NEWS BY THE MAIL.

Tuapeka Times, Volume III, Issue 190, 28 September 1871, Page 7

NEWS BY THE MAIL.

Another perious colliei'y fire has taken place at Sheffield.

Strikes in trades of all kinds are prevalent in ni.uiv tmvnp in Scotland.

The Pope complains of those "who talk of his illness and predict his death. »

At Buenrn Ay res the wool clip is a largo one this year.

A large number of churches are in course of erection iv Glasgow. An eccentric Englishman, recently deceased, has left a large fortune to ! the- Government of the United States. \ Earl Russell is .about to publish a historical essay on " Tho ' Foreign Policy of England, from 1570 to 1870.'"

' The strike among the South "Wales colliers still continuing, miners haye been brought over from Belgium. Each division, in the House of Covnmom costs the country auoufc £5 for printing and publishing the result. The .Royal arsenal at' Rio de Janeiro has been consumed by fire. The lo.ss is estimated at £300,000.

-By tho explosion of the magazine on board a Greek steamer, near Athens, more than 100 persons perished.

The total value of the presents received by the Pope on the occasiou of his Jubilee, is said to be £1,800,000.

The "oyster "prospoefs in England are very bail this' year, owing to the bad weather in the beyinning^of sum-

.mer. Tho Edinburgh College of Surgeons has revoked its permission to femalestudents to study \s ith the male students." ,

Mr. Laurence "Oliphanfc has published a letter denying that ho has withdrawn from the "Broclon Brotherhood/

During tho continuance of the great* heat in Paris, the asphalte paving was melted lileo butter.

The American Government are* making vigorous efforts to pat down. the Ku-Kl»x Kl,iu.

Three French ironclads aro held in readiness at TouLn m case of possible complications in the East.

The population of Switzerland is ascertained, by the census just taken, to be 2,360,0Q0. Of the first number of the Household Edition of the works of Charles Dickens, 80,000 copies have been issued.

In addition to the famine, Persia is being depopulated by typhus, cholera, and the plague. - ,

The post- ffiee at Lochgelly, Fife, was eet o« fire by lightning, which travelled along the telegraph wires. 'Tho census of the population of France, wMch was to have taken place inMB7L, is postponed to next year.

Tho personality of Sir John Bolt, who was at one time counsel for the notorious Major Yeiverton, has been sworn under £400,000. % A Dorsetshire farmer has been sentenced to six months' hard labour for pavagely beating an old woman, under the belfef that she was a witch.

A Bill, providing for a system of compulsory and gi-atuiious education, throughout the country, has been in- - trodueed into the French Assembly. It is decided thai tho rank and filo of tho British array are to be- armed • with a Marlini : Henry rifle, of the j same length' as the present sergeant's I rifle. Tho " G-auloia " alleges that a con- . siderabiy fall has taken place in tho level of the ocean on the French coast in consequence of tho tropical heat;. M. Eouher is about to bo -called to the bar, and make a fresh start in life. M. Jules Pavre has resumed practice as a barrister. It is asserted that tho assassin of " Marshal Prim has been arrested,. and that he had in his possession documents revealing a terrible plot. The Select Committee of the House „ of Commons on Baby Farming state that, next to London, the worst places for that practice are- Edinburgh, ' Glasgow, and Greenoek. - ' . '

An extensive strike of masons has' taken place- iv Berlin. A number of the men have bej?ii .sent to prison, but the rept, -wine 6.000 or 7000, continue to hold Socialist meetings.

The Livei'pool.Si'hool Board has de- ■ cided, by a large majority, not to admit - the Eonian Catholic Bible l but only the authorised version, into the schools of the Board. . - . . According to tho " Police Gazette " - of Hi. Petersburg, there have been 5125 cases of cholera there between * tho 17th of August, 1870, and the 22nd of June, 1371, 2090 of >which_ have ended fatally. A good deal of talk has been, occasioned by tho circumstance that" the Imperial Prince and Princess of G-er- ' mam', while iv London, were tto ffufiKlfl of the Prussian imbw^w, instead of the Q,ueen. * • ' By a recent decision iv the law courts the Marquis of Bute comes into an additional income' of- £40,000, and arrears to th«. amount of .45100,000. " The Marquis's trustees are about to run a line of steamers from Cardiff to New York. " -. " ■• • - ' A meeting of the Drake " family tqok place iv JFbw- York tfte other' day. .They cjainf-to be *t&B descendants of the fam&us.Sifc Francis lirake, and to be legally "entitled to property, ctoidly in England, to the value of £25,C00,000 eterlicg.