MAIL NEWS.

Press, Volume XL, Issue 5985, 18 November 1884, Page 2

MAIL NEWS.

HBy Telegraph.]

[Per B.s. City of Sydney, at Auckland.] AUCKLAND, November 17. Governor Weld was feted in London on October 7th. Sir W. MeArthur is about to retire from political life. The " European Mail" says the building of steamers to take the place of sailing , vessels, now need for transporting criminals to New Caledonia, would seem to show that the French Government i 3 bent upon carrying out the recidiviste policy. The German Admiralty has concluded a contract for the supply of cod for the German Navy at two stations on the Sontb. Seas, viz., Matapui, in New Britain, and Jaluit, in the Marshall Islands. An unprecedented rate of speed at se* hae been obtained from the new Cunarder Umbria in a trial trip down the Clyde. She attained the maximum of twenty-four miles an hour. At a meeting of the Prime Meridian Congress at Washington on October 14th, a resolution was adopted providing that longitude shall be counted from the meridian of Greenwich in two directions up to 180 degrees east longitude plus and west longitude minus. By the collusion of a confidential clerk, cashier, receiving clerk, and porter, the great dry goods firm of Constable and Arnold, of New York, hare been robbed of over 2,000,000 dols. The confidential clerk Peddor invested all his stealings abroad. The Duke of Brunswick died on October 18th. Baron Syderitz has taken possession, on behalf of the Emperor of all Feudal and all Ordinal property of the Duchy. The Duke left a will disposing of his private property, estimated at 50,000,000 murlrii. The indications are that the completion of the pedestal of Bartholdi's statue of Liberty; presented by the French Government to the United States, will be delayed for want of funds, which cannot be raised. The statue has proved a white elephant. Grover Cleveland, democratic candidate for the Presidency, was furiously assaulted in the streets of Albany, firat by a man named Boone, and afterwards at the Executive Mansion by Boone's wife, because he refused to pardon Bryan B. Fairfield, their relative, leotesced to two years', imprisonment in Auburn Penitentiary for manslaughter. The affair caused great excitement at first, as it was thonght to have political significance, but the Boones, as well as the prisoner, were proved

to be a family of cranks. The latter had already been transferred to an insane political trial was finished at St. Petersburg on the 13th Ootooer. » was conducted privately, and all officers of the army implicated were sentenced to death. Six others were sentenced to l OiTthe occasion of laying the keels of some ironclads at Sebaatapol, on October 15th. the Czar telegraphed to Duke Alexis «• J rejoice at tne birth of the Slack Sea fleet. God grant that the spirit of the old fleet may revive, and render good service to the Fatherland." In St. Peteisburg the Chief of the Police has ordered the proprietors «f all hotels, restaurants, and similar places or. i resort, to remove the portraits of the • Czar from their public rooms, on the ground that disrespect is shown to them by the public.