ENGLISH MAIL NEWS.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume III, Issue 207, 8 February 1882, Page 2

ENGLISH MAIL NEWS.

The Association of the London Chamber oi Commerce is moving in the matter of cheapening telegraphic communication with foreign countries.

Garibaldi is dangerously ill.

The Pope refusing to fill the census paper, as required by law, a Monsignor took upon himself to do so. The return shows 500 persons living in the Vatican, one-third of whom aro females.

The Association of Lynne weavers have been successful in their strike, and resumed their work at 10 per cent, advance.

Mr. Gladstone has again remitted 10 per cent, off the rentals on bis Ha warden estate.

The coronation of the Czar Alexander IV. has been postponed till July. The restrictions on the freedom of th.° German Press increase daily.

The case of the Marquis of Huntley was under investigation at the Mansion House on January 12th. He is charged with obtaining i' 2,374 from Benjamin Nicholson under false pretences. The marquis ha* disappeared. The difficulty arose from a racing affair.

A New York World's cablegram (16th January) says Mr. Forster's scheme for placing the disturbed districts iv Ireland under the supervision and control of fivo stipendiary magistrates, of whom Mr. Clifford Lloyd is ono, has now been carried out. There is no falling off in the number of agrarian outrages.

An enonmms mass of rock, 3000 feet high, has fallen from liothanish, Moutura, noar tho town of Ge ims, in Switzerland, destroying orchards, meadows, aud woods. No lives wop lost.

Sevcrul members of tho Callophpr branch of the Ladies' Land League have boon committed to prison iv Limerick iv default of bail.

At attempt to spread small-pox through tho United States mails was reported to the Washington postal authorities on the 14th January. An undated and unsigned letter, post-marked Cincinnati (Virginia), Lynn Post Office, whb opened, and in it were two small-pox scales. The letter read, " I have sent you the small-pox : go home and die."

It is reported that an anonymous admirer of the late Lord Beaconsfield has transmitted to his lordship's trustees fnuds necessary to clear the Hughenden. Manor of all iucumbrances. The sum is something over and the donor gives no clue whatever to his or her identity.

Professor Noudmayer, of Hamburg, an old friend of Leiohurdt, has announced his belief iv tho truth of Skuthorpp'a alleged discovery of genuine relics of tho explorer.

Considerable comment has beonoxoitod by the Popo giving a friendly aiidieuoo to the sons of Ishmaol Pasha, ex-Khodivo of Egypt, who have rosidod somo timo in NaploH.

By a groat fire at Ghißgow, tho Fonneston steamship works woro dtmtroyod. Tho damages aro ostinmtod ut X"2<),(KX).

E rl Duuravon diud in Colorado while touring in tho Status.

Tho Salvation Army, while parading tho strootH of Arhrouth, in Sootlund, wiih attacked by a mob uiul huvpvu! itovaonH injured. Tho captain of the imuy i« injured ho RoriouHly that bo Ik iv IV dangerous condition.

HostilitioH hatwoon the Uutwluna and Turkomans aro nguin Imminent, Tho latter are iißHonililing in lttrfjo nuinbew to attack iKkahabad.

During tho last fow rinytt upwards of 100 cases of houghing oiittlo hnvo been reported iv Ireland iv tho vicinity of Dubliu.

The weather in California to exooptioually cold for tho hoiisou, nutl front Ima made its appounmob.