MISCELLANEOUS.

Grey River Argus, Volume XXII, Issue 3277, 17 February 1879, Page 2

MISCELLANEOUS.

The Post office authorities have issued the following table, showing the days on whioh the mails for Australia and New Zealand, vi& San Francisco, will be, despatched from London during the ensuing years :— Thursday, Jan. 2 ; Thursday, Feb. 27 ; Thursday, March 27 ; Thursday, April 24 ; Thursday, May 22 ; Thursday, June 19 ; Thursday, July 17 ; Thursday, August 14; Thursday, Sept. 11; Thursday ; Oct. 9 ; Thursday, Nov. 7 ; and Thursday, Dec. 4. Two more vessels have been lost through collision off the coasts. During a fog early on Saturday morning the Redewater, of Newcastle, and the Sprey, of Aberdeen, two screw steamers, came into collision ofi Flamborough Head, and the latter vessel sank. The crew of the Sprey were landed; at Shields by the Redewater, which had her bows stove iD. Early on Sunday morning the steamer Ben Ledi, of North Shields, ran into and sank the schooner Leader, of Swansea, off St Ives. The captain, mate, . and two men of the Leader gut on board the steamer, and were landed at Jalmouth but a boy named Peters was lost. Mr Henry Thomas Richardson, of Brynhyfryd, Pwllheli, who died last week, and was, in conjunction with his father, the inventor of the tubular life-boat, has by Jus will bequeathed LIO.OOO at the death of his widow for the purchase and maintenance of lifeboats at Pwllheli and I Deal. He also gives L3OOO towards. Rhosygwalian Church, Bela. '. . . It has now been considered prudent (the Standard says,) to maka a further reduction in the strength of the Mediteranean fleet. The ships at Gallipoli are no longer under the immediate command of a flag officer, Bear-Admiral Sir John Commerell having been removed and directed to return, to England. The Agincourt, the second flag ship, has been taken from the strength of the Mediterranean fleet, and is now appropriated for service with the Channel squadron. The Shannon, ironclad, recently arrived at Malta from China, is also detailed for the Channel squadron, . instead of for Admiral Sir Geoffrey Hornby's command ; and the Foxhound, which has been for many months detained in the Mediterranean, has now been ordered to proceed to China. Another ship, the Seagull, which was intended to go up the Straits on arrival from the West Coast of Africa has had her orders cancelled. It is stated that the employment of the English officers of the gendarmerie in the Tcbataldja lines has excited the jealousy of the Turkish officers, and that the ' former will resign should Baker Pasha not succeed in obtaining some redress for insults to which they have been subjected. ? Hannah Peace, who is alleged to be the wife of the man ward, alias Peace, who was recently sentenced to penal servitude for life for burglary and shooting at a policeman at Blackheath, was committed '. for trial at Bow street on Wednesday on toe charge of having in her possession 3tolen property. Mr Poland, who conlucted the prosecution for the Treasury, laid every effort had been made to disjover whether the prisoner was married ■ to Peace or not, but no trace of the mar- * riage had been found. If she could prove -, that Bhe was the wife of Peace, she could lot be held to be guilty of a criminal ! )ffence in having taken away the stolen ;oods in order to aoreen her husband. : Fhe prisoner said she was married to Peace, and that what she did was done - mder compulsion, and Bhe had no guilty -i knowledge. ; It^was stated that the pro- J leeds of upwards of twenty burglaries had a >een recovered and Identified. o