NEWS BY THE SUEZ MAIL

Temuka Leader, Volume I, Issue 103, 11 December 1878, Page 3

NEWS BY THE SUEZ MAIL

[Per s.s. Hero, via Auckland ] London, Oct. 25. ’ -The British scheme of reform in Asia Minor has been signed and deliverer! to Consul Layard. Only a slight modifica- ' tion the Porte. Great satisfaction is felt at the report of a Frenchmaval demonstration being con- » port receives support from the resolution France to unite with England in prev venting Russian ascendancy in the East. The Russian Government are trying 340 Nihilists. Some have been imprisoned at Odessa since 1876. A semi-official contradiction has been given /to the report of an agitation throughout Russia to compell the Czar to resign. ; Private letters report that at present there are numerous Russian cruisers in Chinese and Japanese waters. English papers call Lord Harris’s cricketing team, a weak one, and not fairly representative. Large finds of.' gold are reported in the Transvaal, /

I The Duke of Edinburgh embarked on Boar i the Black Prince for Canada, to welo- me the M-uynis of Lome on his arrivi I. The peerage off red to Lord Odo Russel! in re ognitimi of his services at the Berlin Congress was declined. Erasmus Wilson and John Dixon were knighted for their services in connection with Cleopatra’s Needle. Instead of returning to London last week, Count Schouvaloff was summoned by the Czar to Lavadia, where it is believed he will replace Prince Gortchakoff. There is no abatement in the interest excited by the new invention for utilising the electric light. Experiments were tried on the Thames Embankment, Waterloo bridge, Billingsgate Market, and at Sheffield. Four lights, equal to 8000 standard candles, illuminated an area occupied by 30,000 persons witnessing a football match. Reports from all parts of Ireland concur that the Sunday Closing Act, which came into operation on the 13th, was received in a favourable spirit and without opposition. The breach among the Home Rulers is widening, Ireland is tiring of the agitation, and the leaders admitting the want of popular sympathy, convened a meeting in Dublin to adopt some course for its remedy, Proceedings have been taken by the Board of Trade against the first mate of the Princess Alice, and three officers of the By well Castle. Reductions of wages are reported in various industrial centres, and are resisted in some instances by strikes. A reduction of 7-J- per cent, on the Clyde came into force on the 21st, which affects 40,000 men. William Stafford, a clerk in the Liverpool branch of the Bank of England, absconded with L 15,000, and was captured in Jersey while landing from a yacht privately hired. In deference to the public demand of the Metropolitan Board of Works was taking steps to remedy the foul condition of the Thames. The water near the sewage outfall is alleged to have been poisoned by many bodies of the Princess Alice passengers. All accounts from the occupied districts of Turkey represent Russia attempting to evade the stipulations of the Berlin Treaty. There are 80,000 Russian soldiers south of the Balkans. Russia refuses to surrender the financial administration of so long as her troops occupy the province, but promises to hand over the surplus after defraying all expenses of Government, including the pay of the native militia and police under Russian officers. The military organization of Bn’garia is proceeding rapidly. A detachment of militia 40,000 string has been formed. General Todleben is forming an army of reserve in Bulgaria, with a park of artillery. Instead of the fortresses of Widdin and Rust chuck being demolished they are being armed with cannon.