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Manawatu Standard, Volume IV, Issue 92, 13 March 1884, Page 2

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* Additional Summary. (»Y TKLEGRAPn.) 11l England, j> Freeth inkers' Convention have formed an association with by-laws demanding that the churches b« not exempt from taxation, and that the judicial oath be abolished, and that all laws enforcing the observance of the Sabbath and Christian morality should be repealed and the Bi'ile removed from the public schools, and all Governmental - aid refused to sectarian education. The Telegraph cable steamer Faraday, bearing the new cable to America, ~ returned to London on February Ist, disabled. The new -Forth Staffordshire Coal and Iron Company suspended payment on February Ist, owing to the depression m the coal trade. The colliery employed 1200 men, with an output of 1000 tons daily. The London Observer, commenting on the lost Greely Arctic expedition, says it is quite possible, considering the chronic mutiny which seems the regulation life on board American adventures— like those of Kane and Hall-^rthat the men murdered their comrades; ./' h. .Bradlaugh's appeal agaiust ' the Ser- ■• > geant^at-Arins for removing him irom the; House of Commons and not permitting him to enter, \\as disallowed by the Court of the Queen's Bench on February Bth. A policeman named John Nicholson was found dead on his beat m San Francisco on the morning of the 16th of February, murdered by a burglar. Referring to the disastrous wreck of the City of Columbus near Boston, mentioned m last month's reports, it has now been ascertained that Captain Burnham, of the steamship Glaucus, saw the condition of the wrecked steamer and of the unhappy people on board, but refused to lay-to on his voyage to assist them, because, he said, . "time was more valnable than human life." i •:■ In the Canadian House of Commons, . on the 7fch February, Sir Richard Cartwright moved a resolution impeaching the Minister of Finance for advancing, 300,000 dollars to a defunct baak. -Her Majesty ? s Opera] Company, under Colonel J. H. Mapleson, opens m San Francisco on the 10th of March. M adame ~ Patti -refused to come" -fl's prima donna,, and Madame Etelka Gerater takes her place. Maurice Gieenwall, .an Australian manager, is a passenger for the colonies by the steamer. • ; ! . ' At the date of leaving, the Government had ordered Count Lubienskia, a Polish Jan,downer, to sell: his property and quit Russia. He ;is accused of conducting a .Catholic propaganda and exciting people against, the authorities. The Geninan Admiralty is discussing a proposal to ask the -Reichstag to vote 7,000,000 marks to maintain ironclads, construct; torpedos^-and increase ■■ the number of sailors. .-■ ' "" \ Bismarck has .returned the resolutions;,passed ; ibythe.Jews m America; on the death of their -fellojw religionist there, Edward Lascer,-a member of the Prussian •'? Reichstag; irHe ;<salmljr 'iniforraed/the renders; that Lascer was not of sufficient impontance/to: entitle him to. be thus ; ; ,-■: , „--•-. , I < A- -bo«ls, oontt^iaing -i\rAlclo».i from, the Nouvelle Berne, grossly libellous of the German Imperial Family, has been forbidden Icirculation, -m Paris, .and jfche' author of the arjgcles has now published the pamphlet under the title of "Le Sbgiete de Berlin." ' £'heJ3qy i .of T^nis^as gjveoJVL Con-, dair aiifhoi'ity to carry out His" 1 scheme of transjocrning .the /desert ,of iV Sahara into an island sea. According to a despatch from Rome, the Pope commenting on hostilities m Tonquih and the^Soudan, exclaimed — "The Church fhsU small oaos'e tib thank the Great WesternPowers for their services on behalf of religion and civilisation.' "When Africa andTonquin are pacified, we »hal| b,e at ja poin't' where we ' were -'half a centufy The police have ' discovered a plot for the .upL-isiug of. peasants m I^itjile Russia, aiid klsb ' a scheme j for ; piittih» strychnine m the Czar's bread. Josephine Gatlmeyer, the gayest and brightest of all Germany's actresses, died jot- icahcer^' m Vieniia, February ;3. She suffered most excruciating agony, and'toiMhe night preceding her death, she iinploml her physicians to give beflipoisonj-and- so end heujierriblfr sutforing. The Arch,4i\ke Ludwig Vigfcor v?as ai. her- bedside: The second Imperial ba\\ held at the Winter Palace at St. -Peversburgh, ion February S}nd } was remarkable for the absence insideT"and around the buildin,ga of. the .imjo^l-.; poiic,e f guards. ; The Czarina opened the liall with the Danish Minister .and. the Czar circulated fully among the guests. \ .'dfc' is said, iSiut legjd proccee3ing | j ! jwill follow the chief assassin of Colonel !Suedikin, who obtained his lengthy re?porL.orWihe pNihiJist^^anjsation:; frs enticing«-away' his 5 "'witft nbne^^age' ! io^ the gre>it t detective's, ipajius^np^t left has led to several ai'resis of 'important ! and hitherto unsuspectecjl, per^pns. The Czar is making persistent attempts to conciliate the nobility, / ,»/" A wedding party crossing the river Theiss, February 11, broke through the ice, and 35 persofns wereLdrowned, The party, which qccupipd seven cai--riages and vehicles, follqwode^ch other so closely'th^'the.liicu>iiiulat^d weight was tQQ much for the strength of the ice, <-: : - '".':'.■ r'i- ■. : . "i . '■••&. despatch fivam Peliin," February 13, soya torpedoes have been placed m the river here. If Baeninh is attacked the members of the French Embassy Wilt redeive their "passports: Tho'^ipproaches to Bacninh are guarded by dynaraile. — .iL-LlLLsUi— vi:_?i'- . ■ ■!•:■• ■•'" MiT