MAIL NEWS.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 6, Issue 1723, 30 June 1884, Page 2

MAIL NEWS.

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„. ,- , Londom, 7th June. the Aquarium, in Bishopgate street, Xonrton, was burned on 4th June, with several lions, bears, and.other'specimens of natural history. •■'.-■ Benedict, the composer, has decided to visit tho United States next fall, and to leotureupon his half century' of musical experience. Earl Granville has transmitted a note to Washington iu relation to the collection of conspiracy funds' within the. jurisdiction of the United States.'

Mr Georgo Hudson, M.P., has bequeathed £200,000 for the education and maintenance of orphan's in Sunderland. The Papal-Euoyolical letter was read on Sunday, 1 1st June, in the Roman Catholic ohu.rclies in England, warning people against joining secrot societies, tinder pain of excommunication. The letter says Freemansoory at its inception was probably merely a friendly society; but, if bo, whero was the necessity for tho blind obedieuce to the demands of its votarie?

The Earl of Enston is about to apply again for a "divorce, this time on the ground of adultery. The ConntosVs friends say that no evidence can be procured against her, and that tho Earl wishes a divorce to enablo him to marry an heiress, _ Moody and Sankey (the latter of whom is ill and has quite lost his voice) closed their English mission at Croydon on 26th May, and were to leave for America on tho sth of the present month.

, The drought ihvonghout England is almost unexampled.. No such dry season has been known for 15 years,

Lord St. Leonards was convicted on 23rd • May for an indecent nssault on his servans girl named Cole. The Court has reserved ■■ its decision till the Juno Assizes, . The Duke of Marlborough has made an', offer to sell to the directory of tlie National Gallery eleven of the host pictures in the collection at Blenheim Palace, There was intense excitement": in London on 24th May, over the poisoning of several people from eating what is known : as Chicago' Brawn imported from America. One person died, and three more oft) reported dying, On the 24th May, the British' Admiralty ordered tho torpedo flotilla at Chatham and Portsmouth to prepare for service, A fire in a coil pit at Portobello, Scotland, on the 23rd May caused tho suffocation of - nine men.

Advices from Great Britain say'that tho uumbcrof visitors'trorri"that country this season to the .United State and Canada promises to be, unprecedented. One thou-' sand savants alone, including one hundred '" members of Parliament have already applied for and obtained tickets for attendance at' the meeting of the British Association at Montreal. A largo number of tho visiters, it is said propose to make American invest.' meats, .

At iv recent mooting of watch aud clack makers of London Sir John Bennett an eminent man o! the tmde. acknowledged that [unless something effective was soon done to counteract American and Swiss competition the British articJo' would bo ' extinct in a vorv few years; The business of making timekeepers in England is in a desperate state of decline, Mrs Lefllsy who poisoned her husband last fall whanged at Lincoln on the 26th< May, _ The circumstances attending. tho' execution according to a "'despatch from ' London, were shocking. The hangman— B'nns-wM unnecessarily and -barbarously • brutal iu his treatment of this unhappy woman,. An cyo witness states-that ho knocked her down in the pinioning room and choked her till her face was livid, in order lo stop her soreaming, The London papers generally condemn tho exclusion of the Press and say this disgraceful scene iunmfaanother and quite sufficient reason. for the dismissal of the drunken brute— Binns—from his office of hangman. When news of the Scotland Yard dynamite explosion and damage was received in New York, O'Donovan Rossa said, ' We've got England at last. It will not bo long before she will be on her knees, Last night's explosion is only the beginning of her trouble.' Patrick Joyce, tho secretary of the Irish Rovolutioniry Brotherhood said—- ' Last night's work ought to convince England that wo are in earnest, You need not bo surprised to hear of greater explosions before many days, Gladstone had better mind himself,' Onr London despatch of 31st May states that four of the dynamiters are captured. That ono effect of the late outrages will be, doubtless, to secure conviction, and long terms of imprisonment for Daly, Eagan, and O'Donuell, now on trial at Birmingham for t: oason and felony in connection with O'Donovan Hosso'sarrat.although many people believe that tho explosions wove not the doings of Irish Americans but of Anglo Irishmen, which makes the situation all the more serious for Irishmen in London.

There has been a marked increase in the number of agrarian crimes and outrages iu Ireland within the few days preceding latest dates, end people are beginning to trace connection between this fact and the dynamite explosions in Loudon the preceding week.

: Madame Colombier has been sentenced to three months' imprisonment and a. fine for her indecent brochure "Sarah Earnum." Franca wants a caidiual, and the Vatican will consent' to appoint one oa condition that '. . the French Government restore the grants to churches suppressed last year. Patrick Delaney, an Invincible informer, testified at the Sligo Investigation, oa 23rd May, that his only object in giviug information was to save innocent lives, and prevent " others from being trapped, Ho was duped / into assisting the Phoenix- Park murderers, / and was not giving evidence for money or / liberty. He expeotod to roturn to a life of •/ penal servitude /