MAIL NEWS.

Dunstan Times, Issue 1258, 9 April 1886, Page 3

MAIL NEWS.

Early in March tremendous snowstorms prevailed in the North of England, suspending traffic on many railways. “They caused great suffering among the passengers on the various trains, which were snowbound. Some of I^Atmns Mieps embedded ip 48 hours. __ Thf li|rt of cattle in transit was enormofig; ' .'"v 1 ! i ' Mr Henry. Labonohere moved, in the House of Coramonson the sth~ri That an hereditary Chamber of legislationia inconsistent witbrthe principle 6f fepresentati ve government." ' The motion-Was rejected by

200 jo 166. . . A dispatch' ssys that instructions, from official sources indicate that the Queen has been persuaded to modify her determination to remain in private." She has promised to be present at the public ceremonies' of laying the corner stone of the'new College of Physiol-ns. the driviiig' of the first-pile I for the new Tower bridge* »nd the opening of tbe colonial exhibition. She, however, decisively declined to hold a court at Backineharp. Palace even for a short period iu the spring. > ' Californian wheat reached the lowest price on record in the English market on February 17, when a cargo was sold in the Mersey at 31s 61 per quarter. Mr Howard Vincent, M.P. for Sheffield, has been offered the office of Chief Police , Commissioner of the Citvof London. • Mr - Vincent onoe held th.e office, of Director, off the Crintina' lnvcs igaHon Department. ' ' The iparmge'df Earl Gairhs (Lord Gar-' moyle) to Miss' Adrie Grab!., daughter of Mr Beach-Grant, of New York,-will,take ■ place in London .in July. A London .cablegram of March ,10 says., that it seems the appointment of Mr.-Glad-' ; stone’s son, ifi-law to a .valuable Crown ree-: torship was a compliment quietly paid by ; the new Lord Chancellor without the' know-. ledge of the Prime ,Minister. The latter o< jected, and the appointment was recalled, bnt hot before' some of- . the ParnelUtes had 1 made it the basis of a furious attack on the [ Premier. r _ A riot occurred at-Bristol on February 17, ‘between British and Foreign aailore, growing out of jealousy of the action of the captain of the steamer Jersey City, who had attempted to ship a crew of foreigners.-He , was followed and hooted by crowds ot the uneia cloyed. The foreign seamen became alarmed and fled, the English sailors pure suing and assaulting them: The well-known baronet "Sir -Claude -do ' Crcspieney’-sssisted,' according to his own ad mission-; the London executioner (BeriyJ I in hanging the three Netherby .murderers; He said that as he. wo.uld, probably be 1 sheriff he desired to' gain experience, in ' 1 orheV that psetf'd*? in case- he 1 should_be obliged to act himself in the ah- ' the hangman.. - He slept in-this prison- during the night,'fastened one pf (he ' cnldrits himself,'=and'generally assisted; , Berry ; ’■ V V , London dispatches of, March 11 say that the Government has placed gunboats at the ’ service of Mr Fake in his worked ■relieving the'distress, among the’inhabitants' of the island* a’ong the western. Irish coast. , Indescribable distress has been developed among thlpeople inhabiting Arran, an , island off ' Galway, who, besides having hardly anytbpig to eat hesidcß.inosa and seagrass, are ' without lire and oft m without clothing and 1 eheltSir/’ It is not rare .to find girls oM7 , arid IS years of age kept.iu epiprced hiding ~ i dfirifilf' ihe davtime because bereft of every pftifile’ofdortiinv, long ago.bartered away «r ae'iid' potatoes or roots to feed ihe smaller children. Fishing-inspector Brady recently went' among the miserable people to distribute relief furni-hCd by an organisation of Irish police. His funds ran short,on the Tlth. aad tie still had so much pitiable wretchedness to relieve that he appealed to Mr Brisy. whole charged with the diatribetioh of riio fund raised in America for the impoverished fishermen of Achifel and Boffin Jsi.anda, 1 arid heaged him to divert part of his store for the relief bs-the Arrnnese. This Mr Busy was permitted to do,and he reports tljat in order 1 1 save the lives of scores of people', now dying of starvation in those Wesfcni islands it is imperative that relief ion* a targe scale be '• at once orgomsed. A ifeliSf meeting at the Mansion House, Dublin. on the 11 th was attended by all distinguished persons in the capital. The Lord Jlayhr presided. On their arrival at the ’Mansion House the Earl and Countess of Aberdeen were very 1 untilv cbeertd, and abio’along the route f*o u the castle. letters were read from Arohbiahop Walsh and 'Vitbers enclosing cheques amounting to L4OOO, arid st-thesame time regretting the inability of the doners-to'he present. Archbishop Plankett, Bishop Donnely, Michael Dayilt, and others spoke. " ' precession of seamen marched from London Docks to the. city on the afternoon of March 10 to make a demonstration pgainst the Government for neglecting to tgKe steps towards relieving trade of its depress’on Tliey behaved in an orderly . manner, and were loudly, cheered along the -route. ■ -Thsyxeame 1/ ji.R*«»t--»<imhor..of-. banners, some, of,which-.bore.the iageriptipn. “ British labour- i» sacrificed in the in-■ of foreign labour,’’., etc.: The. prO;. .-.eeslipp.,,. attracted rauoh . attention;rrind which it passed-.were filledaWiSliWWV-®'**- a pma: there was.gom'e--teafwei by, the fear .that {WllghtkMJli towdie* might use .the neoasion >to, t<jri&co, the scenes ot the Trafalgar' . .lipianee rintfl,: When the seamen, reached 4 the.they tiroceeded to the neighbour. qL the:-Board of Trade room*,, where , r riedin?. They anpointed a ' cpmnHtW'toVait npon Mr A. J. Slundella, ~:.. preai 'Cut, of the'. Board of Trade, and nrge ' of such charigeji (onithe FreeMKde'pn'iny ot the Gnvcrnmer.t as paiuht be rTOCflisary to revive, fht fpreijsjri 'arid domestic trade of the Empire. ' L The, Conferva'ives ofJßirminuham have , already held caucuses for the next general election. They have decided to again contest all of the seven district! of the ~, city Evervone of t ! *e-o ia now represented hy a Liberal, and th- inference is that the Conservatives ealcnlato that the Liberals . wifi-not bo as strong in Birmingham at the next eVctioii ns they -were at the last one. At Bradford, Cork Cfinn’y,‘'tlrcrc was a mad dogjicare of a seridns kind in January. * A flog ran mad through the streets and hit 20 persons. One of them died on March 12 in tei-rih’e hgoriy; avith all The Symptoms of i hydsophobkv . The other 19 hay* corse-, qucnt.lv'bcen tbrojcpinto a state of fearful apprehension that they, tori, may be attacked bv the disease.. M. Pas erir tele-' graph's that be'i- nnab’s to send viras to S Bradford from P iris. Tvyo patients were to biyve ‘left for the latter -city- oni March: T4th, • A fund has been started to defray' thc.expenses The liabilities o p Princes* Bc'ine. of Analante. rm nint to T.SOO.OM. Her failure is >ln° to the extravagance of herself and late • . hu-^und. ...The Commission appointed by the French Government.' to vi-it the istbmns and report on tbc conditions of the’ Panama canal ar'iiyd in' Ne•• York on ita return on . March 9‘b Thcv spent Todays inspecting the line of the canal They exnrc”el *hu prdnir.n ‘bat, ’bc cs-al will bo finished by ]°>0 1 Tlv-\c--rlr i nrr.gresaing very well, t.nl a :.i! r.F ,!■>., inv.b’ni-'nts an 1 mor- help •lid h ; >vc 1.. I p r'Ci'lli....! Vrv sni'i M, de ' IVcssej s arrived rm tbp i-I);it.-- j-.iat oA the ■ Commission were, b-.iving, . Trio money is ' giving out,:and there is » scheme on foot to

issue a number of bonds':and dispose of them by lottery. M. Rousevb’sreport is not ready, fund will be made public only after it has been submitted to the French Government. Mias Isabel Morris, ' a lead in a actress of ranch ability, leaves on, the steamer at date for a professional tour of the'.Oolonles, under the mariagemeni of Messrs Williamson. 'Garner, and Miissrovo She is sister of Felix Morris, a celebrated London comedian. . , „ . ..... V- ■

The anti-Chinese convention finished its labours at Sacramento on March 12th. A resolution was unanimously adopted to out all employers of Chinese labour, and so force the, coolies from California. Mrs Delia Parnell, mother of Charles Stewart Parnell, was lying dangerously ill in New York on. March 18 of rheumatic gout. • Oregon is following the example of the other Pacific States snd territories in ex-