NEWS BY THE MAIL.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume IV, Issue 1076, 17 October 1883, Page 2

NEWS BY THE MAIL.

The Queen arrived at Balmoral oil ’ September 9th. Her depression returning, she forbade the usual Highland games, and frequently drove to Cratbie, Kirkyard to visit J ohn Brown’s, grave. Brown’s successor as personal attendant, , on the Queen is Francis Clerk, a High*" land gillie, brought up on the Deo. ,Th® Queen has entrusted the task, o£„wriUjofiU. her biography to MLa Keddie, a Sooten lady introduced by Lord Ronald Gojrer. But little progress has yet boen-made-with the work. Her Majesty has ordered , an extensive section of Windsor Castle to f be lighted with electric light. Mr John B. Ackers, who has recently made a personal inspection of the Panama Canal reports to the New York proas, " under date September 12th, as follows: “Along 48 miles where it is proposbdTto dig the canal there are dredging machines, excavators, stationary engines, and other paraphernalia for the work projected, but-v the whole collection is practicall} useless. Some of these machines were used for excavating sand when the Suez Canal was dug, and they won’t be worth much on

the American isthmus. Only natives will consent to work on the canal. These come from Jamaica and from Barranquilla, Javanila, and other ports on the -Oolin*i* bian coast. The Canal Company ham received a number of locomotives for their railroad, but they are too long for the short carves on the road. The chat'ter for it was obtained in New York, 'stttfl.lt' ' is said that there is a provision in’ it which prevents foreigners owning road. Occasionally f here is a stampede" ' for homo among the engineers and their’3 assistants caused by fever breaking out among them.” Lord Chief Justice Coleridge was well received by the United States Government. He decided to abandon his visit to Canada, because of fear he shonld-be assassinated by Fenians. ' r •" ; •The Suez Canal Company have decided'that after January Ist next al [Vessel* passing through the' Canal-in ballast shall' be entitled to a reduction of . 2jf. per ton. 1 The Company will also in future pay the j cost of floating and restoring stranded j vessels. ■ :a

A large portion of Mrs Langtry’s earn,ings in the United States are invested in mortgages in Fifth Avenue New York, Lieut. Bettaru, an Italian officer, recently demanded satisfaction of Henri Rochf rfc, because the latter had accused King Humbert of crooked practices in re* - gard to the Jubilee funds. Rochfort . drew a revolver, and the Italian fire-eater j withdrew. Bettaru is the same man who attempted to kill himself in New York because an American girl rejected his addresses. He is regard as a dangerous lunatic. • Colonel Ohebborne, of the Salvation Army, has been expelled from Geneva, and Miss Booth was imprisoned at Heinfrachtd for violating an order prohibiting the rqeetings.