MAIL NEWS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1031, 16 November 1882, Page 1

MAIL NEWS.

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Tlio Australian cricketers have been handsomely entertained during (heirshort stay in this city, and on Saturday they played n. match merely to show their style. The cricketers carried back with them over £II,OOO. A cyclone visited the Kilkubago tobacco region, Cuba, on October 16th, and wrought so much damage to property and loss of life to individuals, that the Cap-tain-General is compelled to appeal for aid to the Spanish Minister of the Colonies. Accounts of the Peruvian Provincial Government at Arequipa, show their case to be desperate, and according" to a despa'.ch of the 21st October, ' they are 1 marching h-adlong to destruction.' Professor Biackie, of Glasgow, and others, arc about to start a fresh land agitation in the Highlands ; the movement is wholly independent of the land league. A despatch from Dublin on October 4th says the Dolice believe that the murderers of Lord Frederick 'Cavendish and UnderSecretary Burke numbered ten, and are still in Ireland, but that unless the aid of some informer car. be secured, the crime cannot be biought home so them. The Lord-Lieutenant has commuted the sentence of Walsh, convicted as an accessory to the murder of Constable K avanagh, topenal servitude for life. A thick fog smelling of burning turf covered the whole of St. Petersburg on Oct 20ch and 21sfc. A vast circle of incendiary fires, extending from Finland to the Baltic, is said to surround the capital and to includt! within its circumference Gatchina, where the Emperor now is. There are fires in the woods under which are turf pits, and they may burn for a long time. The fires are attributed to Nihilists. Overdank, airested in San Francisco some time since, while manufacturing bombs, was sentenced to death on the 10th inst. I3y a hurricane in Ireland en the Ist October, in Coik more damage ivas done on land than by any storm for 20 years pas.t The American ship Harvey Mills, from Liverpool to New York, lying at Qneenstown was driven ashore, and several yachts were sunk. Mr Bradlaugh ban issued another address to the English people, in which he says:—'ln this Parliament I will sit,' but he does not say how he intends to do it. Irish farmers and peasantry assembled at Curraghmore on the 21st inst., and forcibly put a stop to a hunt. Owing to an alarming increase of pauperism in the South of Ireland, 'he Dublin Union has taken the lead in a proposal to send one thousand able-bodied men and women to Canada at a cost of £7OOO. Galbraith's spinning mills at Glasgow have been burned. the loss being .-£50,000. A commercial traveller v. Mined Bracks was committed for trial at the Bow Street Police Court on the 14tl\ inst., for threatening to murder the Prince of Wales unless he received money from him. The threat was contained in a letter to Colonel Teesdalo, the Prince's Equerry. The prisoner is considered to be of weak intellect. He state:! he served several years iu the United States. A convention at Athenry, Galway, on the 13th October, adopting resolutions declaring the right of the country to national independence. Mr John Bright is being sharply attacked by the leading Radical journals for declaring the Egyptian war unjust. It is even said that at the next election he will lose his seat for Birmingham, just as he lost his seat for Manchester at the time of the Crimean war. It is unuored he will retire from public life at the end of the year. Baker's flour mill at Bristol has boon destroyed by fire. The loss is £50,000. The West Concert Hall at Brighton, England, Las been burned, the loss of property being £43,000. Tempting offers have been made to Mathew Arnold to engage in a lecture tour through the United States. The seat of Earl Shrewsbury has been burned. The loss is £500,000. Mr Dillon, M.P., replies to the Liverpool Land League that nothing but illhealth could have caused him to quit politics. Plaua.nau and wife, suspected of being concerned in the murder of Lord Momitmnrris at Clonbar, County Galway, on Irlepf.omuei" Sri), have been arrcs:.e.i at Cong, in ! he County named. ll is reported that the author!;—; of the Sir/, Oauai have pvoh'.mto 1 i'.■■■■ emp!o ,'u-o t of anyone who wo;-\v:'! In- or itHsisied the Urifi:;,h ha.o'.s in i!;. ; !e 0 campaign, and comvipr". ;,y many a;.thrown out of employment.

Mr Gladstone reiterates the declaration that lie is unable to interfere with the operations of Mormons in England, as he presumes that converts who go with them go willingly. General William Booth, of the Salvation Army, of London, has somewhat surprised and grieved his follower? by applying fur a renewal of a dancing license for the Eagle Tavern. The Magistrates refused to consider it. - Some of the General's recent exploits have not redounded to the honor of the Salvation Army. Stanley, the African explorer, returned to London on the 16th October. He consider the wo:k he undertook on the Congo for Ihe King of the Belgians to have been practically finished, and he 'w'iffriot return to Africa for the i, preseirte~'A belief is current among Gladstone's friends that he intends absolutely to retire into private life after the autumn session. The Marquis of Harrington is regarded as the coining Premier. The Queen of Madagascar refuses to recognise the rights of France to that island, and energetic steps are to be taken with a view to their preservation. A Paris newspaper credits England with negotiating for the purchase of 200,000 Suez Canal delegation shares. A despatch received from Vienna states a largo number of Orsini bombs were found in the rooms of Demeter Kagouse, (he companion of Overdauk. who proposed to assassinate the Emperor of Austria during his recent visit to Trieste. A street fight in KnoxvilU, Teanesse, terminated a family feud between Malregs and Major Tom O'Connor by the death of three of the parties concerned. O'Connor was the wealthiest man in"the State, being worth 10.000,000 dols. The deficit in the Dutch Budget for 1882 is 20 000,000 florins. Princess Louise and the Marquis of Lome propose to remain in British Columbia till late in November. The reduction of the public debt' in the United States during September amounted to 16.000 dols. Troub'o is feared with the Mormons in Utah, and the military garrison at Salt Lake City is to bs strengthened.