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Oamaru Mail, Volume IV, Issue 1319, 2 July 1880, Page 2

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(KETJTER'S' SPEC LAI/ PER AifflOl'.) "LoKrass, ■ May 21. The Queen's speech oa o-per.ing Parliament indicated no material "difference i» the Ministerial policy feora that adopted by the late Government. I -! The Conservative/papers • maintain that the re-action has- already commenced, pointing firstly to. the. de'teat of Sir "Verlioii "Harcourt at OxSaay i 5 and, secondly,: to' the " result of tha Sandwich election,' where Mr. Cromptoa 7 jAoberts, a Conservative,v carried the-, sr.at vacated by Mr. Knatchbull-Huggimsja-' n , recently raised to the peerage >-and wiwa ' defeated Sir Goldsmith, a Libera?', by a large majority; ( thirdly, to. the defea /.fc of Mr. M'Laren, tte , lr/ ->rd-Advocate for Scotland,, by 8v Ctan? .ervative candidate at Wellington Boro' aghs, where the former 'was see&iapr rey election after accept" l ? • officc v ' G,ranvsTie addressed two c ' rc !}jj! i_des^>aiici3' l es to the Great Powers, j _ ,fiflst, <&•,! the 4th May. proposed tba note be senttW' I the 'six Great- Powers to the Porte,' j 'JwiVfing it forthwith to fulfil its obligjj 110 "' | ur.' der the conditions of the Berlin Treaji iv'ith. regard more especially to GreeJ 7 dontenegro, and Armenia. The seco despatch suggests, with regard to the • ternational Greek" Frontier Comm> ss . • that an idontical note should be ■ s spatched to the Porte, which shall cop a proposal for a conference of re PJ® S r_ i tives of the mediating powers at BerJi • L; The Prince of Wales yesterday laia r foundation stone of Truro Oat | iOne stone was laid" with Masonic r > { and another with religious ceremoniesr f : A terrible explosion took P lac ®, iv Birchall Hall Ironworks, Halsall, on • i 15. 23 persons were killed and ; injured, some fatally. c [ The whole of the undergraduates i University College, Oxford, have , i rusticated, in consequence of a pra , joke, the door of the rooms of thes . proctor having been screwed up. _ . quently, the principal culprit having ; fessed, the Master of the College^ lSS ; 0 notice permitting the undergraaua Cardinal Newman delivered a lec the Oratory, Brompton, on version of England to the Catholic A gold salver from the Catholics ot - tralia was afterwards presented Cardinal. . „i„ n d i 5 The Chinese Ambassador m ling l3 n -j going to St. Petersburgh on a mission to arrange the Kuldja. jfprs burS! Accounts received from St. re o fj .liowevor, indicate strong expect-a _ rupture. General Todleben is i suited by the Government j erection of fortifications atVladivosto

and in the Amoor district. A quantity of var has been shipped there. One vessel of the volunteer fleet is leaving Cornstadt for "Vladivostock, with a quantity of torpedoes, and several other vessels, are filling ont for the Pacific. It is even thought probable that the Tekkc-Turco-ip.in expedition will be postponed. The Union S.S. Company's steamship American, bound for the Cape, broke her shaft and fonndered on April 23, near the Equator. The passengers, numbering 50, and all the crew, were safety embarked in eight boats, three of which, containing 54 souls, were picked np by the steamer Conga, and landed at Madeira. Two other boats were rescued \ v the steamer Senegal, which, however, herself was wrecked on a rock off the Canaries. In the subsequent confusion, Mr. Paterson, of a South African plantation, was drowned, but the rest were saved. Three other boat 3 are still missing. At the Tichborne demonstration in Hyde Park on Whit Monday, a resolution was passed protesting against the continued incarceration of the claimant, and the delay in reference to the writ of

error. Bo.me.vy, June 4. The Marquis of Ripon, the new Viceroy, arrived here on the 31st uli., and left for Simea yesterday evening. Great satisfaction was generally expressed at the appointment of the famous Gordon Pasha (Chinese Gordon), who arrived here with the Viceroy, bat to-day all India has been stirred by the public announcement of Colonel Cordon's resignation of his appointment. Happily no difference has occurred between the Colonel and the Viceroy leading to this most unexpected step. In the letter which Colonel Gordon ha 3 sent to the papers, he says it was mistaken judgment which induced him to accept an appointment where his own individuality of character would be lost, and in undertaking to perform dntie3, routine and ceremonial, to which his rugged nature wa3 thoroughly antagonistic. The result of the political mission sent to Sirdar Abdul Rahman, who is in AfghanTurkestan, offering him the Ameership of Cabal, i 3 awaited with some anxiety, for his decision will either smooth our way?in retiring from the country, or indefinitely prolong our stay there.