Mail News.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 3, Issue 962, 30 December 1881, Page 2

Mail News.

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London, Deo. 19. The German Reichstag has re-elected its late President and Vice-President. A Bedouin murdered a soldier at Suez and the affair led to a riot anions; the military, in the course of whioh the Governor was subjected to an outrage. December 20. Eighteen Socialists hare been arrested* in Vienna, Forty deaths have been oaused by an explosion it Alram Colliery, near Wigan, in Lancashire, The Lord Mayor of London has communicated with the Provincial Mayors requesting 00-oporation in the movement initiated for the defence of property in Ireland during the-,present period of lawlessness, A farmer haß been murdered at Abbeyleix, Queen's County, Ireland.

In consoquenoe of the menacing attitude assumed by prominent members of the Ladies' Land League, the Government has determined to suppress the organization, : and the authorities are preparing, the prison at Grangegorman County Dublin, for the reception of political offenders.

. The Governor of Eastern Siberia reports that schooner Jeanette, fitted out for Arctio exploration purposes by James Gordon Bennett, of the New York Herald, and generally believed to 'have perished, has been discovered safe. 2ht. The Atlantic Bteamer Bath City has been wrecked and ten people drowned. She was a veiielof 1724 ton i, built in 1880. " . . . The members of the Ladies' Lund League, suppressed hy the Gnvernmentss seditious and illegal, have openly defied the aclinn of the Government. A gas explosion of a serious nature hni occurred in Vienna, causing several deaths and injuring others, . The customs authorities of New York have discovered 1800 cusps nf rifles shipped for Liverpool, described as hardware.

The Orient Company's new steamer. Austral, built entirely of steel, was launched to-day. She is intended for the Angln-Australian trade.

The thermometer known to havehepn in the baloon in which Mr Powell, M,P,, WAi s passenger, has been picked tip on »he sands, near . Portland. There ii scarcely a doubt that thebaloon and all in it have perished. 22nd. Six ladies contributed £9,000 to the fund initiated for the defonce of properly daring the preient period of talesmen in Ireland. 23rd. Since the catastrophe at the Sink .Theatre in Vienna the public h.ive almost entirely forsaken the other theatres in the city. In order to. witore confidence t're lessees of the various theatres have formed a deputation to the Emperor, ncking that expert! be appointed to report onneioj ofegrfßifrimttiiHing?,