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MAY
29, 1890.
THE W. A. RECORD.
Sir Charles R ussel, M.P., has ret.urn ed to England great!)'. benefi ted in health uy bis trip to .M11de1ra.
T l1 e Melbou rne AGE is indignant at th e Egeria court-mar tial, yet this renegade Radical j ournal was most enthusiastic in scp porting tho N r,val The areat Northern Colliery, at Defen ce Bill by which Aus tralian Teralba,"' N .S.vV. b as heen sold for money is spent on s uch proceedings. £20,000 to a Sydney and M elbourne A sand pump near Boise City, syndicate. Indiana., recent)y brought up a flint A hu (l'e water spout, calculated to be idol from a depth of 320 feet. It is half a ':nile in diameter, and 80 feet claimed to be the oldest mark of hiah was observed off the coast between hnm an life on record, by Professor s;d;1ey and Newcastle last wedr Wright, of Oberlin College Ohio. travelling with immense speed. The Sydney BULLETIN coruplai □ s Ao appropriation of 350 ,000do~. that its latest imitator, the West bt been nrnde by Congress for expenmente In boi·ing- fo r artesian water to A ustrnlian BuLLETlN, does its " godsuppl y canals to irrigate a rid pub lic fatLer the honour of plagiari,i,ing." It is gru tify ing to fiad our Pitt-sl re~t lands. neig hbour luyiog clai m t-:J Ro nwtlti ng H .M.S. Opal left Port Jackson, god ly at last. vVe al wn r s il 10L1 g !it. it homeward bound, on Saturday morn- waH pro ud of its ow n un goJliness . ino-. Captain Bosanquet stated his ini;e~tion of knocking off the irons fro~ Mr. John Deasy, memb er for West the Egeria prisoners as soon as the ship Mayo, and Mr. J. R. Cox, member for crot outside the Heads. East Clare, entertained the members t, of t he Australian cricket team in the The Government of Victoria, have House of Commons on .!\fay 1. After decided to proceed with the erection having been shown over th e building of t he north-east front of Parliament t he cricketers were banqu eted. The House. It is estimated that this will Irish Ms.P. travelled with the cost £84,840, and allowing for em er- cricketers from Adelaide to London. gencies, Mr. Gillies promises to set apart £30,000 a year for three years. The Emperor of Austr ia bas just made Count Taaffe Chancellor of the The Williamstown Council is at Order of LeopJld. The Count hap pens present in an unevitab le position. They to be also au Iri sh peer ( although his have about £8000 of an overdraft. name lends itself to a reasonable Yesterday all the council's labo ur~rs suspir.ion of W elsb origin)· ; and, strange and stonebreakers were ebarged, with to say, his predecessor, Count Cr~noethe exception of the indispensable ville, claimed descent from tbe Bishop labour for scavenging the town. of London. Mr. J . S. Sandars, private secret ary to Mr. Matthews, and Conservative candidate for Mid-Derbyshire, addressina a meetincr in that constituency 0 "' . 1 last week, referred to t he 8 pec1a Commission, saying that he c?ulcl tell them at the present moment Sir J arnes Hannen is a Home Ruler.
T tle ,.astest time on record was made '' on th e Norther□ Pacific Road, th e oth er day, if we can believe .a despatch fr om H elena to the St. L oms Globe-Democrat whicb, after r ~ferring to a coilision say~: - " A relief car, ~r~wn by t:~ eogrnP.s,. left_ Hele~□, :nakrn~, tli~ ~ 1 : s seven miles m foq t _mrnuteB. 'Ib is. 1 -u o \:,l ..:a-gt:"Oil uoFP~a.·ro b be __a th.!u:at.e...of...105 m es__;rn hOJir, wh~ healthiest capital in the world. Its ce rtainly beats . the record. pres"1nt death-rate i~ 16·83 pe r A Bill passed the N .S.W. Parliament lQOO; the death-rate of Melbourne, 18 per 1000 ; Ecinburgh, 20 ; Loo don, 22; last Or.Lober em powe rin g th e promoters Paris, Vienna, and New York, 27 ; to tak e a wa te r sn pp! y for tlie irn portao t Dahlin, 28; and Cairo, wliicb is one of di strict of Broken Hill from th e Ri nll' the most unhelllty of capital towns, 41 Darling, the length of the li De beiog about s ix ty miles. Th e cost will !;le per 1000. ab out 11 quarter of 1, million ste rli Dg. Stock Inspector Needham, of.13urrn Th ere is anothe r Bill at present before S.A. reportB lbat a most, serious Pa rliam ent to impound water at disease, believed to be the influ enza, is Stepbe □ ' s Creek ,, about twelve miles rarring among the horses in the nor th. fr .. m BrokeD Hill. O~ one farm six vahrnble horses died In connection witli th e flood~ at within a day or t wo. On two oth er farm s four died . Several c~~es are also W algett it was s hown at a meeting of reported of horses being unwel l. All resi dents on Wedn esday th at g reat the cases were North of Burra, and des tru ction of property has tak en place One selector lost 13,000 s heep. T he were from 50 to 100 miles apart. riv e,- is now wi thi n its bttok s aad fall ing The Sydney Daily Telegraph has fast, bot al ong the in termediate coun try notified in its columns that the pro- between the Narrn n, a g reat spread of prietors have instructed their solicitors water still exists, but is fallin g slowl y. ' to proceed against the Sydney Bulletin T he streets and yarJ s ar@ drying ll p for an a lleged libel published in its rnpid ly. 'l'be only news from, Bou'.·ke columns regarding the recession of Mr . is that the tow nspeo ple are ' cle,mng Ward, the editor of the Daily Telegraph. op," as for as circ um st11□ ces will allow. The outcome is watched for with much interest in literary circles. The The ~·alue of hand grenades for the Bulletzn people say that sho uld the extinction of incipient fires has been libel be proceeded with, th ey h ave a n abund antly demonstrated, and t_hey ::we excellent defence. to b e found in corners and corndors of :-uany public buildings and privat_e Two . announcemen ts latel y g iven in houses. There is, how ever, n o necessithe papers of a provincial exam iuati oo oeserv e some record . Said the writer ty for payi1:g ~ancy prices _ ~or this useful and mchspensable artic le. A of one: " T he fo,rnd ers of Rome were perfect substitute for it is to b~ found twin s, called Romeo and Juliet, who in an ordinary bottle fill ed with the were s uck led simultan eo usly by a sbesolution. The solution is composed of wolf." 'l'he second , with perhaps 11 one pound of common s~lt a1:cl on erarer note of invention, declared : half pound of sal-mnmomac, dissolved "Ishmael was turned out of doors by in about two quarts of wa ter. Abraham, beca use li e was caught trying to wean I saac secretly." Bo th Some time ago it was announced deserve a place in th e niches reserved th at Mr. W. Sewell, A.R.A . M., had to the im mortals. been 11dro itted in to the Ro man Catholic It is a fashion with some non- Cb u re h . More recentl y his exa mplef Catholic writers to account the so- had been fo ll owed by many pe_rso ns o called r eformation the forerunner of distiocCion in C lapham, i11 clud1 og tbe modern d emocratic mov ements and R evs. M. r. Tatlock and Mr . Beasley, . tes. D111·1· 0".. th e past week. Mr.t popula r enlightment. B ut a popula r cu1a '! Protestant · write r, M adam Louisa 'I 1omas Gale, as sistant orga111 . dst . a Muhlbach, has the courage of a con- Obrist Church, bas bee1, . re?e1ve rnto trary conviction. She write.:i in h er th e Catholi c . Chnrch oi St. ,Ma ry, ard "John Milton and his Times":-" The Cl ap h .,1m, by th e V ery 'TRev. Edw .· s . f O' Lave rt,y the recto r. he pt l ee LS o reforrnation was far more advantag<wus to the p rinces than to the St. Mary have now received upwards ?f people. It enriched the kiJJgs and im- 1000 persons into the Roman Catholic communion, poverish ed the people,"
Mr. P a rnell bas accepted m~ apology The provisions of the new Divorce from the Exeter Gazette for reprodur.- Act w~re severe ly condemned by ' the ing the Tim es' allegod facsimile letter, comm ission of tli e Presbyt~rian General l and instructed his solicitor to with- Assembly at its co nclud ing_ sitting ·'o~ draw the prosecution for libel. the 9th im,t. The Anglican 13ishops of 1Vlelbou r11 e 3:nd Balla.rat hav~ al~g• The Spectator bas offe red Mr prono unced agn mst th e m~asore, ana Michael Davitt tha sum. of £250 and in stru cted their clergy no t to re-marry costs not lo proceecl with his action persons divorced un der the clauses ngainst that paper, for de~c ri bing him whi ch increase t,h e faci li ties fo r ob tni □ i ng11 in its issuo ot' Februury l as "having divorce. been sentenced, justly or unjustly, to a long te rm of penal se rvitude for hi s D r. ,A ugu stns Jessopp's republished shfl re in a political murder." The It ssnys, eal,itle<l 7.'hc 'J.'1·ictZs of a Goitntry Spectator· also exp resses its willingn ess Parson, (Fisber U nwio,) are amu sing to make a furth er apo logy if Mr. i n muuy wny ~, but th ey are also fo ll of Davitt is not satisfied with the one serious interP.st. There is· much food prev-iousl y • pnblts})ecl. lt is said that for refl ection in his remarks on the Mi. Davitt will agree to th e proposed vast piles of inaccessible docu ments ~c 1J lem ont of th e ease. stowed a way in such pi n,'"°' as St. ' l\ fo.rie '.l'h en.>S(', the Frc11ch S iste r of P 1111 l's Catheilrnl and Wrst.minster Mercy who received th e cross of the Abt,c.:y . Ho ·, hould not call the ®Hapter ,Iegio n of Honour at the hands of the of t\ t. Paul's the g reat " Metropolitan" G9 verno,1· of Tonquin, has li ved a nob}~ Cimµter (9 . 192 ), fo r that tit le belougs life. She was only 20 years of age to Canterbury. But we tru st that '.Dr. when she receiv ed . be1· fir.· t wou11d in Ohnrch and D r. Brndley, and other t he trenches of Balaklava. She' was high ly-paid dignitari es , will see Dr. wounded again in the battle of Mage1,1ta. J cssopµ' s observatio ns nod will do som ethi ng. The great"! r p!).rt of the ' L a:t er she pursued her chosen mis~ion papers at S t. Puul's we are assured by under her country's flag in Syri~1 Dr. Lyto, has nev1,r yet been exam ined China, and Me Iico. From the battlefor literary or bistoric,il purposes. As £ elcl at W oerth she was carried away to W es t;minster Abbey, Dr. Jessopp' suffering from serious injuries, and besays, '' Within tb e very' walls where fore she had r ecovere1 she was again history was a-making •t hrough tbe performing her d uties. ages, in the very haodwriting · 1 of the ' A Boys' Home, somewhat on the men whose lives were passed within same plan as that al ready working in the precincts . . . . tbere, huddled 1 Dublin, has been opened in Belfast. togethe1: in bunks and Cru uks, arid The idea originated with some gentle- sacks and boxes- po one can te ll you meu of the Society of St. Vincent de exac tly where-there is such a wealth P au l. The house was opened this of materials," that, in sho rt, wb,;t we week with a dinner to a large number ciill history will cert nin ly liave to be d of boys. The dinner room accomo ates written over ag a in when ' these treasures a hundred, and beds in the dormitory a re brought out into the light. ')(' a:~ove are " let" at a penny a night. For his penny each lad gets a bath, hot or cold, a clean shirt for the night, FOR D U T Y1 S S A K E. soap, towel, and brushes for boot cleaning, The beds are good sp1:mg A S'l'ORY OJJ' 'l'HJ, BRAVE DAYS OF OLD . beds with really comfortable covenng. - Dim,e i·, r to be serv£d every day at a penny a h ead. CHAPTER XI. Another Belgian priest, the Abbe Testevuide, a missiona ry in J apan, has devoted himself, now for some years, to the succour of lepers. Nis chance discove ry of a wom an a ll but blind, a nd dying of leprosy, a bando ned by h er husband in a hut in the country; unable to get food or clothing for herself, suggested to the pri,c st the building of a hospital for s uch sufferers, of whom a certain number are found in J apan. H e ministered · to t he poo r woman until her death, wh en he set about getting a piece of la nd. In this he was opposed and thwa rted by the whole populatie n, e.v en when he proposed to take his site in a. very wi lde rness, at the foot of Fusi-yama. Such a pretext as th e traditional right of t he public to cut the grass on a tract of land whither nobody ever went, was alleged again st him by t he ingenious J apanese, who feared that to recogt1ise and to succour leprosy would be t o increase its clanger s. At last a proprietor conse nted to sell a piece of ground, on condition tha t his name should be recoded as that of a benefactor, and the hospital was built and quickly fill ed. The chari table priest is appealing to his co untrymen at hom e for help in maintaining it. Tbe Pnn sla vis ts are c©m ing to tbe fore aga in. '.l'hore is an hgit11t ion ugninst the oame of the Rn ssian capital " S t. reters burg." of wbi cli at leas t th e lat1er half is G errunn . The P uri sts have bit uµon a purely Slav fo rm of it, "Petrog ra<l ," wbich tb ey persis t in employiog, to th e dis may of tli e_ postal autho rities. A still wid er ag itation, i:Jeg uu by tbe Moscow Gazette, is being carri ed on netivoly by the Russian press ag ainst the Grego ri an Calendar. Not coo ten t with clingin g to th ei r antiquated an d obsolete Cale1Jd11r t,h emselves, wh ich leaves them 12 days behi 11,l th o rest of tbe civilised worl d, th ese zealous Panslav ists wisl1 to see th e Poles al~o forced to arloµ t tb e Greek Cn lenda r ; an d th e Moscow Gazette pleads tha t ut least in th e g ovt> rnn, ents of Lublia, t\ iedicc, uud Augusl,ov, t lie Gregor ian Calendar s hould be strictly forb idden,
and those who refuse to co1nply 1 deported to $i9cric1,
RETURN FROlVI '.l'HE CRUSADE. The serv ants of the cast\e shouted with joy when they saw him. He j umped off his horse and, aL1x·o us to see his mothP-r 1·apiclly ascended the st,iirs. 'vV arncd by t he servants' excla mations, lVIme. d,u HomI\1et came out t9 meet him. She pa used a t th e t~resholcl of the drawing room, wh,e re she stood pa.le and aged by quite ten years, since 1:otst h e saw h,er. H er dress was deep mourning. " 0, my motha1· !" said vVilliam, t hrowing hi1pself i 1to her arms. " Do you know of our loss 1" "Yes, my son," said she, "the b eU of t he tower rang 0}/-t oE I its own accord. Such a , thing only happens when th e head of thGe family du Hommet dies. It toiled th e kn ell a t eleven o'clock ,it night on Whits oue\•e." " It was t,I,r, exp,c t t \me m cl clay my father died ," ~aid 'W illiam. ' ' I-Iis last word s we re fo r you, mother. 'Honour and respect your good mother, William, ' said he to me, ' a,ncl repay h er for a ll 1he happiness she g,we, me. Give h er t his rin g, which she p laced on my finge r on the clay of our marriage. I have n ever bee n untrue t0 the faith I promised her: I hope we s~mll meet , i n he~ven. H e r p raye rs will hasten my entrance to that blessed a bode. ' " Mme. du Hommet kissed the n uptial rin g :tnd sile ntly put it on h er finge r . She r ecollected herself for a fe w mornents, then st eadying her· voice she said: "M,1y the Most Holy Will of God be acco1J1plishecl . He has tak en ,tway my dear good husband. I have noth i ng more to do but to pray t o G ol'\ my so n. You :tre now lord a nd waste r here. I give t he keys into you r ha nds in sign of your sovereig11 dom inion over all the goods of the household. " Auel according to the custom of th ose days, the noble widow detached from h r,r cincture the armorial keys, sy mbols of auth ority, a nd humbly gave them Lo he r son. "Keep t hem clearest mother," said vVilliam, k issing h er h and, "keep them at least iintil the day when I