’Frisco Mail News.

Patea Mail, 31 May 1882, Page 3

’Frisco Mail News.

The inward mail reached Auckland on Monday. . 1 3;892- persons were evicted in Ireland during the first quarter of 1882. Mr Smyth, M.P., in answer to a vote of censure passed on him by the priests of Tipperary for -not supporting the Land League organization, declared in the House ; of Commons that until this conspiracy is demolished, root and branch, Ireland will never have any prosperity. Renck, Fen Wick arid Renck, wholesale liquor merchants, .London,, have failed ; i Captain Rondaire’s proposition to make ,a, great inland sea sooth of Algeria and ‘Tunis by flooding the desert is attracting, attention, and is carefully discussed by the French Council of Ministers, The project would cost about 15,000,000 dollars; and eight years. The 1 House of Commons has passed a Bill authorising the construction of Oh electric; Railway at Charing Gross, under the riyer to "Waterloo Station.

England intends to co-operate with other nations to establish a chain of oircum-poler magnetic and meteorological observations.

Thousands of hands are out of employment among the Middlesborough iron workers on account of a strike.

The burning of the Newmarket buildings 'at Aberdeen involved a loss of £IOO,OOO. Three persons were killed, j The Nihilist assassins, who shot General Shelnikoff, plundered his apartments and regained a pocket list of revolutionists which the General-had in his possession, and also complete plans he had of the Nihilistic methods of; procedure and projects. The loss of these papers is a severe blovv to the authorities. '