THE MAIL.

Patea Mail, Volume VIII, Issue 1016, 2 April 1883, Page 2

THE MAIL.

NEWS BY

SHOCKING DISTRESS in IRELAND; JOURNALISTS IN TROUBLE. DESTRUCTIVE FIRES. EPIDEMIC IN NEW YORK. NEW ZEALAND ITEMS. (PER PRESS ASSOCIATION.) AUCKLAND, This day. The City of Sydney arrived at the wharf at 7 p.m. on Saturday, The following is a summary of news ; Accounts from County Donegal indicate that the condition of people there is most distressing. The medical officer reports the people as much emaciated, in consequence of the great scarcity of fopd, and the general use of seaweed as the principal diet, . The Treasurer of the Board of Local Relief for County Mayo reports that great distress exists there. thirty persons are in the alms-house suffering from famine and fever, and 700 are on the list, needing relief. The distress |ias not been so great since 1847. People refuse to enter the work-house are dying outside for want of food. ; The Invincibles ranks are increasing in Dublin, notwithstanding the readiness of the men now in prison to betray each other. The suspects are receiving telegrams and letters of sympathy daily from all parts of the United States. Frank Byrne was released by the French authorities, on the ground that his complicity in the attempted murder of Juror Field and Judge Lawson amounted merely to introducing arms into Ireland. It was claimed that even if the arms were intended for purposes of murder the offence was a political one.* The Clepington Spinning Company’s Jute warehouse, at Dundee, was burned with 10,000 bales of jute ; loss £20,000. George W. Foote, editor, W. J. Ramsey, proprietor, and Kemp, printer, of the Free Thinker, were found guilty of blasphemous libel, and .sentenced: Foote to twelve months imprisonment, Ramsay, nine months, and Kemp, three months. The Society for the suppression -of blasphemous literature, proposes to get up cases against Professors Huxley and Tyndall, Herbert Spencer, the publishers of John Stuart Mills’ works, John Motley and others, who by their writings have sown widespread mischief, and in some cases rank atheism.

The British Foreign Secretary has instructed the Ministry at Berne to insist on annulment of decrees expelling the leaders of the Salvation army in Switzerland. The Paris police have ordered the seizure of all copies of Marshall Bazaine’s new book “ Episodes of the War of 1870 and the Beige of Metz ” found in France. The Golos newspaper was suppressed on February 25 because of its mischievous tone in discussing the ; state of Russian institutions.. U ..r The French Admiral on the Madagascar station has: been ordered to defend to the uttermost the rights of his: Government in the island. _ r The KaraperckCotton Mill; r Berlin, has been burnt and 12,000 looms destroyed. It is proposed to colonise Fernando Po with Germans. ' Janies Elliot; pugilist, and Joe Dunn,, a well known sporting man,had a difficulty in a Chicago restaurant growing out of the Mace and Slade visit, which resulted in Elliot being so severely wounded That be died next day. Dunn was badly hurt. During a set-to between JemiMace and the Maori Slade the men lost their temper and went to work at each other in Mace came out with a black eye ana a battered nose. Mad agascar envoys. ■ have;' arrived at New York and immediately left for Washington to interview President Arthur* The tariff bill passed congress without excitement on 3rd March. Providence, Rhode Island, was visited by a severe earthquake; on February 27. Ales. H. Stephens, Governor of Georgia, and ex Vice-President of the Southern Confederacy,: died on Ma'rch 4. Immediately on the arrival of the Sorrento in London, 250 carcases of frozen meat were sold at 7d and 7|d per lb.** 4 There have been largo sales. since -at 6d and 7d, The Ceylon people are delighted at Sir A Gordon’s appointment to the Governorship, ; , ■ ... 4 The Bishop of Nelson, before leaving England, ordered stained glass .windows for the churches at Pic ton and , Greymonth, . ■ ; ' Kennedy, the Scotch vocalist, was to leave for the Colonies at the end of March. Pneumonia has . assumed an, epidemic form in New York. A despatch" says that many men prominent in business and society were fatally attacked during tho week. ■: - " . • An effort is being made by the manager, Atchison, of the Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad, to divert the Oriental trade from San Francisco to Guaymas, Mexico. The steamer West mouth sailed from London for Auckland and Otago on Feb. 12.