MAIL NEWS.

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume X, Issue 1150, 18 September 1882, Page 2

MAIL NEWS.

(per united press association.) AUCKLAND, This day. The City of Sydney arrived at Auckland, at 5 p.m., yesterday. The Hon. Mr Thos. Russell was a passenger. LONDON, August. Mons. DeLesseps waited upon the Duke of Edinburgh and assured him he feels friendly towards the British Government. The Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland declined to interfere with Judge Lawson’s course in the case of Sheriff Gray.—Judge Lawson complimented the Jury at the close of the session for the manner in which they had discharged their duties. The corporation of Limerick voted the freedom of the city to Sheriff E. Dwyer Gray at present in Dublin gaol. Wright and Sons worsted spinners at Bradford, England, have failed for £170,000. A bust of Longfellow will soon be placed in Westminister Abbey. Of ten persons arrested in Ireland for the murder of Mr Joyce and family, five are named Joyce, four Casey, and one Philbit. The Spanish ports are quarantined against the Minilla.

Mr Sellars, a Liberal, was elected to Parliament for Haddington Borough over Mr Carr, a Conservative. The stoppage of the mills has been advised by the Oldham Spinners. Trade was never at such a low ebb. Over 100 women are on trial at Grose Beekerey, in Hungary, charged with poisoning their husbands. The guilt of thirty-five of the accused has been proved. Thomas Joseph, an extensive English colliery proprietor, failed for £150,000. A Tunisian merchant escaped from Kafradowar, arrived at Alexandria, declares that the country generally is thoroughly discontented with Arabi Pasha, and are anxious for peace. This applies particularly to Cairo. Grandvizier refused the Khedive’s brother permission to serve with the British army in Egypt. Landbury and Company, London Commisl sion Merchants in the Swedish iron and timber trade have failed for £90,000.

The business failures throughout the United States for the seven days ending August 26, numbered 109.

Reports from various parts of New England are very unfavorable as regards the crops, owing to lack of rain. Ficklin, a town in Texas, was swept away by a flood on the 26th August; 40 lives were lost.

Yellow fever is ravaging Port Au Prince, in San Domingo. The decree granting an amnesty, and allowing political exiles to return, has been issued. General Sherman has announced his intention of resigning the command of the United States army and retiring to private life. Charles Speery, of Brookfield, boarding house keeper, fled the city after trying to poison his family and nine boarders with Paris green. The poison was, fortunately, discovered before any harm was done. The Freethinkers, 700 in number, led by Colonel Ingersoll, have held a convention at Watkins, New York. They propose to establish a freethought university. Additional Mail News. Gay, correspondent of the London “Daily Telegraph,” who sent a false account of the behaviour of both rifles on the outskirts of Alexandria, accusing them of rank cowardice, has been re-called. The Queen will open the new London law courts in November. About 4000 Bonapartists met in Paris on the 15th, and a resolution was passed favoring the placing of Prince Victor Napoleon upon the throne of France. Dr. Cassaquao made a speech in which he said the Imperialists were ready for power and meant to take it. Dean Goubot an Englishman, and two guides fell from a precipice while attempting the ascent of Mont Blanc. All three were shattered to pieces. Menotti Garibaldi denies that he is recruiting for Arabi. A farmer named Leahy was shot by ’a mob near Killarney. The affair was more like a military execution than an assault. The leader of the party called on No. 1 to fire, he did so, and badly wounded Heahy. The leader then ordered No. 10 to fire ; this shot also took effect, No. 14 was then summoned to give the coup de grace. Leahy [remained alive half-an-hour after being shot. Five young men, sons of farmers, have been arrested on suspicion and complicity in the murder.

Memman, Bishop of Grahamstown, in Africa, is dead.

The palace of Count Andrassy, at Vienna, has been burglarised. All his diplomas and orders, and many objects of art and antiquity were stolen. For the first time since 1878 the farmers of Sussex, Surrey, and Kent, are radiant at the harvest prospects. Richard Kelly, proprietor of the Tuam “Herald,” was committed for trial for publishing an article, written by Jas. Redpath, which is alleged to have been an incitement to the murder of Mr Burke. Bail was accepted. A mass meeting at Madrid urged the Spanish Government to increase and strengthen the navy.

Pollock Castle, Renfrewshire, a most ancient family seat in the West of Scotland, has been burned. The loss is £30,000.

The Russian steamer Muscara exploded her boilers off Roshofim. 200 persons were lost, and 120 saved.

Fitzpatrick, convicted of an attempt to kill the Recorder of Dublin, was sent to gaol for five years. The Czar has grown bold enough to dispense with his escort in riding or walking. The receipts of the United States Treasury for the week ending August 26 ar« more than ever known -*’ i ' memory. Of the Fiscal 1A ~.*1 unent the amount averages a million and a half dols. per day. A manuscript novel, by Hawthorne, has been discovered by his son, and will shortly be published. Emigration from Holland to the United States is checked, aud diverted to the Transvaal, through the exertions of several Boers f Missionaries who recently visited the Netherlands. President Arthur has decided on the strict enforcement of the eight hours' law in the Government dockyards and other public works. Mrs Scoville, sister of Guiteau has filed a bill for divorce. The Chilian garrison, 74 strong, at Concepcion, Junan, Iswaly, having illtreated some women, was attacked by the inhabitants and all massacred. News from Peru shows that the war with Chili is becoming one of extermination. The excesses of Chilian troops in the in terior have excited the population, who are rising them. The negro conspiracy to massacre the white inhabitants of Chatham County, bama, was detected by the discovery of certain papers. The whites armed and seized the leader, Jack Turner, who was hange.d at nee. The Milwaukee and St. Paul’s Railway Co. has been sold to an English Synditate, represented by Close Bros. The Right Rev. Bishop Weston, of the Orthodox Russian Church, commit fed suicide by jumping overboard from the steamship St. Paul, on nor trip from San /ranciwo to i

Alaska, whither he was bound on a visit to the Church. Famine threaten Nicaragua from the failure of the maize crop, on which the inhabitants are nearly totally dependent for food. The Marquis of Lome and Princess Louise arrive in San Francisco early in September en route for British Columbia. The Maori Chiefs now in London, have not met with any success in their starring tour. They have succeeded in getting Mr Gorst to present a petition to the House of Commons, but no discussion has as yet taken place on Native affairs, the New Zealand promised Blue Book not having been laid upon the table. The chiefs visited Lichfield and were guests of Mrs Selwyn ; they were shown the grave of the late Bishop, and were visibly affected on beholding the tomb of their late master. They are now in London, and will shortly return to New Zealand. Sir Arthur Gordon is expected to arrive in England in October. Sir George Bowen, Governor of Mauritius, in consequence of ill health, obtained an extension of his leave of absence ; he is now at Kensington. In the probate court recently, a motion was made for an order for presumption of date of the birth of the late Sir W. C. Congreve, and his brother Mr W. F. Congreve. Each brother hud passed undue the feigned name of “ William Cooke.” The elder has resided in New Zealand, and the last letter received from him was in 1860.

The Brush Electric Light Company distributed an interim dividend of £245,000, equal to 100 per cent. It is stated that a team of English cricketers, captained by the Hon. John Bligh, will visit Australia at. the end of the present season, and are expected leave England about the sth of October. The tour has been in preparation for a year, and tho names of the players announced to start are—The Hon. John Bligh, A. G. Steele, C. T. Studd, C. F. H. Leslie, J. B. Studd A. W. Reed, G. F. Vernon, T. P. Lucus, F. F. S. Tylecote, Bates, Barlow, Barnes, and Morely.