SUEZ MAIL NEWS.

Thames Star, Volume VIIi, Issue 2825, 5 March 1878, Page 2

SUEZ MAIL NEWS.

(Peb s.s. Abawata at Bluff.)

(P*b Phbss Aokncy.)

BLUFF. This day. The Arawata has arrived at the Bluff with the English Suez mail.

London, January 18. Terrible distress exists in South Wales. Many of the young men are emigrating to Australia. General Grant had a magnificent reception at Malta. The International Telegraph Congress meets in London on the Ist July. The principal talk will be to agree upon a uniform international tariff. Temple Bar is totally removed. All the outside stones were previously numbered. Bethual Green vestry has asked that it be re-erected in Victoria Park.

Martha Whiteside, who has taken no food for four years, has died at Market Harborough.

Great rioting occurred at Birkenhead in consequence, of the Protestants playing anti-papal airs. All the windows of St, James' Church were broken.

Lord Yarmouth, speaking at Stratford on Avon, strongly advocated the introduction of a bill rendering compulsory the slaughtering of all foreign cattle at the port of debarkation. Ho thought the English (aruiers ought to be protected now when they were beginning to feel the American competition in the meat trade.

A marriage baa been arranged between the Earl of Boseberry and Miss Hannah De Rothschild, daughter of Baron Meyer Rothschild.

The masons' strike continue!. About 270 Germans are employed at the Law Courts. Many other German masons are working elsewhere. The London Carpenters' and Joiners' Society hare gireri their employers six mouths' notice that they intend to demand an increase of a penny per hour. The matters hare resolved to obtain a supply of foreign woikmen. The Friesland, from Java, Holland, has been lost with all on board—l 44. The cargo was worth two hundred thousand pounds. Sereral large fires hare occurred in London in.mills and warehouses. ' A large jewel robbery has occurred at the residence of Lord Cottenham. Frederic Dimsdale has been sentenced to imprisonment for life for forging deeds by which he got £30,000. Much excitement has been caused by an affiliation order against a sacristan of St Mary's Bo man Catholic Church, 11 ug> by. A number of priests were examined. The proceedings extended over sereral days. ' •■'•■■ ■•'• • ■