NEWS BY THE MAIL.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1638, 24 September 1887, Page 4

NEWS BY THE MAIL.

GENERAL SUM.MABY. English deteotivcß have been despatched fco New York to quietly find out the facta of the recent altompfc to blow up with dynamite the ocean ateamer Quapn. Tho bodies of six persor.?; di'ownod in the Tharacg by an accident p«fc a bout race were recovered on 25fch Aug., the next day. A French woman named Mile. Druin was arretted at the Iblo of Wight on suspicion of being a dynamiter, and impriooned, from Saturday till the following Wednesday, when it was disc that the supposed explosive in her possession wag only modelling clsy whioh aha carried in her satchel. The looal superintendent and policeman who mailo the arrest will be prosecuted. Lord and Lady Randolph Churchill are living in retirement near Vienns. The British Government has made an arrangement with tho P, and 0. .Company, by which the oompany would have three now steamers and sevan others ready for use as armed cruisers,, The Company will be paid £75,000 annually. A oompany has recently been organised in London to buy tho fsmcus Seal Del Monte minet, oolebrated its the hiitory of Mexico, The price to bo paid is stated to bo botwoen 400,000 and 500,000 dollars. The Welsh " Eiotedffodo," hold in London this year, was not n success financially, and not very lively in its exeroiees. The chief ceremony of ono one day was the chairing of tho Bard whoso odo won the Queen's prize of £SO. A collision occurred between the. British Bteamer Vorbition and the Greek steamer Andrew Vagalanfj off Lizard Point on August 13, aud resulted in the drowning of seven pers-ns. Lord and Lsdy Aberdeen propose to publish a book descriptive of their rsoeat tour in Australia and tho United States.

A total eclipae of tho eun ocourred on Aug. 19th, the line of totality passing aorons Asia and Europe. In Berlin tho ocoultation as seen preceded by deoply oolored clouds. The eclipse was r,ot observed in St. Petorsburg owing to the cloudy condition of tho eky. At Klin the sun wao obscured, but an aged Professor named' Mendeliff made a balonn ascension alone, »o ah to got above the clouds and lake observations. As there wag a hitch in filling the balloon there was considerable doubt ai to its ability to carry the aeronant, but the ascension was successfully mode by the professor, who doenended in safety near Moscow, forty miles diotait. At Dartmoor and Torquay in England the eclipse was observed for a f«w minutes. Clouds' interfered r.l; Paris and Vienna, At Jergourtz on the Yolgn., where Professor Vogel was stationed, fho sky wns overcart. Eussian observero ouoceflofully obtained numerous drawings of the corona and its spectrum. Mr Gladstone has decided in favor of Sir Edward Walking' Channel tunnel scheme, whiob, till this declaration by the ex-Premier, wan regarded as dead and buried. Knowle Hull, tho ancestral home of Sir Lionel Sackville Wcafc, at Savonoakn, Kent, was destroyed by fire on Aug, 16, Sir Lionol is British Minister at Washington. All the Parnelltte3 returned to London and were proienfc at the dobato in the Hou39 of Oommonfl on Aug. 15, when Mr Gladstone moved an address to the Queen on Lhonubjeot of the proclamation of the National Lpaguo, and praying that suoh proclamation shall not continue in force. Mr Gladstone made a jpoech in support of the motion, in which ho characterised the action of the Government as a mere fama. The .rpeeoh was a powerful one. Mr Balfour refused to submit tho dooumonts asked for, on the ground tho 4 . they wers confidential. The Daily News says that Messrs Chamberlain, Callings, and a half dozer, other Unionists, will vote in support of Mr Gladstone's motion. A Hebrow named Lspski, oondemnod to be hanged for murdering a London Jewess, was grauted a respite by tho Home Secretary at the laob moment. The Pall Mall Gszatte says that his lawyers privately convinced Mr Justice Stephen, who sentenced the man, of hie innocenoe, but the Home Secretary was with difficulty brought to stay oxeoution. Eventually Leptki made a full confession of his guilt, and was hanged on Aug. 22. On the night of August 8, in the House ot Oommonß tho Government was questioned an to the reason of ita refusal to aubmit returns uhowi' v. the numbor of Royal Prinors, or pcwons allied to royalty by marriage, who had post* in the publio service, and how many officers have been passed over by suoh appointments. Mr Smith ropliod that in tho judgment of the Government, bubo, a return would be of an invidious character, and ought not to bo granted. This called forth Eadioal orien of "Oh," and "But it must be grantrd." What provoked tho question was tho appointment of Price* L.iuis of Battenbuig to tho command of tho British ironolad Dreudnpught cv,:r tho heads of scores of seniors. :

The marripse of'Lady Fredrick Oavor.diohBentinoi; to Mr Keith St. Maur, w'nich took plftoa recently .in Hwnry Vll.'u Chipel, London, isde/oribed as the motit " social function " ot the season. . AMERICAN SUMMAKY. Feverish oscitomunt prevails iri f.ho principal co'Ht, co-nties of California ah! he oroienfc time in.regard to rod citato. Innd hns trebled &r,d quadrupled in value. The movement io caused by fia immigration of m w : -».A people from t.he Eastern States. At Oumpdwi, New. Jersey, en <he ls L August, a man named William Wi'lehir;.', whore wife goue'nt a divorce from him on account of ctuaity and no»l?ot, entered the court-room where tbo woman wan telling her story to the Justice of the Posce, shot her where she sto.id, murdered the Justice, and than blew hio brains ont. On Auguat2Brb, after a sharp earthquake, n farm in Truss Oonnly,'Kentaoi( r , sank 4 or sft, and was oonvortod into a lake. Professor An on Squire Fowif r, tin nc!e3 phrenologist, died at Connecticut en Augud 13th, a f ;ed sevenf.T-cieht rears. A despatch received in Minneto'.a on August sth reportß a terrible ease of o»nrib»lisra. Onaoldwomin at Little Red River admltn having killed ard eaten her vrholo family. BtfliT»Mon and oftnnibalism are also reported from M&okerz'e Biver. .Among recohitiong passed at a held at Syracuse, Hew Y >ik, on August 19th, in oonneotion with amoy;m!nt of which Henry George is the rmd, i<s one favoring tho Austrelien system of secret bslltf. Two canroni'prema'urflly exploded at a sham battle hold at Fnfild, Illinois, on ■August 19;h, and mutilated fjro men in a terrible manner.