SUEZ MAIL NEWS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 210, 13 December 1879, Page 2

SUEZ MAIL NEWS.

Political canvassing, in view of a general election, is going on. Professor Fawcett, Bpeaking on the Irish question, said it was better for the liberal party to be excluded from office until the youngest was gr*y with age than to obtain power by any compromise with Home Rule, "and so lend a helping hand towards dismembering the Empire. Sir M. Hicks Beach, in a speech at Birmingham, defended the annexation of the Transvaal, and showed that the Liberals offered no opposition »t the time the measures were taken.

Lord Lyttelton, at a Liberal said that "if the Liberals returned topowerthe Afghan policy would be reserved Cyprus given up, and the National Finance placed in a sound condition. The baby farming case is concluded. John and Catherine Payne were chargad with the murder of three children entrusted to their care: They were convicted on the minor charge of man slaughter, and sentenced to penal servitude for life.

Eussian papers state that if war occurs between China and Japan, Russian sympathy will be with China. Information has been received at New York that the commander of the Unite." States war steamer Hacka-.ving. fr<;.i»i A.gia, Samoa Islands, states ih\l if >:r A. Gordon hstd annexed Samoa, or bVi establislud a protectorate, it was intend. to protest against the Pagopago Harbor and, its Use aitsJ ■=•. coaling, station, and he would ha* i taken his vessel there to protect t-:<s station if necessary. Jelm Blackwood of the firm of W Ham Blackwood and Son, is de<id. Prince Leopold opened Firth Go\:=: ;,;■■. Sheffield, ongOctoher 20th.j