ADDITIONAL MAIL NEWS.

Inangahua Times, Volume III, Issue 66, 19 January 1877, Page 2

ADDITIONAL MAIL NEWS.

The Spanish authority at Havamm • captured a boat near fiaraooa with foor insurgents on board, carrying cor* respondent from Cuoaa refiageea in Hew York to the insurgents, stating that aa expedition* with arms, ammanitioa, tad money was on its way to the island, made*oommand of Qttessda* The steamer Monteauma waa seind by the passengers, and the captain and thne> passengers were killed. Forty-fire thousand men hare tea* thrown oat of employment at Bethkhn* Pa., by the stoppage of the coal mines, A revoktion, headed by Colonel Al*in* Minister of War, broke out in Btteaoa Ayres, and the whole of Botnos Ayrea is in a state of siege. Telegrams from Europe- in the mwHfc of November related aa aetrte mflitary preparation, but were lets threatening at the beginning of the present month. Aft furloughshavebeen temporarily suspended. The authorities of Davenport Dockyard have reoeired ordera to prepare the too* clad turret ships Cyclops and Hydra fe» immediate active semoe.. Great aotiritjf prevails in Woolwich Arsenal. Ak imperative order waa issued that tb#> productioa of rifle batt cartridge shouldbe increased to two millions per week*. This «aa explained as being eonsMptafc on the oaange to the Mwtim"H«nn ism * in fildiat , j± ?M

Oeneral BuUer'topic'on of the America yveis is notoompHmeutary. In a busting itiMoh be said :-" They say th aawspapersdon't like me. I don't mea titat {Ibey shall. I abhor, detest, «coro tnd defy «4I the lying sheets this side o t]M place where they go to, and I tak 900ft*lon here and now to say a word oi , Ufa attbjeet. I offended them some tevei or eight years ago, when I stood up ii Oongreaa and said, looking up to th< wportors' gallery, which we in Oongr c* call/ 1 Buzzard's Roost," I thank God tha lam a man that God made, and not om made by newspapers. They n&vet forgave tt)6 t because I would not acknowledgi - tkat I was of their creation. If I stooc «lon« I s&ould think that I was wrong If irere they only one maligned I should tWak-^tbat I was wrong. If lam the man ih^f aint me, if I resemble him at much it they resemble angels of light, aoil so . tttoie, then there ought not one of you - to oast a - rote for me. If I tried to tuwwejr these lies they would get some printers, ink and make as many more before morning. If I got tired out and could not keep with thorn, they would say that those things that they did not explain were true. Ido not ran a mud-machine Of forty jackass power, so I have given it Up. If liring, man and boy, until my hair is grey and my head is bald in the county of Middlesex, among my neighbors and friends, and going in and out before them for fifty years, almost in every relation life, won't settle the question whether I ant ' stxdh a man as the newspapers paint of jay enemies put me down when they get vexed with me and want to kill me politioallyr-and would sheda great many lean if the other thing happened,— if 1 am sneh a man then nothing that I can do in the way of denial will do any good. Judge ye, judge ye. I have felt bound to My this much, because lam going to make tome statements of facts, and 2 • did not bring a character from my last placed A Calcutta telegram of 9th November Itf lfi> Ceylon Observer says;— " The details received show that a oylona on the Ist inst, ravaged the district of Jtoekergunge. In Barisal upwards of 8000 native houses have been destroyed, and a large number of boats. The town of Dowluthknee, the headquarters of the tnbdmsion, has also been completely dtestfoywi by a storm wave. It m estimated that upwards of 5000 lives have fceen lost in the subdivision." The number of persons killed or wounded through imprudently handling loaded sbelU , found in and round Paris since the siege, bids fair to bring up the casnalties of the war to a high figure. Last week says London paper, M. Eaynaud, an engineer, living at MoritjDartre, tmdertook^f ; j unload a large German Erupp shell, which had failed to go off as the enemy originally intended, and had been picked up by some curiosity seeker. Just as M. Eaynaud was about to set to his dangerous task the newsman entered the shop with the daily paper, and stopped to look on. M. Eaynaud' had no sooner taken the shell between his legs to unscrew it than it exploded. Mr. Eaynaud was literally blown te pieces The poor newsman was cut in two. M. Eaynand's child, who was close by, escaped without so much as a scratch. Unfortunately, the casualties did not end here.. When the shell exploded a lot of children were playing outside in front of the shop. Three of them were seriously wounded by the fragments, one dying a few hours after. The shop was blown inside out, and remnants dtihe bodies o! M. Raynand end tbe newsman were fonnd on the opposite side of the way. A version of •' Aurora Floyd," dramatised by Sir Julius Togel, has lately been placed on the Wellington, stage. Tbe Wellington Argus states that in 1860 Sir Julius Yogel dramatised Miss Braddon's then recently-published novel of "Lady Andley's Secret" for Messrs. Holt and Wolfe, the leases of the Princess Theatre, Dunedin, and it enjoyed a successful run, and was afterwards played with great success elsewhere.