ENGLISH NEWS.

Manawatu Herald, Volume I, Issue 32, 13 December 1878, Page 2

ENGLISH NEWS.

(PER HEliO AT AUCKLAND ) Londox, October 25. The British scheme of reform in Asia Minor has been signed and delivered by Consul Layard. Only slight modification made by tlio Forte. Great satisfaction is felt. i Reduction of Austrian army in Bos« nia made about 80,000 men with the corresponding reduction of expenditure. This has calmed the excitement of the Hungarians. Couit Andras3y reports that he felt sure of a majority before, which will argue that the occupation of Bosnia wag necessary as a bulwark against Panslavism. Two and a half million francs were stolen from the National Bank at Ancona. Threa bank employees have been arrested. Escaped brigands in Italy recently j captured a rich landowner named | Loraus, and demanded 25,000 francs | ransom. They captured Signor Lars* j scini, c mnected with the Minstry of ; Justice, and drag-god him about the | country for five days owing to the ransom not being paid. He was rescued by a party of carbineers. Tho Pope is highly indignant with the Italian Government -for having : imposed quarantine regulations ou j some Spanish pilgrims bound to Rome. The Spanish Gfoverment demanded j an explanation concerning the matter. ! The ox^President of the Spanish I Council has been arrested on a clmrgo j of complicity in tho recent republican ; conspiracy. : A iNihilist prosecution is ordered. | The Russian Government are tryiing 340 Nihilists. Some of them have been imprisoned at Odessa since \ 1876. j An official contradiction has been ! given to tho reported agitation throughout Russia to compel the ! Czar to resign. j Private letters report tho prosence j of numerous Russian cruisers in the I China and Japanese waters. | Erasmus Wilson and John Dixon jhavo beon knighted fur services in I connection with the Cleopatra ! Needle. | Instead of returning to London I last week, Count Suliouvaloif was ' summoned by tlie Czar to Livadia, where it is beiieved he will meet Prince Gbrtsehakoff. I There is no abatement of tho inter- | est excited in the new inventions for utilising the electric light expert meats. It was tried on the Thames j IS nbankment, at Waterloo Bridge, I and B :i lingsgato Market. At I Sheffield four lights, equal to 8000 standard candles, illuminated an area j occupied by 30,000 persons witnoss* ing a football match." Reports from all parts of Ireland concur ia the Sunday Closing Ac% which came into operation on tli3 13 th; It was received with a favourable i spirit and without any opposition. | Tho breach among Homo Rulers jis widening in Ireland. The people j are tired of tho agitation. The leaders are admitting that there is a want of popular sympathy, and conj vened a meeting at JJublin to adopt : a c urse for its remedy. ! Proceedings have been taken by the [ Hoard of Trttde against tho first mate j..f tho Princess Aiico and three ofli- ! cers of the li y well Casile. ■ .Reductions of wages are reported |in various industrial centres. It has I been resisted in somo instances by j strikes. Tho reduction of 7 A per ceut in the Ulyde came into operation on the 21st. It affects 40,000 men VViiliam Stafford, a clerk of the i Liverpool branch of the Bank of England, ran away with £15,000. He was captured in Jersey while landing I from a yacht he had privately hired. ! Sydney. With reference to the cricket match .\ usU'alian Eleven v Combined FifJ teen, (Sydney Herald says it was evU | dent from the first that the Eleven. wero quite out of form ; even their best batsman played in a cramped style. Bailey, the i'asmauian reprejsou'utive in the Australian Eleven, bx-oko his right arm above the elbow \vliilo trying to throw up the bail ' from long field. i