ARRIVAL OF THE ERI'SCO MAIL

Manawatu Times, Volume X, Issue 1325, 20 October 1884, Page 2

ARRIVAL OF THE ERI'SCO MAIL

(Per Press A ssociation.) : Auckland, Oct 18. The Zealandia arrived ot 7.30 this eyening. The following is the MAIL SUMMARY. A piece of plate and a purse of gold has been given to Captain Jones i of the Greely relief ship, Loch Garry, ' at London. Eastbourne, the favorite Sussex, watering place, is crowded with Americans, who* i are scared -by -.the cholera on the Continent. The laying of. the last deep sea section oVthe Irish shoie end of the Bennejj-Mafjkay cable will be con}* pleted about the 6fch of October, A British gunboat foundered off Tory |^and on the nor'.bswest coast of Ireland on Soptomber 23. ; ■ Piftytwo men, including all the officers, were drowned; 3ii persona were saved by cliuging to wreckage. On September 22nd the Etroiria, a new ste:imer for the Cunard Line, was launched at Glasgow; she is built to be the fastest steamer afloat. A correspondent of a well known American paper has eloped from London with the young wife of an English nobleaian, and they are : be« lieved to have taken a passage to the Australian colonies. The moist curious part of thfl affair ; is that the journalist is old enough .to be the father of the lady. -The names are not yet made public. " A furnished house m Hampshire has just been taken for the Tich*- ' borne claimant, who will soon ba .re>»leased. Ample allowance has ' been subscribed for himself and his two daughters. .' It is said that the Duke and Duchess of Con naught will visit theUnited States next year, returning from India by way of California' l Late despatches say the price of bread is much discussed m England and Ireland, the public being wroth that, though wheat never reaches 40b per bushel and barley not above 85s, the price of bread remains ex* actly the same as when -Hhe price of wheat was 10s higher. The Grand Duke of Hesse intends to spend six weeks at Balmoral, and this has caused the discussion of the Madame Calomiue affair. The latter has 'announced her determination to fight the case m court as final. She has refused all bribes, and returned the first instalment of her allowance, The case will be heard on the loth October, Edwin Hine, the apostle of AhgloIsraelism, starts for the United States on October 1. He proposes to make a lecturing tour of America^ and then go to Australia; It is not expected that the infant Duke of Albany -will' survive the winter. Parliament will be asked at the coming Ression to make provision for the eldest son of the Prince of. Wales. ; A rumour was m circulation on the 22nd that the Prince of Wales and Dake of Edinburgh had declared their intention of voting for the Franchise Bill at the autumn session.Prince Bismarck is about to visit the Prince of Waleß at Abereeldie Castle. z . ' :. An American frigate, nameun* known, ran ashore on the evening of the 13th, at Elainborough Head, maa fog, but got off without assist* a'nc.e." .■- '■'■"■' ■J 7 ' T-' ; l> " \ '• An English Ohureh paper sa-< vagely attacked General Wolseley and Northbrook for starting on their Egyptian mission pn a Sunday. • r [ Her Majesty Queen Victoria is at Balmoral for the autumn." She is said to be m a gloomy state of mind,, and yisits John Brown's grave- every day. . '• •-. Over 3000 people *at Leicester were recently summoned for defying the vaccination laws, the feeling against which i 3 very bister all over England. ; The Rev. Mr Trackleton, Presby-^ terian clergyman of Ttllamore, ; has brought a suit for £60,000, and Mrs Brown ,for £25,000, against the Dublin Freeman's Journal for damages. The Journal printed an article m its columns, stating the clergyman^hadj eloped with Mrs Brown to Paris.; -i A. fuud will be started shortly, sat; the suggestion of the United Ireland newspaper, on behalf pf the Birmingham dyuamiters Daly and Egan. Fifteen thousand persons attended the funeral of Daggari at Dublin on the 14th September. Among (them were Messrs O'Brjen and Davitti Admiral Courbet, commanding the French naval forces m China, is claimed to be an Irishman, his father being a Cork man, who on emigrating to France added a v to the original name of Corbe'. The Lord Lieutenant proclaimed 20 Nationalists demonstrations announced for Barradon, County" Kerry. Mr Thomas Sexton retires ..'from Parliament as representative of Sligo, and will contest another seat. The municipal authorities of Limerick formally resolved on the 26th September not to pay the extra police tax or to send a deputation to EarL Spencer, Lord Lieutenant,, whom they denounce as a tyrant. The vote stood at 18 to 2. The extra police were appointed by Government on pleas that the local authorities did not furnish sufficient protection against outrages, and the cost of thsir maintenance was assesed upon the communities to which they were assigned. This is the tax that Limerick refuses to pay. " . . Sir Stafford Nortbcote, m an addresß to the Conservatives of Edinburgh, said the action of the Govern men t on th c Franchise Bill demonstrated a desire: to rise grievances the House of Lords. In the rowing match at Southampton on the ltth Septembefrfor £60, aneighteen«oared boa*- beat by two minutes the cutter's crew of the; United States' flagship Lancaster; The cutter's crew handled 14 oars; The Southampton crew* although toe American had a slight Jead at the start, were soon ahead. The victors were winnersby two hundred yards. ; Time* winning crew, 42min 275ec., : . The betting at the start was three, to one; on the Americans. - Inthe evening an amateur club enter- . tanned both crews, Bailey, coxswain

of the American cutter, said they were m-ver beaten be: ore. ihe crew of the Lancaster stood ready to back ■their cutter's, crew from £100 to £1000 agaftist N .any o her boat m England.^ ...' Mrs Leiden, who won her ow* case against DrsWinalow and Temple for illegally confining her m a lunatic asylum, is again before the London courts m the various capacities ofplaintiff, defendant; and counsel. Since her first success the lady is said to have become a moKo^namaO on litigation. , .The lately divorced Lady Colin Campbell recently applied to a ltad«# ing newspaper for a- position-as'cor** respondent with the Egyptian army, but being denied,., she /has I sought retirement at the home o*' her.mother, Mrs Maghiin Blood, m Irelapdv ' ilL^ II is suggested that EnglisH'peopl© 6f' moderate means should* go. tfpr their grouse shootiug, not to prohi» bitively expensive, grounds, but-ttb A merica, where, according to' c hia calculations, a man can have ten weeks' sport, and pay' his passag© back and forth, for 200 dollar?; At a meeting of the Land League DaDlin, on the 16ih September^ Mi Williaui ■Kedraohd denied* thatjlrisiimen were becoming apathetic to na« tional movements, and expected that during the coming winter' the ccaves c would receive as great 'V support as it ever . had. He" stated .that until the visit; of himself iand Mr Sexton to Boston, thelrish-Americanfrwere entirely unaware that fiaancialnelp was needed to., fprward the interest* : of the Irish national :cause. . - iuv/ ■r Mr Gladstone left Midlothian- on the 26th September. On; parting h« thanked' his cohstitaehts with much" Warmth for the encouraging, r;ecep,« • tipn accorded to him throughout: 'the. tour^ -.:.< .' :,:-.oas In a special from London, datefif September 23rd, says a curious; pp% tical rebellion is now. m progresgVi^ county Mayo. That county : is no# :repreßented m the House of Comi Imons by John C 'Connor, PoWe^ahdf IRevJsaac Nelson. , Mr; Parnelj de£ Bures these men to contest thatcount^ ! at the next general election, but- # number of ;Mayo Nationalists 6bjectr and ' propose quite : : a diff 4rerii I'pro/, gramme. . They, have decided, -no longer to submit to Parnell's. auto^ cratic sway, and wili put m nomina*tiori candidates of their oWnsele^-; ti on ; t he.ir choice has fallen on , Cap^i. : , tain Boycott, who was recently ; the; most execrated man m Ireland, and John William rTallyi The- growing' popularity of Boycott is one of'thVmost curious facts m current -Irish history, and moderate observers con* bider it a sign of the waning influence of the League. The local PaineHitei 1 ridicule the idea of any sucbes&fiil opa position being possible m the county.