MAIL ITEMS.

Waikato Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 2386, 25 October 1887, Page 2

MAIL ITEMS.

Reap. - Aumiuai. Aeceknos Hkneack takes comma:,d of the British squadron on the Pacili • and will hoist his pennant in i, : -‘Swiftsure. Air Wi;f Roger, Chief Oiiiccr of the .F s.-ic Headman, was lost overboard lietween X’e-.v Zealand and Cape Horn on the night of .1 one ‘2l. Father Keilehcr has collected f.'ijUfl towards the election of the U'Coniie-11 Memorial Church. .■Sir Hercward Wake, But., has invented a plan for tiie annihilation of the rabbits in tiie colonies. The English papers contain harrowing descriptions of the disaster on the Doncaster railway. The scene at the station was horrible. Scores of people lay bleeding or dead, wedged amid splintered wreckage and debris, their shrieks and groans being heartrending. The rumours respecting the declining health of Archibald Forbes arc contradicted, ami be is said to be ready for another lecturing campaign. The scene at the destruction of file Exeter Theatre is desciibcd as appalling. A report was in circulation that -lohn Raskin was insane. It arose, probably, front a fad of Ins not to employ London publishers. Byron also had a dislike to •Scutch publishers and reviewers. An enormous a iolite, weighing 70 tons, fell near Fredericton, X'e-w Brunswick. It glowed for several hours, ami was com pletcly linried in the ground. England lias just launched another huge ironclad, the Traialgir, of 12,(0' tons and B>,Ulo horse-power lie. annum* is 2f inches thick. The Wiiorlton Castle and Swainby Estate, Yorkshire, comprising acres of moorland, lias been told lor (ISO,(WO. Mr Frank It. Collier presented an address to the ijuecu on behalf of tinloyal people of Chicago. Her Majesty was pleased at receiving such a gn-.iiyi-g testimonial from so greita distance, an l was charmed with tin. address. The Admiralty have decided to convert the turret ship Hydra into a seagoing ironclad. She was bought during the Franeo-Certnan war, and has never been out of British waters. There is a proposal at Plymouth to commemorate the 200 th anniversary of the Spanish Armada. President Crevy refused to reprieve Pranzini, who was accordingly guillotined.

A telegram from Simla denies the Aimer is in great danger. Tile Uifonna (Home} advocates a dote union between Italy and Spain, as two Mediterranean powers. There is a movement in France ta have the anniversary of Jean of Arc's entry into Orleans declared a national tete day. Signurina Maria I‘ecci, the Pope s imice, is soon to he married to Count Maroni, a nohle guard of lus Holiness. The wheat surplus of Manitoba is estimated at 7,000.000 bushels. iiie cotton statistics for the weak ending 25th August are ini ports 41, tw hales ; exports 9,000 hales. The yacht Monarch, with excursionists from Ilfracombe capsized in the Bristol Channel, and nineteen lives were lost.