ADDITIONAL MAIL NEWS.

Grey River Argus, Volume XV, Issue 1862, 24 July 1874, Page 3

ADDITIONAL MAIL NEWS.

London letters say that slave ships w 4 ith 270 negroes, from Mozambique, am bound for Madagascar, : was captured b; the English man-of-war . Dapline ;oi March 14. The slaves were put 01 board : with only two days' .provisions arid the Voyage was prolonged to eight Their sufferings are alleged to be indiscri bable, and many died in great agony. India . telegraph reports, relative to th< growing crops, are favorable. A specia to the 'Times says Government continue! to furnish assistance to 500,000 natives, There can be no crop in Terhool unti December, arid the Government admit: that some people may die before assistance reaches them. The prospect of a settlement of the settlement of the lock-out in Suffolk and Cambridgeshire seems very distant. The Norfolk Farmers' Labor Defence Association contemplate alterations in their rules, so that instead of a lock-out being adopted a general meeting of ministers (?) be called to consider the course to be taken. The Post says the Public Worship Regulation Bill now before Parliament, which is intended to restrain the Ritualists, threatens to lead to a coalition of the High Church clergy and Liberals, which may result; in an attempt to replace the present members from Oxford University with Gladstone and Montague Bernard. Gladstone heads the opposition to the Bffi.\: ■; .' : ■ ■' ; ■■.:. ■• ■ ■■.':" It is said that a special commission, appointed by the Russian Society of Manufacturers and Trade, have reported in favor of the construction of a line of railway from Russia to Pekin, through Siberia. The line, with, ramifications, would traverse a thickly populated -^rerantry, and open up immense cattle and wool-growing districts, now isolated from the commercial world. The line would be made in sections, commencing at one of the fortified towns in Western Russia, and ending at Pekin. • News, from Japan states that eighteen Japanese, shipwrecked on the Corea coast, were, beheaded " because they were Japanese." , ! A book has been published by a priest on Cnritianity so blasphemous in character that the Japanese saw it defeats its own object. ," .. ; ■■.-. ' A fire destroyed 1358 houses in the town of Hamamatsyn. Two men and women was burned to death. . , : s Wellington, J uly 23. The; Minister of Public Works has announced that he will deliver his Public Works Statement to-morrow. Lyttelton, July 23. Arrived. — Peeress, 118 da y s from Gravesend, with 164 statute adults, all for Timaru ; six deaths, , four births. The passengers, will be forwarded to-morrow per Comerang.