SUEZ MAIL NEWS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1112, 31 May 1883, Page 3

SUEZ MAIL NEWS.

Burglars and highwaymen are now using bicycles on their robbing excursions in New England. A gang so mounted, raided the village of Essex on the night of the 17th, and robbed eight houses and stores and rode out of the town without awaking anyone. The gas in the mater at Riex exploded, and in the panic which followed many persons were killed. The citizens of Providence, Rhode IsItnd, have forwarded an album to President Grdvy as a souvenir of the Frenchmen who died at Yorktown fighting for American independence. Minister! Morton presented it to him on May 4th

The great Bartholdi statue of Liberty, intended for the United States, is now in a great state of forwardness. It will be three times as large as the statue of Bavaria in Munich. Its location will be Bedloe’s Island, New York Harbor, where preparations are already being made to receive it.

An explosion of fire damp in a coal mine at Layches, killed seven miners and injured many more. The citizens of Wilmington, Dele ware, being dissatisfied with the performances given by O’Brien’s circus at that place, became hostile, and on April 22nd the mob opened fire on Henderson, the manager, and his performers. The former was killed, and many of the circus people wounded. The remarkable occurrence of a female lawyer abusing a judge in open Court was witnessed at Milwaukee, Wisconsin, on the 30th April. Kate Cane, the practitioner referred to, took offence because Judge Hall appointed a male attorney instead of herself to defend a burglar. She threw a glass of water squarely in his face, saying at the same time—* Take that, you dirty dog. You have insulted me.’ The judge fined her 50dol and costs for contempt, and directed the sheriff to ‘ Take that creature out of Court.’ She refused to pay the fine, preferring to * rot in gaol first.’ Under the auspices of the Society for the propagation of the Gospel, the Kev W. H. Cooper, well-known in New Zealand is about to proceed on a tour through Canada, extending to Manitoba and Sasckatchewan districts. The Dominion Government will afford him every facility for observing the country,

During the visit of the Marquis of Lome to Boston a bomb exploded in the street near him, but no harm was done. At the Land Convention at Philadelphia it resolved that the organisation be 'called the National League of America. Alec Sullivan, of Maine,’ is President, The mother of the agitator Parnell, on being asked to place a wreath of laurel on the the bust of George Washington, made a short speech, in which she said, ‘ The position of Ireland to-day is almostsimilar to that of our country (America) in the revolutionary war, and I have inherited a drop of that blood which givls n.e an additional claim on you. My father said, and I sustain it, that the party which secures and maintains a position in an enemy’s country, is sure to come out ahead. I deny that my son has not secured that position. ’ The wreath was placed on the bust amid great enthusiasm the banner of Ireland being waved over Mrs Parnell’s head at the same time. During the proceedings the dynamite element endeavored to be beard, but it was retired and shelved with some little trouble. One of the fiercest advocates of force said the policy of the convention was like ' putting court plaster on a carbuncle.’ S. S. Box, M.L., from New York, Samuel J. Randall, and Colonel McClure, of the Philadelphia Times, were three prominent Americans who delivered speeches endorsing the object of the Convention. A naval pension of £SO per annum has just fallen vacant, by the death, in bis 80th year, of Captain D. Craigie, C.B, R.N. The deceased veteran had seen much active service, having been engaged in the operations of New Zealand in 1845, and in the Crimean war. A native of Auckland, named Win. Fergusson, aged 45, attempted to Commit suicide on the evening of the Bth instant, near Ludgate Hill station, London, in a fit of despondency lesulting from destitution. The unfortunate man ascended a ladder which he happened to pass, fastened the rope and threw himself off. When he was observed and rescued by a policeman he was quite insensible. He explained to the Lord Mayor that he

bad served both in the Navy and the Army, and on being discharged tried to support himself as a laborer. The Lord Mayor promised to try’ and assist him in getting a ship upon which he might work his passage back to Australia, where he said all his friends were, and in the meantime the prisoner was ordered to find one surety in £5 for his good behaviour. A wild panic was caused on the Paris Bourse by the death of Briedruman, one of the large brokers in the city. A general collapse of the market was feared but all deceased’s engagements were met. Workmen entering the stores of Linden are now carefully watched, to prevent the introduction of dynamite. A riotous meeting of the Salvation Army has taken place at Vallanco, in France, when the Hall in which the Salvationists were assembled was attacked by a crowd of men and women, who forced their way into the meeting and dispersed it. The Queen, in journeying from Windsor to Osborne, had to be carried in a chair to the saloon carriage at Windsor and also on board the yacht at Gosport. The effects of her sprained knee are so severe as to prevent her from walking at present. Sir James Page announces that although he expects the joint will ultimately regain its power, yet its progress will be slow) and that it will be some months before she will be able to walk or stand without fear of injuring the sprained part. The late Nihilist trials at Odessa have revealed the existence of a central Nihilist organisation,directing the proprceedings of the local Societies, and having ramifications all over Europe. The bead of the organisation is a mysterious person like 1 N o 1’ in the Irish conspiracy.