NEWS BY THE MAIL.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1175, 8 May 1884, Page 4

NEWS BY THE MAIL.

The largest mail ever despatched from New York, was sent by the steamer John Elder on April 2nd, with 300 bags of letters and 326 bags of newspapers, cf which 77 were for New Zealand and Australia. Professor Wezzeroffe, in a speech, proposed to get 1000 Irishmen from Ireland to go over to America, and send them tack at intervals to destroy the arsenals, prisons, public works, and ships of war. In Cincinnati on March 28th a mob was suddenly formed to lynch a man named Berner, who was convicted of murder, and sentenced to imprisonment in the penitentiary for twenty years. The people thought the punishment insufficient, and sought to inflict a death penalty in spite of the law. There were over 1000 desperate men assembled, who attacked tha gaol and courthouse, attempting to fire both buildings by means of coal, The police and military resisted them, and the fighting on both s’des was desperate. On the second day the mob succeeded in destroying the gaol and courthouse, but previous to this Berner had been removed by an underground passage. During the fight 200 persons were killed or wounded. A coal miners’ riot of serious proportions broke out at Denain on April 4th, on the arrival of Henry Rochfort, who came to. lecture on the labor question. Some three thousand operatives assembled uttering seditious cries, and as the police were powerless, troops were sent for. The rioters fired on the soldiers, crying ‘ Long live the social republic !’ The French Government haspiesented the Queen of Tahiti with a gold medal, in honor of her visit to Paris. It is stated that the Emperor of Germany has consented to Bismarck’s retirement from the Prussian Ministry. Changes being made in the disposition of the German troops show that the Government intend to enlarge the frontier of the Empire. A London special of April sth says the Emperor William is ill, but every effort is made to conceal the fact. The official announcement declares he is merely suffering from a severe cold, but Court circles in Berlin know better, and the Kaiser’s condition is regarded with absolute alarm. A despatch to the New York Herald of April 12tb, on this subject, says the Emperor has retired to a state of pronounced dotage. He has become abnormally suspicious of every person surrounding-him* and constantly exhibits a childish eagerness to be before the public in Imperial state, and to perform his royal duties. His mania also renders him intractable to the attending physicians. One of those who discouraged the Emperor from driving out was forbidden ever to enter the Imperial presence again. Of course the authorities officially deny that the Emperor is seriously ailing. He suffers greatly from insomnia, that set in recently during a congestive chill, and which keeps the attending physicians desperately engaged at his bed all night. Horace Ealkins, of Toronto, having what he thought sufficient proof that his wife was too intimate with Hackett, a street car conductor, deliberately shot them both.

A most extraordinary catch of seals is reported from Newfoundland on April 3rd. 41,000 seals, valued at 126,000 dollars, were taken by the steamer Neptune in' twelve days. The steamer Daniel Steenman, from Antwerp for Halifax, Nova Scotia, struck on the night of April 3rd off Sambo Reads, 20 miles from the port last named. She sank almost immediately, and 90 passengers were drowned and 33 of the crew. Only six passengers and six sailors were saved. The steamer -struck during an easterly storm, with dense fog and rain. The real cause of the disaster appears to be a mistake in the captain’s observation, taking Sambo light for that of Chebuto, and so getting wrong bearings. The editor of a Madrid comic journal has been sentenced to eight years’ imprisonment for publishing an offensive caricature of King Alphonso, Prince Andromeof, and M. Leighesfi. The overseer of the St. Petersburg powder mills, was arrested on April 30th. Nihilists have killed a police spy named Petnokeff, in Poland.