SUEZ MAIL NEWS.

Kumara Times, Issue 687, 10 December 1878, Page 2

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[press agency.] ■ Auckland, December 8. The Herb has arrived from Sydney* with 40 passengers and the - Suez mail telegrams. GENERAL SUMMARY. London, October 25. The British scheme of reforms for Asia Minor has been signed and delivered by Counsul Layard. Only a slight modification was made by the Porte. Great satisfaction is felt. The report of a French, naval demonstration in the Mediterranean is emphatically denied; The report receives support from a resolution of iVance to unite with England in preventing Russian ascendancy in the East. Gambetta's speech created an excellent impression by its moderate Statesmanlike tone. He expects the senatorial elections will result in a Republican majority of twenty-one. On Tuesday 39 persons wer"6 arrested ajj the attempted Socialist Congress, and put on trial for holding a public meeting without permission. They were sentenced to various terms of imprisonment. The reduction of the array in Bosnia is about 80,000 men, with a corresponding reduction in expenditure. This calmed the excitement of the Hungarians. Count Andrasay is reported to feel sure of a majority, before which he will argue that the occupation of Bosnia was neces* sary as a bulwark against Panslavism. Two and a half millions of francs were stolen from the National Bank, Ancona. Three bank employees were arrested, btifc escaped. Brigands were alarmiugly active recently. They captured a rich land owner (Loran), and demanded 25,000 francs for his ransom. They also captured Signor Sarscoui, connected with' the Ministry of of Justice, and dragged him about the country for five days owing to his ransom not having been paid. He Was rescued by a party of carbineers. The Pope is highly indignant witli the Italian Government having imposed quarantine regulations on some Spanish pilgrims bound for Rome. The Spanish Government has demanded an explanation concerning the matter. The eX*President of the Spanish CouneD has been arrested on a charge of complicity in the recent republican conspiracy. The unredressed murder of a Spanish official in Morocoo has greatly incensed public opinion. Spain urges an armed intervention, and naval preparations areordered. The Russian Government are trying 340 Nihilists, some of whom have been imprisoned at Odessa since 187 G. A semi-offiicial contradiction is given to the reported agitation throughout Russia to compel the Czar to resign. '. Private letters report that there are at present' numerous Russian cruisers in Chinese and Japanese waters. The English papers call Lord Harris's cricketing team.a weak one, and not fairly representative. In Montreal' some Orangemen were tried for belonging to an illegal society. They were acquitted, and have brought an action against the Mayor of Montreal for false arrest. The new Dominion Gtfbinet is headed by M'Donald. The sentences of death passed on the Kaffir chiefs Meongatike, Tiflyuiacomo, and Gommo have been commuted. Large finds of gold have been discovered in the Transvaal. Colonel Scratchley is gazetted with the local rank of Colonel in-Australia. The Duke of Connaught will be married about the second week in February at Windsor. The Duke of Edinburgh has embarked on board the Black Prince, for Canada, to welcome, the Marquis of Lome oii his arrival. The betrothal of the Duke of Cumberland to Princess Thyra is announced. A peerage was offered to Lord Odo R.issell in recognition of his services at the Berlin Congress, but waaf declined. Erasmus Wilson and John Dixon have' been knighted for their services in connection with Cleopatra's needle. . Instead of returning to London last week, Count Schouvaloff was summoned by the Czar to Lividia, where it is believed he will replace Prince Gortschakoff. There is no abatement in the interest excited by the new invention for utilising the electric light. Experiments were tried on the Thames embankment, Waterloo Bridge, and Billingsgate Market. At Sheffield,.four lights, equal to 8000 standard Candles, illuminated an area occupied by 30,000 persons witnessing a foot-ball match. Reports from all parts of Ireland concur that the Sunday Closing Act came into operation on the 13th, aud. was received in a favorable spirit, and with no opposition. The breach among the Home rulers is Widening. Ireland is tiring of agitation, the leaders admitting the want of°p.j i .»;dar synvulliy. Proceedings are being' taken by the Board of Trade against the first mate of the Princess Alice and, three of the of&ers of the By well Castle. A reduction in wages is reported from the Various industrial centres, and is resisted in some instances by the strikers. The redaction of pjr cent/ on the Clyde ca i< nfc:> tu-cj on the 21st. It affects 40,003 man,

William Stafford, a clerk in the liverpool branch of the Bank of England, who absconded with £15,000, was captured at Jersey while landing from a yacht privately hired. At the ahant fight at Portsmouth, in the presence of the Duke of Cambridge fivg thousand weft engaged including the Volunteers': The destruction of the Liverpool land: ing stage in 1870, by an explosion df gas) cost the Gad Company £87,700; A memorial, signed by sixty-five Armenians, iMfeident ill England; principally engaged in Mercantile pursuits, was presented to Lord Salisbnry, a 3 jm express sion of satisfaction at the prospect of ait • English protectorate in Asia Minor. * Alma Mill, Oldham, containing 30,00 d spindles, was* destroyed by fire. Damages, £30,000. *■ .- The joinery works' of the" GlUuc&ter Waggon Company are deitifoyed. The loss exceeds £20,000; Some large warehouses in Hayddn square; Minories, partly dccupied by Brown, Gayle, Godch, and Cousens, wool warehouseirien, were burnt* No Australian wddls injured AUSTRALIAN NEWS': Sydne*, December SJ. In the cricktft match, Australia Elevert gainst fifteeri df Sydney, the iterald says it was eviderit from the first that tho Eleven were quite out of form, and even" their best bafcftnen played ht a cramped style. Bailey, the TasniariianNrepresentitive in the Australian Eleven, broke hb right arm aboVe* the elbow while trying to throw up a ball from long field". „ , Tile hundred yards r.ice between tfe«*itfc and Inmain oil the Frieridly Society's Ground was wifli by the latter, who obtained a long stirt.