MAIL NEWS.

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume X, Issue 1177, 17 October 1882, Page 2

MAIL NEWS.

It has leaked out that the object of the Prince of Wales's visit to the German baths is principally to reduce his stoutness. A meeting of London Chinese merchants for the purpose of inviting Chinese labor to Englund, has aroused great indignation among the working classes, ami serious labor troubles will arise if the scheme is carried out. At the Berlin cavalry maxueuvres two French oflieers were airested for making sketches ou the ground. One of the buttresses of St. Patrick's Cathedral, at Dublin, fell, and completely beheaded four women. A Russian actress, Teyghilli, shot herself in the apartments of the Due de Moray, at Paris. Mdlle. G. Bertha De Rothschild, daughter of the head of the Frankfort branch of the family, was married on the 7th to Prince Alexander De Wagram. The great mining firm of James G. Sands and Co., of New A ork, have failed, and the members disappeared. Large amounts are to be accounted for.

The Prohibition Liquor Law has been generally accepted in the State of lowa. Publicans aie turning to other pursuits. Mormon missionaries proselytising in South Carolina have been warned out of the State, and threatened with hanging. The refugee Jews are returning to Russia from America in largo numbers. Henry Strabncr, brother of the New York publisher, who was knocked down and robbed by Thugs at Mesmanese, in lowa, has died through the brutality he suffered. Notwithstanding the attempted enforcement of the Edmund law against polygamy, Mormon proselytes by thousands are flocking into Utah. * A dreadful accident has happened on the South Pacific Coast Railway, near Leando, California, through the sinking of tho track, by which the train was upset on a bridge over an estuary. Tho locomotive was jammed, and the fireman was drowned by the rising of the tide.