ADDITIONAL MAIL NEWS.

Feilding Star, Volume III, Issue 59, 10 January 1883, Page 3

ADDITIONAL MAIL NEWS.

AccklaM). This Day. Thieves robbed the Cathedral of St. Gen is, Paris, to the aniouut of 10,'XX> francs. Siberia Koff. the Russian millionaire and patron of the Arctic explorer, Mnrdens Tvjuld, has failed, liis liabilities amount to several millions of roubles. The Buss inn Minister of the Interior, has authorised the publication of an English paper in St. Petersburg. On the (Wh Decern lier last the Royal Alhanibra Theatre, London, was burnt. The audience had only retired half-an-liour previous to the outbreak of the lire. The Emperor and Kmpress of Russia drove through the streets of St. Petersburg on Nov. 18! h in an open ;deigh. The people cheered enthusiastically. On .'Nov. 2Sth the Rhine, at Mayenee, reached the highest point on record in tho present century. Large sums have been voted for the flooded districts. A military tribunal at Odessa found Colonel Staoraky guilty of embezzling 1,125,000 roubles and sentenced him to banishment The Prefect has ordered the police to expel the Jews residing within St. Petersburg without official permission. The Senate has also decided Jew^ to be incapable of holding office in Russia. In decorating the tivops in Windsor Park the Queen said : — " I have to express to you my best thanks for the gallantry and devotion you displayed in the short but decisive struggle in k«ypt, and to say how proud I am of my soMiers and sailors who Lave added fresh ianrels to those already obtained iv previous cainpaighs." Eight thousand volumes wore destroyed by fire on Decern l»er 21, in the Spanish War Office, nt .Madrid. Some despatches from fhe Duke of Wellington wlwn commander of the Allied armies in Spain were destroyed. San Francisco, Dec. IS. The engineers of the Panama Canal have been compelled by natural difficulties to change their plan of working. The transit, of Venus, observed on Gth December was quite satisfactory. Ihe astronomers were able to secure a number of distinct photographs showing points of contact, and different position of the planet on the sun's disk.