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Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume I, Issue 76, 10 April 1877, Page 2

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AUSTRALIA. (Per Press Agency.) Sydney, April 7. MORE SMALL POX. The ship Linguist, which arrived at Melbourne yesterday, reports the death of a seaman from small-pox. The City of Sydney is not yet signalled. The Easby has arrived at Newcastle.

NEWS BY THE SUEZ MAIL.

* . . (Per Ringarooma, via Bluff ) Melbourne, April 3. The Bangalore remains in quarantine till April 7. London; February 16. In the House of Commons, in reply to Earl Granville, Lord Derby explained that the reason why the blue books did not contain Lord Salisbury's account of the interviews with Marshal M'Mahon, the Due Decazes, and Prince Bismarck, whilst that relative to his convesations with the Austrian and Italian Ministers were given, Avas that the former were far more confidential in character, and their re-publica-tion would produce an unpleasant feeling abroad. The second reading of the Public House Closing Bill was carried by a large majority. .>■.■... At Newcastle, Mr. Joseph Cowan addressed constituents ori the Eastern question, condemning Lord Beaconsfield's speech at the outset of agitation. He commended Lord Derby's, subsequent action. He had faith in Midhat Pasha, and thought the Turkish Constitution should have a fair trial. The Queen is at Osborne in excellent health. The Chinese Envoys were presented to her by Sir Thomas Wade. The Duke of Connaught met with a slight accident out hunting, though not o£ a serious nature, Mr. May, Attorney-General for Ireland, has been appointed Lord Chief Justice; Mr. Gibson, Q.C.. M.P. for Dublin University, succeeds him, and has been re-sleeted without opposition. Mr. Plunkett, M.P., has retired from the Irish Solicitor-General-ship, which has been accepted by Mr. Fitzgibbon, Q.C. The Rev. E. Bickerath is likely to be the new Bishop of Rochester, consequent upon Dr. Claughton's transfer to the see of St. Albans. Renewed outbreaks of small-pox at Blackburn continue. At Sfc. Peter's, in the Isle of Thanet, the disease has com. mitted great ravages. The village is tabooed, and all communication with it stopped. In London now deaths are now not so numerous. The Prince and Princess of Wales with their household are in town, and the establishment at Sandringhani has been revaccinated. Cleopatra's needle i 8 to be brought to London and placed on the Thames embankment at the sole expense of Dr. Erasmus Wilson. Dr. Oude has accepted the candidature and rectorship of Glasgow University. General Tchernaieff has taken up quarters with his family at Ventnor, Isle of Wight. No public demonstration has been made. Leon, a Mexicon, rode 505 miles at the Agricultural Hall in 52 hours. He was to have ridden 600 miles, but the horses could not keep it up. A poor woman in Liverpool, without expectations, came into £70,000 through the death of a relative she never knew. A man named Dance, who deserted his wife and three children to join the Shakers in the New Forest, was sentenced to three months' imprisonment. Disclosures were made showing that the Shaker men and women were in the habit of dancing gether in a perfect state of nudity. A number of convicts - at the naval works at Haulbowliae, near Queenstown, attacked the warders with picks and shovels. The military were called out, and charged the prisoners with fixed •bayonets. ' Treodway was found guilty of the murder of Collins at Piinlico. The plea of insanity failed. . A frightful tragedy has taken placet St. Brienne, in Brittany. A journalist

named Lβ Foil sent for a captain in the 71st Regiment, whom he suspected of *" being intimate with his wsfe, and stabbed him on his arrival. He then went and stabbed his wife to the heart, and finally, in company with a young woman, com<jmitted suicide. A woman named Elizabeth Kirkbridge has been committed for trial at Penrith, on a charge of murdering and concealing the bodies of six infant children, she has had during several years. There was great sensation in the Court during the hearing of the case. She accused a man she had been living with as. the instigator of the crime. He had left her and married. Considerable excitement was manifested some days ago on the discovey of a number of bodies on an undertaker's premises near Regent's Park. An investigation showed that they were ['stillborn childern, for the burial of which the man said he had received the fees, though he had never removed them to the cemetry. Commodore Hoskins has been appointed aide-de-camp to the Queen. M. Thiers has had a severe attack of illness. The Court de Chambord is said to be at Versailles. Many hundred papers in France have been fined in various sums for publishing slanderous articles on the mother of the Empress Eugenic. T Exports to New Zealand amount to £184,400. A special service was held in aid of the Sick Fund in the Cathedral, in connection with? the consecration of the Rev. J. R. Selwyn in New Zealand as Bishop of Melanesia.