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Manawatu Standard, Volume IV, Issue 182, 30 June 1884, Page 3

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General Summary.

(united pbess association.) .■;-'.■■ Auckland* June 28. The aquarium of Bishopsgate,London, was burned on Juno 4th,. with several lions,' hears, and other specimens of natural history. « BeijedictjtheL composer, has decided to visit the United States next fall, and lecture upon his half-century of musical, experience. Earl Granville has transmitted a note Washington m relation to the collection ;' of conspiracy funds within the jurisdiction of the United States. George Hudson, . M.P., bequeaths £200,000 for education and maintenance of orphans m Sunderland. ; ; ' A Papal encyclical was read on Sunday, the Catholic Churches m Englfad>imningpeople against joining secret societies, under paia of ex-communica-. . tidn;f M The latter says Freemasonry at. ; its inception was probable merely a friendly society;, but,,; if so, it; asks where was the necessity for blind obedience to the demands of it votaries. The Earl of Eußton. is about tp apply for a divorce, on thegrounds of adultery! of the Countess. Her friends say that no evidence can be procured against her,, and that the Earl wishes the divorce to enable him to marry an heiress. Moody and Sankey (who is ill, and has • quite lostljis voice) closed their English mission It' Crbydon on May 26tb, and would leave for America on the sth of the present month. The drought throughout England |is almost unexampled. No such dry season has been known for fifteen years. ; Lord St. Leonards was convicted on May 23rd for an indecent assault on a servant girl named Cole. The court rc^ served its decision till the June assizes. ■■ The Duke of Marlborough has made an offer ;to the directors of the National i Gallery of eleven of the best pictures m the collection at Blenheim Place for i £3,675,000 (sic). : ; -. - = There was intense excitement m London on May 24th over the poisoning of several people from eating what is known :o as "Chicago brawn," imported from I America; One person died, and three . -inpijerare Reported to be dying. k Afire m the. coal pit at Pgrtobello, J '|cotlan<L on May 23rd, caused thcsuffo- *!' cation of nine njpn. ? ; Advices from' Great Britain say the' number of visitors from that country this : '■eason, to the United States and Canada, , promises to be unprecedented; : >■■ .At ai recent meeting of ; watch and V, clock-makers, of ,, London, Sir John Ben- : . nett,,an eminent man m the trade, acf Icno^iedged that unless something effective'waß soon done to counteract ' ' can and Swiss competition, the British ■ article would be 1 extinct m afevryears; i The business of making time-keepers m; England was m a most desperate state V/©£ decline* ; ; <_.;■. .- :\. ■>■■•:•>■ ■ . •- :•.. ; Mrs Leffley, who poisoned her husband last fall; was hanged at Lincoln. —The circumstances attending the execution, according to a despatch from Lon?rdqn^ were"% The hangman;' "'(Binns) was unnecessarily barbarous and brutal m his treatment of the unhappy woman. . Eye-witnesses state that , hekhdckedherdownin the' pinioningS/rbom, and choked her till her face was 4 livid, m order to stop her screaming. IRISH AFFAIRS, Vj J j There has been a marked increase m the number of .agrarian crimes and outrages m Ireland within a few days. The Hp&^le'flrfe beginning to trace acbntiec--4 tiopb^wj^en this fact and the dynamite explosions | in London. ...,-? ; j "^hien tneinews of the Scotland; Yard dynamite' explosion and damage was re,csiyedinNew York^ O'Dono^an Rossa f said :" We've .got Englandat last ; it ' wiilnot be long before she iwill fee pn her knees ; last night's explosion is only "the" beginning of Tier trouble." Patrick Joyce, secretary of the Irish revolutionary brotherhood, said : '?Last night's * work should convince England that we are m earnest. You need not be surprised to hear of greater explosions before many days. Gladstone had better mind himself." Many people believe that the explosions were not the doings .of Irish-Americans, but of Anglo-Irish* men, which makes the situation all the more serious for Irishmen m London.