ADDITIONAL MAIL NEWS.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume IV, Issue 1077, 18 October 1883, Page 2

ADDITIONAL MAIL NEWS.

The ramifications of the dynamite’conspiracy are wider than was at first -imagined. Nine additional arrests have been made in Glasgow within the. week, all of then Irishmen of the 1 artisan class. These are charged with complicity in three cowardly outrages’perpetrated in dasgow in January last, bjr means of which nine persons were injured. The precision with which the police are acting shows , them to be in possession of direct and positive information. A man named McDonald, now in custody in Liverpool, who seems tu have been one of the most active spirits of the conspiracy, is suspected by his accomplices of having 7turned'approver. The anti-Jewish riots in Hungary are rapidly spreading front County'to County, and are jevery day assuming an increasing resemblance to the'late -Russian perseculions in Balta, Kief and Odessa;:.; Folio w - ing the Russian - example the peasants - inHungarian villages and smalLtowns. bring with them carts to carry plunder away. The civil authorities and townspeople offer no resistance, and thus they achieve their designs before; there is ’sufficient' time for the military to arrive. Reports , have been received of riots from about a dozen different places, generally a considerable distance from each other. Besides the plundering and destruction of, Jewish, and occasionally Christian, property, several' murders have been committed, the - victims being mostly, poor pedlars, teachers, andshopkeepors. Baris in general and the Champ Elysdes

in particular are enlivened by the advent of Mrs Langtry, whom Figaro has somewhat illogically christened the American Sara Bernhardt. Through the medium, of John Arthiir and Go. j house agents,' Mrs Langtry has engaged- for a month a charming suite of apartments in the Rue de Baas ant. She has brought her horses and’Carriages from England with her, and has come to'Paris for rest and for dresses. She purposes visiting each and every Paris theatre in turn, and is determined not to let the grass grew under her feet. She is here to Study'*and observe, but not to criticise. It is ’believed'she is about to confide her histrionic tolents to the tutelage' of Got and Coquellin, jiust as she has already entrusted her personal charms to the guidance of Worth. ’ The neighborhoods of Berlin and Vienna have been scenes of lamentable accidents. At St Gelitz, close to the German capital, on September 2, a railway accident, .which reflects the utmost discredit bn Government, resulted in the death of i 2 people and serious injury to many more. A large excursion party were waiting at the railway station when some one raised the barrier and commenced creasing the line to the opposite side, whence-a train was starting. . Fearing lest they should lose their seats by delay, the whole number, despite the oties of the officials, followed. Ere they had got half way across the line an express, which dues not stop at the station of St Gelitz, ‘|di<l ploughed - its. wajr j through the’masa of living human beings, cutting off legs, prms Janddieads, severing' bodies in; two, crushing all. .Soldiers who have walked unmoved ofa the field of battle, stood appalled> at; the . ghastly sight. Rossou, a suburb of Vienna, on the same |day was visited by an alarmingly wide-spreading fire, which originated in a .

large timber yard, and dam ged property to the extent of 1,000,000 florins. The conflagrati n broke out a three o’clock in the afternoon, and was not localised until ten at night. The flames were seen, however, fanned against by a violent gale which swept over Vienna. Five large timber yards with adjoining buildings were totally destroyed ere it was finally extinguished late next day. No lives, were lost, but many persons wore injured. The proposal to exhume Shakes peepe’s--remains was formally before the Strat-ford-on-Avon Town Council, at its meeting on. Sept. 4. The Mayor said hatJuul*-. been inundated with telegrams and letters from all parts of the kingdom protesting against the proposed outrage, and calling upon the Corporation to resistthe -proposal to the uttermost. The Mayor, continuing, said : “ The attention ! may; say of the whole civilised world ilf ' just now being directed towards our town-in consequence of this proposal* to desecrate; the tomb of oar immortal! townsman, William Sh keapoare- I feel that I must, from the high position which I, occupy,,disabuse the public mind . 7, that the Corporation Would ever allow’, such a proposal to be carried. I ’would * have it understood that any such imprudent proposal would meet from us a contemptuous’refusal. Not only would the. .' i Corporation at rein every nerve to prevent such an act of desecration, but I feel certain that our townsmen generally would*,-;.; .bind themselves together to guard the sanctuary' of the poet’s tomb. I could’ | not myself think that anyone could be ! found, so base and depraved [, suggest the violation of the poet’s last I 're ting place,” Several speakers r . the Mayor in denouncing the i and the Council then decided unanimously

; to offer-their -most strefioomroppoßitiOßr"” to the scheme. As lay rectors of the Church, theyhad an' impbrtinl'voice Ifa _ the matter, and they me-ait to exercise it. Ad vices - from Professor Nnrddnskj old’s ( I expedition to Greenland have been re-' -r ceived, viA Thtytsbi Scptljmd.Thfcy state that the expedition'st&rtld from koick on Sept. 4, and reached a distance.. ' of 369 kilometres inland, attaining " height of 7,010 feet above, the is. the first time human beings, ■ ; tratedsofar into Greenland. The whola ■region i« a desert, proving that there is no operewaterinlaifd. data were obtained. Along the northwestern coast a cold -stream’-runs, which induces a very low temperature, "But bn the eastern shore the Weather is not so severe, and the cosstr is " accessible to steamers in autumn. ■’ ..Whens-tho party was: 14Q kilometres east ( of the iglaojef.fH. border," soft hnop ; prevented them rfWJWIH proceeding on sledges. The LapleadegSl :-v were therefore sent on with, snow shoes, ' aufl| the j-eat :of., the expedi»ioU T»«dtedr!T the north-west coast. betwßen' WaigSl o/i 'and Cape , ?oik.v. They; wpreinformed:.;! by 'i^qmma}^t,,4hat; twq^ members yofl tithe American.iftlac, and that the rest had returned to Little-iorn ton Island. On August 16, the expedfc tion.sailed south from JSgermond, making a short stay at Jargbut and Tredersdaley and triodto proceed eastward tbree"times through a sound north of Cape Farewell and along the coast, but the them. ITTHeyf went outside she,ioe field tp v ; latitu<j& 66deg., remaining continually in,. ; - sight pflan'd. The didfty ico waa fqxjoed r south jp’f Gape Don, and they anchored.in ;; . '■£ fiord newly 'visited by the Esquimaux, ■ where -the-remains of Norman Fbttiod ' ‘ were -found. This was the first ; tfme since the fifteenth century that :: ; had succeeded in anchoring on* thebaSt 1 coast of Greenland. They tried vainly - to:v anchor in another fiordtd the north.' The/ returned, and arrived at Reikiavik on September 19; 1 The Herald’s London correspondent^-"' s * under date September 6, has the following items :

A Company, to be called the Now , _ Guinea Colonisation and Trading -Chm- '- peny, is projected in London for the purpose of establishing a trading settlement in New Guinea and other adjaeentnßlaUds. The scheme is at present in .embryo, but I have learnt some particulars in regard to it which will enable Colonists to form some as 'to its prospects of success, it iis; being organised by a gehtlernan named M. MTvor, wbo, I understand, served as Lient.-General of a Brigade in the late Servian* war| and hpld a'command in the Greek army when, hostilities with Turkey were said to bpinfminent. He is a tall, athletic,- 5 energetic man of good military bearing, abput, rri years of age. Hi* idea is to take pat under rT his personal command a pioneer 6x {Sedition? ‘ to New Guinea to explore the island and oO: establish a settlement, which will-form a nucleus for further development x»i the Company. The expedition would bo-coni/?'3 posad of gentlemen who would be required - -j ,to provide their own equipment.* They 1 must be of good physique, a&d wiliiiqj i to submit to military discipline),' as it' is considered absolutely imperative,that full. t power; must be 'exercised by* The manders. General M'lVor hasalreßdy re- T 2 ceivednumerous applications from adven- . turous young men who are anxious join the expedition. *‘:Sorife who' had tended to settle in the ; Nbrth Westbm' States .of America have a tt-ial of tropical New Guinea instead.’ The project, it is said, “ willhe harried out cm the basis of’fair and friendly dsal- ! ing with the natives/’and the only strong measures which will be. taken will be. such (in self-defence) as may be necessary to protect the ; lives of the expedition." /fKe Jheadquarters of the Company vyilt! 'be in London, and supreme control will be vested in the Board of Directors.

Skilled mechanics, agriculturists , and ■ miners will be selected to accompany the expedition, and an .experienced medical staff also. The Company will be. .willing to work ~in full harmony with, and, if desirable, under the control-of 1 the Colonial Governments, and the pro- -i moters hope to secure the unofficial acquiescence of the Imperial Government in ' their scheme. A paragraph hi the JJcAoelicited from General Molvoran explanation. He had no of emulating ! the practice; of -“ Captain Kidd/'and, indeed, so purely harmless and commer- ■ -cial was bis scheme, that he believed'he 1,3 could obtain for it the approval and even the patronage of the most fervent of the peace-at-any-price party in the United ■ , Kingdom. ' The Rev, W. G. Lawea, a ' New Guinea missionary, : has written ’a r ' letter to the Times, which is certainly- not ' favorable to Australasian annexation, schemes. He points- Bignificantly to-tfie Ur /; almost entire absence in the colonial press / . “of any reference to the owners of'the'* * : soil," and hints that if a million arid' a ' ; quarter of Papuans were under'the Apj- •V, tralian Governments, this- characteristic "/ would be expressed in (heir dealings witn ' the natives.