NEWS BY THE MAIL.

Evening Star, Issue 3879, 30 July 1875, Page 3

NEWS BY THE MAIL.

The British Volunteers have received a pressing invitation to attend a rifle competition at Havre in July next. A system of issuing counteifeit coin at the station of the Metropolitan Railway has been discovered. Several men are in custody. On 24th May, in Tufnell Park, Holloway, Keen and Stanton attempted the feat of riding 100 miles in 6£ hours, for LIOO a-side, to be ridden in four spins of twenty-five miles each. Both failed to accomplish tho task.

On Whit Monday nearly 100,000 persons visited the Alexandra Palace, and owing to a block on the Great Northern line hundreds spent the whole night in the railway carnages.

The memorial in Edinburgh of the late Mr Adam Black, publisher, is to consist of a statue.

Correspondence respecting the wages paid to the Sandringham laborers has been discussed at the Agricultural Laborers’ Conference, Birmingham. The Prince’s agent declines to advance to!ss per week.

The Trust and Agency Company of Australasia has declared a dividend of 20 per cent,

At Newcastle 123 apprentices, at the Stephenson Engine Works, were lined 5s each for taking a holiday on Ascension Hay. By the exolosion of a large soda water fountain in Boston street six persona were killed, and many wounded. Mr Forster has unveiled at Bradford a statue to Mr Lister, to whose enterprise and inventive genius the town partly owes its prosperity. A memorial chapel to Bishop Wilherforce, coating L 24.000, was opened on the 28th May by the Bishop of Oxford, in the presence of 300 ecclesiastics.

Lieutenant Zchyden, of the 77th Regiment, walked from Chatham to Loudon Bridge in 14J hours, being a quarter of an hour under the stipulated time. Lord Carnarvon, in a despatch to Sir Henry Barkly, proposes that the several States of South Africa should follow the example of Canada, and unite in one confederation, for which purpose he suggests the appointment of a delegate from each state. Mr Fronde will represent England at the conference, and Sir Henry Barkly will be president. A compromise has been effected in the South Wales labor difficulty. The men, after meeting delegates, agreed to accept a reduction of 12 per cent., to which the masters acceded. A general resumption of work has accordingly taken place in moat of the collieries, while ironworks are so iapidly extending their operations that already there is a scarcity of hands. This arrangement is to be in force for three months. Meanwhile the coal owners have appointed a committee to construct a sliding rate of wages, to come into operation hereafter. Lord Aberdare estimates that L 3,000,090 have been lost in wages daring the strike. At a large meeting of the North Staffordshire miners, held at Hanley, resolutions were adopted which, whilst dtclaring the injustice of the proposed 10 per cent, reduction, offerred to submit the dispute to arbitration, and continue work during deliberation of arbitrators. The Dean Forest Colliery proprietors proposed a further reduction of 10 per cent., owing to the depression in trade in consequence of the strike for higher wages. Earl Fdzwilliam has ordered his colliery, near Rotherham, to be permanently closed.