SUEZ MAIL NEWS.

Kumara Times, Issue 645, 22 October 1878, Page 2

SUEZ MAIL NEWS.

A formidable Home : Rule demonstration took place at Glasgow on the 7th August. About 3000 armed meu marched with burners and music to a field six miles away where they made inflamatory speeches and passed a denunciatory resolution. In the recent collection of the rents on the Roseberry estates in Scotland, a remission of 10 percent, was mide quite unexpectedly.

The Church Missionary Society has just received two magnificent donations of £SOOO and £35,000. A movement is on foot for the further amalgamation of the metropolitan gas companies. This agitation, and the favourable impression produced by theillumination of the Strand, from tfie Gaiety Theatre by electricity, has caused a panic in gas shares. : The meetings of the British tion at Dublin were concluded on Aug. 21st. They were well attended throughout, and excited nnusual interest. Next year's gathering will be at Sheffield. The Shaker community, numbering about eighty persons, under Mr Melling, appear to have clung to their old spot in Hampshire for the past two years. Latterly they have squatted in a field in hovels constructed of their furniture, but were last week evicted, turned into the ro-id, and their goods sold. Persuation failed, and they will probably have to be removed by force. At a meeting of the Associated Clumbers of Commerce, at Sheffield, on August 28th, a resolution was un-. animously adopted to the effect that the Australian mail service was unsatisfactory, and that the Council of the Association be- requested to take steps to secure accelerated speed. Several letters hive appeared in the Times urging the Government to insist in next contract on a service independent of India and China, waiting for whose boats now occasions such serious delays. A service, of" thirty-six days is demanded. A gentleman from Australia, named George R. Tucker, has been drowned in the Thames near Maidenhead. The King and Queen of Denmark have arrived in England. On landing at Dover they were met by the Prince of Wales. Princess Thyra accompanies them. The Princess' marriage with Prince Louis Napoleon is quite discredited. The Marquis of Lome, the Princess Louise, and the Duke of Cambridge are staying at Kissin'/en. Their quarters were seriously imperiled by the great fire which last Sunday destroyed several houses, and greatly inconvenienced the visitors. Both the Duke and Marquis worked hard in subduing the conflagration, Mr Gladstone, on his visit to Glasgow early, in November, will, as Lord Rector, deliver the ad lre.°s to the University, and also address several public gatherings. Mr J. A. Roebuck" has'been" appointed a Privy Councillor, it is said as a token of the Queen's approval of the support which he gave to the policy of the Government in opposition to the Liberal leaders on the Eastern Question.