NEWS BY THE MAIL.

Tuapeka Times, Volume III, Issue 105, 12 February 1870, Page 4

NEWS BY THE MAIL.

During the last twelve months 390,000 emigrants, or considerably more than 1000-a-day, landed in New York. This is the largest number ever disembarked in that city in a single year. Mr. Bernal Osborue was waited upon on Monday by a deputation from the temperance party in Wateribrd, and he promised them that, if refurned to Parliament, he wonld support the Permissive Bill to be introduced next session.

The Marquis of Westminister's Will. — We understand that the second son of the late Marquis of West; minister will, under the terms of his father's will, enjoy an income of no less than £20,000 a year— not £2QOOj as stated by an evening paper. The munificent gifts to the poor of Birmingham, by Mr. Josiah Mason have been somewhat under-stated in previous reports. From a reliable source it is ascertained that already no less than £300,000 has been expended on the construction and endowment of the orphanage and almshouses at Erdington.

An extraordinary " religious revival movement " is about to be commenced in London by members of the High Church party. From Sunday, the 14th November, until Advent, more than seventy churches will be opened — some of them during night and day — for special service, and a large number of preachers have been secured.

Two marriages which have been anticipated with much interest in the fashionable world were celebrated on Monday, Bth November, in Westminister Abbey. Two daughters of the Marquic of Abercorn were joined in wedlock to the Marquis of Blandford and the Marquis of Landsdowne. The Abbey was crowded, of course, by a brilliant assemblage.

Coal and Iron Trade of Staffordshire. — At a meeting at Wolverhampton on Wednesday of colliery owners and pigmabers, it was determined that the wages of their colliers and furnacemen be raised 10 per cent., and coal 6d. a ton, on Wednesday. Thick coalmen will be advanced 6d. a day, and thick coal Is a ton.

Transit of Cattle. — Miss Burdett Ooutts has caused an experiment to be made with cattle trucks fitted with Reid's patent hay-racks and water 'troughs, and with Other arrangements for the more humane transit of cattle by rail. Five heifers bought at Edinburgh were placed in one of these trucks, and the fine appearance of these animals when offered for sale at the Metropolitan market on Monday attracted general attention. Strike of Colliers in South Wales, t— The " Western M.ail " says, there is unquestionably a deter ruination on the part of the Monmouthshire colliers shortly again to resort to a strike, unless they receive'much higher wages than they are now paid. Whether the strike will be c: nfined to Monmouthshire is not yet definately settled, but there are strong rea: on? for supposing that efforts are made for a general strike throughout South Wales. Dr. Livingstone. — An extremely interesting letter by Dr. Livingstone to Lord Clarendon was read on Monday night at the Royal Geographical Society by Sir Roderick Murchison, sent from " near Lake Bangweolo, Central South Africa," and dated July, 1868. The great traveller gives a, graphic description of the upland country, which, he says, ranges between 3000 and 6000 feet above the level of the Bea, and slopes northwards. He believes it is from this elevated plateau that the sources of the Nile takes their rise. The country all round is exceedingly fertile, and the climate cold for Africa ; while the natives he found to be very friendly. Mr. Ellice, M.P. - for the, St. Andrews burghs, has declined the honour of- being made a peer. Mr. W. H. Gladstone was returned for, v^hitby by a majority of 180. The famous 'Southern, spy, Belle Boyd, has become insane, and has been sent to the Californian State Lunatic Asylum. ' The "Globe" says the British Government is disposed to reduce the single r.ate, of postage between the United States and the United Kingdom to 3d f A New York paper says there never 'existed but one Mormon, Irishman, and a Mormon, Irishwoman is something totally unknown to nafciralists. A middle.aged unmarried man has elopeji with iihe wife of a fruiterer, in Dundee. ' The woman carried off a gold watch and a considerable sum of money. The Longniddry whale has .been lifted from the rocks, where it had lain ten days," and towed across the Forsh to ■Kirkcaldy by two large steamer's. Gallaghan, the man murdered at Cork lately, received a public funeral. About one thousand, persons attended. He was buried near Mallow. The procession "passed, through the city. A man claiming to .be a minister of the Baptist Church recently married a confiding young lady in Missouri, and then coolly told her that he had eight other, wives, and that he intended to kave^another.in less than three months ! Another' outrage' is reported from Cork.' J An attack was made on the house of a "tenant-farmer named Cudding, and several- shots were fired; into a sitting : ro6m, but fprtunately no one was injured. ' 'The crime appears to be of the agrarian class.

The subscription to the fashionable stallion, Thormanby, is announced to be full, the list comprising thirty-six mares, besides four of his owner's, at 50 guineas each. He .now stands at Fairfield, instead of- Middleton-one-Row. During the present year twentyone horses, the produce of Thormanby, have, up to the end of Shrewsbury Meeting, won fifty-seven paces, producing an aggregate in stakes aloiie of £15,701. Qf th^s sum, Sunshine, for her nine victories, receives £7673, or nearly one-half, the two next highest animals being Atlantis, with £2020, and Hester, with £1840.— "■ London Sportsman." Enormous catches qf herrings have been made along the. southern and south-western coast. About 150,000 were caught off Poole/in Dorset, during the last week, and sold for 20s. per 1000. ' Two thousand a night have been caught in the nets of a simple fishing-boat in the Solent. A great number have been exported to France. A large quantity of small mackeral have also been caught in the herring nets.

A frightful accident occurred on Wednesday, 3rd November, on board Her Majesty's gun-vessel Thistle. Her engines were on trial, when the boiler burst. Seyen persons were killed, an.d fifteen 'injured — eleven very seriously, and four less so. The price asked by Sir Joseph Hawley fpr his Derby winner is stated at £5,000. There is quite a mid against betting-houses, by the police. A cigar shop keeper, by name Adams, was fined £50 for allowing betting in his place, and was afterwards fined £100, or three months' imprisonment, his assistant, Davis, being also fin,ed £30, ' and the shop abut up ; both fines were paid, and the prisoners discharged. Other cases, of a similar nature appear hi" the police reports, in which the parties were fined from £50 to £100 each. It is ctated that the late Lord Derby's stud is shortly to be sold, as the present earl has no that way. A collier, named William Gray, was sentenced to a month's imprisonment, at the Aberdare Police Court, for having been found with a tobacco-pipe in his possession in Navigation Colliery, A youaj lady, while going to her wedding in Rondout, was, thrown from her carriage and broke her leg. It was proposed to take her to a physician and have the limb set, but she refused, saying she was going feo be married firsfi ; and ? as usual, she had her way. A New York journal, which calls itself the "American Gentleman's Newspaper," has the following piece of theatrical criticism :— z '-. ( Miss Luciele Western goes through the process of singing like blazes and repenting like fury, every every evening at Niblo's Gardens." Earl Derby (says a London correspondent) is making great changes at Knowsley. Under his father's regime there must have been a vast amount of extravagence. The beer, bill was £5000 a-year ; and the sum spent, or rather charged, for corn given to the game was £250 a year. . The Pope has. granted to all Christendom a jubilee, with indulgences^ which will last as long as the sittings of the QEciinienical Council, on Saturday the 12th December. In all the churches , of Paris w collections are to be made for ' the Holy Father, Sussex foxes have taken to eating mutton. The other morning when the shepherd of Mr. Hide, of Toat's Farm, Pulborough, went into the field where his employer's flock was enclosed, he saw two foxes tearing in pieces a fine young " teg, v * while a third fox was entering the field to share the feast. On seeing the shepherd the foxes made off. The sheep was so torn that it was necessary to kill it. More Fenian Demonstrations,.— -A torch-light procession w^as., organised ■ in Waterford, which, with bands at its ' head playing national airs, marched to the hill of Bally bricken, where cheers were given for Ireland, a Republic, and O Donovan Rossa and Captain Mackay. The banners bore the inscriptions, " Mackay for Ireland," and : " God Save Ireland." Upwards of ! 12,000 persons assembled. A singular tiger story is told by the " Bombay Gazette." A Portuguese I saw two tiger cubs playing in the road in a village near Corla, and, thinking they were dogs, went after them with ! a stick, when, the mother sprang upon : him, and wounded him severely on the | head, arm, and breast. Having contented herself with knocking him down, the tigress went to look after her cubs, and the Portuguese escaped. i A man named Daniel Sutherland has committed" suicide by jumping- over the parapet on the east side of the North Bridge, Edinburgh. He fell into the old Greenmarket, and on being picked ,\ip % was found to have met with instant death. An engineer fell from s a steamboat on the Mississippi one night" not long ago, and quietly sank. When his absence was discovered, the boilers were found red hot and trembling on the brin^ <?f an explosion, having run themselves for half an hour without assistance.

It is alleged that Mr. Talbot, M.P., like Mr. Ellice, has declined the honour of a peerage. How are these matters arranged ?

Earthquake at Manilla. — A telegram received at' Galle says that a, severe earthquake had occurred' at Manilla. Every building was shaken, walls were thrown" down, and many accidents occurred in the neighbouring provinces.