MAIL NEWS.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 4, Issue 1228, 13 November 1882, Page 2

MAIL NEWS.

The Australian cricketers are on board the mail b iat, eri routo for Sydney, ■'''■' News has been received that the Horse Guards returned from Egypt on the 20th! Their reception along the wholo: route after landing was enthusiastic to a remarkable extent.

Reports have reached London that the. Danish and Dutch Arctic expeditions are beset by ice in the Kara Sea, about 80 miles fi om the Continent. ■

' The German ship Constantia, Captain Kuehlyn, came in collision with the steamer City of Antwerp fourteen miles off the Kndystone Lighthouse on the 14th of October, and both sank .Fourteen of the steamer were drowned, " '"' ""

Barry Sullivan, actor, has consented to be nominated to Parliament by an Irish constituency on some rule principles. The Lord-Lieutenant has commuted the death sentence'of Walsh, co'ivicW as an accessory to the murdor of Constable Kavanaeh, to penal servitudo for life. A thick fog, smelling of burning turf, enshrouded the whole of St Petersburg on the 20th and 21st of: October. A vast oirole o( incendiary flics, extending; from Finland ; to. Baltic, is said to surround .the capital, and to include withiu its circumference Gatschina, where the Emperor now is,' The fires are in the wood, under which are turf pits, and they may' last for a lone time, They are attributed to the Nihilists, Overdank, the -man who wan arrested in Frisco Borne time since while manufacturing bombs, wis sentenced to death on the 19th hut/' :

SAN FRANCISCO, ■ . «■ October 22,1. p.m. The Australian cricketers have been handsomely entertained during their short stay in this city, and on Saturday played a match merely to show their style. ; Th& cricketers carryback oyer £II,OOO, Powell, the English pedestrian, has offered to bet £20,000 he will wir the coming six ilftys match in Now Yord. The saugnino bcJieve 640 miles will be made, A Bill was introduced into the Vermont, House of Representatives on the 18th hist,requiring the prison authorities to render a pris iner insensible before execution. Mr Henry Ward ■Beeoher's farewell address on retiring from tho Congrogalionalistsshows that in ; effect he denies : tho; inspiration of sacrament, the orthodoxy of the doctrine of the fall and atonement, and.also the doctrine of eternal punishment, ftt which he scoffs, .■ .'■

Major O'Connor, worth 10,000,000 dols, r was killed in a street fight in Tennessee. The keeper at Longely in Canada, has been arrested for robbing drowned petsobs who were washed on shore,.' , '''....

A cyoione visited the Yultii Abago tobacco region in Cuba, on OctoborlClh, and wrought so much damage to property, and loss of life, that the Captain General is compelled. to appeal for aid to the Spanish Minister of the colonies. . ,;: '

Professor Blackie, of Glasgow, anil others, are about to start a fresh land agitation in the Highlands, the movement is wholly independent of the' Land League. A despatch trnm, Dublin dated October 4,' says the police believe that the murderers of. Lord Frederiok Cavendish' and Under'' Secretary Bourke numbered ten, and are, still in Ireland, but that unless the aid of some informer can ba secured the crime cannot be ...brought to,the; guilty parties, The weapons used in the commission! of the murders were found some ! days' ago concealed in the rafters of stables in the rear of a house belonging to a man recently sentenced to penal servitude for intimidating Mrs Kenny, tlie widow of murdered in Seville place because he was suspected of having given information. concerning murderers.; Ms alleged' Kenny was.the ,'driye'r of the oab in which the murderorß rode. The wapons found were fonr knives nino inches long, with blades three-qnartero.of an inoh. wide. They are quito new and very sharp, and are evidently surgical knives The blades were discoloured by human blood,' The, authorities maintain the strictest silence.' Three London detectives arrived at Dublin on the lflth October with three of the.orew of tho" Gladiator," one of whom was Westgate, tho self-accused assassin who, as mentioned heforo, had sailed for the West Indies, The sailors were subjected to asoarohing examination, and the authorities are thoroughly determined to* sift .Westgate's assertions in order to quiet the public mind,