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Reuter's Despatches to Patea Daily Mail ; This Day. * il "‘ , In W 4rd Mails. , Adelaide, 21st.-—Arrived, this morning—The Orient Company’s steamship Cotopaxi, from Plymouth. KING THEBAU’S BUTCHERIES. Calcutta, 21st.—Telegrams have been received’ from Burmali reporting that King Thebaiv has caused the Queen and fifty-two notables of the Kingdom to be put : to death. - N0.., details of . the massacre are yet to hand. IRISH QUESTION—“ INDISCREET’ CIRCULAR.
London, 21st.—A great outcry has been Taisedromaccount of a police circular issued by the Irish Executive, notifying that escorts and magistrates will be held blameless if, having good reason to suspect that an attack is about to be made upon them, they should shoot persons who may be innocent of crime The subject was brought rip' in the House of Commons last night, and Mr Forster, Chief Secretary for Ireland, acknowledged that the circular had been issued, and admitted:that the-^action of the' Executive was indiscreet.' During debate which -ensued, Mr Redmond, Home Rule member for New Ross, made a violent attack on the Government, and refusing to.be called to order, was suspended for alluding to Mr Forster in vilifying language.. .
DEATH OF MR DARWIN.' . London, 20th.—The death;: is anr nonneed of Mr Charles' Darwin, M. A.R.F.S., the wellrknown naturalist and philosopher, aged 73. , [Mr Darwin was the author- of the most remarkable scientific book of modern' times, “ The Origin* of Species by a Process of ' Natural : Selection,” His theory of the “ survival of the fittest ’’ has made his name universally known. He cannot be said to have originated the ’ theory, but his sciontific researches and speculations have given to the theory a force which has modest generally accepted among scientific men —accepted partially by some, wholly by others. - His later work on 'the “ Descent ot Man ” has increased his fame, and spread it among the multitude. Mr Darwin’s mother was a daughter of Josiah Wedgtvocd, the famous manufacturer of artistic pottery in England,]
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Patea Mail, 22 April 1882, Page 3
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