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Manawatu Herald, 29 December 1898, Page 2

Mail News.

De patche3 from Halifax aid K'qnimalt state that arms, ammuni tit.D, and stores are arriving at those p r.nls at such a rate that it will soon ba possible to convert the ocean liners into cruisers and transports ■qual to the transportation of ten housand troops simultaneously for any pojnt in the Eastern Seas, where they might be necessary. It has been finally arranged that Mi-a Cordelia Botkin, accused of causing the deatb of Mrs Dean and Mrs Dunning by sending a box of poisoned candy through tbe mai! from California to Delaware, will be tried on the charge of murder in San Francisco. According to despatches from Shanghai, tbe British Admiral his hoisted the Union Jack over Tiog Tai, the capital of the island oi Cusan, and over several islands in the Cusan archipelago, in the injand 3ea of Japin. On October 25th tbe steamer Kinshu Mara collided with the steamer Kaigawakaru and sank her in three minutes. One hundred and thirty persons were drowned. Another attempt has been made to kill the Czir, thi3 time by barricad ing a bridge over which the Czar*, special train wa3 to pass between Bohem?fer and Lagern. Sardinia semis to have fallen bodily into 'he bands of the brigands. At a public meeting held at Nuoro, a seat of legal tribunal, resolutions were passed emb dying a manifesto addressed to the people of tbe island threatening the death penalty for anyone who denounced to "justice anyone engaged in brigandage. The I

people were further notified that they must hold no relations with the carbineers, and must cease from working or leasing land of the den nounced land owners; The young Queen Wilhelmitta of Holland has already picked herself out a husband, bat the official tysnouncemenfc of the betrothal has besn kept back on account of a little dint* culty raised by tbe Queen herself.. The question is whether JPnjJCijQ William of Weide, her affianced husband, should be vested with the rights and prerogatives of the late Prince Consort, or retain his present rank. Q leen Wilhelmia demands that Qieen Victoria's example be follow d, and the title of B^kM" Con so t be not bestowed ottttl eighteen months after marriage. It has recently become known at Bi<-lin that Emperor William, while ia Jerusalem, scared the clergy oil the Hily Land, saying he oould understand why Christianity was iU disrepute and Mohammedanism still ho 'A uj, sway.