SUEZ MAIL NEWS.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XII, Issue 82, 9 April 1877, Page 2

SUEZ MAIL NEWS.

London, February 16. The Queen at the opening of Parliament proceeded in the State coach drawn by eight cream-colored horses. This was: the first time it had been used for a number of years. The renewed outbreak of small pox at Blackburn coutinues. At St. Peters, Isle of Thanet, the disease is committing great ravages. The village is tabooed, and all communication with it is stopped. Tbe Prince and Princess of Wales with their households in town and at Sandringhani have been re-vaccinated. Cleopatra's Needle is to be brought to London and placed on the Thames embankment at the sole expense of Dr Erasmus Wilson. A poor woman in Liverpool, without any expectations, came into £70,000 through the death of a relative she never knew. A man named Dance, who deserted his wife and three children and joined the Shakers in the New Forest, has been sentenced lo three months for desertion. Disclosures were made that the Shaker men and women were in the habit of dancing together in a state of perfect nudity. In consequence of the appearance of the cattie plague in the metropolis an Order in Council has been issued prohibiting the movement from London of cattle, sheep, or goats. Similar order 3 have been issued in Germany and Belgium. Fresh outbreaks of rinderpest have also appeared. The miners have consented to accept a 10 per cent reduction on the understanding thnt when coal advances a shilling per ton the old rate should be paid. Considerable excitement was manifested some days ago on the diacovcry of a number of bodies on an undertaker's premises near liegeuts Park. An investigation showed (hat they were still-born children for burial, for which the man received the fees, but never removed them to the cemetery. Commodore Hoskins is appointed aide de camp to the Queen. The cattle plague broke out at Altona, and the export of cattle has been completely suspended in consequence. The disease is said to have been introduced by foreign beasts. A number of convicts at the Naval Works near Queenstown attacked the warders with picks and shovels. The Military were called out and charged the prisoners with fixed bayonets. The position of New Zealand securities in the market has undoubtedly been strength-

ened by the public announcement recently made by the Ageut-GeueraVthat the Government will not bring fonvard'any further loan iv London during the present year. A frightful tragedy has taken place in St Brien, Brittany, where a journalist uaraed Lefoll sent for a captain in -the '7 1st Regi-N uient, whom he suspected of being intimate with his wife, stabbed him on his arrival, then went and stabbed his wife to the heart, and finally, in company with a young woman, committed suicide. Elizabeth Kirkridge has been committed for trial at Penrith, charged with murderiug and concealing the bodies of six infant children she had during several years. There was great sensation in the Court during the hearing of the case. A man she had been living with was the instigator of the crimes. He left her and married.