MAIL NEWS.

Dunstan Times, Issue 1230, 25 September 1885, Page 3

MAIL NEWS.

The yacht Sunbeam, with Mr Gladstone on board, reached Bergen, in Norway, on August 19. The late premier has greatly benefited by the trip. He made a pedestrian excursion of 18 miles without being fatigued. He returned to England on the 27th. Ha was courteously received everywhere by the Norwegians. The Prince of Wales 1-ft London for Norway in the royal yacht on August 20. Several thousands of unemployed working men assembled at Hackney on the 27th, and adopted resolutions demah ling the Government to assist them to emigrate

A .British man-of-war left Aden on the

28th August to occupy A mho, situated on Fagoorabo Bay, East Africa. The object is to anticipate the occupation of the place by France. Farquharson, the defaulting manager of the Munster Bank, has been traced to Spam by letters written to friends in Dublin. l Harry Jackson, actor, died in Lonnou on August 13, He was Tory well known in Austra'ia.

John Buskin is slowly dying from cerebral disease, accompanied by insomnia. Lord Vane Pemoest died in London on August 14. He served with distinction in the Union Army daring the Confederate rebellion.

On Angnst 26 an infuriated mob iuvaded a hall in the East End of London, where several Mormon missionaries have been preaching for some time and made a complete wreck. The Elders fled for their lives. Several captured were terribly mil treated. They were left on the pavement for dead. The cause of the attack was the stories set afloat that these missionaries had been systematically kidnapping young women and shipping them to Utah to be “ sealed” to rich Mormons. Other tales had been told about indignities inflicted on girls thus entrapped. Mrs Patterson, widow of the Rev. Mark Patterson, sent Sir Charles Dilke, now in India, a second telegram on August 14, declaring she would return to England instantly and stand by his side during his trial as proof that she disbelieved the scandalous crime with which he was charged. Sir Charles replied advising the lady to stay where she was in France. A collision occurred in the Metropolitan District Underground railway at Earl’s Court, due to the signals being broken and unmanageable. One engineer and stoker were kilted, and five other persons badly injured cannot recover. The Qneen and Court left for Balmoral on August 4. The Highland clans gave a grand reception to the Princess Beatrice and Prince Henry of Battenburg. A hostile crowd assembl-d at the Hall depot on the 25th to meet General Booth, of the Sdvation Army. He was hooted, and several attempts made to reach his carriage. The police had great difficulty in preventing the mob from injuring him. He was struck several times wi hj misiles. The reason for the attack was the belief thet he had abducted a girl named Armstrong to make false evidence. The 1 Standard’s Berlin corresoondent says an eminent Turkish diplomatist has declared that the Sultan and Crand Vizier are opposed to an Anglo-Turkish alliance against Russia.

The yacht Kalaffish was ran in'o and by a steamer off Scotland on August 30. All on board inolu iing the owner, Mr Crossman, and wife, were lost, excepting two.

Charleston, South Caroline, was struck by a cyclone on the morning of August 28, and one-fourth of the houses in the city were unroofed or damaged, a number ot houses on Sullivan’s Is ands. indu ing Brighton’s Hotel, were blown away. Wrecked shipping wen seen everywhere. The damage is estimated at a million dollars. Rumours are afloat th t Reedier is to be retired from Plymouth Church on account ot his attitude dnrin : the Pre identiat election, and because he lost all bis money Shipping interests at New York are in a deplorable state. Hundreds of uueli u-tered craft are moored at ths docks. Freights are expected to go even lower in the next two years. Recent reports show that the balance of trade with Brazil is largely against the United States. America bought 40.000,00(1 dols. worib of Brazilian goo Is. against 10,000,000d0l American goods sol 1 to that country. Lee and Hanlan bad a three mile race at Jamaica Bav, Long [s'and. an August 92, the first race which llnntan has rowed since his return from Australia Hinlm won by two lengths. He has arranged a three mile sculling race with Ross for September. The Western trip of the Hunarner Rtrussia, which arrived at New York on An ;nst 22, is the fastest recorded—namely, 6 days 2 hours

Rear-admiral S-ymour has arrived in San Francisco, en route for VTcoria to assume command of the British Pacific Squadron, American Hebrews are raisin" a fund to erect a monument to Sir Moses Mouteliore at New York.

A family with a young lady under their guardianship met a singular adventure while travelling to San Francisco from th« East to emba’k by the Zeafandia for Melbourne, where the Knapps intend to take up their abode. While sleeping in a Pullman oar the young lady was dealt a violent blow over the right eye with a brass kuocker or club. She shrieked, when her assailant, who is believed to have intended to attack or rob Knapp, became alarme I. pulled the ball rope, when the train stopped, and he then escaped in the darkness. Knapp has instructed his agent to bring a *uit against the Pulmau Company forSO.OOOiol damages. He went on by the Zaalandia.

General Grant’s funeral was a very large demonstration. The hearse was drawn by 24 black horses, with a coloured man at the bridle of each. The scene as the procession pissed up Broadway was a retntrkable one. No sound was heard from the va-t crowds that had lined the thoroughfare. The heat was so intense that many ladies fainted, some of the citizens and soldiers were also overcome and taken away in ambulances. Nevertheless the vastd-owd" were unmoved and stood with hear heads while the funeral car passed. In San Fnnoisno the occasion was observed as a state holt lay. The fuue ral procession in the city numbered 10 000. Many people objected to it as a mockery. The streets were draped in mourning. Uensral Grant made no will, having nothing to dispose of. His widow depT-ds upon congressional appropriation and the novelty of her husband's book on the Civil War, from which a rich return is exneeted

The British barque Ua Idin-iton, from Columbia Kiver, bound to Liverpool, was disabled in heavy gales near the eqnatoi Four men were swept overboard. Sue was then headed for San Franoiaoo for repairs, bat owing ti dense fogs was wrecked above Point Keys light. The captain and 17 hands were drowned and only one man rescued. There is a smallp 'X epidemic in Montreal. The theatres are closed, disinfectants are used in watering the streets, and masses arc being celebiated in the Catholic churches.

Reil, the Canadian rebel, protea-e-lagainst being considered insane, and declared he had acted solely with the object of benefit ing the half breed s. An active agitation ia going on among French Canadians in favor of a reprieve. The Peruvian Government forces were defeated by the rebels at Contra on August 18, after five hours’ battle. The Peruvian commander shot himself. The loss in killed and wounded was heavy on both sides. The Panama revolution has ended VI. Da Lcsseps’ rep eaeutativa in New York declares that the Panama canal ia making satisfactory progress, anil will r--verse a good S prophesies of failure. On the other engineer Monacal reported to the secretary of the American declaring that 70 pnr out, of the whole dis’anca ia yet nntonohe 1, and the work done represents leas than 6 per cent, of the total to be removed, that the work cannot be completed for less than 275’ million dollars, and ui Id years.