SUEZ MAIL SUMMARY.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume IX, Issue 301, 21 December 1874, Page 2

SUEZ MAIL SUMMARY.

London, October 30. The cession of the Fiji Islands is geneialiy approved by the press. The sudden de*th of Mr Fddy on the platform of the Glasgow ruilway station while attending the Social f-cience Congress has produred a profoundly painful sensation amongst colonists. A trnebillfor libel has been returned against Dr. Kenealy, the prosecutrix be'ng Mis Fit: en, a witness against the claimant in the iate trial. The testimonial of Bilver plate voted by Otago for C-iptain Jacquart for having ref cued tbe shipwrecked emigrants by the Surat was presented by Dr. Feathertton to Marshal M.Mahon, in the presence ot the French Ministers, on behalf of the Captain, who is on Foreign Service. 2262 emigrai ts were forwarded to New Zealand during September. A ratal collision between the two Australian ships Candahar and Kingsbridge occurred on the 15th October off the Lizard. The latter vessel tank in three minutes, carrvirg down the captain, his wife and daughter and eight seamen. Toe remainder of the crew managed to board the Candahar. That vessel, Haying watertight compartment?, was preserrefl from sinking. The estimated value of the Kingsbridge was £30.000. The Empress of Russia, by rapid travelling. flMmrat ' X h ° ara a " €r hCr dau B htet ' 8 co «- Princesß Alice has written a novel cilled "Life's Path." Illustrative of life among the upp»-r ten thousand, wbith will shortly be published. Mr Disraeli has received from the Provincial Orange Lodges of the North Eastern Uistncfc a resolution condemning ritualism and commending his action against it. The Premier expressed biuurt( how red by the motion, and said that the feeling against ritualism w«s very strong. 2^ Stanley has arrived in good health at A deputation to the London Missionary {society, from Madagascar, reports that 1000 church's have been formed, and tnat 30,000 people have abandoned idolatry. The iron strikes are mostly s;ttled by the acceptance cf the employers' terms ti A ' reme: ' <ioaß «ale passed over the British Islands, and caused enormous loss and devas tat-on, principally on the north-west coast of Scotland. A Unhn between RusMa and France on the eastern qucsitoa is on the lapis. «. T !-, e^." a greai defeclf-ra of ?.fu-ineerß in the Carhs-J r*nks. The Larlist atrocities ar« unabated The rumor of German intervention irevive a, but not credited. The arrest of Count Ar-uin is gen-rally condemned in German political circka. ' A painful sensation is eansod in Vienna by * P^W'ca^on of a pastoral by the Cardinal Archbishop, charging Germany with endeavouring to extirpate Christianity. The expeditions have been despatched by Russia against the Turkomans.