ENGLISH MAIL NEWS. (Per Zealandia at Auckland) [BY TELEGRAPH.—OWN CORRESPONDENT.]

Waikato Times, Volume XVIII, Issue 1533, 2 May 1882, Page 2

ENGLISH MAIL NEWS. (Per Zealandia at Auckland) [BY TELEGRAPH. — OWN CORRESPONDENT.]

Auckland, Last Night. The s.s. Zealandia arrived from 'Frisco today.

San Fbancisco, April 11. Heavy stqrma snd;flx>nd^oqcurred along ,the railroad route',' mhT interrupted telegraphic communication.

" -^ London, April Hi - Frederick Drake, the , sculptor, is dead. I?.>* ./ ai^ I A large body of police attended Mr - Oladstbiie^ dttring'-hfer sojmmcr >! for'th,e Easter Holidays] at Ha'wsrden. ,*>” The English papers are displeased lits-C the.Americaji interfere,nc£in DrLamsoft|« v . ' cases, antl-tW German c press commenting on the same 'subject says from a country which upholds the'MonroeDoctririe the interference is meddlesome, and^ unjustifiable. The Austrian .Polar f Expedition left Isola for the far ftoirth on Sunday, the 3rd instant. The Russian Grand Duke Vladimir is on'aMsit to Rome and the Vatican. r \ It is said the Conservative^ are drifting towards a' sctieme to buy" out" the Irish landlords." -The scheme, so.faciis'i in^tUo air, but it is believed to be gradually acquiring 'form. " • ! ' ' - '' ;'; ' !j ' " The Times, editorially, pooh-poohs the idea.of a- war-between Austria and Russia, aftd ; also of 4 Slavonic 1 sto'rm'&s alnmfc (to, break upon Germany.' i r; ' 1 'Mr i TBra^l^ugh j^a^r- been>.-^urgMsly pressed by a commifteje r oL Freethinkers in Rome to accept ifae "'presidency of the Interuational Congress which is proposed to be held.in-that^lacef^ead^autumn. The Secretary of the War Department announced in the House of Commons/ §n March 13th, that the cost of the army for 1882 wolild "be •£>5, f 700,000"-f0i! f ' 132,905 i men-.. . ■• x, • > ,j'.4<. ' • ,-• /J Father Feehan, a priest in Queen's C v ounty, Ireland,, .having read at a meet- , ing a paper,, purporting to be^byjjihe | Bishop of Nevada, to the effect that had j he r b6en) imprisoned as a/." suspect 'V he would have issued a manifesto calling the people to arms, instead of urging tKetn to pay no rent ? [was to-be, pu^j,, under bonds or go to .prison, for. six month's. . , He went to gaol.' v5 i •> i' - ' / • i Mr Gladstone ridiculed the idea in a debatb^n^hiS'SlKofnallb^ln^tKet^m. prisoned Irish fimembersH to come to London so."v;ote:oiM;h.e I C?osM>T..tt!- , J The Land Leaguers United States/^andi' British >; colonies £22,000 during the month of-March. - London rjv<<A r says«Don Phillippe de Bourbon^ ,r second/, j.eott^- pf ft^-ther Count Daguita, is about to' marry Miss Mackay, 6f '• California^ sister^of** the King. . ' ' \ '■■> \ ii t Hans.Buck,. the,- founder of the Ncxo Quarterly, Rcvieiqlia dead.; , '\" Mi: Secretary Forster/nas decline^ to release Mr Dillon from Kilmamhairt, air though he is represented as much worse in health.' „■-,'_' [,' ' " ; The Levant Herald at Constantinople has been suppressed. . , , ,'"' Emigration to America from 1 the Clyde will be large this season. Sara Bernhardt is so frequently afflicted with hetnorrhage of the'lungs, that 1 s^e had to forego acting. '" \ , '' . Thomas Oxley; merchant, ',, pf ' London and Liverpool, has failed fpr £75,00^.' fv The Pope declares he will not ' receive the Emperor Francis Joseph' at the Vati; 'can if the 'Emperor Visits 'King' Humbert at Rome.'" ' ' "•''•''' ''•• It is ! believed that Mr Lowell, the American Minister atJSt.' Jamas', will' be recalled. ' President Arthur's action in vetoing the Anti-Chinese Bill has caused great indignation. ,