NEWS BY THE MAIL.

Temuka Leader, Issue 2570, 19 October 1893, Page 3

NEWS BY THE MAIL.

It was reported in Dublin on September 20th that Archbishop Walsh had gone secretly to the United States, upon a mission connected with the welfare, spiritual and temporal of the Irish. The Chinese Viceroy, Li Hung Chang, is urging the Emperor to exterminate all foreigners in China, particularly Englishmen.

Signor Auti Maria, the Italian Minister of Justice and Ecclesiastial Affairs, has resigned because he is not in accord with the Government plan for reopening the conflict with the Vatican. The increasing symptoms of hostility displayed by the Government is attributed to the Pope’s friendshipjtowards France. The Vatican is again considering arrangements in regard to the Pope’s exile from Rome, and has already applied to Spain on the subject.

The following details of the plot to assassinate the Emperor Francis Joseph of Austria are communicated by telegram from Vienna. The story is to the effect that a Roman boy overheard two men discussing a plot that they were arranging to have the spikes removed from the rails at a certain point on the road over which the Emperor was to travel on his way to the army manoeuvres, thus wrecking the train, when in the confusion conspirators would kill the Emperor and his suite. Having heard so much the boy became frightened, ran away, and told his parents ; they, after consulting informed the police, and investigations developed the fact that spikes had recently been liosened. The road was carefully inspected and guarded, and arrangements made to send a pilot engine in advance of every train. The boy and his parents were arrested and held as witnesses. One theory of the plot is that it was hatched by the Austrian editor of a local paper of a village in Transylvania, in which the boy and parents reside, where the inhabitants are mostly Roumanians and oppressed by Magyars. Another theory is that it is the result of the recent agitation of the young Czechs, who have worked up an anti-German feeling and spread revoluntionary ideas.