NEWS BY THE SUEZ MAIL.

Kumara Times, Issue 307, 18 September 1877, Page 2

NEWS BY THE SUEZ MAIL.

Mail News to August 3,

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Melbourne, September 12. The Queen is at .Osbarne in eood health. 8

Prince Albert Victor, eldest son of the Prince of Wales, had an attack of typhoid fever, but is recovering. The Rev. Rowland Hill, Vicar of Sheffield, is the new Bishop of Sodor and Man.

Alfred Watkins (Liberal) is elected for Great Grimsby. The New Bedford boat, ten feet long, one ton and a half register, arrived in England after a passage of 49 days across the Atlantic. The occupants were the owner and his wife. The boat had to lie to several times during heavy gales.

The Holy Cross Society is still subjected to much public comment, the practice of confession inculcated by the society receiving genera! condemnation.

The law officers of the Crown have declared the British Admiral justified in his action against the Peruvian ironclad.

The Government and people of Peru, are highly iacensed against England and demand satisfaction.

The suicide of a Blue Coat schoolboy, aged 12. led to much discussion, and the appointment of a commission to inquire into the management of the school—it being alleged that the younger boys were subjected to great tyranny at the hands of older ones. At the Mansion House dinner, General Wolseley alluding to the war in the East, said the British army was never in a more efficient condition than now.

At a meeting of Home Rule members, Mr Butt stated that should the present aimless obstruction be persisted in he should probably withdraw from the leadership of the party. The Lancashire colliers' strike has ended after lasting six weeks. William Gale, a well known pedestrian, completed at Cardiff, the extraordinary feat of walking four thousand quarter miles in as many periods of teu minutes. At a pigeon match, for LIOOO aside, at Hurlingham, between Captain Forrester Leighton and Captain Aubrey E. Patton, each receiving fifty birds, the match resulted in a tie, each bringing down 39 birds. Samuel Warren, Q.C., author of " Ten Thousand a Year," is dead. Prince Reass, German Ambassador at Stamboul, is spoken of as the probable ruler of Bulgaria. Enormous defalcations continue to be discovered in the Russian Commissariat Department, and the Emperor has ordered the most rigorous proceedings against the culprits. Great difficulties are felt in provisioning the invading army, and the cattle plague seriously affects the price of meat. Outsidethe army and Slavophil party, the feeling is against the war. Sir Arnold Kebball has telegraphed that it is true that a portion of the garrison of Bayazid, which was in the town, surrendered, and were massacred by the Kurds. The remainder in the fort therefore held out until relieved by a Russian corps. Parliamentary papers have also been published, showing that frightful atrocities axe being committed by both sides. The Russians have obtained a list of the persons implicated in the Bulgarian atrocities last year, and shoot all of them that they catch. The Mussulman population flies before the Russians, in consequence of the Bulgarians being armed by thousands, committing all sorts of outrages. The Mansion House Indian Famine Relief Fund is rapidly increasing. The Queen and the Prinee of Wale.-? subscribed £SOO, and Rothschild and Baring Bros. .21000 each.