NEWS BY THE MAIL.

Temuka Leader, Issue 2266, 13 October 1891, Page 3

NEWS BY THE MAIL.

Lord Esmat Stewart Gordon, brother of the Marquis of Huntley and heir to the Marquisate, was declared bankrupt in London on Sept. 11. He has unsecured debts to the amount of £81,900 and his assets are placed at about £BOOO. The Queen's health is reported not good, and physicans regulate her diet more strictly than ever. Visitors find a notable increase in the Queen's aspect as respects age. Maurice Curtiß, known in the profession as "Aoul" or "Pbser," the play in which he made a fortune, was arrested for murder, which prevents his intended Australian tour. A policeman arrested him' for drunkenness and was later on found with a bullet through his brain, while Curtis was caught subsequently with the nippers still on his wrists. The announcement that the Prince of Wales will revisit Tranby Croft this autumn has provoked loud outcries from the religious ... Press* ■>■■ The Methodist Times, of Sept. 4, aska-i£ the Prince has not a single friend in touch with the British people, and warns him that his conduct excites. deep emotion among the middle and working classes, on whom the stability of the Throne rests. The Kievlianin, published in Kieff, considers the condition of the peasants as being desperate. They are already immersed in poverty and .indebted to the State, while the taxes which they are unable to pay accumulate; and by the next spring the entire Russian peasantry. will probably be bankrupt. Reports from Warsaw show that the peasants of Central Russia are emigrating wholesale. Five hundied »mhave already abandoned their families and gone abroad. The newspapers are beginning to publish, as cures wrought by the Holy Coat, ( the restoring of, sight to the blind, and the curing of cripples; An Abbess had her withered arm restored. Each case reported is sustained by medical testimony, but the details will not be published till the exhibition of the relic is finished.

The proceedings of the Labor Congress, held in Newcastle, England, up to Sept. 12, disclosed that, among the new Trades Unions and the newer members of the old organisations, there is a predominance of feeling that shows they are deeply imbued with Socialistic and kindred doctrines. In future no British officer will be allowed to serve in the Chinese navy. This is on account of the Chinese, authorities objecting to furnish an explanation for an insult to a British officer. During a performance of Ldkine at the Opera Comique, Paris, on Sept. 5, the electric lights in the theatre were suddenly extinguished. The cause was f ound-to be that the stage carpenter had become entangled in the belts of the dynamo, and was torn in shreds. , The British steamer Elbure arrived at Antwerp on August 27 from Baltimore. On board was Captain Andrews, of the dorry Mermaid, which sailed from Boston some time ago on a transatlantic race with the dorry Sea Serpent. The latter arrived at a port in the English Channel on August 5. Andrews said in an inter•view that he had good weather till he was 35 days out from Boston; then a terrible storm came up. On August 1 a huge -wave filled the Mermaid witb.seven inches of water. The next day the boat was capsized and Andrews thought he w*slost. ■He was in the cabin, but managed to open F the hatch, climb upon the keel and right the boat. He prayed to God for the sake of his family to give him another chance_ and he would quit the business. He tb en closed himself in the cabin again and " passed two days and nights in the same way. The windfall this time continued to blow' with such force that when he opened the h*tch the little air he respired caused a sound Uke a big whistle. The lamp-oil was exhausted, and being too fatigued to keep watch he lay on the bottom of the boat four day* until picked up by the Elbure. Andrei declares that he will never attempt the royage again. The walls of an ir*>n foundry in Leeds collapsed on September 9. Two children were killed and two others were mortally On the western North Carolina railroad at 2 a.m. on August 22, at Kaiton's Bridge, near Statesville, the west bound passenger train, loaded with people, plunged into a creek owing to the spreadlng'of the rails. The descent is at least > sixty-five feet, and-, the whole tram of cars was reduced to splinters. In the fall "the Pullman sleeper leaped over all the others, and striking the ground with terrific force, was crushed like an eggshell. Twenty passengers were killed outright, nine seriously injured, and twenty badly bruised. The night was dismal, and, to increase the horror of the situation, the water in the creek had .risen. I* was only by the most heroic efforts of those who lent assistance that ttfe& injured were not drowned. The -MtigffOgers were taken from the .wreck mangled in all sorts of ways. Only two or thjtee bodies were intact. The engineer and 'flyman were cut into small pieces. .Every person in the sleeper was killed. A cro%d assailed the Salvation Army at Eastbourne* a Sussex watering place, op. August 31; Despite threats of violence, theA army resolved to parade as came tp.the watering place ffcom different directions, members of the band bringing their instruments, con-, ceaied-in sacks. They were waylaid by i roughs, however, and all theb: instruments and smashed. They after-1 wards gathered, without music, and i atarted lor their headquarters, but were again attacked. This time the poliee appeared, and attempted to protect the ;.: psraders, but before the bracks were .reached the crowd had grown So* * ar f>® that it was deemed advisable to stop w*>procession. Free fights ensued, and j jrandreds of heads were broken, -\ Some v£ the injuries inflicted by clubs and atones are of a iwious nature. The police rallied, but tne mob renewed the \attacky largely reinforced. The army Standards were captured and broken, and the uniforms of many of the men were torn to pieces, while many of the lassies fainted and had to be removed on stretchers. The crowd finally broke into the barrackß and wrecked everything they could lay hands on. Later in the day the police drove the roughs out of the place, and managed to restore order. The Pope has prohibited the Church authorities at Treves from attempting to effect L any cures by means of the Holy Coat,

I During the month of October, 1891, no ' fewer than eight hundred and seventyfour estates belonging to different members of the nobility will be sold at auction at Odessa, at the instance of the State Bank, which hold mortgages against them. These estates are j situated in thirty-nine environments of ' Russia in Europe. Nothing can better indicate the desperate straits into which ; the landed nobility of Russia is rapidly j drifting, in Bpite of the Banque de la Noblesse established and fostered by the I present Ministerial regime, than these ! foreclosures. The sales will not nearly j cover the, enormous advances by the State Bank, because not only the Hebrews but all foreigners or foreign syndicates, are unable to acquire landed property in Russia.

Despatches from Dublin of September 1 state that the crops throughout the province of Ulster are in a pitiable condition, and that in many parts of that province and elsewhere they are almost completely submerged owing to the constant rains. In some sections the crops are entirely destroyed. The river Barrow, Waterford, overflowed on Sept. 2, and thousands of acres of land were flooded. Crops were destroyed, and houses, barns, and other buildings were swept away. With regard to the famine in Russia the "Vossiche Zeitung says that Russia is undergoing a periodical famine to which she is subject, and which becomes more serious with each recurrence owing to the primitive husbandry and the inbebtedness of the peasants. Despatches received at London on September 14 say-:—lt is authoritatively stated in the North of Europe that harvest prospects are deplorable, that bread has already gone up 80 per cent, and that famine prices are feared for the winter. In--Central Sweden some of the lower valleys have been under water for weeks. In Denmark the condition of things is no better, and in both countries the wheat crop is reported to be entirely destroyed. Unfortunately the damage is not confined to wheat, which is the least important to Scandinavian cereals. The agricultural losses in Denmark are estimated at 15,000,000d015, and as one half the cultivated area in Sweden is under water the loss there, though no estimate has been made of it, can hardly be less. Hitherto these contries have maintained in good years something like a balance between exports and imports of breadstaffs, sending away oats and barley and receiving wheat and rye. Their contributions to the European market must apparently fail entirely this year, and they themselves must suffer under the failure of the Russian rye crop. The execution of Louis Bulling, for the murder of his wife, took place at Kansas City on Sept. 4, and was attended by circumstances of the most horrible description. Just before the time for his death, the doomed man shot himself in a vain effort to commit suicide, and died on the gallows shrieking for mercy and cursing his executioners. Up to a few days previous he was cheerful, in expectation of the Governor's clemency, but when he heard that his appeal had been denied he fainted, and then began to indulge in large doses of opium. The Sheriff extended the time for the execution one hour at' the criminal's piteous request, and also gave him a pint of brandy; but neither the opium nor the brandy had much effect. Then he shot and wounded himself with a pistol given him, it is said, by his spiritual adviser, Rev. Mr Lavicke. As Bulling sat on the scaffold he presented a revolting spectacle. Blood poured from his shoes, which were .filled with it by the wounds he had made, and formed dark pools on the floor of the scaffold, dripping from thence to the ground below. He cursed and swore at the deputies, cried and screamed for mercy, and skrieked in terror. Finally he was told to get up and stand on the drop. He refused, and. four deputies had to hold him whlie the rope was placed. The black cap was then drawn over his head, and Bulling screaming and blaspheming was shot through the opening. His neck was broken by the fall, and he died instantly. Immediately after the execution Mr Lavicke was arrested for handing Bulling a pistol. Mr Peter Sells, one of the proprietors, and Mr Charles Stow, the general Press agent, of one of the largest circusses that ever left this coast for the colonies, are passengers on the Mariposa. The show j will follow in the October steamship from San Francisco.

Maurice Curtis has been arrested for murder, which prevents his intended Australian tour. A policeman arrested him for drunkenness, and later the policeman was found with a bullet through his brain, while Curtis was caught subsequently with the nippers still on his wrist.

Mrs Theresa Fair, the divorced wife of James G. Fair, one of the " Californian Bonanza Princes," so-called, died in San Francisco on Sunday, Sept. 13, of fatty degeneration of the heart. She leaves a fortune of 6,000,000d01. Two negroes at Raleigh, North Carolina, sentenced to receive thirty-nine lashes, asked that the spectators might be admitted to see the flogging at twentyfive cents, a head. This was agreed to by the authorities, and the blacks received tfye "gate money," enough to pay all costs.

: Messrs J. J. Coyle and P. C. Johnson sailed from New York on August 29, on board the steamship Servia,en route to tlie River Nile on what will doubtless be termed a wild goose chase. Coyte is familiar with portions of Egypt, haying served there several years in the British j army. He says:—"When L was in Oairo I had an interview with the French nuns and four priests, who expressed a belief that General Gordon is still alive. Upon their statements, which were con--'atently linked together, and 6btained from sC ljrces w hi°h> f° r prudential reasons, I am nrfff* H t - "T"!' I believe that General Gprdon isnot dead, but held as a captive," T&? object of this journey is to. ascertain whetner he is dead or alive. I will disguise myself as a native, and enter Khartoum, or else lose my head in the atttempt." Edward Clark, James Heath, and Thomas Hays, seamen in the American four-masted ship Rhoderick Birlings, were arraigned before United States Commissioner Hitchcock in New York, on August 27, charged with mutiny while on the voyage from. HarvQ on July 28 last. The three men mutinied and made an assault on Captain H. H. Wiljiams and

his son, the mate. They arm«d themselves with knives and threatened to kill the captain "udlojs the thip put back to Havre. They gaßhed the ship's hawser, and had they not been prevented would have cut it through. They were overpowered and brought to New York in irons. The accused men claim that they were triced up by the captain. Mrs Jefferson Davis, widow of the exPresident of the Confederate States, has brought a suit against the Belford Publishing Company of New York for a royalty accruing from the publication of iher late husband's memoirs