NEWS IN BRIEF.

Manawatu Times, Volume III, Issue 11, 7 December 1878, Page 3

NEWS IN BRIEF.

The re«tdi«tiph p( the aucien^ cathe» dral in.Payw is now, i^mplete. An electric light nsw to London it befog fried m the Strand. Its CQ/ifcis half that tf gas. :': ". •*"■■•• ■ ■ Cardinal Manning drinks only claret and ■frater or tea. . The Shah of Persia has taken a Tilla at Vienna, and wil) settk dow^ there, fojr some months. Prince Leopold is setting his own words - to his own xnusio wtd^finging bo^U. Th? Prussian fiactbjries are busy making ?>itraill«uses, after a nevr Swiss model, to the erder of the Russian GoTornment. ' The German military authorities taje, i, paused telephones with alarm apparatus which, w^lhe tested m the coming inanosa^res. - Manj ihopkeeperi m Paris are introducing the electrical apparatus, making, their, •hops as bright by night n. by day. ||Two"bpjs at thp Manchester Collegiate School quarrelled recently, and had it ojiit after tha xnanner oi Tom Brown and Slogger Williams. One of thenv MauUen by namei . li*d his ey^s closed a,n4 his face, badly disIgured, three dajs>fterwrarda b,o di« 4 olconeaMion of the brain. . ' '" Th* Dean of Cbiclieiter, m his sermon as V select preieber"*t CXifo^d -.thi othe*day, is reported, m defiance of any special knowledge Oft the subject, to hare indulged m the foUowiijf bit of theological raillery; V V* men of Science, ]*&,*? Vffi mj anoestovs m Paradise, and I do. no* jpudgeyou yoj^rt m the Zoological Gardens. Endish papers dejajf this storj— sjbs.«te4 the dther day m 'Bonjp-rthafc a new twa.tj . has been negotiated b**w<?en, Turkey, anjd Bngknd— under which the kitter. acquire! a protectorate orer Bygpt, and; the France vto be Teconciled to this moxe. by an* asxaiion of Tunis to Algiers, ' There has been yeU^ fererin Wishin*ton only three times— frst m 180S, tecon4 *fter the seat of the gorernment waire-. snored there, when the chief portions of the |dty were a m«rsh. There wew then fc.--f -fog «?•«?•• There also attacks ia and th^e hare. been, soma sp9»dic cs«e» since, b# the city has been practically as. ft»e from, fe?ey as. almost any Korthcrn city. Since Patti'f marriage of her Jiraings have been a^ininwtered by he* usband, apd he itill bat £64,000 of the money inrested m his. name! If the. wipi ier lawsmt;and the English, marriage, ia annulled for irregularity, she will get the money ; if she loses, hajjf of it, according, to tli^marriaga contract, becomes her legal