THE ENGLISH MAIL. (PER COPTIC.)

Te Aroha News, Volume V, Issue 248, 21 March 1888, Page 3

THE ENGLISH MAIL. (PER COPTIC.)

While Mr Balfour was driving homo this evening along the northern quays the horse fell opposite St. Paul's Church. A car in which his police oscort was soated was following bo closely that, when the accident happened, the driver had not timo to pull up, and its shafts ran into the back of the carriago, but tho Chief Secretary sustained no injury. Owing to the firm manner in which the Crimes Act is being administered, the Nationalists aro not nearly so ready as before to resort to tho weapon of boycotting. A new -method of keeping up irrition ha?, however, been hit upon, and it is being appliod with varying success in several districts in Cork and Kerry. The children aro being educated in the ways of boycotting;, and quite recently more than one school has been deserted because the children of some obnoxious person did not happen to bo oxpolled at the dictation of some village tyrant. The childron of the convent and national schools at Kanturk set the example a week ago, when they loft in a body, and paradod tho streets singing seditious air*?. The children of the Christian Brothers' School followed this example, because the child of a policeman who gave evidence against Mr OBrien, M.P., and Mr Lane, M.P., is being educated there.

WAR PREPARATIONS. Vienna, January 26. Ib is rumomed here that the further extension of Russion strategic railways in Central Asia has been suspended, there being no money to go on with. The Asiatic department in St. Petersburg is said to have appealed to the Czar, and to have obtained a promise of assistance from the ecclesiastical funds. It is stated in well-in formod circles that nobody of influence, and least of all the Czar, wants war for the present. At the same time it is puerile and absurd on the part of the ofheial press to deny that armaments are going on, and that, too, on a large scale; but opinion is held that the piincipal causes of Russia's military preparations are mistrust of the Triple Alliance and want of confidence in France. News continues to be received daily of fresh preparations beyond the frontier. According to intelligence from Sfc. Petersburg, the 13th and 18th Divisions of Infantry in Garrison at Lubin are to leave for the Galician frontier. They will be roplaced by the 7fch and 10th Divisions from Warsaw. It is understood that the Army Corps hitherto quartered at Moscow will be ordered to Bessarabia. A telegram from Cracow states that two large arsenals are being constructed at Obuchoff and Tula for the manufacture of iron-clad plates and iron-clad towers after Belgian models. The Russian Minister of Marine has decided this year two new iron-clad man-of-war and three gunboat 3 shall bo built at Nikolaieff and Sevastopol.

Madrid, January 26. Nothing is known in well - informed circles of the alleged organisation of an expeditionary corps for servico for Morocco. St. Petersburg, January 26. A genex - al order of the Admiral-in-Chief announces the formation of an AmuDaria flotilla, consisting of two steamers and one transport vessel.

THE INDIAN EMPIRE. Bombay, January 26. Intelligence received here states that Captain Yate arrived at Kham-i-Ab on the 15th inst., and that the erection of boundary pillars on the Russo- Afghan frontier is now completed. Intelligence received here from Jellalabad, dated 12th inst., states that the city was decorated and illuminated on the previous day in honour of the Ameer's visit.

AMERICAN MONOPOLIES DOOMED. Philadelphia, January 26. The House has passed aresolutioninstrucbing the Commifcteo on Manufactures to investigate the facts concerning all combinations formed for controlling or curtailing the products of manufacture, or of mines or food products, thereby increasing the cost of such products, these combinations being known as associations, trusts, or "pools," or by the like names, with power to report recommendation. The Committee whilo thus engaged may sit during the session of the House, and also compel the attendance of witnesses and the production of papers. This resolution was passed in obedience to a general popular demand, both parties approving it.