ADDITIONAL MAIL NEWS.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 1852, 28 May 1888, Page 2

ADDITIONAL MAIL NEWS.

The leading German explorers, lncludng Dr Junker, ore oonvinosd that Stanley s-nowwith Emm Bay. ./The British gunboat Falcon left Gib ;a|tar for Cape Juby on April 23rd, m sopseqaence of an attuck by a body of the of Morocco's troops upon the North African Company's depot, at that place. The Moors ki'lad the manager of the depot, and wonnded others. Professor Huxley, who has been seriously 111 at Bournemouth, haa been ordered to SwUk rland for his health. Ignatios Donnelly's Shakespearian cypher story has been endorsed as sound by Geo. Parker Bidder, Q. 0., one of the most eminent of England's mathematicians. Gold has been discovered at Festlng, North Wales. The quartz assayed yielded soz to the ton. - ...., The international ten-mile race at Manchester between- the American cowboys and horses" against English: horaes snd rldara was won by the former. Time, 21mln, •■ 5 The Dnke of Cambridge wan examined before a Select Committee of Parliament on April 24th. He Bald that 11,000 addltlonal men were required to place the Army on a solid footing, He thought It was Impossible to reduce the Military estimates, because with the Army and Volunteers it was neoessary to make the service attractive. .In Germany, thU -was not necessary, beoauae. military ser?ioe was compulsory. ;, - . ; An artiole was published by General Haraley on April 27th concurring m the defencelesßness of London, He considers that the olty U In a moßt perilous oondlfcloh,' and an enemy landing m. Kent would be only four days from, the metropolis, * General Hamley prop. >«sb > that London's Volunteers be organised as a foroYjMid trained to act aB guards of the city, and I be increased by 25,000 riflemen, and a certain number of artillerymen. . A desperate oonfl'ct took place on April 29-h, at the Mosque, Damanhour, near Alexandria, Egypt. A number of esoaped prisoners had taken, refuge In tEe- Mosque, and refused, to. "surrender' to the police, who had surrounded the building. In the fi^ht whloh^fdll&wed fifteen obnviotswere killed and ten wounded, The police lost •four men. killed and wounded. „, Sir John Lubbock, m the debate on the second reading of Mr Bradlaugh's ■ Abolition of Oaths Bill, denoanced the BUI as absolutely m prinolple and abBurd* in detail ; ? ; - o: ■:' ; •- • -^ ■■■.. , -.-^ ;\ The Lanark eleotlon/bn April 27, was a victory for Mr Gladstone. The votes stood— PiiilHp«T « Liberal r, SB27 T ; Bpnsfiald, Tory, 2917; The Labor -Candidate reoeived 617 votes. The Salvation ? Army/i ltidited as a nuisanoe by the Qaebec Grand Jury, has been bo declared after a long trial before the Courts, and the nuisance will be Itbated, , -'vvi ,-;. q. , ; :--<-v-«- ; ' According to a despatonfrim thd City of Mexico, datep! April 25, Prince George, aeoond son of jStne Prinoe of Wales, Was m that city incognito. He had ocme with a party of-, English noblemen, lv ;a yaont anchored m Vera Cruz Harbour. '' Canal shares, went ballooning on the Pails bourse on April 23, and Da Lessepa' fciennK were jubilant. (Speculators bought f reely V driving the; .quotation- up to 31 francs. On the 'same ; day, M. Marec tabled a>faverabler report m the' Chamber. Tiie repdft advised thai the Qapali Company be authorised to raise 3T0.000 000 francs on the lottery plan with the Government's approval. , The Bill was: passed m the Chamber on April. 2 8 ..;. ;;. -. A ; A ton'g7 discussion took .place m the House of Lords on the evening of pril 26 on Earl Dunraven's Bill to reform that body. The main features of the Bill- are that Peers of Creation shall be entitled to seats m the House of Lords by election, and-.. that they : may resign their seatb to become eligible to the House of Commons. Provision is also made for the admission of Colonial, Catholic, dissenting and scien tine representatives.^ "Lord Salisbury objected to the Bill .as. an abandonment of the firm rock of experience for a plunge • rato,vtbe>. unknown; Government ? was willing '"to I consider the Vdrpieaion of life Peerß and othec needful-reforms,, for which It would introduce a .Bqparate r Bill. Lord Dunraven therefore withdrew his measure. All the eminent Kterary and , political personages of London have coacurred m the propopaVto raise a memorial m Westminster Abbey to Mathew- Arrold, and alsb to found a echolarship m his' name m the Oxford University, — Frequent ooDflicta have ooourred be* tween students and partisans of General Boulanger m Paris and other large oltlea. The oountry is regarded as on the eve of a fierce struggle between the Liberal elements of political life, the friends of Representative Government, and the Constitutional or .Republican party, who are attempting to introdaoe a system of per* sonal Government, resting on an appeal at the same time to the multitude and the army, General : Boulanger gave his polltloal banquet at the Cife* Dlche on the evening of AprH27. There was a orowd'of 1000 peraona outside the oa'<S at six o'clock, but it so increased m a short time as to stop street troffic. Thera were frequent cries of " Vive Boulanger /' 'and v A bos Ferry /" At eleven o'clock there were about" 4Uoo people outaide the oafoY General Boulanger, In responding to M. NagueVa toast to the former's health, said he wished to utter a moat emphatic; protest against the charge that he aspired to a Dictatorship. Moreover, If the queslion were raised m the Chamber, he would vote to abolish the. Presidency. ': : „' ." '■ ■ • '. ; - >! - The Boulanglat demonatrai'lonatNancy was renewed on the> night of, April 27. The people refused to disperse, and (were charged py the mount'edfgendariiieß, There was a repetition of the trouble Qt the Ten arrests were; made, and the; streets resounded with Bhoutß of "Vive^Jßou* longer /" " ■ On Saturday, April 27th, a crowd of Boulanglsts colleoted outaide a Club m Paris, where 300 students were assembled. The students gathered at the windows, and on hearing shouts for Boulanger, fired four revolver Bhots Into the crowd. Nobody was iujared, but the people were so angered that they foroibly resißted the police who tried to disperse them. The atudenta then iasued from the Olab la a body, and a general mtfee ensned, which atone time threatened to become serloas. Finally troopa of mounted gendaracei arrived and dispersed the combatants. Several persons were Injured. On April 30th General Boulaager wrote a letter addressed to the electors of the Department of Nurd, denying any design ■ or dealro. to make himself Dictator ; Indignantly repudiating a slanderous and false report that he Intended to lend himself to any party against t'ne Bepublfo to effect hla programme of a revision o£ the Oonßtitation, a dissolution of the present Parliament, and an appeal to the conatry ; and promising the electors that he wculd aoon be among them and thank them for their votes. General do la Farge has accepted M. Rochefort's challenge to theParls Deputies to vaoato their seats and to present themselves for election m opposition to the Boulanglat nominees. 1 n Paris the Boulanglst fever is cooling, and Radical defeats m three Provincial elections are considered aa evidenoe that It Is also subsiding In the country. The instructions given to Mr M*oopui| Chief Commissioner for the United States to the Melbqurne Exposition, are veiry voluminous, and the objoots and'intentions of the Government are fully explained. He haa been placed m charge of everything conaected with the American exhibits, which promise to be successful. Many business houses throughout the country have already applied for space, ! including several Oalifoiiiian firm?. Mr Thomas Merry, ex-jou.rna.lißt, of Por.tla.ndi

Oregon, has been appointed one of the Assistant- Commissioners, vice Mr Stevens, of Boston, who decided not to accept the position. Lieutenant Marx, of tl>e United States navy, has been selected as Secretary and general Disbursing Age^t of the Commispion. He will leave Washington on May 20th, en route for Mcl bourns The latest railroad talk ia that ibe Canadian-Paclfio has secured a control^ fng interest m the following Amarionn lines: — Sault, Star, Marie, Minneapolis, andPaolfio and Aberdeen, Bismarck and North Western ; and it Ja Intended to make a through line from th*> Pacific to the Atlantic, via Minneapolis. Congress has authorised the expenditure of £20,000 for the establishment of a quarantine station at San Francisco, and £10,000 for a similar institution at Ban Diego. General Wort Adams Postmaster cf Jackson. Mississippi, and John H, Martin, editor of the "NewMlsaißsippian," met m the street oa May 1, and drawing their revolvers, fired at each other simultaneously a number of shots m quick succession, until both were killed. The cause was personal journalism, A proposition has been submitted by Secretary Bayard to the European . Governments to agree to make oltmed seasons or ffur bos! all over the world. ' The report industriously circulated that ' the Right Hon Joseph Chamberlain is engaged to marry Mies Endlcott, daughter of .the United States Secretary of the Navy, is absolutely denied, A resolution was proposed m the United States House of Representatives on April 23, requesting the President to interpose the good offices of the American Government to prevent European dominion and '■ control In the Samoan group, and to favor .. the establishment of a responsible Native independent Government. The Wall street brokers were notified 1 by the detectives, on April 23, to look out lor a large number of bonds stolen from a firm at Lisle, France. The bonds are « opposed to aggregate a million dollars, and include Panama obligations and Credit • Fonclers, J, A. Kenan, champion hand-ball player of Australia, has ottered to play "Phillip Oaßey, of Brooklyn New York, for the Championship of the World and ten thousand dollars a-slde. "- Harriet Beecher Stowe, the authoress of ;' : "Uncle Tom's Cabin, is reported as " becoming men' ally incapacitated. Representative Morrow, of California, introduced m Congress on April 23rd, a joint resolution directing the Secretary of the Navy to. make such snrveys m the Pacific Ucean as may be necessary to determine the existence and exact position of dangers reported m the track of commerce and navigation, and particularly to make examination of the bottom of the ocean m the general pathway, between the , r Pacific Cpaßt, t Sandwich Islands, New Zealand, and Australia, for the purpose of , ascertaining the proper location for a sub- . marine telegraph cable to connect these or other Idealities m the Pacific. The cum of 25,000d01s is appropriated to begin the work, . The Berlin newspapers almost unanimously weloomed the Queen. She Arrived m the German capital on April 24, and m deference t ■<- her wishes, no official reception was given at Oharlottenberg. The papers expressed regret for the mournful occasion of her visit. Prinoe Bismarck txpreßsed his deßire that a hearty reception Bhoold be given to the Qaeen. This hftd the effect upon the entire press of the Empire, and an agreeable ohange of tone was noticeable m articles on the subject. It was generally understood that the Qaeen came, solely to see her Imperial Bou-ln-law before ho died, and to give her daughter the support of her sympathy, Political prophet; had predicted that the Queen's presence m Berlin would be marked by sullen sympathy on the part of the Press The meeting between the Queen and'the Emperor. was particularly touching. He rOBe early and went to. the ealoon to meet her. As she entered he rose and bowed grayely, but made no attempt to speak The Queen was deeply affected by this mute welcome. Tne Emperor withdrew to his apartment after a brief interval. -■, On April 25 the Queen gave an audience of an hour to Prince Bismarck In the - evening a State dinner was given, at ■which the Empress, the Queen, Prlnca .Bismarck and Sir Morell M'Kenzie were present. The German Chancellor is reported as being well satisfied with the present state cf affaire, and there was no better confirmation of this report than his presence at the dinner party after his long interview with the Qaeen. It is believed that all differences were settled at this interview. During her visit, the Quetm spent much time with the Empress lJqwager Augusta, and In visiting points of interest. The Qaeen left Berlin for London on the afternoon of April 26. Befere her departure from Oharlottenburg, she held • farewell interview with the Emperor, at which she was much affected, and shed 1 teara ; but the Emperor, whose improvement fs marked, assured her that he was growing better. He hoped he would soon pc able to drive out, and bade his mother-in-law an affectionate farewell. On the morning of the day of her departure the Qaeen visited the mausoleum and spent; gome time !n prayer at the tomb of the Emperor William, The Crown .Prlnoa conducted the Qaeen to her carriage. She repeatedly expressed her gratification At * the friendly welcome given her by the , people of Berlin, The Qaeen arrived at Flashing, Holland, at eight o'clock on the niornlng of April 27, and embarked on board the Royal yacht for England, On ' the same afternoon she reached Sheemesß, and proceeded at once to Windeor Castle,