MAIL NEWS.

Thames Advertiser, Volume VII, Issue 1876, 13 October 1874, Page 3

MAIL NEWS.

The Metropolitan Hospital Sunday Fund amounted to about £29,500, of which £24,478 |has been distributed amongst 71 hospitals, and £2,961 among 47 dispensaries. Pere Hyacinth has resigned his position as Cure of the Catholic Parish Church of Geneva, not being prepared to go as far as he was wanted by the reform movement.

The .Roman Catholic priest of Derenburg, Darmstadt, has been sentenced to eight days' imprisonment for introducing politics in the A number of the locked-out agricultural labourers are emigrating to Canada, New. Zealand, and (Queensland. Halt' the men' who were on funds of the National Union when it stopped payment have destroyed their cards and returned to work.

Madame Christine Nillson has handed a cheque for £942 to the treasurer of the Home for jNurses in connection with the Westminster Hospital. Alluding to the breakdown of the San Francisco service the Anglo-Australian in the European Mail says :-If there is a hitch it is difficult (o see why those most' interested should bo kept in the dark. In an undertaking like this everything should be fair and abo»e board, else no one can tell the loss which may fall upon.the mercantile community here interested in your trade. That was a lamentable hitch which occurred at Ban Francisco, when the agents refused to endorse the through tickets of the passengers, so that it cost them something like £40 to book throHgh to Liverpool. I hope some one will be made to refund the money. In one.or two cases the circumstances were most distressing—especially in the case •of two orphan girls froin Sydney. They might have been left behind but for the practical sympathy of their fellow passengers, who collected among themselves the necessessary amount to send them oh. It haß never been my lot to ohronicle a more disreputable break down of arrangements in connection with a mail service.

Many rice and vegetable fields have' been laid waste by a volcano near Izamura, which has been actively engaged in vomiting forth fire and smoke high into the air. One hundred and eight houses were buried by falling sand. For a period of ten days the discharge of ashes continued with unabated fury.: Three mountains rose from a plain, one covering ,an area of two and a-half square miles, and 1,800 feet high. A tract of land rose from the ocean 1,800 by 480 yards square, and connects with the coast.

A curious deputation waited upon his Holiness the Pope the other day, to. congratulate him on the attainment of his eighty-third year. It consisted of 83 maidens, ranging (from one year old to' four-score and three. The Pope, it is said, was much pleased with the interview. The Pope, if we can believe the report, has presented the Golden Eose'for this year to the Baroness Vigier, formerly known to the world as Sophie Cruvelli, the famous singer. A Panama letter contains a brief account of the attack by the Brazilian troops on the religious fanatics, under the lead of Maurer. The troops numbered 400, and in the fight, which lasted ttvo hours, lost 40 men, when the survivors fled, abandoning the artillery, which could not be used. From'the Hongkong Press we learn the following:—A'fai Pin* rebel: chief, who' has been prowling about the country since the capture of Nanking in 1854, was taken near Amoy. He was summarily condemned and executed by the humane process of slicing to pieces, a punishment which the unhappy man is said to have borne with remarkable fortitude. The London Daily News announoes that the strike at Belfast has ended, and all the operatives, 10,000 in number, have resumed work in the factories at reduoed wages. the American ship 'Sierra Nevada,' Captain Grozler, which sailed from Liver-. pool July 2 for San Francisco, took fire and was destroyed. No lives were lost; The vessel registered 1,672 ton. 6he had ' on board a cargo of 1,480 tons of coal, and was consigned to C, L. Taylor and Co., of San Francisco.

Colonel Sir Thomas Gore Browne, formerly Governor of iVew Zealand, bxs joiued the directory of the New Zealand Trust and Loan Company (LimiteJ). A series of outrages are reported from Dundrum, Ireland. The' farmers have been threatened by armed men if they continue the use of agriculturalmacuinery. Two horses, the property of a man named Hickey, which had been attaehod to a mowing , machine, have been fatally stabbed, and an attempt has been made to break the machine. Upon another farm a patent horse-rake has been smashed to pieces, and threatening notices have been posted on the farmers' houses, an attempt was made of a most daring character to prevent a salo/of stock recently on a farm at Auglira, Kose Green, near Uashel. Shots were fired in the vicinity of the house a night or two before. 'The police are investigating the cases.

The ship 'Zealandia' was spoken on August 11, ia 45 S. U W. The ' tlydaspes,' for Auckland, left Gravesend on August 11, and passed Plymouth on the 19cU. Passengers: Mr Wm. Oollihs, iNdr W. and Mrs Day, Mr A. Day, Mr Malpas, Dr. 0. H". Haines, 'Mr ii. F. Turner, Mr Wra. iiowlaad, Mrs Gooch, Mr and Mrs W. 0. Dennes, Mr W. Dennes, Miss Campbell, Mr U. 8. Lewin, Mrs S. H. Austie, and 297£ immigrants. The f1.Z.8. Go's«Waitangi,' left Lon : don on July 30, for Auckland. Passengers: Cabin-Mr Durham, Mr Kelly,. Mr Comisky, Miss Comisky, Mr Butler, Mr Fraser, and Mrs Franklin, and 400 Government emigrants. The barque 'Ladyßoweu' which put into Auckland for repairs last year, and afterwards sailed for London left London again on the sth of August for Adelaide. The following ships were loading in London for Auckland, when the mail left: -'.Oospatrick,' 1199; ' Glenora,' 764; 1 Lady Jocelyn,'2l3B. ■ The Hawaiian barque ?' Ohocola,' Captain P. P. Shepherd, late of the Hokulele, sailed from San Francisco for Auokland on the Bth September with a cargo of 8,422 centals of barley. The barque ' Jtapido' has been laid on the berth ac iNfew xork for Auokland and Adelaide by Messrs Walkerand ttenwiok. The barque ' Edith Rose,' reported as haying chartered for Auokland by Messrs Arnold, Hines, and Co., was loading; who* ; tto wil \eft< . -~' .'.'/.': : • :.;;;>,■ .•;'.