NEWS BY THE MAIL.

Temuka Leader, Issue 2530, 18 July 1893, Page 3

NEWS BY THE MAIL.

GENERAL SUMMARY.

While Archbishop Augeror was delivering the benediction in St Stephen’s Cathedral, June 10th, a bookmaker named Mutzbich, who was sitting near the middle of the building, shot himself in the head with a revolver Baroness Helene Reden, widow a millionaire and mother of the Imperial Privy Councillor Baron Reden, of Vienna, was arrested as a vagabond in that city on June 10th. She said she was penniless and homeless, and neither her son nor her daughter would support her. After ascertaining the truth of her statements the authorities sent her to the poor house, Ignitz Abeles, a Jewish recruit, twentyeight years old, committed suicide on account of the illtreatment to which he was subjected by petty officers. The authorities have ordered an inquiry into the affair.

An epidemic of suicide has broken out in Buda Pesth and other Hungarian towns. According to a telegram of June 22ud, seven cases were reported on the 21st at Buda Pesth. Cases of insanity are increasing, and the madhouses are full. This state of things is attributed to the poisonous concoctions substituted for wine, which has become scarce, owing to the ravages of the phylloxera. An official investigation into the bomb explosion at the residence of Senor Don Cauovas del Castillo, Madrid, on Tuesday, June 20th, has led to the discovery of a plot, which embraces Anarchists in several European countries. Twenty-three arrests have already been made, and others are expected. Lettters show the conspiracy to be international. The Caucasian fishermen of British Columbia are holding meetings with a view to influencing the withholding of fishing licenses from Japanese and Chinese. Whites are being crowded to the wall by these people, and scarcely a white fisherman is being employed by the canners. James Gilbert, a dynamiter, was released from prison on May 30th. He was sentenced in 1885 to penal servitude for life for having caused the dynamite explosion at the Tower and the Houses of Parliament. The reason for his release is said to be breaking down of health. A priest'and a nurse accompanied Gilbert to London, and he was taken to a hospital, where a room was engaged for him by the Irish Amnesty Association. Gilbert’s appearance corroborates recent reports about his health. He moves in a feeble way, stoops greatly, and has aged twenty years during his confinement. He has arrived in York. The Glasgow importers of Canadian cattle have cabled to the exporters to stop shipping, owing to the requirements of the Board of Agriculture that cattle must be slaughtered on arrival. These requirements are ruining the trade. A correspondent in Rome telegraphed on June 14th that the Pontiff had given a long audience to Dr. McGlynn, the New York recalcitrant priest, who was enchanted with his reception, and announces his reconciliation with the Pope. He left Rome for America after a sojourn of a few days. The anniversary of Garibaldi’s death was duly recognised on June 3rd in Rome and At his grave on the island of Capri. Southampton was in holiday dress in honour of the arrival, by the steamship Paris, on June 10th, of the first American Ambassador, Mr Thos. F. Bayard. The municipal authorities presented him with an illuminated address. Mr Bayard, in responding, said he valued his official designation chiefly as a means of giving greater facilities to more perfectly bringing about the harmony of interests between the two great branches of the English-speaking race. Mr Bayard’s manner and words captivated everybody. The Ambassador presented his credentials to the Queen on the 22nd.

It was announced in the P-’ Dlill Court of Bankruptcy that ig nQ egtate to meet the c p una a g a j ns t Mr Michael Davitt, was compelled to go into bankruptcy on account of his inability to meet the costs of the proceedings successfully instituted against him by Mr Mahoney, his Parnellite antagonist. It appears that the cottage which Mr Davitt occupies is the property of Mrs Davitt, and cannot be touched in bankruptcy. The Czechs have concluded to withdraw from the Austrian Diet on account of their hostility to Germans. Two Czech newspapers were suspended on account of their seditious tone. In England the one-hundred-day drought wrought havoc with all the crops except wheat, which is not now largely grown. The hay crop was absolutely ruined, and the vegetables and fruit crops are the worst grown in many years. Over a wide area the potatoes and peas will be a total loss. The crops in Ireland are said, to be more favourable than in England. The excavations at Delphi have unearthed a colossal marble statue of Apollo of the best antique school in excellent condition, except that its nose is broken. The seventy-fourth birthday of Queen Victoria (although the anniversary occurred on May 24th) was, by a formal order, officially celebrated on Juno 3rd. The Horse Guards paraded, and the trooping of the colours by the Foot Guards was witnessed by an enormous crowd of people, including a large number of Royalties and nobility, as well as titled foreigners.

The Bill concerning the Anglo-Russian agreement for the protection of seals in that part of the North Pacific oft’ the Russian coast, and for the punishment of poachers in those waters, passed its second reading in the House of Common- 0 without a division. The Loudon Government Board has ciaucellef _ a q summer leaves of absence to medical men, and ordered an incessant watch at all the British ports against the entrance of cholera until the end of September. A liquor veto demonstration of the temperance people was held in Hyde Park on Juno 20. More then 10,000 persons were present, and speeches were made from twenty platforms. The first of a series of meetings designed by the Unionists to rouse all London against Home Rule was hold in the Royal Surrey Theatre on the evening of June 12th. The Marquis of Salisbury was the most notable speaker. He illustrated his opinion of Mr Gladstone’s action towards Ireland by an elaborate metaphor, based on the recent disaster in Washington. The Premier, ho said, was digging a cellar under the ancient fabric of the Empire. He was working carelessly as did the men under the old theatre in Washington. If he should be allowed to continue his task, all three floors of the Imperial Building, Throne, Church, and Parliament, would come crashing down around the heads of the Liberal party.

The magnificent Villa Marie Convent at Notre Dame de Grace, two miles north of Montreal, the largest establishment of its kind in America, was almost totally destroyed by fire on June 7th. The total loss will amount to more than 1,000,000 dollars, with an insurance of 100,000 dollars.