ARRIVAL OF THE ENGLISH MAIL. Auckland, Last Night.

Waikato Times, Volume XVIII, Issue 1497, 7 February 1882, Page 3

ARRIVAL OF THE ENGLISH MAIL. Auckland, Last Night.

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San Fkaxcisco, Jan 16. Garibaldi is seriously ill. The Pope refusing to fill up the census papers as required by law, a mousignore took upon himself to do so. The return shows 500 persons living in the Vatican, one-third of whom are females. The Asbton-under-Lyine weavers have been successful in their strike, and resumed work at 10 per cent advance. Miss Jenny Lee and J. P. Burnett leave for the colonies by the February Miss Lee is the original '"(Little Jo," which she takes with her, also " The Colonel," and possibly "Sardpns di Vorcous," and other new plays. ,' Mr Gladstone has again remitted ten per cent off the rentals on his Hawarden i estate. Ttestrictions on the freedom of the German press increase daily. The Chicago express train, leaving Albany at 2.40' p.m., on the 13th was run into by the Terryown special train a mile east of Springtea, Dufoil Creek, New York. There were many members of the State Legislature aboard the Chicago train, one of whom, Senator Wagner, is reported to be killed. Nine other persons are dead. The Tarryown train was not properly signalled, and was only aware of the Chicago train when within 50 feet of it. The Wagner palace cars Idlewild and Emperor, were telescoped, and afterwards burned up. It was m these the deaths occurred. The suffering was horrible. The weather in California is exceptional cold for the season. The case of the Marquis of Huntley was under investigation at the Mansion House on January 12th. He is charged with obtaining £2378 from B. Nicholson, under false pretences. Huntley has disappeared. The difficulty arose from a racing affair. The coronation of the Czar Alexander 111. has been postponed till July. Wordenskjold contemplates an arctic voyage next summer, to prove the possibility of regular communication with Siberia. A rfweedish mail steamer sunk in Calmor Sound on the 13th while on a trial trip. Fifteen persons were drowned. The Ultramontane deputies in the Spanish Cortes and the bishops are organising a great pilgrimage to Rome. TlTe Pope has given it his approval. It is now stated by Paris correspondents that the commercial treaty between Frauce and England will, after all, be certainly signed inside of three weeks. An enormous mass of rock, 1000 feet high, had fallen from Rotharisa Mountain, near the town of Giarns, (Switzerland, destroying orchards, roads, and meadows. No lives were lost. An attempt to spread small-pox through the U.S. mails was reported to the Washington postal authorities on January 14th. An undated and unsigned letter, postmarked Cincinnati, was received by a farmer at the Lynn (Virgina) Postoffice, and in it were two small-pox scales. The letter read, " I have sent you the small-pox, go home and die." General Logerot has seized several notables at Sfax as hostages for the payment of the war indemnity exacted by France. Severe measures are threatened if the money be not immediately forthcoming. Several members of the Callaghan branch of the ladies' land league have been committed to prison in Limerick, in default of bail. New Yobk. ATForWcablegram(Jan.l6)saysForster'B scheme for placing the disturbed districts in Ireland under the supervision and control of five stipendiary magistrates, of whom Clifford Lloyd is one, has now been carried, but there is no falling off in the number of agrarian outrages. The Earl of Shrewsbury, who eloped with Mrs Miller Mundy last summer, is before the public again in a discreditable role. Not satisfied with receiving his tenants with that lady on his arm when they came to congratulate him, in November last, on his attaining his majority, he has saddled himself with her graceless brothers (four in number). A fifth (C. R. Palmer Morewood, of Alfreton Hall, Derbyshire), was terribly assaulted by these four on Christmas night, and beaten within an inch of his life, because he refused to sign a document conveying to them certain properties. They then fled and took refuge with Shrewsbury and their sister, but were arrested and put under £100 bail each. The Earl went their bail. One of these worthies helped to give Shrewsbury a sound thrashing wheu he was discovered with his sister on the Continent The Earl is evidently of an easy .and forgiving disposition. The revelations in the Lanion case and some others have caused a scare in London ' about poisoning, and means are to be taken to restrict the sale of poisons. Germany intends to participate in Arctic exploration, and a committee of scientific experts to decide on the best means has been convened in Berlin, Ex-Senator Aaron A. Sargent has been offered the position of Secretary of the Interior in President Arthur's Cabinet.