NEWS BY THE MAIL.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1243, 25 September 1884, Page 3

NEWS BY THE MAIL.

The following are further items of news by the San Francisco mail: Her Majesty the Queen has accepted a eopy of K. Nicholas work on the King Country. It is expected that the new composite corvette Caroline, 12 guns, 1420 tons. 950 horse-power,, will shortly be commissioned for the Australian station. - Sir J. Hall intends visiting Canada on his way to New Zealand, “ Anglo-Australian,” in writing to the European Mail on the Imperial Federation Convention, says “ These remarks are not meant to draw ‘ odious comparsions,’ but I am not alone in regretting, for instance, that New Zetland did not warmly and powerfully second the action of Queensland, when that colony so boldly took the initiative in the Now Guinea matter, and I am well assured that had the Britain of the South moved with real energy on this occasion, the effect on tbe?Home Government would have been proportionately great.” Religious troubles continue in Newfoundland. On August 29th hundreds of Orangemen attacked the Roman Catholic Church yacht at Henley Harbor, and threatened the missionary, Father Lynch, with death. They tore down the Papal flag, and smeared the vessel with tar. John Maguire, a theatrical manager, was formally excommunicated during high mass at Missoula, Montana Territory, by Bishop Bromel, for the sin of arranging for a series of lectures by Bob Ingorsoll. A circus car containing sixty employees was burned near Guiley, Colorado, on the 29tb, and ten of the occupants perished in the flames, while many more were fatally injured. , . A Bill has .passed Congress placing at the disposal of the American PostmasterGeneral 90,000 dollars for the conveyance of postal matter between the United States and the Australasian colonies. It is not known how the vote will be applied. . The following vessels were loading for New Zealand when the San Francisco mail leltAt London : For Auckland— Loch Cree, Lady Jocelyn, Oamaru ; for Canterbury Opawa, Waipa, Victory, Wave-Queen, Doric; for Otago—Westland, Waitangi, Victory, Taranaki, Doric ; for Wellington —Victoiy,Piako, Doric, Helen Denny. At Liverpool: For Otago— Margaret Galbraith. The Closeburn, barque, from Lyttelton for the Channel, is announced by telegraph from -Bahia, August Bth, to have put in there with damage to bulwarks and stanchions, and with part of her cargo damaged. . Sankey, Moody’s fellow evangelist, is hopelessly broken down in health. Ben Butler on August 6th formally accepted the presidential nomination tendered him by thegreenbackers, anti-mono-polists, and laboring men. A curious case is reported from Damascus, Pennsylvania, a merchant named Coddeback, who bad been lying helpless and paralysed for three months, being cured in an instant by a stroke of lightning. He.was hurled across the room by the shock, and immediately rose with his limbs strong and flexible. A woman named Kate Smotzy, at Fort

Plain. New York, is at date in her l7oth day or fasting. She takes no nourishment and desires none. The defenceless condition and noncombattant character of the United States is exciting general attention on the part of the Press. Recent speeches delivered in Congress also emphasise the fact, and they show most conclusively that Congress has not been faithful to its trusts, and that the Republic will be fortunate indeed if some great national humiliation does not result from its neglected armament. The New York Grand Master of Oddfellows issued an address to the Order on August 19th, in which he recommended that funerals should take place at night, adding that less money ought to be spent on the dead and more on the living. He also said Oddfellowship was so rapidly decreasing in New York that it was almost unknown in polite society there. At a test case between Lula Hurst, the so-called electric girl, and a Japanese wrestler named Torakieti in N r " , ‘ York on August 7th, the physics I stre ;,.i of the Japansse proved too in : -i for the magnetism of the girl. She was like flax in his hands. Troubles broke out in the capital of Mexico on August 27th. There was a storm of bullets for over six hours, in the Place de Lissia. The guerilla leader entered the city with his rabble, yelling and firing. The night before all the Government troops had been withdrawn into the citadal and the palace, and the entry of Cacsres, although not unexpected, was somewhat of a surprise. His men captured the citadel and the church of Mercedes and Saint Augustine, from which they kept up a fusilade. They also attacked the Guadalope railway station. About 100 persons were killed in Mercedes and Badegones streets and near the Palace Square, where the fire was hottest. Finally the Government troops made a sortie, and drove out the mob. Caceres was accompanied by about ninety horsemen. They appeared to have been travelling all night, and were not in a condition to fight. The troops were well fed and fresh from their beds. Three hundred prisoners, including rioters, wore taken, but Caceres escaped. All the telegraph wires were cut for miles out of the city, and no trains were run. The fight in Saint Augustine Church was a terrible one. Caceres is said to have 1300 troops in reserve with whom ho intends to attack Callao.