NEWS BY THE SUEZ MAIL.

Globe, Volume XX, Issue 1454, 14 October 1878, Page 2

NEWS BY THE SUEZ MAIL.

[Per Arawata via Bluff. London, August 30. The Cape Parliament is prorogued. The Sprigg Ministry carried their taxation measures, passed an Indemnity Bill for military operations, and obtained authority for loans of .£750,000 for war expenses and £175,000 for completion of railways. A subsidy of £15,000 per annum for telegraph between this colony and England also passed. Although the Kaffir war is virtually terminated, frontier fighting is still reported, caused principally by the depredations of marauding parties. The rebels hesitate to avail themselves of the amnesty-offered, which is attributed to (bfee exclusion of their chiefs from its benefit. Gongabella has been sentenced to death for high treason, ?.ud Muganta to life imprisonment for sedition. Daring the fritting of Congress at Stockholm, Sir George Aruey," formerly Chief Justice of New Zealand, delivered a very admirable address on the system for many years adopted in that colony—namely, the remission of a portion ot even short sentences on the principle of pecuniary restoration by offenders. These views were endorsed by Mr Wm. Tullock. . Dr. John Guthrie, Independent minuter ot Glasgow, is obliged to leave Scotland on account of his health, and will shortly sail for New Zealand, where some of his sons are settled. Sir Arthur Phayre, Governor of Mauritius, is about to pay a visit to Sir Bartle Frere at the Cape, to .Qvixeult on matters affecting the welfare of the South African colonies. Ministers have decided against an curly dissolution. Many of the aorthern constituencies strongly object to it in the present state of trade. The work of preparation, however, is proceeding actively Members and new candidates are worki. o fcheir consistencies. Committees are organi-sing-theu- forces and the voting registers are being over-hanied, The liberals dread a surat Southport Aft,Cultural Show the Homo Secretary said the had done all in its power to secure farmer*, a-am the ravage* of cattle disease, aud to conduce to ijtie welfare boil k of agriculturists and public generally. ~ i,i / 'lho London CorpO/aUon are about to convert St. Paul's churchyard into a garden. The Bristol Chamber of Commerce has resolved to despatch ten artisan reporters to the

Paris Exhibition, to report on certain departments of trade there. There has been an explosion at the Chelwick gunpowder mills. Several persons were injured, but none killed. The iron clipper ship Eastminster, 2000 tons, while being loaded in the London docks, capsized and went down. The English steamer City of Waterford ran into and sank the French steamer Moselle off the Spanish coast. Two stokers perished. There has been a series of very heavy thunderstorms throughout the country during the past fortnight. Much damage was done, and several lives lost by lightning.