MAIL NEWS

Dunstan Times, Issue 1266, 4 June 1886, Page 3

MAIL NEWS

The Nihilists attempted to burn the Imperial Park at Livaiia. on May 7tM, by firing the neighboring forest, but failed. The Czar and family were at Livadia. The cholera epidemic is spreading at Venice.

Several Morion missionaries were severely beaten in Switzerland on May 7 by friends of Swiss girls who had been badly treated in Utah.

The E nperpr of Germany has sent the Pope a large gold cross, jewelled, for the latter’s servi es in arbitrating in the Caroline Islands dispute. A quantity of dynamite was discovered on April 23th in a deserted bookseller’s shop in Harrow road, London. The Tim a con-eels the discovery with the recent attempt to blow up London Bridge and the disappearance of two men connected with it.

Mr Gladstone came out on the 30th April with a denial of the report that he bad decide I to join the Roman Catholic Church. The Easter manoeuvres of British volunteers at Dover and Portsmouth ou April 26 hj were very sucres fid. The Prince of Wales has been re-elected Grand Master of the Freemasons of England.

The stock of Patterson, Kirsook, and Company, of Montreal, valued at 1,4b1 006, was seized by the Customs authorities on the 7tli May for smuggling. Chinese Companies have contracted to build railroals in Mexico. A bill has been introduced intolhn Now York Legislature declaring “ boycotting ’• not to be a c mspiracy or misdemeanour.

The chief paints in the .Inputs as to the position of England and China in Burmuh have been arranged.

Despite tremendous pressure to Jindnoe a contrary course. Cardinal Frischeran, of Cana la, has issun 1 a pastoral on April 23 condemning the Ksights of Labour as inimical to tho interests of religion and good moral'.

Two albums, each containing all the Ho ne Rule e litorialsof tho Ame iem press, are in course of preparation in New York. One. will be forwarde 1 to Mr Gladstone, and the oilier to Mr Parnell. Tile Dublin Nation organ denies that Irish-American dynamiters will concinue.to worry England uuleasan absolute sep .ration, of Ireland and Great Britain is attained. Mr Gladstone’s measure ( ays ths Nation) means peace to the Irish throughout the world.

The Earl of Derby publish ;d a letter on May ath, denying the moral right of the pre»ent Government to decide the present Irish question. The Duke of Norfolk presiled at the Conservative mass meeting on the evening of the sth May, at St. James’ Hall, to protest against the H’tne Rule policy of Ur Gladstone. Tho attendance was large. Baron Bramwell was introduced ns a prominent seca ler from the Liberal party. On this question Sir Michael Hicks-Beaoh and Viscount Cranbrook were appointed a committ 'e to present to Pa-liament a petition against the granting of Homo Rule.

Tiie National Liberal Federation of Great Britain endorsed Mr Gla Istona’s pouey amid the wildest excitement at a meeting on slh May. Herbert Spencer. Professor Huxley, and the Earl of Tyndale hj ive joined the anti disunion committee, the funds of which now amount to 1.30,000. Jefferson D .vis made a sort of triumphal progress through the Southern States lately. The people went wild with excitement, 10,000 persons stood in the rain to welcome him in Montgomery on the 29 A. The way to his rooms in the hotel was strewn with roses.

The boycott system recently introduced into California is pronounced a lamentable failure. It is stated that the Canadian Pacific transcontinental railway will be open for traffic in Juno next.

Mr James Mills, managing director of the Union Steamship Company of New Zealand, was inte viewed on his arrival at San Francisco en route to Europe. He spoke hop' fully of the cable project to connect Cal forma wi hj riew Zealand. Four hundred Cath lie priests attended a mooting at Dungani m, county Tyrone, on May 6th, called to give expression to their views on Mr (jladstone’sdlome Rule policy, in compliance wi hj the Premier's in vita-

lion to all bo lies in Ireland to take action in the matter. The Most Rev. Daniel Mac'iettigan, |).D., Archbishop of Armagh, presided. Resolutions were adopted endorsing Mr Gladstone’s policy. It is stated that the department of Public Works, Mexico, has entered into a contract with six Chinese companies to hoild at once the Tehuantepec railway across the isthmus of that name.

A New York Herald despa'oh says the stewards of the Knalish Jockey Club hive adopted a provision excluding liish and foreign hones from handicaps. __ Mr Gladstone has vcpliel to an article in the London Chronicle which charged him with having heretofore taught that Home Rule in Trebud would he a source of Imperial danger. Ho stat <1 tbit ho has always asked for an explamtiou of the meaning of Home Rule. We had now learned what Ire'an I’s demands wore through her r-p’Psentativea, and the Home Rule in his address of September last was not a source of danger, hut of strength. The danger lay in refusing