent The method has proved highly enectual in
many cases reported In Australia.
Numerous petitions have been received by the Pope
from switzerland. Austria and Germany praying him
to take the initiative in summonns an international
conference to consider the best means for aboshing
tho Monte Carlo gambling establishment.
In the manufacture OF beer last year In the United
Kingdom 55s525IO bushels Of malt and corn and 3.
osa'2o cwt. OF sugar were used The duties paid
amounted to f1Oo796IS London is the largest brew.
Ing centre having l3e brewer-h Burton comes next
A new diplomatic departure has been initiated bv
France In the sending OF NJ Pierre de Mailard an nsr
cultural engineer TO Berlin A. technical agricultural
nttache to the French Embassy. The stationing of
similar attaches In all countries under consideration
Sheep rearing 10 declining greatly in New South
""'es' i"e humper ot sheep III the coiony on Jan
this year was 6s0la6l6. decrease OF 32ll 300 COM
pared with the year previous. The Sgd"'y Morning H'
aid considers this e subject for gratincatonrather
than regret"
Government statistics as to the cost Of clothing the
s'ders Of the British army show that the annual cost
OF clothing the Life Guards per man s EI 9s 3D. while
the infantry OF the line are turned out at G. IT'S I'd
per head The Highlander. with his feathery cap and
tartan kilt. costs 81 lbs. Cd
Mrs. sibthorpe chairwonan at the conference Of the
Women's Emancipation Union in London. week or |
40 since. explained that. Men maintain much of their
supremacy BY reading the newspapers. Thus they |
acquire facts and can take action. while women who
do not read them enough, only think and dream"
Mohnmmedanism Is largely on tho increase In the |
British West African colony OF Sierra Leone onetenth
OF the population now being OF that faith. A state.
aided branch of the Church OF England exists there
and practically all denominations of Christians have
aries the colony but Islam gains on them
The Birmingham au, horites have pre- pitately abnn-
oned the crusade against Sunday trading which they
began two or three weeks ago. Public sentiment was