NEWS BY THE MAIL.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1198, 1 July 1884, Page 3

NEWS BY THE MAIL.

The mail steamer Australia arrived at Auckland on Saturday last, two days late. The following is a summary of the news brought by her : The aquarium of Bishopgate, London, was burned down on June 4th, with several lions, bears, and other specimens of natural history. Earl Granville has transmitted a Note to Washington in relation to the collection of conspiracy funds within the jurisdiction of the United States. Mr George Hudson, M.P., bequeaths £200,000 for the education and maintenance of orphans in Sunderland. A Papal Encyclical was read on Sunday, Ist June, in all the Catholic churches of England, warning the people against joining secret societies under pain of excommunication. The Earl of Euston i« about to apply for a divorce on the ground of adultery. The Countess' friends say that no evidence can be procured against her, and that the Earl wishes a divorce to enable him to marry an heiress. Moody and Sankey (the latter of wnom is ill and has quite lost bis voice) closed their English mission at Croydon on May 2<sMi, and sailed for America on the sth Jill!'.; 'I he yresent drought throughout Englai.d is almost unexampled, and such a dry season has not been known for fifteen years. Lord St. Leonards was convicted on May 23rd for an indecent assault on a servant girl named Cole. The Court reserved its decision till the June Assizes. There was intense excitement in London on May 24th over the poisoning of several people from eating what is known as "Chicago brawn," imported from America. One person died and three more are reported dying. A fire which took place in a coal pit at Portobello, Scotland, on May 22nd caused the suffocation of nine men. Mrs Leffley, who poisoned her husband last fall, was hanged at Lincoln, on May 26th. The circumstances attending the execution, according to a despatch from London, were shocking. The hangman Binns was unnecessarily and barbarously brutal in his treatment of the unhappy woman. An eye witness states hf knocked her down in the pinioning room, and choked her till her face was livid, in order to stop her screaming. The London papers generally condemn the exclusion of the Press, and say that this disgraceful scene furnishes another and quite sufficient reason for the dismissal of the drunken brute Binns from his office of hangman. . ..... PatrickDelanoy.an Invincible informer, testified at the Sligo investigation on May 23rd that his only object in giving information was to save innocent lives, and prevent others from being trapped. He was duped into assisting the Phoenix Park murderers, and was not giving evidence for money or liberty. He expected to return to a life of penal servitude. Mdlle. Colombier has been sentenced to three months' imprisonment and a fine her indecent brochure " Sarah Barnuni." . A woman was arrested at Vainla, Hungary, on June 4th, who confessed to haying poisoned four husbands and hundreds of woman during the past two years. A number of accomplices were also arrested.

The organisation of a society to pro- | cure laws to compel the cultivation of all lands suitable for agriculture, and unnecessarily withheld from tillage in England and Scotland, for the purpose of "making great Britain more nearly selfsustaining and less dependent upon America and other foreign markets for cereals, fruits and vegetables." The movement is aimed chit fly against the immense preserves for deer, grouse, partridges and pheasants in Perthshire, Aroyleshire and Inverness, Scotland, and in b Cork and all over the west coast of England. _ The American millionaire Vaoderbilt was in London on May 24th. Mormon families are mustering courage to sue the estate «f Brigham Young for property gobbled up l«y the Prophet during his lifetime. The. heirs and children of the late Jas. W. Camming.* j commenced a suit on June Ist for land worth an enormous amount, which Brigham wheedled out of the old man by church influence, in consideration of one'

dollar, Several waterspouts, or cloud bursts as they were culled, have ruined large sections of country in different parts of the Pacific Coast.

An effort is about to be made by Committees of Conservative sections to pi event the opening of theatres on Sundays, as well as processions, base ball matches and horse races on that day, in San Francisco, St,

Louis, New Orltiusaml Chicago. Sund.ny desecrations of this kind are not allowed in Philadelphia, Boston, Baltimore, CharWton and New York. A serious trouble has grown up i ri . Atlanta, Georgia, on account of the turning off of the laborers at the Rising Fawn furnaces and supplying their places with convicts.

Cyrus H. McCormick, patentee of the well known reaper, died recently in Chicago. An exodus of settlers from Manitoba to the American States of Dakota, aud Montana has set in. This was predicted as a result of the refusal of the Ottawa Government to grant the relief asked for by tiie furm«rs, and to recent action of the Canadian-Pacific Co. in refusing to build a branch railway in Manitoba. The French brig Lemorine, with 53 passengers and a crew ot nine men, sank off the Great Banks of Newfoundland on May 22rd and all perished. Latest news Irom the Isthmus of Panama (May 24th) says the Columbian trade on the Atlantic is rapidly developing; that Aspinall is in a state of filth and neglect defying description, and that the Canal Company hava discharged nearly 1000 men at that place during a fortnight. The wet season has set in, and during the recent rains the Toreas river rose five feet, and filled in the long canal cut in the Colon, and in a few hours works costing an immense amount of money had disappeared as if by magic. The dredger itself had to be dugeut. A letter from the Phillipine Islands, received on May 26th, says a band of fanatics under the leadership of a so-called prophet, appeared there last month, but the troops dispersed them with the loss of 38 killed wounded.

A violent shock of earthquake is reported to have occurred on Mav 19th at the island of Kislom, near the mouth of the Persian Gulf. Twelve Tillages were destroyed, and 200 persons were killed and many wounded. Troops are busy pursuing train wreckers in Mexico. Ten were shot on May 241 h. The hostility of the people to the new road built by Americans is very bitter.

Yellow fever is committing ravages m Havanna.

A mob at Fredericksburg on June 4th shouted " Down with Bismarck" and jeers and insults were continued for some time as Bismarck was passing through with his family for Berlin. The police subdued the mob. "'

Herr Anders, a rich landowner of Gorlitz, has bequeathed £166,600 to educate poor scholars, on condition that the beneticiares study theology, and abstain from military careers. Suicides are increasing in various parts of California, San Francisco having an unenviable pre-eminence. San Jose, Sacramento, and Centreville—Californi<tn towns —each contributed a case of selfmurder on June 4th.

Parnell has sent a formal letter of thanks to the American Land League, for their liberal contributions to the cause in Ireland, particularly to meet the election expenses of Irish members. Counsel were consulted in Philadelphia on May 24th, with a view to arresting Robert G. Ingersoll, for blasphemy, under a recent Aot. Ingersoll's lectures teem with ribald jests of religion, and the doctrine of the immortality of the boul. The probable gross yield in wheat and barley in California for the current year is stated at—wheat, 57,316,400 ; barley, 24,567,900 bushels. It is estimated there will be 1,500,000 tons for export. A religious delusion amongst negroes in several Georgia counties is rapidly spreading. They believe Christ has re-appeared in the person of one of their own race. The imposter has impressed the negroes with the belief that a "great prophet" has appeared. He has boldly declared himself to be the Messiah, and his deluded followers speak of him" as the veritable Son of God.

Hammonty, New Jersey, was excited on June 4th over the discovery of the bodies of 21 children buried in a small spot on the outskirts of the town, at the Mission Home Sanatorium, opened several years ago by Miss Nevison, a middle aged woman, for the purpose of taking young children to raise out of charity. It is stated that improper food and deficient care caused the death of 2-1 out of 23 inmates.

A Catholic priest arrived at Cairo from the Soudaa on the 28th. He reports that seven Catholics priests and four Sisters of Mercy were murdered at El Obeid. Fe also reports three priests were exposed naked to the suu for four days, and died from the effects of their exposure.