NEWS BY THE MAIL.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1526, 16 December 1886, Page 3

NEWS BY THE MAIL.

||r Gladstone has mado,-tJi.e, following reply to the letter from a, prominent Liberal who proposed the, presentation fo him of a national testmpnial f ‘ J. do nqt desire and;should regret.a presentation of any national testimonial, even if : the desire sprang from a feeling widely spread, which feeling I do not think exists." The in Afghanistan have been attacked by tlie Afghan General .sent' to subdue them, and have been badly 'defeated. The GenqruJ sent to Oaljul |;en cartloads of heads of, rebels jrjiled in, battle as a token of tb? yjplpry his forces hadiwLODj, A! Oabul telegram, dated October 22nd, in the Tiroes gays — {t The tpembepa of the fronlier Commission vrill leave Dabul to-morrow. They have been treated with great hospitality by the Ameer,:and allowed to visit all parts of the city and neighborhood freely. An imposing Durbar was held qn the Sfith icst., when the: Ameer, in *,tb 0 ’ presence of'/the assembled chiefs,assured Sir W.' Ridge way in emphatic terms of'his loyalty to The Engjish alliance. On the following day the Ameer pntprtaibpd the fission in his iriagnihcehfc palace recently boilf, and to-day- ,■ the ■ .■Oomnianrfer-in-Ohief. and military officers entertain Colonel Ridges way and staff in.the city. ToTtnorrow a review of troops w ’i* be "held. Great improvements have been effected in Cabu 1 , Good roads, gardens, and brjdgeg have been constructed, and telephones and the electric light are being introduced. The people, and especially the troops, are very friendly. The Paris newspaper Le Temps of October 26th published an article der preparing the attack made in the French Press on the continued occupation of JJgypt by British troops, and maintaining that the interest of ffranpe would not be served by the retirement of British authority; : The semi-official Nord Deutsche Zeitung refutes the ideas put forth in some German papers that tho relations between Great Britain and Germany have been injuriously affected by a difference of views respecting territorial annexation ip > Africa.. TW Rev. J. H. Bateman, vicar of Haile, Cumberland, was convicted at Carlisle assizes of feloniously solemnising the marriage of a youth under age, and without license or previous publication. A sentence of eighteen months’ imprison; ment with hard labor was passed. The criminal authorities of the GtW'd Duchy of Baden have issqed a noticq that since the 12th September the Countess Laujoon Jtrnim has’been missing from her' establishment in the Black J orest, She was somewhat unsettled in her mind, land went for a 'walk with an attendant, from whom she separated on ;■ some ordinary pretext,! and A no V B !$* 0

been seen, although most searching enquiries have been made about her. There is no ground in her relations to her family to account for her voluntary disappearance, so the police fear she has been the victim of a deed of violence with the object of plunder. She had in a purse on her person about £ls. A description is given of the jewellery she wore, all of a costly and very artistic character. The countess waa thirty-four years old, moderately tall and strong, of a., beautiful figure and very pleasing features, and clothed in a way corresponding to her social position. Her husband has offered £SOO reward for information. An English syndicate lias purchased an extensive ranbbe called Sunny Slope, in Southern California, which it is proposed to devote to the cultivation of grapes. It is the opinion of the managers that they can make it profitable to supply the English market with Californian wine and brandy. The condemned anarchists ef Chicago are;reapited till March next. New York working men have taken action in their .uVOr" 1