MAIL NOTES.

New Zealand Times, Volume XXX, Issue 4371, 24 March 1875, Page 3

MAIL NOTES.

(From the Glasgow Herald.) The Tomsk branch of the Russian- Imperial Bank has been the scene of a daring robbery. The thieves dug a passage underground into the vaults, and carried off upwards of £50,000. The London City Press reports that various rumors have been set afloat respecting Mr. Holloway’s intended gift to the public. The facts are, however, as follows ;—Mr. Holloway is now building-at St. Anu’s-heath, hear Virginia Water, an institution to be called “ The Holloway Sanatorium/’ for I mental -disorders, at the probable coat of £150,000. This institution is intended for patients'of the middle class, and is. to be self-supporting. -Plattß'are also being prepared for a Ladies'Uniyersitj', to be erected on the Mount 'Lee estate, near Egham, which Mr. Holloway has recently purchased. It is expected that the cost .will be upwards of £200,000, and ’it is intended that the education shall be of the highest* class. The University is not to be endowed. ’ A young woman, named, Kendal, whilst walking along the Grand Canal, Dublin, with her sweetheart, started- to run down the'steep bank of the canal,' and, being'unable- to stop, she plunged into the water, and was cL owned in the sight other companions. .H Senor Caatelar has begun in the Paris Steele a series of '/articles ori the' mission 'arid future of the :Latin races. “ The germs of hatred sown among-us by kings and emperors," says he, “ought to disappear -under the,influence of the Democracy and the’Republic. But,' in order that we,may love each other, we must know each other. It is, therefore, our duty to instruct ourselves on,the past and prepare for the future.’” - Senor Cristelir thml& that’the social and political' state'of France and Spain ought to unite the two countriud together more firmly than ever. > ( .