NEWS BY THE MAIL.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1408, 22 October 1885, Page 2

NEWS BY THE MAIL.

A Calcutta despatch of Stpt. 10 says:— No doubt remains but th&fc a terrible famine is impendirg in India. The orops in the Deccan Lave failed for want of rain, while in Bengal they are rniued by an excess of rain and fiSods. The country for 60 miles about Oaloutta ii completely submerged, Ruieia and England have signed a protocol limiting the Ruseo-Afghan frontier, and giving tha Zalfikar Pais and Miruchuk to Afghanistan. Tbs Afghan Frontier Commission will meet in November and complete the details of tho cession. The special commissioner left London for St. Petersburg on the 13sb, his mission having been completed. In an interview he had before leaving he said the Zulfikar Pass was of no strategic importance. The eastern mouth of the Pan remains in Bosnian possession, and the Afghans might ereot fort works if they pleased. There was no great desire among the Russians to attaok them through the Pais. The Bink of Varde, in Swtden, suspended payment on September 16th, in oonsequonoe of the loss of its eistire capital by fraud. One of the directors of the Bank is the largest defaulter. Soveral of the Bank offioiali have) Seen arrested. Sir Henry Drummond Wolff, the British Snvoy, presented to the Porte a Note from the Fa* quia of Salisbury, in which the Marquis defines the syßtem of reforms in the administration of affairs in Egypt, and for the organisation of the military forces of the oountry. He proposed an Anglo-Turkish Jomroiision, and other propositions whioh the Sultan accepted. A Ohineso loan of 40,000,000 dollars has been negotiated ia Paris and Berlin for the construction of a road from Taku to Tung Ohow, twelve miles south of Pekin. A Mancheater firm has obtained the oontract for building the road. It is reported that a number of members of the expedition to Central Africa have been massacred. In a jam of people who went to hear Miss Neilsou, the prima donna, at Stockholme, on September 23rd, seventeen persona were crushed to death, and nineteen eeriotisly injured. The singer is so prostrated by the affair that she has abandoned her engagement. A lnr.?e consignment of Bloats and weasels, tbout 250 in all, are going out in the lonio under the ckarge of Mr Bay ley. Sir John Hall, Lady Hall, and family, have settled down at Maidenhead for about a year. tin? William and Lady Fox have left for New Z jalacd via San Franoisoo. The first article in The Miller this month is devoted to the consideration of Australian cereals. The Mark Lane Express also speaks very favorably indeed of the Australian and New Zealand varieties. General de Oourcey, the French Commander in the East, has ssked and teen granted full authoiity to depose the young King of Anam. China will protest against this. A number of Frenoh sailors en route from Tonquin have baen errested at Algiers, for mutiny. They will probably be shot or guillotined. Tonquin advices dated September 16th, say that the Black Flßgs are preparing for active guerilla warfare on the French army of occupation, and will soon begin aggressive operations unless terms are made. The massacre of Christians at Anam was frightful. The superior of the College, and a whole host of Christians, were slaughtered Dell mell. Some were thrown into the sea, with their hands tied behind their baoks. Borne of the missionaries tried to make a stand with muskets, but were soon defeated. Uhurches, sohools, and dwelling houses were everywhere burned. General De Courcey promised to send a gunboat, which dime to Quinhou after the place was burned down, out never fired a shot owing to the absence of orders. Cape Town of advices September 9th state that Congo savages attacked several stations of the African Association, and roasted and devoured a number of whites. All doubts of the madness of King Louis of Bavaria have been removed, and the Landgrave will pay the King's enormous debts. He will guarantee that that body shall have absolute control over the flnanoes of the Royal household. Of late the King has developed homicidal tendencies. A London Mansion House fund for the relief of obolera sufferers in Spain was opened on Bept. 12th, and the offerings amounted to £30,0C0. The opinion in that tho worst of the epidemic is pus!)., and the newspapers complain because the fund was only opened after 10,000 victims ai.d months of misery had been unrelieved. The epidemic is almost at a sta dstill in Spain, and in some plaoos is decreasing. Te Damns were sung in all the churches throughout the country on the 13th. In Toulon, in Franoe, the shops were re-opened on the 15th, and many fugitives returned to the oity. The Rnojian Government has made a grant of £IO,OOO for a new house at Askabad for General Komaroff. The eipulaioa of Germans from Rnssia is progressing actively. A despatoh from Warsaw says a large factory there had dismissed all lis German employees and replaced them with Russians, Tho Czar has conferred a decoration of a high order on Governor Sthonia, who is famous for the severe anti-German measures he has adopted in the Baldo Provinoeo. Paraell intends to send one of his staff to the United States for a few weeks to stimulate the contributions to the Parliamentary fund. Charles Henry James, late Official Asjignee to the Court of Bankruptcy at Dublin for 26 years, is a defaulter to the extent, of £3500. He was arrested on the 16th September. His difficulties grew out of turf matters. On the 16t,h September the Nationalists held 62 meetings throughout Ireland, and the amount oi enthusiasm exoeeded that in Dan O'Connell's time. The cry at; all these assemblages was " Down with directors and rack-renters." The mott notable gathering was at Glengarry, County Cork, where Mr Henley, M.P., spoke, and in the couree of his remarks said, " Although the Irish race on this island is small, far away beyond the Atlantic Ocean there are now 21,000 desoen* dants of our race planning for the good of 1 Ireland." The Munster Bank has been re-organised with a capital of £1,000,000 in £5 shares. There will bo six Directors, with power to add to their numbei. An undertaking has been entered into to pay 15s to the creditor! of the old Bank before 1887. A large Socialist meeting was held on_ September 20th, with whioh the Police inteifered, and a riot ei sued. After an hour's fighting, Mitbo«i», Secretary of the Hooialist league and Steward of the German Club, as well as six spectators, were arrested. On the following day the prisoners were brought before the Magistrate, and fined from one to two lovs. Mahone was given a month's imprisonment. A despatch of the 23rd sayi his aetion of the authorities has proved a blessing in disguise to the Socialist*, The meeting was an orderly unarmed assemblage for the purpose of discussing political problems. Most of the newspapers, including those of the Tory type, unite in denouncing the action of the police end the punishments inflicted by the Police Court. Sir Richard Ashton Ciosg has become alarmed at offending the Radioals and Soon lists, and declares he was not aware of the intended action of the police. He laid to the

demonstration com'Dittsei that ho wou'd devote oertain places to public meetings; would place socialism on the name footing with other organized bodies, and won'ri mitigate the punishment of those sentenced. By an aocident at the Otwell colbery, Ilkestone, eight miles from Derby, on Sept. 16th, 300 miners ware entombed. They were rescued by way of the f urnaoe shaft. The Belfast harbor commissioners gave a banquet on Sept. 19th to Earl Carnerron. In his after-dinner speech he said he had been struck by the vast natural resources of the west of Ireland that remained undeveloped owing to the absence of railways and market! It was a delicate question whether the Government should aid in developing these re sources, but tho circumstances of Irehnd were similar to those of the oolonies where such aid had been given, ■ On the 9th the Bank of Ireland received another £500,000 from the Bank of England to enable it to meet any extra demands that might be made on it. Mary Anderson, the aotress, accidentally wounded herself in the breast, while playing "Juliet" at the Dublin Theatre on the 25th, An uproar ensued, and the audience was only quieted on being assured by Miss Anderson that the injury was trifling. The London Olub men aooepted the proof of Sir Ohas. Dilks'a innoceMoe of the charges reoently brought against him, The father of the lady implicated is Mr Eustace Smith, M.P., and he is seen often in company with the Baronet, Jas. Bowman, the gamekeeper who is so frequently mentioned in the Queen's "Lifo in the Highlands,," has been found hanging head downwards on a wire fence in the forest on Sept. 12th. The position of the dead man forbade the idea that he committed suicide. The heroine of the well-known song " The Maid of Llangollen," died in London on Sept. 10th. Her name was Jennie Edwards, and she was proprietress of an hotel. The song was written by Charles Matthews and John Parry. Prince Battenburg has resigned from the German service, s.Bd been made a commander in the British navy. There is a ohoirus of indignation from the Bervioe papers. Mr Samuel Plimsoll proposes to contest Sheffield for a seat in Parliament. He had a tremendous reception in that oity on Sunday, the 6th. 200 workmen drew his carriage through the principal streets, Mr Plimsoll is about to marry Miss Wade, an enormously rioh spinster living in Hull, AMERICAN SUMMARY. Pan Ebanoisoo, Sept. 26. Dapfcaln Doughy, of H.M.9. Constance, lying bt San Franoiseo, was warned by an anonymous latter that the ship was endangered by an infernal machine. The Constance went to sea on the 25th instant all tight, The grape picking in California commenced on the 2nd. The yield is only from a third to half the usual crop, and the price is lower than for several years—lo dollars to 25 dollars per ton. The Rev. S. Jones, an evangelist who had taken strong grounds in favor of liquor prohibition in Georgia, had his house wrsoked by dynamite, but he himself esoaped. Mrs Parcell, mother of tbe Irish agitator, is petitioning the American Government for a pension, on aooount of the services of her father, the late Admiral Stewart. Gold in large quantities has been discovered on the Chinese side of the Amoor river, and a thousand Hibernian diggers have rushed to the spot. A great mass meeting of Irish Anuria *n sympathisers with Rome has been held in San Francisco. Monsignore Oapel addressed the meeting, and declared his dissent from those who held that England was respontible for all Ireland's ills, and who looked for all these to be cured by the mere obtaining of Home Rule. He recommended that msb. industries should be aided by patronising her manufactures and united aotion taken to saoure autenemy—not absolute separation, A new star hat been discovered in the nebula) of Andromeda. It is a glowing point of the eighth magnitude, rounded by a cloudlike nebulous mass, from which it sprang. Americas astronomers say tho appearance of this new sun throws some doubt upon some long accepted theories. The Grant memorial fund drags heavily. The international revenue authorities have seized at Lexington a thousand barrels of whisky, owned by John Thompson, distiller, and bonded to Melbourne. Hanlan, Ross, Lee and Crawley have been engaged in rowing raoes during the month, but the events have been of no importance. The races were got up by hotelkeepers. The decision of the Appeal Court upholding the sentence of death on Riel, the Canadian rebel, has oauied great excitement throughout Casada, and many threats are held out in ease the sentence is exeouted. Late Panama advioes state that tbe first seotion of the canal will be opened in October to the full breadth and depth from Colon hill to Tiger hill, a distance of 12 kilometres. The Puritan, an American yacht, boat the English yaoht Genesta in the deoiding race by 2min 44seo. The Puritan has sices been sold for 13,500 dols. She oost 30,000 dols. to build.