MAIL NEWS.

Waikato Times, Volume XXXI, Issue 2562, 11 December 1888, Page 2

MAIL NEWS.

In' the House of Commons 011 November 15, Mr Smith cave notice that the Government would on the Monday following ask for a vote of £5,000,000 for the extension of the provisions of the Ashbourne Act. Lord Salisbury, in the course of a speech at the Nonconformist banquet, London, November 14, said there was a vast amount of opinion regarding Ireland which there was no means of guagitig. .The Gladstoni.ins, he declared, were sailing under sealed orders till they arrived in the congenial zone of office.

In an address to the Birmingham Nationalists, on November 8, Mr Gladstone said the Irish cause was no longer dependent upon one life. On the journey from Birmingham to Wolverhampton, accompanied by Mrs Gladstone, the ex-Prfimier was heartily cheered along the route, except at Snowhill and Oxford, whero ho was hooted. The crowd at the latter pl ica was largely composed of undergraduates.

Heavy rains have causcd floods ill many districts in England. Mr Spurgeon, the London Baptist preacher, was reported dangerously ill on November U. He suffered from severe rheumatic gout, complicated with other disorders.

The wages of the miners employed in tho Lanarkshire Colliery have been advanced 5 per cent. The Trade Committee has advised tho jute spinners of Dundee to make a similar advance in the wages of employes. Mr Jasper D. Pyne, the well known Nationalist member of Parliament, who stood a siege in his castle some months ago, jumped overboard on November 14 from the steamer Shamrock, plying between Holyhead and Dublin, and was drowned.

Advices from Bonny River give a revolting story of the sarage atrocities and cannibalism of the Okrikan tribe in revenge for some injury. They invited a party of Ogonis to a friendly palaver, then entrapped and massacred liiem. A cannibal festival of the most horribly indescribable character followed. Then an attack was made upon the undefended villages, and the most barbarous outrages were committed. It is estimated that over one hundred persons, including women and children. were killed and eaten.

Fiffcv persons were arrested in Moscow on Novembor 5, including Professor Holzoff, editor of the Pansclavic paper Russki Mvsol. El Mahdi's followers captured Wadelai, on a second attack, November 9, and drove out the sultan and his forces. On a first attack they were repulsed with a loss of 3000 killed. The Patriarchs of Constantinople and Athens have refused to set aside King Milan's divorce from CJueon Natalie. The first 'through express train from Paris arrived at Constantinople on November 9. Tho Vatican has authorised an expression of its satisfaction with the election of Benjamin Harrison to the Presidency of the United States. China has ordered £75,000 worth of arms and munitions of war from the firm of Ludwig and Lowe, Berlin. A powerful American syndicate ia about to be formed for the purpose of building railroads in Siberia. A band of thirty armed Turks made a raid, November 13, on the Servian town of Reski. The peasants rallied and offered a determined resistance. Many were killed on both sides. A report was afloat on November 13 that an attempt had been made to assassinate Prince Ferdinand of Bulgaria. Russia is reported to be buying largely of hay, grain, and other army provisions in Fodolia and the district of Kietf.