MAIL NEWS.

Dunstan Times, Issue 1158, 9 May 1884, Page 3

MAIL NEWS.

Mr Gladstone’s family urge him strongly to accept a peerage without delay and and retire from active duty, It ia rumoured that negotiations are pending, between England and America with a view w> adding an extradition clause to cover the authors of the dynamite outrages. The Secratary of the London Corn Exchange reports on April 8 that there were enormous stocks of wheat, barley, and maize in London waterside granaries. There were'4s4,ooo quartern more wheat and 100,OOp. less oats than last year. Miss M. Anderson, Tha American (actress, in Londoh was sued for not playing on Saturday evening, April 6—the day of Prince Leopold’s funeral. The real Author of the libel for which Edmund Yates was sentenced to goal is Lady Stradbroke, a relative of the Earl of Lonsdale.

There was a stirring scene at the annual meeting of the Canard Company. No dividend was declared. In the University boat-race Oxford at last went to pieces. Cambridge finished nearly three lengths ahead. Time, 21 min. 29 sec.

A party of Australians who arrived at San Francisco by the Zealandia on March 23 . met with a setioug accident on the Denver and Rio Grande railway 1 on April 1 A sleeping-car was .thrown off the tract going round a curve. J Mr Archibald, settler, Edinburgh Geological Society!?), and Miss Mary Waiver were seriously hurt, but it is thought they will recover. M esars Rasraith. Fenwick, BThwSitoa, J.A. Robson, Scate, and Bateman were also injured, Several of the injured declared their intention to bring actions for heavy damages against the Company The Wool Tariff Bill was defeated in the American Legislature. A new prima donna hailing from California,named Lemma Nevada, has met with phenomenal success in Paris. The London New* correspondent, writing on April 2nd, says her success is aa great as it is deserved. Her voice has great apparent volume, but its sweetness is remarkable, and the higher notes are equally sweet with the lower. A coal miner's riot of serious proportions broke out at Devain on April 4th, on the arrival of Henry Rochfort, who came to lectnteon the labour question. Some 3000 operatives assembled uttering seditions cries, and the police being powerless, troops were sent for. The cavalry charged the mob, wounding several. The rioters fired upon the soldiers, crying “ Long live the Social Republics.” A special message from Paris, dated April 7th, says :—“ The papers print a rumour that Adelina Patti is desirous of retiring from the stage, and has expressed a wish to return her husdand, the Marquis De Caux. Tha Marquis in a letter denies the story. He says Patti has not written to him for seven years, and it she were to institute divorce proceedings, he would hasten to take advantage of them. He also denies that he ever gambled while living with Patti.” The French Government presented the Queen of Tahiti with a gold medal in honour of her visit to Paris.

The death of M. Jean Baptiste Dumas, at one time Minister of Agriculture and Commerce, is announced at Paris. Messrs Philsin, bankers, of Chartres and Antwerp, failed on A pril 12th, with liabilities amounting to 16:000 000 francs.

It was stated on April Ist teat. the Emperor had consented to Bismarck’s retirement from'the Prussian Ministry. Changes which are being made in the disposition of German troops show that the Government intend to enlarge the frontier of the empire.

A. London special message dated April sth, savs that the Emperor William is very ill. Every effort is made to conceal the fact, and the official announcement declares he is merely suffering from a severe cold, but court circles know better, and the Kaiser’s condition is regarded with, absolute alarm. A despatch to the New York Herald, . dated April 12th, on this subject says:—“ The Emperor William has fallen into a state of pronounced dotage. He has become abnormally suspicious of every person surrounding him, and constantly’exhibits childish eagerness to be before the public in Imperial state and to perform his Royal duties. The mania renders him almost intractable. A physician who discouraged the Emperor from driving out was forbidden’ever to outer the Imperial pres.ence’agaih. .

In the courae'ot a dedate in the Canadian Parliament on the cauaea of the discontent in Manitoba and their removal, Mr Cartwright said that by the land policy of the Government thousands of Canadians had been driven to seek homes in the United States. v

Sir J. M‘Donald, Premier, is reported t be seriously ilk

The Ottawa Government has disallowed the British-Colnmbian Anti-Chinese Bill. The Dominion Parliament has adopted a resolution that the Commons is prepared, as soon as public opinion sanctions prohibition, to make such enactments in that direction as are within the competency of Parliament, A proposition has been made to import Chinese into the Dominion.

Twenty four inches of snow fell at London, Ontario; on April Ist. The storm was accompanied by phenomenal thunder and lightning. ... The deficit of the province of Quebec for the present fiscal year is stated at 485,500 dollars. The editor of a Madrid comic journal was sentenced to eight years’ imprisonment on the 2nd April for publishing an offensive caricature of King Alphonso. Prince Androtnycof and M. Leighesfi (overseer of a St. Petersburg powdermill), were arrested on April 3rd. The Nihilists have killed a police spy named Petrokeff in Poland.

General Millat telegraphs to Paris that after the capture of Hungahoa the troops will return ; to France, while an auxiliary native regiment will be organised to defend Tonquin. It is semi-officially stated in a Paris despatch dat-d April 3rd that the French would enter China and collect an indemnity from Canton and the native Customs.

A party of fillibnsters under General Angero landed at Hicaco, Cuba, on April Ist. He landed without resistance. Nnmetons factions joined him on his march to Ihe .interior. Hie force encountered the regular troops several times, but obliged them to retreat. Great espjtement prevails, especially in HavannA' A perfect panic is reigning in the Cuban markets, and. the merchants in order to s«ll their drafts have to submit to a large loss on the current ra ! es.

Lotta, an American actress, would not even deign to reply to the request of a committee that she wonld play for the London Dramatic Fund, and a good deal of ill-feel-ing has been caused thereby. It is said that capital has been Secured to complete the new Opera House on the Thames Embankment, and that Colonel Mapleson has been offered the management on condition that he makes London hu permanent residence.