MAIL NOTES.
The French took extraordinary measures to secure the safe transmission of their reports on the transit of Yenus. The chief of each station was required to make four copies of his report. One was to be left under a cairn in the country, the site of which was to be described in a letter to the institute ; the second was to be handed to the captain of tho first French vessel encountered, who was ordered to bring it personally to the Institute ; the third was to bo delivered to the nearest French diplomatic resident, and the fourth retained by the chief. The Times will shortly be in the law courts again as defendant in a libel suit. The money articles and its late city editor are involved this time as they were last, and the case has reference to mining transactions. It is currently reported that the Kubory action coat The Times proprietors nearly £12,000 —a largo sum to pay for protecting tho interests of the investing public. Mr. Costello, proprietor of an extensive hotel at Howth, was committed for trial for sotting fire to his premises with intent to defraud the insurance company. The property was insured for £27,000. The charge of libel against the World by Messrs. Beyfus and Buss was again before Alderman Gabriel on Friday. Mr. Edmund Yates, Mr. H. Labouohere, and Mr. Archibald Forbes wore called, but each declined to say whether lie had anything to do with tho article. Aldox-mnn Gabriel said such a strong case of public benefit had been shown, that he must dismiss the summons. .
A wonderful exhibition has been opened at Brussels. It is a collection of about a hundred landscapes of great merit, painted by a boy named Eritz Kerchove, of Bruges, who died an idiot, aged eleven years. At the Maushioh-house, Wm. Cruickshank
and Mr. Walter John Turner, two directors of the London and Paris Banicing Company, were charged with conspiracy to obtain by fraudulent means the amount of a call, and to make false entries in the books. The summons was adjourned for a fortnight. _' The sudden despatch to Natal of Sir Garnet Wolseley, accompanied by a carefully-selected military staff, is causing a good deal of gossip and surmise in military circles. Langalibalele, the neighboring chief,.who had,, on the representations of the Natal' colonists, been tried and convicted for the part he took in the
recent raid, is now—if instructions have been carried out— -a prisoner at large in the neighborhood of Cape Town, and his mild treatment by the Home Government is sure to cause quite a ferment in Natal. 1 The recall of Sir B. Pine will much inflame the local ill-feeling, so that it is well within the bounds of probability that the Earl of Carnarvon may have thought the sending of a military officer of Sir Garnet Wolseley’s tried experience and ability to the spot a not inexpedient measure. It should be noted that if Sir Garnet Rad been sent out merely as Governor and to succeed Sir B. Pine, he would not necessarily have been accompanied by a purely military staff. Sir Garnet goes out furnished by the Intelligence Department of the War Office with a complete map of Natal, and all the topographical and statistical information likely to be useful in military operations. The Central Neivs is informed that the engineer sent to survey, Daunt’s Rook has reported that it can be removed by blasting. This would save £r2oo a-year in lighthouse expenditure. A farmed.named Buckley has, been stoned to death outside Nenagh, Ireland. Two men,
named Nolan and English, have been committed for trial, charged with the murder. The rumor is renewed that a new daily paper, based on the : American style of journalism,, will shortly be started in Loudon ; and the presence of Mr. James Gordon Bennett in England is supposed to give it some countenance. The enterprising proprietor of the New York Herald has meditated such an under-
taking for some years past; and as he has plenty of capital, and is ready to spend it, such a journal as the one anticipated might have a better chance of success' than recent ventures of the kind. Mr. Edmund Yates or Mr. Bowles, of Vanity Fair, are spoken of as probable editors, or, at all events,-constant contributors. : . r
The director of the prison of Ostrowa, where Archbishop Ledochowski is confined, remits to him regularly the addresses of congratulation on his voluntary “martyrdom” as they arrive. He has received up to the present time 850 addressess, With 10,000 signatures. The Times has adopted an enterprise with which Scotch newspapers have been familiar for some years. On Tuesday morning the leading journal; began rutming a special train from London to" Liverpool, via Birmingham, for the early conveyance of its papers. The train leaves Euston station at 4.55, reaching Birmingham at 7.30, carrying copies of The Times alone. The papers will be made up into parcels on the way, and thrown out at the various stations passed. Many towns other than those by which the trajn passes will be served by the bundles being thrown out at the nearest station. By the previous arrangement, the London papers reached'• Birmingham at 9.20. By the new arrangement,: there will thus be a saving of nearly two hours, and subscribers will receive their copies—distributed by Messrs. Smith and Son—in time for perusal over breakfast. ,
A one-armed native named Nia, in the employ of Mr. Williams, manager of the Kohala plantation,' was convicted of the offence of ’adultery. While being taken to the gaol in that place he escaped from the officers in charge, and secreted himself in the canefield. During the following night the plantation store was entered, an iron box or chest opened and what money there was in it—about ten dollars —stolen. The engineer’s , room was also entered, a gun a‘nd“aoine powder-and 4 -'shot stolen. The next day he went to the gaol, and feigning that he wished to surrender himself, followed the gaoler, who unlocked the door, when Nia stepped aside, seized the gun which he had concealed around the corner of the building, and fired at the gaoler twice without bitting him. He then fled and again secreted ihmself, and had not been arrested at the latest date from Kohala. This native has been employed on the plantation for several years, and has borne a good reputation as a stefidy and faithful servant. He now stands a fair chance of serving out a long term for the attempt to kill the gaoler.— Hawaiian Gazette.
The Old Catholics have, it appears, claimed possession of the Church of Notre Dame, at Geneva, which 4 was built in 1850 on a site given by Hie authorities, with subscriptions from various parts of the world. In consequence of this, Lords Denbigh and Gainsborough and three other English Roman Catholics have addressed a remonstrance to the Cantonal Government on behalf of the English subscribers. They declare that to allow such a claim would be regarded by every -honorable Englishman as a violation of the principles of justice, honor,, and liberty, of which Switzerland had formerly a right to be considered a representative.!
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New Zealand Times, Volume XXX, Issue 4420, 20 May 1875, Page 3
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