ADDITIONAL MAIL NEWS.

Globe, Volume XXIV, Issue 2660, 16 October 1882, Page 3

ADDITIONAL MAIL NEWS.

[By Thlrgbaph.]

I Per b.B. Australia, at Auckland.l LONDON, Undated.

Lord Kimberley has sent to the Queen the presents of mats and greenstone meres brought to Eagl&nd by the Maori embassy, and she has acknowledged them. The " Home News " states that two important meetings were held at a eanferonoe In a room of the House of Commons, to consider a scheme fur arresting tbo decay of the Maoris, as a need for suoh a soheme is said to exist, in fact that it is oontraiy to the policy of tbe ohiof Native lands being rapidly alienated, and their proceeds squandered. The soheme proposed is by means of an association, ta bo originated in England, to whioh all wasta lands may bo transferred for the of opening up j to invest by way of a sinking fund the prime valua of the lands, a* it is gradually sold at enhauoed prices to settlers ; in permanent inalienable annuities to be grantad by the Now Zealand Government in favor of the individual owners of the land or their heirs ; and shareholders in the aasociation to share with the Natives any further profit on the improved values in the land. The qu&n' tity of land proposed to be dealt vkh h 10,000,000 aorej, and it is estimated that in eighteen yoars the native lacd owners will be in the J enjoyment of an interest of £4,CC0,C30. Tawhcna and tho other chiefs at borne strongly advocate the plan of tbe movement, and it hjs seoured the approval of Esrl Bhaftesbury, tho Bishops of London, Liverpool, and St. Aiapb, Sir Penrose Julyan, Alderman MoArthur, and others. Lieut. Stalehiae, and Oapt. Prince Skaowski, recently fought a duel at Pargarolow, a few miles from St. Petersburg. Skaowski fell at the first shot, slightly wounded in the side ; but tho ball he fired in falling mortally wounded Stalebine.

The Bight Bar. Bdward Steere, Bishop of Central Africa, is dead. A hailstorm ia Pesth on August 22nd destroyed the vineyards, maize fields, and fifty houses. Many workmen were killed. A woman near Chonties, County Donegal, was shot by a prooess server on the llth, because she objected to the seizure of her cattle.

A Colonisation Society for the North- vrost Territory has been floated on the London market by the Bev. Mr Brav, of Montreal, with a nominal capital of £1,000,000, Telegraphic cables are tj hand between Lisbon and tho United States, touching at the Azores.

The Arizona Apaohoa are again on the war path, and are committing fearful depredations and outrages.

A demented girl, who was allowed at large at Nashville, Tennessee, recently poisoned a whole family ef six by putting atryohnine in their coffee.

A cablegram from Yokohama states that cholera is raging in Japan ; 775 oazes are reported in two days, of whioh 572 proved fatal. At Tokio there were fifty deaths daily from this oauso. A horrible suicide took place at San Fran oieco on the 3rd by means of dynamite. A chemist of a manufactory of high explosives, named Lewis Kompt, placed a number of cartridges in his mouth, lighted the fuse, and was blown to pieces.