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Evening Star, Issue 4898, 12 November 1878, Page 2

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Russian Volunteers for Affghan. London, November 10.—The 'Times' sfcites that several thousand Russian military officers and soldiers have bßen permitted to volunteer for Affghan. The Anglo-Austrian Treaty. London, November 8. —The treaty between England and Austria telegraphed yesterday was made secretly at the time of the Congress. It contained a proviso that in the event of Russia claiming, on the ground of humanity, and for the purnoso of preserving order, to remain m Turkey beyond the time specified by the Congress, England and Austria would undertake the police duties, and compel Russia to evacuate Turkey. The estimated time for this has now arnved. The Bulgarian Belgn of Terror. London, November B.—Four thousand of the new Bulgarian militia massacred the population, and burnt several villages near Count Sohouvaloffs Mission. London, November 9.—Count Scbouvaloff 18 here - A solution* of the political difficulty is probable, with a revision of the Berlin Treaty. , ■ Ministerial applanation, London,- Novembers.—At- the Guildhall banquet Earl Disraeli said that the evasion of the Berlin Treaty was unfeasable, for it might embarrass precautions taken" in our policy to prevent the fatal supremacy of any individual powers. He -disbelieved there was any intention on.tthe part of Russia to evade the Berlin treaty, 'but' -England was determined to enforce its letter and spirit. He refused to believe in the. decadence theory, England being capable of creating and not of losing an Empire.

SPECIAL TO THE STAR.

[Pbb Submarine Oabtji.J Illness of the Caar. London, November B.—The Czar is ill at Lavidia, unable to discuss the political situation. Count returns to London. Russia Prepares for War. London, November 9.—Russia is actively y«. Sho has called out oojUUU additional conscripts. Release of a Fenian. London, November 9.—Ahearne, a Fenian prisoner, has been released. The premier on the Situation. London, November 10.--Earl Beaconsfisld delivered a reassuring speech at tbe Lord Mayors banquet. He stated that no body bad intimated its intention to disobey the Treaty of Berlin. The Viotorlan Reform Bill. Melbourne, November 12.—1t is doubtful whether the proposed embassy will be sent to England. Though the Assembly approved of the commissioners appointed by the Government (Mr Berry, Professor Pearson, and Sit; C. Gavan Duffy), opinion is very evenly divided as to its results. . M . r B? 1 ??' 8 embassy is widely unpopular. Anti-Ministerial meetings are general, and Mr Berry's conduct is denounced. [Pub Press Agknot.] Infanticide at Auckland. Auckland, November 11.—The dead body of a newly-born male child was found this morning at the North Shore, under the foUomngsuspicioußcircumstances :—A man named Hugh Jones, laborer, was going to his work in Mr Oliver May's timber yard when he saw a bag apparently with some'tlnng in it floating at high-water mark. He cut open the bag and shook it, when out upon the sands fell a kit covered with a net containing the body of an infant. It could not have been in the water more than a day for decomposition had not set in. ' The Weather on the Coast. Hokitika, November 12.—There is a very heavy sea on, also a flood in the rivers It has been terrible weather for several days. The coaches and steamers are all delaved again. J Railway Charges. TiMAjm, November 12.-The following letter from the Hon. J. Macandrew to Mr i<. Ardier, chairman of the Chamber of Commerce has been received :—" The new rates tor haulage have been submitted, and are now being considered by the Government, rhey will be gazetted most likely liextwcek. ine rimaru station extension is ordered to be proceeded with as soon as the necessary plans and estimates can be got, ready. The Latest Appointment. - Wellington November 'l2. -The statement that Mr M'CuJloch Reed has been appointed. immigration' agent for two years is confirmed. He leave the Colony next month. '

A Singular Case. November 12.—1t lias just been found that a settler named Wood, at Wamuiomata Valley', seven miles from the liutt, has had his sister, a violent lunatic, under restraint in his own house for over twenty years. Mr Mansford, R.M., was authorised by the Government to asoertain the truth of the information, and on visiting the place he found where the lunatic was habitually kept was a littla den abcmt 6ft Bquare, one side being occupied with a closet, the other with the creature's bunk. Mr Mansford said the case was a bad one. It is reported that the woman had been subject to ill-usage, but upon that point there has been no examination yet. Wood is reported to be a very worthy and industrious settler. _, . (Fbom Ocm Owk Corrkspokdknt.) Criminal. CnKisTCHURCH, November 12.—Yesterday a charge of arson against Alexander Cowan was partly heard, and adjourned till Friday. Evidence was given by Constable O'Connor and a young woman named Blee, nurse to who had been "staying in the house. Th* evidence of the firstnamed witness was corroborative of Sergeant Hughes, of finding the various a#ises mentioned by him, and in addition of a broken half of a girigerbeer "bottle containing burnt

i'ragments~6f paper, which smelt strongly of keroseneyhoralso stated that the prisoner on the day of the fire reminded him (O'Connor), that he had met him down town as late as noon. The witness Blee stated that she had slept in the room in which the fire was discouered the previous night, and before leaving in the morning at about eleven o'clock, after searching carefully for any article that might have been left behind, there was not such a thing as a lamp in the chamber, nor could there have been one without her seeing it. Neither was there the half of the broken bottle produced. Charles, Schultze waa charged this morning with forging and uttering an 1.0. U. for L§. He was committed for trial, bail being allowed, himself in LIOO, and two sureties of L 75 each. Harbor Defences Christchcrch, November 12. —Acting mainly on the suggestion of Mr J. S. Harman the Mayors of Christchurch, Lyttelton, and Sydenham have determined to interview Colonel Whitmore and Mr Sheehan on their return from the South and to urge upon them under tho threatening aspect of European affairs the immediate fortification of Lyttelton Harbor.