NEWS BY THE SUEZ MAIL.

Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume 2, Issue 123, 21 September 1877, Page 3

NEWS BY THE SUEZ MAIL.

(Feom the Press Agency.)

(Per s.s. Arawata, via Bliiff.)

August &,

The Queen is at Osborne, in good health. Prince Albert Victor, eldest son of the Prince of Wales, had an attack of typhoid fever, but is recovering. The Rev. Rowley Hill, Vicar of Sheffield, is the new Bishop of Sodor and Man.

Mr Alfred Watkins, Liberal, has been elected for Great Grimsby,

The New Bedford boat, 10ft long one ton and a half register, arrived in England after a passage of 49 days across the Atlantic, the occupants being the owner and his wife. The boat had to lie-to several times during heavy gales.

The Holy Cross Society is still the subject of much public comment. The practice of confession inculcated by the Society is receiving general condemnnation.

The Law Officials of the Crown have declared Admiral De Horsey quite justified in his action against the Peruvian ironclad. The Governmet and people of Peru are highly incensed against England, and demand satisfaction. The siSicide of a Bluecoat school boy, aged 12, led to mnch discussion, and a commission to enquire into the management of .the school has been appointed, as it is alleged that the younger boys are subjected to great tyranny at tlie hands of older ones.

At Mansion Honse dinner, Sir Garnet Wolseley, alluding to the war in the East, said that the British army had never been in a more efficient condition than it is now. At a meeting of Home Rule members, Mr Butt stated that should the present aimless obstruction be persisted in, he should probably withdraw from the leadership of the party. The Lancashire colliers' strike ended after lasting six weeks. William Gale, the well known pedestrain, has completed, at Cardiff, the extraordinary feat of walking 4000 quarter miles in as many periods of ten minutes.

A pigeon match for £1000 took place at Hurl high am between Capt Forrester Leighton and Capt Aubrey Patton, each receiving 50 birds. The match resulted in a tie, each bringing down 39 birds. Samuel Warren, author of ''Ten Thousand a "Year," is dead. Prince Reass, German Ambassador at Stamboul, is spoken of as the probable ruler of Bulgaria. Enormous defalcations continue to be discovered in the Russian Commissariat Department. The Emperor has ordered most rigorous proceedings against the culprits. Great difficulties are felt in provisioning the invading army, and the cattle plague seriously affects the price of meat. Outside the army and the Slavophil party, the feeling is against the war. The Russians have thrown a bridge over the Danube at Pyrgos.

Sir Arnold Kemball has telegraphed that it is true that a portion of the garrison of Bayazid which was in the town surrendered, and was massacred by the Kurds. The remainder in the front therefore held out until relieved by a Russian corps. Parliamentary papers have also been published, showing that frightful I atrocities are being committed by both sides. The Russians have obtained a list of the persons implicated in the Bulgarian atrocities last year, and shoot of them that they catch. The Mussul- ' man population flies before the Russians,in consequence of the Bulgarians being armed by thousands and committing all sorts of outrages. " v Mr Frederick Arthur Stanley has been appointed Financial Secretary to the Treasury vice Mr W. H. Smith, appointed First Lord of the Admiralty. The Mansion House Famine Relief Pond is rapidly increasing. The Queen and the Prince of Wales subscribed £500 each ; Messrs Rothschild and Baring Bros. £1000 each.