ENGLISH MAIL NEWS

Patea Mail, Volume III, Issue 212, 21 April 1877, Page 2

ENGLISH MAIL NEWS

General summary of European and American telegrams to 28th March: Lee, the author of the Mountain Meadow massacre, has been executed. He made a confession implicating Brigham Young, and said he only did as he was ordered, and was promised celestial rewards. The confession caused a great sensation at Salt Lake. Bashi Bazouks have plundered and burned two Herzegovinian villiagcs, and murdered a number of the inhabitants. A resolution in favour of the union of New Brunswick and Prince Edward’s Island has been carried by the Nova Scotia Legislature. An Amsterdam banker has offered Russia a loan of twenty-five millions of roubles, at eight per cent; but insisted on disannent, and no farther loan for five years. The offer was declined. The Times states that this is a proof of the bad state of Russian credit. It is said that recent socialist trials revealed unexpected raronifications of the movement in the higher classes and in the army. Russia has sent Montenegro twelve months provisions. Small pox is still raging in London. There is great public excitement in Jamaica over the prosecution of the Press for sedition. Committees are collecting subscriptions for defence. Trade depression in Germany has assumed serious proportions. Labour riots have occurred. Famine is feared in Silesia. Newspapers coupled their loyal greetings with a wish that the Emperor of Germany may see the speedy recovery of the nation from financial cricis. In Pennsylvania 400 collieries and 60,000 men are idle. The Cretans refused to send an Embassy to the Turkish Parliament. A British war steamer has destroyed seven villages on the Congo River (West Africa), killing three natives, as punishment for plundering an African schooner. The Court of Queen’s Bench at Halifax decided that no evils were likely to arise from the seal difficulty. Chinese troops have captured the City of Manas, and slaughtered a large number of Diongani insurgents. This is expected virtually to end the outbreak.

Outrages have been committed by the citizens of Chico (California) on the Chinese. The Earl of Derby defended Sir Henry Elliott, and challenged opponents to bring a motion raising the question before Parliament, He said war would create gi-eater horrors than those in Bulgaria. A new revolution is expected in Mexico. President Diaz’s friends are forsaking him. Fortifications at Trent, in Austria, are being carried out, in consequence of rumoured alliance between Italy and Austria, involving seizure of part of the Tyrol. Outrages equalling those of Bulgaria are reported in connection with a new rising in Bosnia. Bashi B a zonks have been burning villages and massacreing refugees. »Six hours fighting occurred between the Turks and a large body of Bosnian insurgents, which rasulted in great losses on both sides, the Turks retiring. Active preparations are being made by Turkey to fortify Kars and other positions on the Asiatic frontier. One hundred and twenty thousand troops are to be sent there. Russian forces on the Asiatic frontier are estimated at 100,000. The number of famine-stricken men employed on the Madras works has decreased to 1,800 ; those on the Bombay works have decreased to 37,000. Violent scenes have taken place in' the Trans val Republic in opposition to

President Burger’s proposal for the annexation to Britain. The life of the British Envoy is threatened. The commander of the Spanish forces in Cuba reports a successful campaign. The Pope is very ill. His life is despaired of. o AUSTRALIAN NEWS. [Per Hero.] Melbourne, April 11. The .general discipline of the troops at Sunbury is considered excellent. A General Order congratulates them. A new patent earth excavator has been tried with satisfactory results. News has been received of the loss of the Bessie, nt Beagle Bay, Western Australia. Six lives wera lost, including the master and his wife. There are 52 nominations for the Derby and 50 for the Oakes. Gavan Duffy denounces stonewalling tactics at Richmond. The body of Henry Pyle, aged fifteen, who died of typhoid fever, remained four days unburied. The mother was unable, through poverty, to bury it. The Mayor of Richmond ordered the Government undertaker to bury the body. A man named James Ellis was killed on the Deniliquin railway. WEAKNESSES AND PAPERS. IProfessor Talmag-e, in a late sermon^ addressed to newspaper men specially, says: —“ One of the great trials of this newspaper profession is the fact that they are compelled to see more of the shams of the world than any other profession. Through every newspaper office, day by day, go the weaknesses of the world, the vanities that want to be puffed, the revenges that want to be wreaked, all the mistakes that want to bo corrected, all the dull speakers who want to be thought eloquent, all the meanness that wants to get its wares noticed gratis in the editorial columns in order to save the tax of the advertising column, all the men who want to be set right who ever were wrong, all the crack-brained philosophers, with story as long as their hair, and as gloomy as their finger-nails in mourning because bereft of soap ; all the itinerant bores who come to stay five minutes and stop an hour. From the editorial and reporter! al rooms, all the follies and shams of the world are seen day by day, and the temptation is to believe neither in God, man, nor women. It is no surprise to me that in your profession there are some sceptical men. I only wonder that yon believe in anything. Unlessan editor or reporter have in bis present or his early homo, a model of earnest character, or he throw himself upon the upholding grace of God, he must make temporal and eternal shipwreck.” Holloway's Pills and Ointment. —Dyspepsia, Jaundice.—These complaints are the results of a disordered liver, which secretes bile in quality or quantity incapable of digesting food. Digestion requires a free flow of healthy bile, to promote which Holloway’s Pills and Ointment have long been famous, far eclipsing every other medicine. Food, irregularity of living, unwholesome climates, and other causes are constantly deranging the liver,. hut that important organ can, under all circumstances, soon bo regulated and healthily adjusted by Holloway’s Pills and Ointment, which directly control its vital secretion. The Ointment rubbed on the skin penetrates straight to the liver, the blood and nerves of which it speedily rectifies. One trial is all that is needed ; a cure will soon follow. Strangers and country settlers coming to Carlyle, arc very often at a loss to know which is the best and cheapest General Drapery and Clothing Establishment in the district. E. A. Adams’ Cardigan House, offers special advantages that can be met with nowhere else in the district. He keeps the largest and best assorted stock of every description of goods, imported direct—and from the)4[jK colonial houses ; which, being bought GC* the most advantageous terras, and having thorough knowledge of the business, enables him to offer goods, of sterling quality at pi ices that cannot be improved on by any other house in New Zealand. Every article is marked in plain figures, from which there is no deviation ; so that inexperienced people are as well served as the best judges, the terms being net cash, without rebate or abatement of any kind. Note the address—R. A, Adams ; Cardigan House, nearly opposite Town Hall, Carlyle. —advt.