ADDITIONAL MAIL NEWS.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XII, Issue 169, 19 July 1877, Page 2

ADDITIONAL MAIL NEWS.

The Jews of Constantinople' hay e ; offered up praye-a for the success of , the Turkish ftrnis . — ■* *■ * • ■ . i * *; t . 9 Jh! *°V\ Teteir ? d a Partyof pilgrims'froDi of £2000' ° °? erin gs <» the amoiin'fc The Archbishop of Posen has been condemned to twelve months' imprisonment for libelling Prince Bismarck. At the coronec's inquest uponvthe : bodies of the miners drowned in the flooded colliery at Ponty Pridd, a verdict of manslaughter wasj returned against the manager of the mine for negligence in permitting the working to be carried beyond a certain poittf >-■■"• A man named Michael Henry: KeHy;r*ftf had been convicted for the murder: of his daughter, perpetratedin consequence of her refusing to abandon a dissolute life cora-f mitten -suicide in PentonVille prison bV hanging himself w.Hh his braces. l > ' : Adiabolical attempt wits- made to thwJw-- f a) tram off the rails mear the Chqwden statioa on the London .' and .Northeastern line!borne iron chains were fastened "on to the metals, but the train; whenr it came "to passed safely over them. ■ '- ' " /J:u' The. Bishop' of Lichfleld expressed His i approval of the conducfcpf sereralclergymen in his diocese in attending the" opening The Northumberlandtcoal owners haVe're- ' solved to- close their pits, aa the workmen have refused to submit the question of a reductiou in wages to arbitration. , A mutiny has occurred on board her ; Ma jesty's armour-plated ship Alexandra, the' flag ship of the Mediterranean squadron off 1 account of the stringency of the discipline and unusual severity-of the punishments. - Ihe .whole of one watch refused to do their duty, and threw the lights of the guns overboard.. Three of the insubordinate seamen were sentenced.to forty days' imprisonment and sent home in H 4 \l.S. Monarch to undergo their punishment. , ... . . ° A telegram to Atheqa gives an accounfe of another mutiny while the Alexandra , was lying at the Piraeus. The mutiny was" quel- ' led by the marines and men from other vessels. The mutineers were arrested, and a court-martial convened. The blame »of the 1 second out-break is stated to have.beeh-dis-satisfaction because of the refusal of a short leave, whereupon they renderedthe Alexandra a guns unserviceable. It has been deemed necessary to send the Alexandra to cruise m. the Mediterranean until further orders. •. . . > . - _ The special correspondent of the Daily' 1 lelegraph sends the following telegram-— krzerouni, 2nd June. I have to record the most terr-ble event of the present war Two -! nights ago 4000 Circassian cavalry commanded by Mousha Pasha were ordered to proceed, to Krrs, entirely unsupported M : S tr^ r , a . r ? Ief y- The y rested for thV night at Beki Ahmed. The Eassians secretly organised a powerful fbr.ee and: .during. 6he night surrounded and surprised the village where the Circassians had halted Only about 5 per cent. o*lhe entire force escaped in the.ca-nage which followed. Mousha Pasha, himself, is amongst thV ■ missing. The Circassians fought desperately and no quarter waa giren."

The steamer Dacotah, from Liverpool, bound for New York, went ashore on the Anglesey coast.: The passengers, who num- , beted 300, were 1 all saved. I The suspension of work in the ship- I building yards on the ClydeMs almost complete. There is no apparentgrospeci of l aa i early settlement ofdiaputer" \ ,'-■ 1 The Italian papers manifest great jealousy ! of the assumed intention of Great Britain to occupy Crete. Various telegrams from the Turkish side claim that the Turks by the superiority of thier , artillery fire prevented the Russians : from erecting works to attack Kars. Intelligence received at Constantinople represents that the position of the Turkish army in Asia has improved, and that the Turks are preparing to assume the offensive. The Russians have suffered heavy losses .before Kars. Artillery engagements between the besiegers and the garrison continue. The principal feature last week was the partial withdrawal of the Russian right jiving from the south of the frontier line, atad the cjfoset investment of Kars and /Batoutnl ',•"!'. : I Several Turkish officers have been shot for their loss of Ardahan. The Governor-General of Syria telegefgfaphed thai I^oo Bedouin horsemen and Some Ottoman troops had a conflict in the d f istrict of Hihia, in which the rebeta were completely defeated. c Tho following is a more detailed account than has yet appeared of the destruction of a Turkish ironclad by a torpedo :— One of .the. -.most daring deeds ever recorded inlUhe. history" of . warfare was performed on the Lower Danube near Ibraila, Tqfrif Saturday" morning -hat. . A small detachment of Russian soldiers oommanded Cqy Lieutenant Dubascheff, acedmpanied by the commander of, the Roumanian flotilla, illajoi.Mergescu, left the northern shore of J£e_Danube,ina.numb9r of . small boats and proceeded towaids' point -Petra Feti, below Matchin, opposite Ibraila, at which point was stationed a large Turkish monitor. The night was very dark, and they managed to surround the- monitor "before being discovered/by, the \ TuVkish ilookoutaj When ; finally bfo'served by feeAtriejs oaibodrd, they ■were- challenged, and "Who 1 goes ~there ?" rang out on the night air. Major Murgescu in T^u&ktsh;;' Friends." The Turks, evidently not satisfied, commenced firing in the direction of Matchin, not knowing where these boats came from. The shots flew wide J?^! 1 ??* inark » aid did no harm to the daring men in the boats. During the firing several Russian soldiers, under the direction of kjeut.. Dubascheff, plunged into the water swam silently to the hull of the ironclad vejssel, and placed the deadly torpedo in closa contact with' the. bottom of the monitor. After the destructive machine had been securely fastened, and the wires of an electric battery . securely attached, L the men •retired to the neighboring shore of the river, arid, at (half -past three in the : miming the monitor was blown into the air, with all her ofilcers and crew. -The explosion-was teriffic, -and as nothing was said of the drew being it is supposed all on board perished. j The perfect coolness of the men; women, janid children on the occasion "of the loss of ..thie; steamer City of San Francisco ! i3 said to hajve been extraordinary. There was only one, instance of panic. A young man from New York, fearing that the ship would sink, leaped, brer board, -but was rescued and • taken into a boat. All the passengers lost more or less money, and most of them every penny they possessed. Mrs Sm'ithof San Francisco, lost about 8000 dollars. iMr German and: his sister, from Valparaiso, bad beetween 5000 and 6000 dollars in trunks which, with all, their clothing, was a total loss. None of the cabin- passengers lost less than 300 dollars and some lost as much as 10,000. Mr Hand and his wife, of • California," who were returning from a European trip, lost all their ; baggage, which over 3000 dollars' SSeif fnin"^*^, *^y ;had bought miTf T T"' ™ r - laot > "dollars' worfKof 'inftPlP after the disaster, placed a little store of TyVw o^-* 1 ™* 30 * anofficer raying You need this more than I do;" Another Chinaman came to Wad&el with the captain's purse which" he had taken from the drawe and saved until he had landed. The theory prevalent among naval officers is that there rE ? A afin f u P. h , earal a fc tne time of the recent earthquake which destroyed Iquique : ah e; wrecked sh.pwas sailings her regular course and Captain Waddell.had frequently sailed oyer, the where she struck The captam had made up the log.early in the day ZrloitZ m^ haV6 be^; no -stake aboul Commenting upon Mr ■■ Stafford's recent Svs- "w s ? onstifcaent3 '" the a B - Ar d :-•« We have no longer Stafford, the 1 s at^sman, but the comfortable farmer inter- ' changing a few ideas with* complacent aUdieice pf personal admirers, and to'whotri' loc^l concerns were of the,most interea^and |mßortance. r Mr Stafford. is wise. He has SJt««Ht S awor ? int ; oa P Iou Shshareand his v sne4r3 into pruning hooks, and after nearly LEf r ° f a . centur * oi hard and useful political service, he finds it much more harbor works., and other local matters, than to enlighten the Colony U p d n the that Mr Stafford has, ceased to take more than the interest of an Ordinary citizen in pub)ic affairs, and although^ his advice and support will no doubt be eagerly sought by ,poluMcal parties, he himself may W left out ; Ar CU l &h T '** to the fo^-ation of a tuture Ministry." , v :h — .' -.- 1— -,^l— , — i

Mr. Warden Price has-been speaking oat plaiiilf tipon tha Ucensmg question. At Kamara, t^e other day he thus exprea^ed .himself :— "I wish it to be niatipcfly tincfe~ratoo9 that people building new houses will do ao at their own risk. It ah^U b^ oo reason|wby I m ust give a license thai a person has spent his ali on a house when he haa not first enquired whether he is likely to obtain a license. If people come to me!itn% tgu^t : gat a straightforward aeawar, yes or no. I don't feal inclined to grattt licaasaa to more houaes in this town in the future. It will not be for the good of the public for me to do so. If I 4o grant «ny more ft will be for houses of » style very^iffeteat to eny now here, very superior to any hitherto erected* I know skat, w& have been given to understand that any person building a ho^se hi Westlsnd will get a license. Such has been the prasUce Mt&erto, sad in my cotiamence. ment here I did say id you J , " I expect sTfgbbd' iiian and a gopt! bWse'."' ; itp to : this time, we have been graniin^ licenses ottj^ar gii^eipie,, but on my returntha other ;^ayj[ found there wej^. aflfficiant houses for all purposes ia 4hia town. There may be tiniesTTr yary : ( bad , weather, when the^ow^ isj f&lt|ia6d aft wno'want , beds cannot be accoftHiottatdar ty? && is* 'iSSate of affairs very rarely^tiappeaiag. But we canno4^ovi^gbgdrooig.asCOaip4s^aitQn for '£,700 miners. It is out of tbe.. qjfeisttbn attogeihef. ; »I shall^oilo^ tb l^ course I to-day intend to pursue only because some of these- people who now apply osjghG. Imve beoa led astray' by past experience. I am still ready to ooaceda now, to a certain extent, v/i&t, I certainijLahall not for the future", I shall on this occasion grant licenses as I^id before, namely to a, good h'<>p&an? i! a 1 g° o<l P^son* . .^at I shjajtlnot li^enae shantfea or mere drioking places. A» fw m fiiß dmribtdr ot theappti'cant g&QSf Itie olass of publieaas in; Kuraara must be estramely good, for n^frone has been objected to by the police. They appea_rj.o be all perfection. 'The houses, however, are not so, many o/ L them are deficient in sleeping acooodtbodatiou. The bwn'efd give the, miner liquor till he ia, drunk, and thaa turn him into the street, or put him to lie in a place that is- otofit for a dog. I shall rafdse'Hcbnse'S' to" avL&i "'^ J "° ■The prcapectas of a 1 School of , Cdokery, proposed to bj| opbpQ^ in Dunedin, has Jjeen issued. . The", prdj actor, aays the, Times, intends -giving a course of instruction to- consist of twelve Isasona, accothpaaied ,wi^h |Iluatmtibns in .firacticai' cooking, and arrapgements. .bave been made which will enable pupils to see the various processes of cooking from first to last. •The Melbourne correspondent of a Southern contemporary tells the fdllp fv- " ing amusing story:— 1 * Mr Woods,,, in a tough btft eipresaive maunQr, in-s formed a gentleman the other day of the present^chances of any candidate for employment in the railway depatt'ment. o Qne of the members of a deputation at the close of the interview handed the Minister, in a rather confidential fashion, a large official letter. Ia replyto Mr Woods, the gentleman said the letter was an application for employment by one of his friends. " Oh!" said Mr Woods, most affably, " give U to the JSecretary" — who was standing"' beejde him, ■% Mr Labertouchefwill put it (n the" (the Minister ; waa evidently, going ..to say " waste paper basket," but stopped himself in time, and aubsti&'fed) " n box/with the rest. There are only about 4000 applications for employment in the department new," he added cheerfully, '.'add yours Vflf' make the 4000 and first. * tbe most curious thiug is that every, one of them is to be considered first/ 'there are appiicafcioriai for positions, from that, oi "eogineer-in-cj^ief down to billets for.aa many' old* women as you could shake a^ fltick ac aa gaie&rt{fer£ Uh ! give you?,let^r ,to Mr ,La6ertpu.cl»e." Tha. getfiiremin'elid'ao, but fee dldjUoVftppesi-v-----to ud've* uiubii hope as to hlajYiendV chances. • : ''\ ' ' '* [/ '' ] . Mf-\^IWW» P*nielW a' farMec,%e■iaiog #^&(M«t>y f : aoar Xarmoutli, died L lasts uipnth. His death ban beetf notide'd '• cniefl^ oouiaectfaat'of his^iljiintrc/'aiae aD^.f^tPipK .^"-^JJji'ifi, heifthi, aait'tiii ey'iuuietery w .described ■aa h **m Am : igrflud. 1 . HeiWfra^i queijuy. been kuowu to load fcita wagou by carrying, lour foar-buahei < bug's of corn uuder tiia eiroia at oue tiide; w h&n tiine was precious he iua" beou aeerf harudflsed to one of his own harrows, doing a horeo'a work. Ha waa likemoat giaut^, very good natared. :

A Prolific C^w.-^Mr Charleaßiddle, farmer. Skalmdir, has in hid possession : a cow,' ajiedVour teen years, Whicth haa '■ produced twenty-one calves, haviog had twins nine timer and single calvea ' threw times. ■■ ' j When a, cow leaks herjtnilk bathe ; the teats with spirits of camphor once a week for four applications. Waste ! ma| ; . ■'be \jpre vented urftil the ctira is ! effected by milkina three timfte "a iaf I during the grass season. | sews killing their pigs jgiv^tho a6# three or four alioea i of fat pork for two or three days before her I fc«a& for farrowing comes. TiHs' is V J sure prevention. Bo not let the sow I get too fat, and "keep her bowels loose jWith potatoes and other light food. | Some %roßnrd:Obj^<st 16 SUfnipa aa a i food for cows, on account of their givjing the milk an. unpleasant A%y^ar. jwhen milking in the morning, or immediately afitejr' milking^ and no bad jflavour is iiai'pafted t^tihe miik t^Otago [Witness. ..,.„.: . f . ■• . • -,;.., I ' Ttere&;peha r fibres' Kfcga feach^ tfearly 'full grown and about ecjual in 1 weight land thriftinesßjlrefe fed four months as follows : — Oq6 ■> pett.^ ao>kld cottnpff <onV pen, cooked corn jneal; one pen dry Ic^iJJ^KT^j&lßpefjof the experiment, {those Jed on dry corn . ,ha,d m&de T tb» r j Lubipa afa- Ver : y comalon 1 ' ba frame both:Lincolnfc aMßaicesWrs, and jthey are easily removed*- Take a sharp knife^m^cafe: &i|a hjiaip l^ff t JM\i6fzQ khe metteftl-d4i(lt is/ig^AU^'JeP-tißrd sre^pwjislr teo|iogipaetter) } Ond^igadne,^ |n spnhg7 tne cut jytl heal up without ffcoy dressing.. r ~' r c , „r :r. r j The following r deßcripfcipQ v "of Eupatoria, bombWded by L t&e; Turks will be read with intereatj ; ~ " Eupatoria (formerly Koslov) a thriving maritimetowa' of Sffasia,; in tfie' po'veta/meg* L 4( Tfetttitt,. ia <-s&ualad* in- a'- t&f* oW J t\& : - «f X>imea,;.lS- t&i4ea. -,-ftorthWest or Old Fort, miles" northf ejtof Simferopol. . the 46w,a. stands poifia:bbWer of a : iaonofe6^o«is y pastoral (steppe, and is surrounded by low hills jtaefr'fftOfi $& eea, it presents, • wilb rffi o^asipoaL minuets,- jand its. .-Jjouaes" rolWfeff -Stithr m %B,'^ a" ' Bo|ewKat" picturesque a'ppe'iaranJseV irincipaXWttiidln& ifi. 'th&T/raViaVV^oapu^^ built by Deviet.X*iiiVi\K;?ian in 1552, and reckoned the finest in the Crimea. 4alr. Its harbor is shallow and is sjuelfcered only from the north and northeast winds, tha population is aboqt gad J ew | ? whV are u engaf^fetty' at" farmer's^ aud shepherds, snd^oalieljKtfn.^tfe&ie njumber^oieW-aaisbi^ tiakfii -far^e area of badly "9Qjl|ivfteedctgkd;*£; . | Some of the better; papers la Madrid have ( „c.omfoaaced _a -orusada •agaiasfr" b!uil^gUt^;.etfd./e^cial!y:-'agftiQii^ti^ employment of horses in them. It is s declared that there are 100 bulUringF iji Spaio, but only 12 saviagf banka, atadjhat, several of the towns which. built bull-rings have no schools. Such a fact as this helps to eptplala.Spanish cruelty and, ignoratfSe. . The first barrel of kerosene x ail which reached Zanzibar was Supposed to be a new kind of brandy,jaatf some oT the natives nearly killed themselves hinting for the point where the drunk, > comes | in. ....._ . ..