ADDITIONAL MAIL NEWS

Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 2321, 6 January 1890, Page 2

ADDITIONAL MAIL NEWS

The Portuguese Government haa sent a circular to the European Power* Buying that it is ready to prove the unbroken occupation by Portugal of the African territory now daisied by England, end further that ehe is determined to maintain her rights at all hazards. la Holland the Government 6111 for grants to denominational schools tas passed. One of its olausea abolishes free education except to paupera, The Madrid papers manifest a great deal of lrrltatloD with the United States over the propsal to declare Cuba a republic and roundly donoanoe It, oalllng the whole thing " a mad idea." ' Mfß President Harrison has been formally censored by the Women's Christian Tempareaoe Union for serving the Pan American delegates with whiskey punch on their visit to the White House.

Dave Dillon, once a famous oarsman and former Australian ohampton sou Her, was awapt oat to sea from New York hazbor on December 11th and haa not been Been since.

Another electric light lineman named Peter Clausen was burned to death In the middle cf Decambe* In New York. Seme children playing on the pavement below heard a frizillng noise and looked up and ■aw smoke rising from Clausen's body in a network of wires. Tbe corpse was frightfully dUfigured, The oaram»n Teenier will sail fro<n San FcanoUco for Australia on the b.)»t of January 14. He proposes to row Beach and allcomers.

A Paris papor e«yi an English Company hat applied for ooaaesslons to bolld a bridge aorois the English Channel, Gladstone, In an article In the " Nineteenth Century" for November 2nd on election statistics, nays he believes If ttn elections were held now the ooaptry would return a Homa Halo majority to Parliament of 100.

Mr Balfoar and Lord A<hbourne p-e----■tmted to » Committee of the Gabice*, presided over by Lord Salisbury, the diraft of a land foheme, whloh was ■übtnltted to the whole Cabinet on November 30th. It la reported that the first demand ■ for from £7 000 000 to £10,000,000, with which t > deal wich tbe dUaffacted portions of Ireland

Heame di'Dg talen of destitution and suffering »mon« the fiishermen of Labndor reached Ottawa on November 29fcb, Near Point ii^qtiimacix 8 tire families W^ra oo the verge of starvation, and were subsisting on the fljab of dogs. At a number of fishing gtatloas, anticipating a eoaroity of food, the fiihermen «tved the roface from the fish and salted It. This will ba used to sustain lif a. Tbe fishermm have been left without the mo^ns to buy food.