MISCELLANEOUS.

Inangahua Times, Volume II, Issue II, 28 November 1881, Page 2

MISCELLANEOUS.

- ♦ The Czar takes eompaehensive measures for the protection of bis favorite residence in St. Petersburg Anintokoff Palace. A subterranean passage has been constructed all around it which can be patrolled by sentinels and if necessary immediately filled with water, the Caar is negotiating for the purchase of the various houses surrounding the palace. Tbe Nihilists head- quarters have been discovered at St, Petersburg, and arrests made, Eight students of the Military Academy at Moscow, and two at Sb Petersburg, were arrested as Nihilists. Tbe ' Pall "Mall Gazette ' sketches a draft Land Bill for England, wbich has finally been considered by tbe special committee cf the FarmersAlliance. The Bill aims at establishing cpm"plete security for the capital of farmtrs and immunity from capricious eviction ; the right of a tenant to sell bis improvements in the open market with a provision that the landlord must accept the tenant. The • Gazette ' thinks the Bill sug« gestive, and says that the day when « Parliament must vote urgency for an ' English Land Bill is not far off. Work on the Panama Canal is ad vancing rapidly. One thousand two hundred men are at present em* | p'oyed in excavating, 2. 100,000d0l have already been expended. The facts in regard to the infernal machines found on boiird tbe Britsh ' steamers recently bave been ferrited out by the Becret service agent of the

United States, and are now made public. The scheme waa a cleyer plot and showed that an Irishman named I Foyle, a saloon keeper in Philadelphia, j caused the manufactory of the infernal mancbinea by them over to O'Donovan Ro.sa. When the time was ripe Foyle began negociations with the British Consul at New York, and led | to the discovery made on the docks j«t Liverpool. He has fled from the , United States, and no one knows bis whereabouts. Crowe and Rnssa were ostracised from the Irish Nationalist j Company. Some attention is elicited in financial and commercial circles of San Francisco by the amount of treasure recently raised from Australia and New Zeal md It is said that the steamship Aus~ tralia, wbich arrived from Sydney on tbe 3rd inst, brought tbe larges* amount of specie ever received from the colonies It, was consigned as follows !— Angol-Californian Columbia* Bank, 417.602 dollars ; Bank of British Columbia, 24,332 dollars ; Comptnia Deecompti* de Paris, 480,200 dollars. Total, 926,134 dollars.