MAIL NEWS.

Manawatu Times, Volume III, Issue 74, 26 June 1878, Page 2

MAIL NEWS.

ARRIVAL OP THE ARAWATA AT THE BLUFF. ■■■-„ The following are the principal items telegraphed from the BlufF last; evening:-:- ' ■■'..., \ LONDON. May 10. The Prince of Wales, while visiting the Colonial Courts at the Paris Exhi-

bition, is said lo have gcaatly delighted Colonials by holding out a prospect of visiting the Antipodes at no dktant date. The Bishop Selwyn Memorial Com-: mittee have resolved to erect a monument m Litcbfield Cathedral/ and to fotTnd a Selwyn scholarship at Cambridge. ; Xut3 impression generally prevails that Ministers will appeal to the country at the close of the session, which will be abridged whether there is peace or war. ■•■■■■ , - By a terrible squall which passed along the Biscay Coast on -the 20th April, eighty boats were destroyed, and 320 men and boys perished. .•;■•• A boiler explosion took place at Dublin on the 27th April* by which twenty lives were lost, and the premises reduced to ruins, The unfortunate Eurydice is still at the bottom of the sea, and all attempts tojraise her have proved unsuccessful. There is great grumbling at the want of skill displayed. The number of persons dependent upon those who perished are about 300, to relieve whom- £20,000; will be required; but nearly thafc'ambunthas already been raised. Advices from the Cape continue to be discouraging. . fighting is reported, with indecisive, results m each encounter. • o •.•;■'. - ; -. '....•; -S> ' -,\:. It has required £19,000 a week to afford a moderate amount of relief to the distressed people on account o£ the strike m Lancashire. The Chancellor o£ the Exchequer informed the House that the cost of the Indian Expedition would be borne by the Imperial exchequer, and that the troops while m Europe would remain under the provisions of the Indian Mutiny Act. ~ -■■■-■•- The Czar lately signed a decree calling out 24,000 men of reserves, and 140,000 spades have been sent ' to the Russian head quarters m Rou mania. 20,000 cartridge - chests hate, j be'en ordered m Holland, and at Cronsfcadt torpedoes are being steadily . manufactured.; One large factory was recently . blown up. : ; - ■■■«' ''- r The; miKtary ;si^iation, as ; regards Russia and Turtey appears to be im-. proving ; the : attitude of the Russian' l army m the neighborhood of Constantinople is less menacing, while the Turks have been diligently employed during the past four days m multiplying (P) and strengthening the defects around the capital, so that any atteniption the part of Russia to seize the. city; would certainly provoke a stubborn resistance. Intelligence comes;fr6m : Armenia to the effect that the Russians are moving m considerable force into the districts adjoining to B.atoum, with the intention apparently to attack : the place if it did' not yield peaceably. „ "Y ! n.-, -i TneChristian population are.hbstile to Russian rule, and flee from'tneir j homes, abandon their fields; ; ,ind'<hay.e/ sent formal compiajnfcs. to the . j^qrteof the cruelties of the inyrideirsi ' '''*' '" " " Baker Pasha's 'appointment- to the 1 command of the division occupying" pact. of the defence lines of the capital, is regarded with satisfaction. : "• ' ; ' r At Constantinople the lines; are .ooeu-: pied by 90,000, men, and forces are constantly arriving from .Asia. " '=•■•'••'•■■ ■■"■■' ;