MAIL NEWS.

Thames Star, Volume XIV, Issue 4424, 9 March 1883, Page 4

MAIL NEWS.

The Government Bill for abolishing the present Corporation of London excites wide and deep interest, and is, by the majority of thinking people, regarded as s very uncalled-for measure. It deprives the Corporation of all the privileges which it at present enjoys ; takes away from the city the control of its own metropolis into; wards, which will elect councillors, these councillors electing the Lord Mayor not the old city companies as heretofore. The magistrates will be appointed by the Lord Chancellor, and the.aldermen will be elected only for a short term, not, as at present, for life. The oity of London will merely form a certain number of wards in the metropolis, its ancient rights being all swept away. Heavy gales and floods prevailed in England on February 12th. Terrific battles have taken place between organised companies of Mexicans and bands of marauding Apaches, in the foot hills of the Sierra Madre mountains, in which the Mexicans were victorious, securing hundreds of scalps and horses. Mr Buchanan, a passenger by the City of New York for Australia, correspondent of the New .York Herald, will report on the Australian Colonies, and then make a tour. of. New Zealand.

On the 9th Jem Mace, while in New York, was advised of the drowning of his son.Albert Edward, in the Thames. He was 30 years of age, a graduate of the Liverpool Institute, and engaged in mercantile life. Mace sailed for Home on the 10th.

Two members, of; the. Salvation Army, young women, were jailed at Pater son, New Jersey, .on the ' 12th February, for attempting.: to:' murder their father. Mr Ohas. Bright, the well-known lecturer on Freethought and kindred subjects, returns to Australia by the steamship City of New,' York at date. * He has been very successful-in his American tour, regaining his health as well as improving his financial condition. ■•

The Board of trade of San Francisco, at its annual.meeting held on February the 6th, having referred the matter of the Australian Steamship-Service to the directors of the duration of the Board, said the directors; had' appoiuted a committee at their meeting on:the 9th to take up the question, and secure such action thereon as may be deemed best for'the purpose of securing a continuance of- the said mail service connecting the United States with New Zealand and New South Wales.