MAIL NEWS.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume VIII, Issue 2214, 8 February 1886, Page 2

MAIL NEWS.

January H 3. At the opening of Parliament a most import notice was posted on the Bulletin Board of the House of Lords, and was announced by Earl Kilmory, and also on the Bulletin Board of the House of Commons a motion to abolish "Vice Royalty. It was asserted authoritively on the afternoon of the 14th that Government, acting on a report of the legal advisers of the Crown, had decided to take legal proceedings to oust Bradlaugh. The main grounds of proceeding is that Bradlaugh has declared that the oath is not binding on his conscience.

The Times correspondent at Mandalay telegraphs that 10,000 rebels are scouring the country within a radius of 20 .miles of the capital, and they threaten to a'ttack the Palace, fears are entertained owing to the great reductions of British forces at Mandalay. Prosecuting Council discovered some startling evidence in the famous Preller Murder case, and a witness, a girl named Grace will be brought from Hong Kong, her evidence will be startling. On the day Maxwell arrived in San Franscisco while the two were together in the evening the girl had o.ccasion to go .down stairs, and when she returned to the room Maxwell was holding a revolver with the muzzle pointed at the door. The girl screemed, whereupon Maxwell said, don't be afraid, I won't shoot you, had it been a man I should have shot to kill.

Much interest is excited in the English steel trade by the placing of a contract for 40,000 tons of rails by the Government of Victoria for railway construction. It is said the contract has been secured by Briscoe and Sons, Australian merchants, London and Wolverhampton'. The Times correspondent writing, on January 6, says the French Government will, at the request of the Panama Canal Company, send Roussean to inspect and report op the prospect of the work. If the report is favorable a loan will be granted to push the canal to completion, and if adverse the enterprise will be allowed to collapse. A fight has taken place between abody of Rusakin (atop's said 60*00 Ghfr'l&orals,

who were crossing the Persian frontier to Winter in Russian Mogistan. Eighty Sholisorals and seventeen Cossacks were killed. The Persian Government is said to fear a Russian invasion of Khorassa. A disastrous cyclone passed over the midland counties of England on the 13th January. The Railway Station at Stratford, oh Avon; was unroofed and traffic ; on the railway stopped. The cold is so excessive in the Western States that many persons particularly in Nebraska has been frozen to death