GENERAL SUMMARY.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 6, Issue 1632, 12 March 1884, Page 2

GENERAL SUMMARY.

Meetings, condemnatory of the Government's Egyptian policy were held at Guildhall Panet's Hall, Picadiljy, on the 16th. There was a crowded; attendance, and great uproar at both, The Lord Mayor presided at the Guildhall meeting, and at Piccadilly Lord Randolph Churchill presided, and Sir Robert Peel offered resolutions to the effect,that Parliament ought to be dissolved. James O'Kclly, the Egyptian correspondent ot the London Daily News, supposed to have been killed, turned up at Assaiot on January 5,.,. „. Moody began his mission at Strat-ford-Le-Bow, onJanuary 23, and notwithstanding a hurricane which provailed, 6000 people were present. The Queen's •'Mora Leaves from a Journal of my Life, in the Highlands" is announced by Smith, Elder k Co. The Royal authoress, despite entreaties by her friends, has retained most of the John Brown passages, The Times of February 3 says--" It is decided that Parliament shall be asked to grant £2,000,000 for additional defence of the Clyde," Humber, Mersey, and Tyne rivers; the Bristol Channel, Ports .Aden, oiiigapore, Hongkong, Point de Galle, and Capetown, and the islands of St. Helena, and of Ascension, all being of vital necessity for the British fleet, ;wk«cli, in case of war, will have to depend upon coaling facilities- for their power to defend our possessions, The same paper states the British army is never more than adequate for the work it Ir.is to do) and the occupation of Egypt is a: severe strain upon the ordinary military arrangements. The. importainic of; improving the defences may be judged' from the fact that Liverpool alone, which a hostile fleet might destroy, is estimated at £400,000,000."

Lord Hartington, Secretary ot War, has obtahed sanction to a scheme for increasing the effective army, The recruiting system will be modified, and the standard height made shorter. Despatches from London to February 12th say there are symptoms of trouble in Hyderabad, The new ruler is nut yet eighteen, and is an impassive voluptuary. The new Premier is not twenty, but is haughty and indiscreet, while the turbulent nobles have be.jan to ; fight among themselves.

,Mr Gladstone was the subject of an unpleasant surprise on the afternoon of February 14th, He was walking along Bond-street unattended on his way to the House of Commons, when suddenly a man seized him by the collar an>! brought him to a standstill. Mr Gladstone, with some difficulty, shook off his assailant, and continued on foot to his destination. It was asserted later that the man's action was due to a stupid wager.

At a meeting of about 15,000 people held at Sheffield on the night of the night of February 13, resolutions were passed denouncing the Egyptian policy of the Government as a sacrifice of national honor and prestige, The mayor presided.

A London despatch of January 24 says Messrs Young and Lark, lian merchants of that city, have asked for an extension of time. Their dohts are £280,000 and their assets £420,000. .->

Lord Norrey's stud stables, near Oxford, England, wore burned on January 23, together with fourteen valuable horse?. Sir Bevys, the winner oE the Derby in 1879, was saved. On the news of Baker Pasha's rout being received in London, the French Ambassador had a conference with Earl Granville, and offered the co-oper- ; ation of the French forces in Egypt, proposing that the French troops be landed at Sonakim, and marched thence to the relief of Khartoum, the ultimate settlement of the Soudan question to be left to a conference of the Powers, Lord Granville reserved his reply to the offer. During the course of a debate on the Egyptian question in i the House of Commons on Ifekuavy 14, Sir Charles Dilke read a despatch from General Gordon which he had just received, in which he said:—" Tlui telegraph lines between Khartoum and Shendy have been restored. I am proceeding to Khartoum. I believer you havo no need to have further anxiety, about this part of the Soudan. The people) great and small, are lujartily glad to bo freo from a union whi'ch-causes them sorrow," ' '• i ~:

During the rout, Mr Scudamove, the correspondent of the London Times, met an exhausted English officer. He gave him his horse, and the officer im-

mediately galloped away, leaving the correspondent in imminent danger of lik life,. Finally another officer named Maxwell took Scudamore behind him on his horse. James Hunter, the millionaire lumberman, has died, bequeathing 5000dol to each of the American humorists who have published a book. The discovery of a valuable tin mine in North Carolina, the first in the United States, is reported. .• Queen Pomare, of Tahiti, has sailed for France to interview the Government re the affairs of the island,

A strong; effort is.being made in favor of General Sherman's candidature for the Presidency. The United States Government are fitting out the whaler Thetis for the Greeley Arctic relief expedition. A peculiar and fatal disease is now devastating Montana. The sheep there swelling up and bleeding at the nose. The post mortem examination shows an extravasation of blood in the intestines. The disease is considered to be incurable.

A sudden, collapse of the' North Pacific railroad stock has reduced tho projector, Mr Villard, to poverty. Civil suits are pending against two of the prominent New York banks for 8,000,000d01s damages, for inducing capitalists, by fraudulent representations, to invest heavily while they unloaded their stocks.

Through an explosion of gas in the Crested Butte coal mines, near Denver, Colorado, forty or fifty miners perished. Tho inoueat showed that the accident arose through the miners not observing, the safty rules. * The Senate Committee on the U.S. Foreign Affairs has reported against the resolution for abrogating the Hawaiian Reciprocity Treaty. The lecture of Henry George, the socialistic reformer, at Dundee on Feb. 3, drew a packed and; enthusiastic audience,

China has given ahjEh'glish firm a large order for torpedoes. . . . / General Booth, chief of the Sal vation Army, intends making a toiir of the United States in March.

The Cobden Club have circulated 20,000 copies of a phamphletby Giffin, entitled" Progress of the working (1) classes," which Mr Gladstone announces the best answer to the doctrines advanced by Henry George.

The British Home Office and the police have been warned that serious steps have been taken to perpetrate further outrages in Kngland, the means being furnished by the New York Irish World's O'Donnell Vengeance Fund. Tho Magistrate's and the police prevented a National Leagtio meeting at Killawallen on the 26th, and it the mel6e two wome,i were knockad down, and one had several ribs broken,

The Nationalists meeting at Newport on the 27th was, however, in spito of the storm that raged at the time, attended by at least 1 10,000 people. Mayne, Biggar, and O'Brien, M.P.'s, were there, and also many priests. -A resolution was passed declaring the last Act inadequate, and tho emigration scheme a blunder. Meetings were also held at Parsonstown and Edgeworth. William Meagle, an important witness in the Phoenix Park trials, has asked protection from the Dublin authorities. His life is made miserable owing to continued prosecution and frequent assaults, which he suffers at the hands of sympathisers with the murderers.

Michael Davifct delivered a lecture at Newcastle-on-Tyne, on February 13, on the "Irish problem, and its solni.tion." Tho lecturer was received with persistent howling and hissing, and a rush was made for the platform. Thirty policemen interfered, and Davitt drew a revolver, which he held in. his hand for some minutes. He summoned the occupants of the gallery to eject the disturbers from the hall, which.they succeeded in doing, being assisted by the police. There was some fighting when the disturbers wore being ejected, and several persons wore severely wounded.. All the Western American rivers have overflowed, reaching a higher level than the almost unprecedented flood of last year. A multitude of people are homeless, and hopeless, especially in Cincinnati. An attempt is being made by the New York Legislature to suppress stock gambling, and a bill has been introduced declaring void all contracts, written or verbal, unless the party contracting to sell or transfer stock, has the same in actual possession. " A convention of farmers at Oarlow, on February Ist denounced Lord .Ross, more and the Orangemen. It was resolved to prohibit hunting on the lands of farmers, and* if necessary, to prevent it. The farmers declare they will poison their grounds. Henry Monteith and Co,, dyers, of Glasgow, failed on February sth for £103,000, with assets placed at £IIO,OOO. L, K, Martin, well-known to stock men in the colonies, is still in New York gaol. An investigation of the plans of Martin and his associates show that they intended to flood the Australian colonies with counterfeit bonds, which Martin declared he had influence to float.

Haworfch and Co. of Liverpool, commission merchants, failed on January 29th for £50,000. ■ 4 The Marquis of Hertford, who wa thrown from his horse while hunting died from the injuries received on January 24th. The Treasury Dopartment abandoned the further prosecution on the 2Gth January ot Wm. Woolfe and Edmund Bondwrand, who wero charged with being illegally in possession of dynamite. The correspondence between the British Foreign Secretary and the American Minister on the sentence of Patrick O'Donnell was presented to Parliament on February 8.. Lord Granville's replies to Mr Lowell are curt and formal, and each letter is limited to a single sentence. • The Pope sent a corner stone, and marble altar slab, on February > 7JJfor the chapel, to.be erected at CatiW been' P«#; in memory of Daniel O'Connell.' : . An explosion in the colliery at Shends Valley, Wales, on January 27, killed eleven miners,