ADDITIONAL MALL NEWS.

Press, Volume XLI, Issue 6054, 10 February 1885, Page 3

ADDITIONAL MALL NEWS.

£Br Tklboraph.J £Per s.s. City of Sydney, at Auckland.] AUCKLAND, February 9. Commander Knerr, of the German equadron, has had an affray off the West Coaatof Africa. The Corvettes Olga and Bismarck arrived at Cataeroona on December 17th, and landed 330 men and four guns, because the natives of Hickorytown and Fossetown had expelled King Bell. The expedition entered Hickorytown with but very little resistance, and then attacked Bell town to rescue the German agent Herr Patami. One man was killed and several wounded in the attack. When support arrived they stormed and burned Belltown. The natives meanwhile murdered Herr Patami. Nβ further outbreak occurred.

A Bill has been introduced into the Tennessee Legislature to punish those teaching the doctrine ef polygamy by a fine of five hundred dollars, or imprison* ment for two or three years, at the discretion of the Court. This is directed at the Mormon missionaries, who have been infesting the State of late. The authorities of lowa confess that the prohibition law of that State is a failure in the cities. The total number of saloons had increased by thirty-nine over the previous six months, and drunkenness was more prevalent than ever before. The Tichborne claimant has made arrangements for giving a lecturing tour in America.

Mormons high in tho Councils of the Church hare made a conditional treaty with the Zaqui Indians of Mexico, and also the General Government, for lands near Concessoionora, near the Gulf of California, and a charter. The plan is to make a rendezvous for Mormons liable to prosecution for polygamy, under the .Edmunds* law, and also to form the nucleus for a future empire. A party passed Dallas, Texas, on the 11th inst, en route for the new location. The colony will be called Mount St. Young, after the late prophet. H.M.S. Buby was ordered on active foreign service on January 13th. A division of the Channel Squadron, comprising the ironclads Northumberland, Achilles, and Agincourt, have also been ordered to immediately prepare for foreign service.

It is stated the French. Government has declared ite readiness to agree to the American scheme regarding the neutrality of the Congo as Boon as the boundaries of the territory of the African Interi teraational Association shall hare been defined in harmony with the claims of France. It is stated that the cost of the railway from Stanley Fool to the Lower ' Congo would be £1,250,000, and that it would require the carrying' of 100 tons of freight daily to pay 4 per cent, on the cost. The scheme was regarded aa outside the scope of the Conference. General Bererie de Leslo telegraphed from Tonquin to General Lewal, announcing the arrival of 3200 men as reinforcements, in the best ofhealthjOn January 11th, and stated he was ready to march on liangson. Admiral Courbet had been ordered to occupy Tamsui before February, and after garrisoning Telung and Tamsui Jto raise the blockade of Formosa. Admiral Freyzon, Minister of Marine, has sent official communication to the chiefs of ! the Marine Department, in which he refers to the probable expedition to Pekin, and says that in the event of the expedition being made the fleet would be placed under the direct control of General Lewal, Minister of War. Admiral Courbet brgan la&ding troops for the occu- , pation of the mines at Kelung. A London "Times" despatch from Pekin says—"The country is divided. The masses favor war, but the wealthy, who are obliged to contribute war expenses, desire peace. Vast hordes of officials are greatly interested in the continuance of the present state of things; The amount of peculation is something astounding. Had the Chinese fleet twenty efficient men and trained officers aboard each man-of-war they could sink Admiral Courbet's fleet with ease and safely. The Mandarins, as a rule, are openly hostile to the proposed innovation, and the masses of the people are sullen and apathetic." The JTew Orleans World's Exposition ia in bad luck. While running expensee have not been leas than 500Odols. a day the gate receipts have not reached 4-OOOdols. It has rained more than half the time since opening, and the four days of 'the car drivers , strike cost the attendance of many thousand visitors. The carriers of Cincinnati who had engaged for the season for 50,000 dole, left for home, seeing no chance of being paid. Later despatches made the prospects of the Exposition brighter. A special from New Or-' leans on the 17th, however, closed things over again. A crisis seems imminent, but a few days will see a solution of trouble that has been hovering over the concern since the opening. Under the new order of things, discontent, from the head of the management down to laborers on the ground, increases rather than abatee. Placards had been found on the day of the despatch, posted in a conspicuous place, threatening in the name of unpaid employes to burn the building) unless back wages were paid at once. The determination appeared to be to strike on Monday, the 18th of January, if the wages are not paid before. CANADA. A Quebec paper discussing a recent article in the "London Times" on the Nicaragua Canal difficulty and possibility of a rupture between Great Britain and the United States, adds—"There is no doubt that Canada would become the theatre of operations, and in our case we would have a right to protest and refuse to allow ourselves to be slaughtered like cheep. We are asked to endure all the calamities and all the horrors of war to defend England's interests in Central America. This is really coming it too strong, and we hardly think our loyalty will permit us to enter upon so perilous a path." A meeting of business men was held in Halifax on January 14th, at which resolutions were passed requesting the Dominion Government to take immediate steps to secure a reciprocity, treaty between the United States and Canada. Six thousand men are idle in Montreal, and a meeting of the unemployed will be held on the 20th to consider the situation: A cablegram, January 13th, Bays — Doubters of the progress in the strength and tactics of the Salvation Army should have been in Exeter Hall last evening where the crowd rivalled thatatDrury Lane pantomime. General Booth was in the chair, and his son stood behind him. An uproar of applause that must have been Tieard in pie stalls of the, Vaudeville greeted the rising of this tall, thin, callow, full-bearded and Cromwellian haired enthusiast, who with his thin clarionet voice announced that this was a farewell meeting to thirty officers, chiefly women, who were to be despatched as recruiting sergeants of the Salvation Army to America, New Zealand, and India. "I have under organisation an army corps in every British villages which will barrack in vehicular canvans, and be guarded at night by sentries." One of the recent recruits to the Army, a celebrated cricketer, stood near the General. Befcrring to him, Booth said—" Hie goes to India to guard the salvation wickets against the swift bowling of I the devil." This was received with howls lof applause. The audience, keeping time to well-known weird music or with the songs, seemed animated by a fanatic zeal truly oriental in looks and gestures. FBANCE. Louise Miehel, the Communist, will be released from St. Lazare, as the signs of insanity are quite pronounced. A French vitioulturist declares he has destroyed the phylloxera by putting his poultry-house in the midst of bis vineyard for the three months of the year when the plague is accustomed to work. ML Due, editor of the "Cri dv Peuple," Paris, was savagely attacked on January 7th by two brothers Balleriek. He was dangerously wounded by one of them. -■- ITALY. The Vatican, through ' the British Minister at Pekin, will open n*>gotia|uras with China for a mission to send an .envoy *>4*& dtectr/witk the <ju«tfaei M**-'

ing the Catholic missions in China. Th? Pope desires to emancipate the priests from, the French protection. The Tiber overflowed its backs on' January 15th. The water entered tho Pantheon, and floated tho timber with which it was intends*! to build a requiem chapel. GERMANY. A Police Commissioner, named Bumpf, who had been active in prosecuting the socialists, and who discovered the Ndderwald conspiracy, was found dead iv front of his own homo at Frankfort. He was stabbed in two places. A German traveller was arrested on the 11th, supposed to have had seme connection with the deceased. The detectives traced him to Brussels, after finding the dagger on the pavement at Frankfort. The local authorities arrested him. The atreat is said to have been made on a telegram from the German police, who were also on the heels of the assassin, who bad fled »to Antwerp and thence to Brussels, hoping to escape. AMERICA. Dr. Bettingfield, captain in the Salvawon Army, while praying in front of an hotel near San Jose, had his brains knocked out by a pickle keg, thrown by the proprietor. The strike of coal miners at Peneylvania is becoming more desperate. On tho 11th tLey fired a mine at Staitville, one of the largest in the county, having a capacity of 125 cars per day. The ironmen talk more hopefully of the outlook for 1835. On January sth, eigbt manufacturing iron and steel works resumed, giving employment in the aggregate to 2150 men. Mrs Myra Clark Games, the famous litigant, died in New Orleans on January 9th, aged 80. She had 'been in law for nearly forty years, and claimed much of the area on which Mew Orleans was built.

The pottery manufacturers of Now Jersey have made proposals to the operatives that they accept the English wages, plue a protective tariff of 55 per cent. The workmen decline unless the manufacturers add to the tariff Consul fees, brokerage. Cus-tom-house dues, insurance, &c, which English exporters have to pay. If they don't work the potters will declare a lock out.

Duncan Boss, the famous Scotch itthlete, ia now in Cleveland, Ohio. He haa given up his saloon business and renounced athletics, and will enter the ministry. The number of white cadets at the Government Military Academy, West Point, who have been plucked at January semi-annual examination, has excited surprise, and the cause is being discussed in the papers. Two colored cadets passed with credit.