ADDITIONAL FR'ISCO MAIL NEWS.

Manawatu Times, Volume X, Issue 1327, 22 October 1884, Page 3

ADDITIONAL FR'ISCO MAIL NEWS.

The European Mail says it is note* Worthy than the Orient steamer Lu^ ■itania> from Sydney, on 19th July, »nd the New Zealand steamer Kuapehu, from Lyttelton, on 27th July, arrived m Plymouth Sound within an hour of each other on 9th Sept. The former came via Suez and the latter via the Horn/ The conopari» son is a startling one, the passage from Sydney occupying eight days longer thae from New Zealand, notwithstanding that the canal route wat adopted m the former. Major Te Wheoro has been engaged m drawing up laws and regu« lations for the Good Templar Lodges which the Maori King proposes to establish m the Native districts of New Zealand ; the documents are being prepared m the Maori lan> guage. Bishop Suter, of Nelson has appointed the .Rev T. Russell, late j St James', Leeds, to the incumbency of St John's»Church, Westport. The wreck of the Lastingham has caused a prodigious amount of cargo to be crowded out of the Riiapehu from duplication orders for goods lost. For some time the Kuapehu has been refusing passengers as well as cargo. Isabella Stuart, Countess Delbanie, who Roasts to have the blood of the Pretended m her veins, and has foi years disappeared from society, is Mother Abbess of • a Polish convent at Carala, m Roumania ; she is at presen*, m England. « Sif John Hall attended the meeting of ttie British Association m Canada. The English Admiralty have resolved to r«. commission H.M.S, Nel* ■on for a further ttrm of service on the Australian station. The present crew of the Nelson will be releived by a new one of 500 blue , and-, royal marines, taken from the naval establishments of Chatham and Sheerness. The Nelson will PA off m January next, and will then hoist the penntnt of Bear Admiral Tryon. The troopship Tamar will.con\ey the new crew of the Nelson to Sydney. It is rumored that the change m rank of the command will be accompanied by an alteration m the headquarters of the station, a change m which New Zealand would not be unintes rested. Mr B, D. B. McLean, only eon of the diate Sir Donald McLean wm married on the 4th September, by i the: Bishop of Killaloe, to the youngest daughter of Mr ?. Butler, Stoney, Portland Park, County Tipperary, Ireland.