ADDITIONAL MAIL NEWS.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume V, Issue 1252, 1 June 1886, Page 2

ADDITIONAL MAIL NEWS.

Milton Bowlers, a physician of some standing in San Francisco, has been found guilty in the first degree for the murder of ! la wife by poison. Geronimo’s band of hostile Apaches are raiding southern Arizona, killing and burning in every direction. On April 25 the Canadian authorities seized an American vessel off Cape Breton for violation of the fishery laws. This act ia likely to hasten the settlement of the l< ng standing dispute between Great Britain and the States concerning the North American sea coast fisheries.

A collective note signed by England, Germany, Austria, Russia and Italy was presented to Greece on May 5. The Greek Cabinet met on the afternoon of May 6, and framed a reply to the note. The representative of the Powers considered it inadequate, end tbe Foreign Ministers, excepting the representatives of Austria, left Athens next day. Great excitement prevailed in the city. The soldiers of the garrison were summoned to the barracks.

The General commanding the Greek troops on the frontier telegraphs that the Turks are massing their forces, and he Ha-t ordered similar movements of hia trcops.

The Powers have given orders to the fleet to blockade the Greek ports. Great excitement prevails at Athens The s Idiers, who paraded the streets, singing patriotic songs, were the favorities of the h iu', Troops had been ordered to Thessaly, as the movements of the Turkish Army threaten to make that place the scene of the first hostilities. It is now thought Russia will hold aloof from the other Powers in the coercion of Greece.

The following are the principal parts of Mr Gladstone’s manifesto to the Midlothian electors:—“l have never km wn an occasion whtre a parliamentary event so ran through the world as the introduction of the Bill under the anspices of the British Government. From public meetings and from the bight at authorities in the Colonies and America, from capitals such as Washington, Boston, and Quebec, and from remote districts lying beyond reach of all ordinary political excitement, I receive conclusive assurances that kindred people regard with warm and fraternal sympathy onr present effort to settle on an adequate scale and once for all the long-vexed and troubled relations between Great Britain and Ireland, which exhibit to us the one and only conspicuous failure of the political genius of our race to confront and master the difficulty, and to obtain in a reasonable degree the main ends of civilised life.” He then gives a long story of attempts to conciliate or coerce Ireland, and adds —“ Watching trom day to day the movement of the currents of opinion during the present conflict, more and more I find it necessary to observe the point at which the dividing lines are drawn. On the side adverse to the Government I find, I sorrowfully admit, profuse abundance of station and title, with social influence, and the professions or a large majority of them—in a word, the spirit and power of class. These are the body of the opposing host; nor is this all. As the Knights of God had servants, so in the great army of class each enrolled soldier has a roll of dependents. The adverse host, then, consists of class and dependents ; but this formidable army Is in the bulk the same, though now enriched at our cost with, a valuable contingent of recruits that has fought in every one of the great political battles of the last sixty years, and has been defeated. It is to restore your Parliament to efficiency by dividing and by removing obstacles to its work, to treat the Irish question with a due regard to its specialities, but with the same thoroughness of method by which we have solved problems that fifty years back were hardly, if at all,’ less formidable, to give heed to the voice of a people speaking in tones of moderation by the mouth of avast majority of those whom we ourselves have made its constitutional representatives, and thus to strengthen and consolidate the Empire on a b.isia of mutual benefit and hearty loyalty—such is the end. As for the means, we take rha establishment in Dublin of a legislature empowered to make laws for Irish as contra-distin-guished from Imperial affairs. It is with this that we are now busied, and with details and particulars their time will come.” He thus concludes ;“ We are not now debating the amount of the Irish contribution to the Empire or the composition of the legislative body, or the maintenance of representatives in connection with Westminster, but what we are debating is the large and far larger question which includes and absorbs them all— the question whether you will or will not have regard to the prayer of Ireland for the management by herself of affairs specially and exclusively her own, and no other, a matter which the House of Commons has at once to decide. If on this matter it speaks with cleat intelligible voice, I feel the strongest assurance that others—difficult as some of them are—will, with the aid of full discussion and a wise conciliatory spirit, be found capable of rational and tolerant settlement.”