The Akaroa Mail.

Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume XXIV, Issue 2103, 13 November 1896, Page 2

The Akaroa Mail.

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 13. 1596

i U.SS. Co.—The s.B. 0 iiapece wi 1 leave fot north ea'ly Tuesday morning insread ol Sunday. Dairy Produce. —By the Takapuna over 90 tone of .dairy produce were shipped from the Tsranaki freezing woiks, making 330 tons smca October 10th. The Holidays. —The whole week has been very quiet in Akaroa, owing to the*, holidays-To-day is a bank holiday, and of course the great Show Day, and no doubt many will av«il themselves of the fa r ly trip by the Jane Douglas to form one of ibe mighty crowd at Addiogton. Turkisk Troubles. — Speaking at a banquet, Lord Salisbury said that after an anxious year the Foreign Office was relatively calm.. Referring to the Eastern question he said isolated - action was the woist way to rescue Christians from the hands of atrocious tyrants. The British Navy and Amy were unfitted to amend misrule in the inferior of Asia Mtuory although, with the assistance of the other Powers, reforms might be effected. He denied that the Powers were eelfish except in trying to avert war, and said that the splendid, isolation of Great Britain enabled her to exhibit emotional sympathy, but the safety of the Powers in the vicinity of Turkey was more vitally afiected. The idea of abandoning territory to conciliate the Powers was idyllic and absurd f and concerted action was now found to be the better »■ method to pursue. He went on to siy it was antiquated diplomacy to suggest that antoganism w-»e necessary between Rusni and Great Bu'ain, and added that he had good grounds for believing tli.it Russia's views on the question were indentical with our own, although the two nations differed as to the best means to be adopted to enforce reforms, if the other Powers approved. He ridiculed the reforms which the Sultan had promised the French Minister of Foreign Affairs he' Mould cmy out. It ia reported in Paris that the Turkish Ambassador ■has -informed M. Hanotsnx, Mini«ter of Foreign Affairs,; that ths Sultan has decided to release all prisoners who not charged with any oiTence, to convene the Armenian Assembly to elect a Patriarch, to dismiss the Governor General of Diarbekir, and render assistance to the diatieased districts. The Sultan has reduced salaries 15 per cent. The Paris newspapers state that it is ieserved for France and -Russia to biing the Sultan to reason. The Armenian Relief Committees are app?aling to the Government to intervene with Turkey to prevent further atrocities on the Armenian?. The Turks kille i 100 Armenians at Kaisarich in Asia Minor. Late Cable.-Since the result of the American election was announced, mills which employed 100,000 men, and had been shnt down, have reopened. This refers especially to the iron and woollen industries. —In tho coarse of a speech Lord Salisbnry stated that the Venezuela question had been settled, and that the solution of the difficulty emanated from the United States.—Alluding to Egyptian-affairs. Lord Salisbury paid a high ttibute to the eerviees of Lord Cromer and General Kitehner.—General Ga'liene, the Admistrator in Madagascar, has abolished slavery ia the ialandj and has reduced the Queen, to sul jecl ion. He ia largely in favour of Eomanism, and the English and Norweein Mission schools are likely to be closed.—The Bishop of Marlborough atatea (hat ho bad prepared for admission into the Church of England a ptif-et who had twice been the Pope's special missioner ? but when he was ready to enter he was kidnapped -"id taken to France where he ie still confined.—Five thousand famished fioters at Sholaghur, in JB'ngol, looted .*'grain store. The police fired on the mob, killing four and wounding six;— The real cause or the punishment of of Li Hung Chang is said to be for proposing that the European ceremony be adopted in saluting the Emperor.—' The Times' says Prauce and Russia are building fifteen battleships against Great Britain's twelve* It considers this nn alarming state of things, and urges the First Lord of the Admirality to place England's supremacy'beyond dispute.— The Viceroy of India telegraphs that the prospects of the famine are more reassuring. —Arton's appeal against his sentence for embezzling the funds of the Dynamite Company of Paris has led to the nppeal being dismissed, and his sentence being increased from six to eight years with solitary confinement.—A German expedition ia New Guinea discovered a navigable river near Bismarck, running through a populated plain for two hundred roilee.—A Secilian named Canzoneri who was sentenced for murder, has been proved innocent after serving fifteen years, in the galleys, and has been liberated.—English files states that HiM.S. Eclipse will the new flagship-'on - the Australian station.— The Right Hon:.Lord Esher, Master of the Rolls, is retiring.—The Paris newspapers, commenting oh the Lord Mayor's procession in London, complain that emblems of the battles of Trafalgar and - Waterloo were carried in the procession, which tbeycontend was: an unfriendly action*—Russian military surveyors are surveying a road from Khiva to the Caspian Sea.—News has been received that the Spanish troops defeated, a force of 4000 rebels in the Philippine Islands. The latter lost sixty.— States war* sliip Texas eank in the miad in Brooklyn NaVy yard,- The accident was caused through a broken valve.

S?B*aiso -It' ie notified shearing commeric?s at Kiuloch on Monday aftornpon next ,- , ••■ ■ EleotioS.— The .Press .A'sociattoft "telegraphs that the Gove'nlrient a>e adviafd that the rolls througliout the colony neari"g completion, and it is exu. cted tha' the date of the election will be announced in a day or two. ' -

Tiik-.National Dairy Association of New Zkakand.—Mr"G., A» Lewini the New Secetary at'Lytt'elion, writes' on November , 9th' to the Secretary of the Farmers' Association, Mr Leete :—•' I beg to advi«e you that the s.s fongatiro will be the next steamer - for London. She leaves Lyt'eltin on Saturday, November 21st. Butter intended for ehipment by her should reach coo) store by Tuesday, November 17th, and Cheese should be ia Lyttelton by Thursday, November 19th. Please advise me prompt'y what quantities you are shipping. Th&s.s. Gothic will follow on November 24th«

Dr. -Barnardo.—Mra Robinson has received the following letter:—StepneyCf>use- ,,- ways Lir>don» Dear Mrß Eobin^on,—l hay* , safely received the draft on.theßmkof'New Zealand for £10 so kindly sent by the kind friends of nay poor waifs in and around Akaroa, and hasten to expteaste you all my hearty giatitudefor your welcome sympathy. It reaches me at a time when many of our supporters are away on holiday, and. file needs of my Urge family form a constant and heavy burden. As my family is continually growing, you will readi'y understand how welcome is every gift; and how encouraging it is to know that there ■ are sympathetic friends and helpers in every clime. Please convey mv hearty thinks to all for tbei* - ro-operation, t f which I trust I may look for a kindly anl. prt-yerfu' continuance. —Very sincerely *nd gratefully yours, T. J. Barvarpo.