MAIL NEWS.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 6, Issue 1701, 3 June 1884, Page 2

MAIL NEWS.

(Reuters Telegrams—Copyright,) [by electric telegraph-j; The Pope is to issue an encyclical letter against. Freemasonry, alleging that Freemasons are blind.instruments for obscure ends in tho hands' of their chiefs, and when their interests require it they do not even shrink from crime' The damage caused in Colchester by the earthquake on April 22 is considerable, It is estimated at not less than £IO,OOO. The spire of Lion Walk Congregational Church, 150 ft high, was brought to tho ground, There is scarcely a house that is not injured by falling chimneys at Langenhoe, ten miles from Colchester. Every farm house was damaged,"'and the Church an ancient structure of stone, was shattered.

Rusden, in his new history of Australia, advocates the creation of an heralitory order of nobility in the colonies. Sir Hy. Parkes,. in a paper on the 19 th century favors the same idea. ■ ■ ■ ..

A New York World's cable from London, May" 8, says the' Grand Duke' Louis IV., of Hesse, whose reported Morganatic marriage has been the'subject of so'much gossip, has suddenly made his appearance in England-with-out his bride, and was the guest of the Queen at Windsor Castle at. the date of despatch,

'The Quern has settled £200,000 on the bride of young Louis of Ba'ttenburg,' her granddaughter. . •. •■ '' . A despatch of 16 says the Duke of Edinburgh will take the Channel-and reserve squadrons ,on a Bummer's cruise in the Baltic, visiting Eiga and Oronstadt. The visit is designed to increase friendship between Euasia; and England. ■

' The Standard on April 27 in "discussing the Greeley relief expedition condemns the decision to place the '[ Alert"'at Littleton Island. ; It believes the. Greeley party if it reached Cape Sabine ia boats' would remain there, and concludes that on the whole to be probably at this moment safe and sound at Lady Franklin Bay, atid possibly even reached Upernavit,. The article comes from a high-Arctic authority. !•'.■ There is a sensation in ■ ■: political circles caused by; the withdrawal of Lord • .Randolph Churchill from the .Conservative Union. , It seems that Churchill, after becoming £!hairman of the Union, ignored the Marquis of SaHsbury's.Central Conservative.Commifctee.: He olaimed that the Council of Union had the .control oftlie entire Conservative Parfcy,.and it hadibecome a caucus, • He appointed m Executive Committee'consisting ofhimself, : Gbrst;' and Sir H. Drummond Wolfe, and a Central Committee whioh' should work I

.;in Uatmony. ■ Ohurchill, - looking upon ihiaaa.a vote of csnaure retired fromthe i AsSqoiafeipn. VThe;correspondence::between CttMohiil feiad Salisbury is so i acrimonious: that .is ink i probabli'; Gorsfc.aiid H, Cecil Raike's i have joined Oharchill/and they propose i to form a new Party, 1 Prince Bismarck spoke on the Bth j in defence of the Mti-Socialist Bill. He < stated that if tho measure should be : rejected the .Government would discuss i it with another Parliament; should i this likewise reject the Bill.the Govern- i ment would be exonerated'from all re- i sponsibility, and could regard future deyelojjement.of social democracy with a quiet conscience. ' '' k - ; -. : - • • Owing to the discovery of a plot at Moscow to assassinate the Czar, the festivities in honor of the coming of age of the Uzarowich will be held at, St. Petersburg; ; :■' : .-'\.' : , ' The arrests of persons known to be Nihilists or Suspected "of connection with the order, continues, without abatement, ;.'■■. / ; : On the 6th May a large number of artillery officers were arrested. on a charge of being connected' with the murder of the late Chief of Police. General Sadeikin'sexplanation of these arrests is that DeGaerieff, who assassinated General Sudekin, was himself at one.time,in the artillery service. Several more Btudenta were arrested at Moscow, 'and- the first number of a paper published in the University there —the "ChesH Ivoricoh"—has been seized. The Secretary of tho Board of Justice and a mistress of a school for women have also been arrested. During tho trial at St, Petersburg of tho Blaokbank: Nihilists, Dubolzko his daughter, the prisoners stabbed themselves, the father fatally and the daughter dangerously, " The steamship. State of Florida, which left New York for Glasgow on April 12th with about 167 passengers and crew, foundered on the 18th after a collision with the barque Pomone, of Chatham, New Brunswick. Both ships went .down/almost immediately, and out of the steamer's crew only fortyfour, including the stewardess, escaped in the boats, and out of the barque's crew of 44 only the captain and two seamen :were saved.. The collision occurred at 11.30 p m, about 120 miles ;'off the Irishcoast, and the night, though moonless, was clear, with sea smooth as glass. Next morning the barque was observed bottom up.' The survivors, after being thirty-five hours in tho boats without food or water, were rescued by theNovwegian barque Theresa, of Christiana, from that port bound to Quebec. On the 22nd, twenty-four of them were transferred aboard the ship Louisa, from Cardiff for Quebec, It is believed that 130 lives were lost. A passenger named James Dennett says .the panic aboard the doomed steamship was frightful. Only four lady passengers were willing to go into the boats, and only one woman, the stewardess, was saved by the exertions of the chief engineer, who lost his life in doing so. •The captain and crew seemed paralysed. Most of the crew, were shipped at Glasgow, and the scene outside the Steamship Office, there-when the news was received is : described as heartrending.