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Manawatu Times, Volume III, Issue 74, 13 September 1879, Page 3

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CorpoTOl Taylor, sf-%he 4th Lancashire, iron the Qne§ns;'priae ; at yjith the highest score known. v The i Postmaster-General; -m; replying to quas}ion, said that under the hew contract the PeninKula'Cbmpariy'sl mails werftltb Jbe: conveyed to Melbourne in_ 39 days. G-ladstpne m the Nineteenth Cestury r ac* cusm ih& GbVerhmdht or gratuitously Raising a series of Fjoreign questions to p,cnupy Parliament, an 3' ijnus'aivWt' attehtidri from International reform. He says the resnlta j b?.fcbe present Foreign p^icyns^ererywhere, disastrous^ ; iinW lMnahiilaV p&li§ ate'g^sarif mismanaged. * >M ? .»s-*ii-..<jj.j--Repbrt of Ad.miralAmmon, the Americnn delegate'fcS Pari^lnter-bceahic'CahCbrigfe* condemns-the Panama Tonte as hopelessly impracticableiand^ adoption due to influence of speculators. Able' engineers have all favored the Njiearagu^, route. . The Government approyes* of the 'repbrt, and' will appoint&• 'commission • tb ? ' examine- ifatb ; - the question. The American Press is unanimously ..hostile,; to^ the French scheme, and hint at "pblUiOAVcbm^llcatibrisM pbssible' if it is persisted- in: k.; ; ;;o .;«'. i^;;; CTiambprd denies that m 1873 he volnn- : .tardy declinecl th^ppp"oT^uity 'of "ascendinlef the thr^n?.?? He said the oountry expected a Kinar'ofFrnace, but political intriguer sdecidedthatit should have instead a. Major" of the Palace. .The'j .Coun^ add^that he never could become .a thing- of faction or party, and that he nerer would cease to appeal for the support of all honest men. ■ , FreticK Cbambera.Tpted Bitt.empowerine the Government to ' commercial treaties; uhtil six .. months after .passing, of. new pterieral tariff. '.*['''■ ' 'r' :t " A bitter feud Tages amongst Hbme Rulers, through Parnelliabusing tactics, at Cork. Talmage's popularity at Glasgow is, m its enthusiasm,. still unabated. ;. :•:;.-■ ..! .-.:■! The Colorado beetle has appeared at ■ Cork.-'- •- ; -- ■'■■■• v - ; -- : - •■■--■•.■".' -■■ -.- ;; " The? Qoyernment Bill, limiting v . bank* •hare-*holders* liabUity io twice the amount" ofvpwd up capitel; hM, been wad a second /time. - ■■.■;,--■■■■• -^-'-./i (■ cz .:';.■; -''-i ■ . ] Warwickshire miners wageslhaye been re- , ducedlbpercent;.^ .;;>,: ;,- The Nottingham cricketers will visit ■' America. : .-..aX^'4) l -. < • v. .■'-.. : l .'■"' ;^ ; --''W^. Large tracks of land have been flooded m Derbyshire and- Yorkshire. v ; ' Three hundred Bradford Engingevs on I Btrike.,will emigrate to A*merica. [-.: -, :•;":; Jerbme^ h>s stated .to .ja^BpnapaTtist Aepyk" tat io^ ]»}i^fe fee 4 f ul fill, | th e, /duties of headjjjynastTVj fcxit : ■•would be^. allow.ecl to choose" Che time, *anct,m action, would not* intrigue as^iinst the Repnßlid, which' begot the- present,. G-overnment of "^he country ./■ ? ThßTOrahge' celebratioj) i ip Ireland passed off with onlya few of ! Rfeotiiiiw Bhboting, v .and on,e kflled. ; Extra^precau:, tions had ft'eeh taken. '' " '"■ ' •■ Mechi, the modfil farmer, savs'English crops haro ? been mQatlyafftilnre^ through floods, gtornjs^iTfd'lbw'teih^erature; "' , Thb.p:-Marguiß'.' of Hartingtbn, :i m the House Commons, deprecated any attempt of the party of Liberals to force Abolition of Capital Puaisn^aettt^; GftaWberlihv amid ironical cheers, said Hartingtpn was no longer the leader pfithe£whole party, jjjut; onlr of ** section. * It has been shown to Jerome Buonaparte that a. well organised plan existed throushout when, the .'Princt.- i^hperia('s rßnoriapttrtisfi 1 ,. -party ! t.haf Jerome, ,19 n^w r death-i«hekue\i^ ; iti Pope" ; re-' ceived intimation from the its head. A garden.uitp bo planted- on the ruins' of the Tuilleries; S '" '";;_;■;'■ •'.? " ''; ' 'V It jb. asserted; that Jerome - is 1 not only '■''■&'• candidate as the Emperor;' but represents thy Empire itself iv^iK': r- ■■ -y.o^y.'.'i . ■-"' At -'«- free trade -meeting, which Lord Lyons attended,^- four; pe»son« ; were-preseni;. :' ' v' *"" .^.Ferry's Education Bill, excluding the religious element from¥upeWisiori> of Council of Education, has. been passied m the Chamber;"o? Deputies' tir 863* to^l6^6.' J rJ :■ -Terrific storms m J)he\ x Ere'nj(jh provinces. The Ajrdeche , eyer^flbwed and. .vridely. inundlteid 'ttie''Burrpundihg plain. ' "'T he damage was immense-. 31 - : : "' A ■'■■''■'[' : The DesertoftSahara, between ,the parallels of 15 anS^SVistw > be expibred for"railxoad purposes.^ -• ; '-'- - v ii-;i j-'-.; .Germany's proposal to annex"" Samoa; has b*en^uiif/ivo;rab'y : sceiyejiin hlgH quar-j .ters* . "■ ■• „"■ . . . ». V Symptoms j>f 'es^rangment; betw«en;G;ermany and Russia' are evident. - r Monteijeul jassumes l^thtf^overhorship Vof l JiUnce. Lorraine. ♦.•'--•*" v |Reichstag bas'carried ! tTie protective tariff Tby a majority of 117 V , , V( ;, .., ! s «yeral officers 1 of 'the "irotfbiad Grosser Xuffaret h&ve-been'sentenced to two years' imptisonmjsnt. ■*,; ■■ . . ; .';':■<■''- .'■_: Tt is contpmplaterl increasing reornitst of the army 23,800 yearly, at an expenditure of 29 million marks. " Detectives have, !.pw)cee,defV to Eissen'gen for the 1 protectibT. of Bismark. ' A cannpn.burst.at; the. redoubt Willer.Mossan; five men killed and twenly-five'-woundei, Tlie physician who prompted the attempted assassination of the Czar has been hanged. Roumania is now free from Russian troops. Aj s trnßrport from OHessa to Sashalan, with 7^oo Nihilists aboard, was overcrowded 80^ perished frfln\ disease, and 190 were arded dvjhg. Oh tbe^ death of the Prince Imperial, Eugenie's grief was unnontrolled. She • swooned on receipt of the intelligence of tb* death o£_her son, but rallied gomewhat, and then again relapsed. Her private necretarytelegraphed to the Duchess of Sufcherianrl that she still remained m a nenii-cohshious condition, and it was imperatirf?lv necessary to do something to rouse her. The Duchess accordinclv started for Chiselhurst. A Londonipeeialof 2-ith <»ivs— "Notwrth etinding the temporary nllevistion of the dfcfcrwss which the Empress 12115611]? experitenned yesterday, a relapse took ' place las<» ni«;ht, t»n<l very serious npnrehehsions. are now entprtained m wgard to her lifeDbring the visit of the Queen yesterday shb . persuaded the Emprefn to enVieavor to pnr, .take of some food. Thta gave temporaryhope of 'refoverr, but to-day p«roxvsmji of grief, which she undergoes, not bnlv continued but became more .frequent and IWW^ Qfam tyn^ qyert^ hoija?,

There will be a two-thirds crop of wheat this season m Ohio and Pennsylvania. Grevy sent a mecaage of condolence to Eugenic. The death of the; Prince Imperial haß thrown the Bonapartists into confusion.. The report of the escape of ex-Sultan Murad from Constantinople wa« corroborated. ; >■_;■;■ ,: ,j w .:,.:•■/ . • ..•■.;■ 'n .;" The new Khedive is appointing excellent advisers. He 1 has relinquished half of his ! civil list. ; • •,."■-;■• There has-been an indecisive engagement between th^e Peruvian ironclad Shosbbrda and "the' GHUian ironoliad-iPatagbnia.^ l• ' = Seventeen persons, were poisoned at a : picnic m St. Paul's, Minnesota, by drinking tartar emetic m, their lemonade. : A negro,: at Texas, who, bad outraged a' white girl nanVerF Edmonds, 5 was literally chopped to pieces, r bv the mob., ,'■ AA requiem mass'for the Prince 'Imperial .'tdb.t:place at the Church of , St. Augustine, v Paris, on Jane 161' There was m immenser attendance, but the working classes were only ineagreiy ; repre3eßtedJ ; "' Lk> i- ', ; -.The Court of Cauaation rejects tbe appeal of^Cbuntess Lamberfeine against] tbe mother or the late Cardinal Antonelli,, with -costs to the Countess. •■" A ' i "' '-'■'-". ''*■ A great advance jbaa taken .placa . m; .price of raiw silk, ov£ing ; to thfe \ shortness 9£> supply m European.-, jNatyre, , Japan,, invade, has advanced trov^Mi^ £7 per ponM. Balch, a repoWefe on the! Bostontlßirald, , has detected and arrested Chastine Cong, a he£ro who murtlered and robbed Mrs. Hnll m New York; Papers:sueer at regular de-. tectives, who . for weeks have been engaged urfqllowin'g the wrong' el libs.: ; '■ : ' r '■'■< ■■■■- 't Parts of Dakbtahl'lbwa^ aid Minnesota were, visited bf tornadoes 6:nviJnlv»3rd, and the Reports are that the devastation Js terrible. Hailstones fell as big as" ! hehV eggs; "and a great man v persons were : killed. Op the occasion of j the distribution;rof newicolors to the French army, the Oroverhment will require all .generals to take the oath of allegiance to the Republic. . . The boat Uncle Sam, 'in which^a man named Goldsmith and bis wife started from Gloucester, Mass;j" = for a trip round the world, has. been spoken at tea. ; Edwaro^Pafr; who murdered his daughter m Philadelphia, poisoned himself m the dock, and died w'hilethe sentence of judicial death was being pronounced. '■, g There is gbo'd' reason for believing ' that .-\Pririce Leopold will visit Australia as representative,of .the Queen a^the- International, Exhibition, but it will on the state of His Royal HighheaH's health.- , : The: -Clericals f have; seceded,, .and. the party.accepted Jerome as their .head, , and, •he has declared a renewal of hisv, adherence, to the Republic, and, that he will hoi be a candidate for the French-throne. He callson the Bonapartists to stand by the;Repuhlic President. ij;;j-»/ i: : ; ; :;:■;:; ! Theljacbß. Jeanette, > Captain, Delong, will depart jfrom San i-Franciscp for her circumJPolar voyage on July Bth. James 'Gordon, Bennett, proprietor of the New York [Herald, projected the enterprise; and pays all expenses: .■" ';-'::■ .\< ■.'/ . ■•■"• : ; r y r : '■' "■'/..-. ; j^Three employes of theO-bvernuient Book* Department m Poonah confessed that they caused recent flrefl r 'to destroy evidence's: of "their defalcation; 'Two were sentenced to life-longjtrahsportation, and the other to ten ; years. ■ :'.;:^'i'-'-.--\ ■,■ :- : ,i ,;■■... -V:.-i - V The Russian commander of Eastern Roitmelia was'ordered to delay the completion of .evacuation until the: end of July. , In the Canton, of ; Berne the Romanists 'out-numbered the 01 d Gath plies, by 35, and hare elected alt officials', and a Syhodicai i CorinciPfbr the" next four- years; ' : >; * V> - ! ' '*'■ ' ■' ' ';-— 'yTjhewheat crop m? North Italy is, repor- : tisd-idepldrable,^in r Central Italy: thepromise is;bbtter? m tfhe,south-,v?est ;• and Sicily^toJe?-rable,\and;the^utii-.eaat^^ ; and Sardinia'excellent'. ■■"..", vy^ .:'.^ ! -. ! . ■: yy\' J ; c '-M'.' :';, ' f:j "'"'■ Russia has presented Bulgaria with a portion of her flotilla on the Danube. Serviahas ceded. jdispu ted frontier districts > to. Bul-j garia, and Russian ' troops have assisted : Bulgarian authorities to. take possession; '\\ , An insurrection ,m Port. Au Prince,- Hayti, 1 has ibeeri supprisaed 'after sbnie'Tiard fighting.' " The reason why Garibaldi desires to annul his, marriage with Madame Raimondi; was; that' the' pension Mf *5()- bdCi^ fiances <&& \ nuallyi granted l i,o his ''■> h6vti; would- ; otherwise go to' her. children jj though, he; isi not: their father, while his own children, ,alk iU.egitimatje,.wo.uldge.t nothing. "V A dispatch says/it-is asserted ■-) Dr. F»lk resigns because he is convinced that it jismot 'pbss'ifele'tb efEec^^ reconciliation >wttb!, ttiel Vatican, and he is therefore patripti- * caily resolred^nbt to-Temam ■■■ as; an •obstacle to that earnestly, desired consummation. : '■i Placards have!. been posted- at', Brussels threatening the king with' death if he ratifies; the BilVipassecVby the Belgian! Parliament for depriving" the clergy of control of elementSry 'education;-: : ' r - ; i ; '■-;■; | (The trorkihg men' *of "New York haveoiv Jganised'.a'" series .of - meetings on the ; San (?)land lot plan; The papers have becomei alarmed, and •; call^ ior - police interference..':; :.(';;: ii-o^ -:,..: .'.■;.-.■.;•; ;.ji; ; „ : Minnie v Walton, ; -;wife;'. of Fred Lyster, died m San .Francispp.oniirunerSOjpjafter a lpn|? and . paia|ul illness.,-! Dec^asedt v ?was a nativp; pf Sydn'ey ?^ and aged 27 years. "... Mrs.', ■RbTland;,Vof'.'liie^e;: ,m 'Belgium, while at'Njagara : pn a' 1 wedding 'tour,. w,as' swept over 4 the Horshbe fall, J m sight of her husband. Sheihad stepped for. a. drink, lost her balance^- aiid felt' intb'ttie swiftly jrunriing" wateK "' ' • - ' Spriiniba's blockaded .the iCoait; :of -Santo Eanuzo to force a compliance with her der mands for satisfaction ; in Jthe; case of two .officials having been murdered while under the prd,teetign jpl: th©f.Spaaii»h irepresentay tiVes. ■■■• _ ■/;,.. : :y: ";;/.;; "' . % -'.'-' -V" ' '' ""' Legal proceedings lias 'been taken to break up the community at- Syracuse, New York. |j They are instigatediby Bishop Huntingtonand others, who claim that some of the practices of meinbers-bf-the comtn unity are worse than those of the polygamists of tftater"'--"- -.:'---*---" : -- ■ :: :-;-"'f :'■"-: ; ; -^-^^^'T^ :; After ls ; yearß' labor; ah expenditure of £600,000, and surmounting of tremendous difficulties and opposition, the great Sutro tunnel, for- the more efficient working of the Cbmstock Mines, m Virginian City, Nevada, has been finished, and is pronounced m complete working order, John Reunler, a (3-erman, residing at Sprinfleld, Mass., recently killed his three daughters, aged respectively one, four and six years. .He gave as a reason, when arrested that he was born poor, and he was afraid his children when grown up might enter- houses of prostitution. The Q-aulois publishes the codocil to the will of Prince Imperial, which says " The duty which our house owes to our country will not lapse by my death. The arduous glorious task of continuing the work of the! first Napoleon, will depend, m the event of my death, upon the oldest son of Prince Jerome, who by the laws of succession is my heir. I trust that my beloved mother will second him m discharge of the reponsibilities and duties wl ich, m theevent of my death, will devolve upon him. . : . Henry Wayd Beecher has uttered a bitterphilliphir against what he terms the ortbpdoxv. In the course of it he says— " If the works of the devil were any wherein exposition it was m the external developomexits of the Christian church. The worst k-ihd of assassination to-day was committed by men wl»o pray m order that they may stab. , For the sake of orthodoxy men destroyed religion. For the sake of all that is pure they did all th^fe « va/im aftd nas^-.'V r