ADDITIONAL MAIL NEWS.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume VII, Issue 1983, 6 May 1885, Page 2

ADDITIONAL MAIL NEWS.

San Fiunsoisco, April 12,

; The Council of the National Rifle Association of great Britain - have decided that in consequence of the very unsettled State of affaire in England, thiey are not .-justified.' ip accepting the -challenge of the' National 'Rifle -Asaociatioh of the ; United States of America to' an international contest in 1885 at Creedmoor. Extraordinary honors and courtesies were paid to .Prince' Bismarck on' his birthday. .' The.New fork Financial Chronicle says the present views on the price of wheat are extravagant. An Anglo-Russian Company has started to. compete with Americans and Australians in furnishing England with meat. '. Gould's transatlantic cables and the Berinett-Macksiy Company engaged in a war of rates. ' It opened with a rate of sixpence a word. London, April 12. : The arrest of Sheehan in New Zealand on a charge of. the murder of his family, at Castletown' Rochehas given a melan.choly result, for his father-in-law has committed suicide. Major-R. S. McGregor, late of the BOth Regiment, has just died at Portsmouth. He served iii the New Zealand war of 1854-56, and had a;medai with clasp for service in the Ashantee war of' 1873, San Francisco, April 12. , The half-breed rebellion in Saskatchewan county, Canada, led by Kiel, head of former outbreak, is making headway. An important fight took place at Crazier, on March 29th, between the rebels and the mounted police and some civilians. Forty of the rebels were killed. AlthoughRiel has riot, according to. the General Middleton. niore than 500; real fighting men, they are. well armed and determined and mean mischief, News has been received at. Battleford thai) an Indian tribe, the Crees, had Started out on the war-pavth, stimulated by Riel's eijiissarjei and fears of a general uprising, have proved well founded, for all the Indians rapidly joined forces with' the half breed's plundering forces at Brattleford, killing the Inspectors and burning the. buildings belonging to the Hudson's Bay Company and the Government, The Government is rapidly despatching troops to the scone of trouble, Riel is fighting to prevent the lands of the Indians and half-breeds being taken from them for settlement by immigrants crossing into the country. He has now .fttfepgOOO good, men under him but no pIK "ppeJ; ; ''''|!)ret) : craolc militia regiments'of thg s.gepe of hostilities, (mil the life! Rifles at Halifax have been ordered to hold themselves in readiness .to. proct-ed to the northwest. A complete battery of muzzle-loading ninepounders with, ammunition was from London on, April 2nd, for Qantotoi to hg • !sefl in' suppressing the r^lTion. 1! ft'jtf of opinion .that'the'trouble : 'will 'hoji'lasi long but jt)lat many'yalqable 1 ; lifes"" ti'li' be sacri'fi,ce'<| jjeffjfg jt is suppressed. ' 'TheTeten Spit jfaye'psfflrrfiejl agros? the border frpi)) tlj'e making SgpjpHS japifbjp. P.ejpiitjihes'frpin Brattleford on iOih- April,'Sajrs fclie Indians at Log Lake have kIM 10 whites, among them being two priests.' Brattleford was surrounded by about 1000 Indians. The prospect is now oroillOUS of'a general Indian uprise.

Calcutta, Apiil 12,

The Atneet' pi' Afghanistan having expressed a desire to yisiVEiiglanj}, Lord Dufferin, at the request of the cabinet, liaa invited liim to London as the guest bf the Crown.

M uneasy feeling exists among military in 'jSjgland, owing to the iimiie^bmebeing filled with iii'artnil ifMb'ui', And tliby may take .to' fighting cadli other 1 , if they cannot jjgfjj/--Russians', . The British garrisons insignificant, and they jjjayS Jthfelr Ijijpj Ml in the event jjt'a 'ljefiwSiaftyj lead-