MORE MAIL NEWS.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume V, Issue 1382, 17 November 1884, Page 3

MORE MAIL NEWS.

(«T TKLTOBWfH.) Auoxlahd, To-day. , Governor Weld wan feted in London on 7 Maoarthor ia about to retire from political life. The European Mail Building at earners to take the place ef the sailing vessels tibw'iiiodfor transporting crimmala to i ßew i Oaledonia would seem to show that the French Government ia bent upon carrying out the recidivists policy. German, Admiralty has concluded a oaotraot Sat the supply of coal to the Garamn. Navy ; at tjo stations m the South Seas, m, Mabapma in New Britain, and Jabnil on Marshall islands. An unprecedented rate of speed at sea haa beim obwned from the new Ounarder Umbria in a trial tnp down the Clyde. She attained a maximum of 1 twenty-four of th« Prime Meridian Cone*ea* at Washington on October Ulh, atreeolutioa was adopted providing thsc.ths longitude shall >* counted from tbemeridisn of Greenwich in two directo 180 degree# east longitude plus, and west longitude minus- - The following resolution wa« adopted : This Conference proposes the adoption of a nniTTTisl d*T for Ml .purposes for which it may be fotmd convenient, and which shall not Interfere with the use of local or other st«a£nrd times i “*w hen desirable. On MoDdsvl 20th, the following resolution was considered “ This universal day is to mean that a solar day is to bo given for all' the world et the moment of mean nudnight- of 'the initial meridian, conceding with the beginning of the civil day date, and tbe meridian is to be counted from cero up to twenty-four hours. ” gvlhs collusion of a confidential clerk, a cashier, receiving clerk and porter, the g®£* goods firm of Constable and Arnold, of “New York, have been robbed of over: Ifl.mooa - The .confidential clerk, Pedder, invested all bis stealings **TheDuke of .'Brunswick died on Oct. Mh'BaronSyderita haataken possession, ohbehalfot the Emperor, of all the fenJat asd all ordinal property of the Dttdty. /Rie Doke left a wilt disposing ofbdffipoprisato property, which is estim#d«*iiO,ooo,«N> are thattho completion of»tte ’pedestal of Bartholdi’s statue of libertT oresonted by theFronch Governmealt to*h?UWtodßtates will be delayed ugjujr aadthoso ranunti be raised. The statnebepproved a white elephant. -- jQsigmgnor Grover Cleveland, the Demo--Metfefibnffidateforthe Presidency, wasfuriotttyiassaulted in the streets of Albany, firstoy a man named Boone, and afterwards -at the Executive Mansion by BeoUrfawife. because he refused to pard<d»iß*ye»'B. Fairfield, their relative, to two years’ imprisonment in the Auburn Penitentiary for manslaughter. . Tim great excitemoUt at firet.asit was thought to have a ppiitjfyi fcigrtlfiftanee, but the Boones as well as the prisoner were, proved to bo _a family of cranks. The latter had already been transferred to an insafie asylum.