MAIL NEWS.

Waikato Times, Volume XXXII, Issue 2586, 7 February 1889, Page 3

MAIL NEWS.

[Per Zkalanuia.J Tiik crofters of Lowes are sutferiug from failure of the potatoe and other crops. Vesuvius is showing signs of increased activity. Mr Gladstone favours Colonial and Imperial union. There was an earthquake iu Hampshire on 28th December. The Pope I as bestowed a rich gift on each of the Irish cathedrals. Lord Lansdowne has entered upon his duties as Governor General of India. Six men have been killed by the burstin" of a gun on board a French ironclad. 1,175 persons were frozen to death in Ekaterinburg, Russia, on 27th December. Cardinal Manning has written an exhaustive paper on the American school system. The surplus in the United States Treasury at the end of 1888 was SO.OGUOdO dollars. Terrible siiU'ering has been caused in the interior of Chita by famine and drought. The New York World has organised an expedition to search for Stanley and Emin Bey. The Shah will visit London next year. He is said to be considerably improved in his manners. An English lady of high connections has opened a millinery shop in the Rue St. Hcnore, Paris. James Gordon .Bennett is said to have bought the London Globe, and will merge it in ihe ISew York Herald. A Jewish Rabbi at Omaha declared iu his sermon that Christ was never crucified. The congregation rushed at him, and he escaped by tiie back. The Pope has authorised the use of the Russian language in Catholic Churches in Poland, except in the liturgy. An escaped Soudanese has offered to restore General Gordon's sword, clothes and papers, hidden at Berber. Two men have been arrested in Naples in the act of throwing a bomb beneath tho windows of the German Consulate.

Hon. Cornelia Pettics, sister of Lord Dudley, was thrown from her horse whilst hunting, dragged head downwards and was killed. Captain Driant, General Boulanger's son-in-law, has been arrested for publishing a book without the sanction of his military superior?. A mob attacked a gaol in Alabama on Sunday, December 9th., in order to lynch a murderer, when the Sheriffs officers tired on them, and nine men were killed. By the lapse of the famous Lcfarge Tontine, the French Government gets a million francs and an annuity of one and a quarter Millions. There were 110,000 subscribers of whom 20 are iiving, all over JOO years of age. A serious explosion of meal dust has occurred at an oatmeal mill in Chicigo. The mili was cnLirely destroyed, and adjoining buildings Were shattered. Three persons were killed, and several others were slightly hint. Tho opera houses were burnt on December 12 in the United States. Mrs Langtry was pcrfoi ining in the Academy of Music, at 0.-wcgo, when the building t-ink (ire, but all the occupants eseiped. The Crand Opera House at Chicago was burnt down i-icer the conclusion of the peilorm inee there. A singular exhibition has been held at lMciningeu. It consisted of 2.">0 newspapers containing articles on the death of the Emperor Willi-im 1., representing no less than ,"4 languages, amongst which, of course, all the European, with their dialects, were represented; but Bengali, Hindi, Gnmirati, Chinese, Japanese and Hawaiian niiu'ht also be found. A .shocking accident has occurred at the Oi phetis r"/(' cuiiCi-fl in Buda-i'esth. A female acrobat, performing on a trapese, held a child live years of age by the belt between her teeth, suspended in the air Sud.ieniy the rope and the woman and the infant fell together from a height of ten feet upon the wooden floor beneath. The child had one eye knocked out, and the woman is .suffering froii. concussion of the brain. As the child fell undermost, it is surprising that it was not killed outright. On Monday, December 10th, two medical students at Berlin, named Bentrim ami Fielder, engaged in an argument respecting the surgical skill of Sir Morel! Mackenzie and his conduct from a professional point of view whilst in attendance, on the Emperor Frederick ami .''.inee his Majesty's death. The argument ended in a bitter quarrel between the two men, and they arranged to fight out the matter. The die-1 duly came ell on Tues. day morning, the weapons selected heio.' pistols. At the. first exchange Fielder in. ilicted a wound on his adveisary, from the effects of which he died in u few hours. A terrible scene is reported to have occurred during a wild beast performance at Hohennianth, in Bohemia, on a recent Satuiday, resulting in the shocking death of the pel former. The victim was Fiaulein Bertha Bauuigartncr, who, although quite young, hail a considerable reputation as a tamer of, and peifwrmer with, wild beasts. She was giving a performance with a lion and a tiger, when the latter suddenly made a spring upon her, and, fixing his teeth and claws in her neck and shoulder, shook her as a dog would a rat, throwing her on the ground. The attendants tried in vain to compel the beast to release its hold, but Franleiu Baiimgartncr was found to be quite dead. This is the third person wdio has been killed by the same animal.