ADDITIONAL MAIL NEWS.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume VII, Issue 1305, 12 May 1886, Page 2

ADDITIONAL MAIL NEWS.

The English steamship Gulf Alaska foundered between Virginia and New York. The crew numbering 35 were lost. Cloud and Santa Bapido, towns in Minnesota, were swept by a cyclone on April 14th. At Cloud 40 people were killed and 75 injured. Half the town was laid waste. A terrible accident happened at Fitchburg, Mass. A train went over an embankment 200 feet high, and 20 people were- killed. The Chaplain of the United States Congress, in opening the session on March 27, offered up a prayer, which has caused considerable sensation. It is as follows : — * " Give ear, O God of Jacob, and awaken Uo to se6 the danger which threatens the civilized world — a revolution more tremendous than any History tells of, in which scenes of terror may be enacted in every capital of Europe and America." The prayer went on to declare that the time had come for selfish grinding monopoly to cease, and most men should learn that great fortunes are not given them tot spendon their own pleasures. Despatches of April 11th, from London, say that Chamberlain's speech in tbe House of Commons was the sensation of the evening. It passed into a personal quarrel between him and Gladstone. The climax oi this speech was a blow at the Prime Ministers position in 1861. " Sir," said he, " I remember, that time, when in its greatest crisis," when it was in the most terrible moment of its fate, my right hon. friend counselled disintegration of the United States. Mr. Gladstone, "I did not counsel it." Mr. Chamberlain, " My right hon. friend says he did not counsel it, but he gave the weight of Mb great name to the statement, that the North and South had become separate nations. I daresay my right hon. friend himself would admit that in that view of the situation, he made a mistake." At Hear bear," said Mr. Gladstone.' "Ah," said Mr. Chamberlain, syllable by syllable, his finger levelled at the Prime Minister's bowed head " Are you certain he is not making a mistake again." It was a tremendous blow. The' Tories of course yelled like madmen, and from the Liberal benches arose several cries of •• Shame " directed at Mr. Chamberlain. The latter however, had one more shot to deliver, levelling his finger again towards the front bench, almost inarticulate with' passion, he demanded '• What would you have said of him, if like some servile partisan who disgraced" political life, he had remained on that bench pretending to Berve his country with a lie in his mouth." This was aimed at Sir William Harcourt, and produced a tremendous sensation.