MAIL SUMMARY.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XVIII, Issue 3085, 28 March 1892, Page 2

MAIL SUMMARY.

It is asserted in court circles that the Queen and the Duke of Fife, have- quar r relied, and that the letter was cruelly snubbed by ber Majesty^lor attempting to commenoe a conversation.

. Orimeß of violence are increasing in the West of Ireland, and boycotting is again rife.

The Frinoß of Wales bad several remarkable horses in training when he decided to close his connection with the turf. A handsome profit was. ezpeoted for tbe first time in the history of his stable. - Reports of a seriona outbreak of pleoro* pneumonia m the Blaoa river district, Canada, have created a great sensation in the agricultural' world. !3?he outbreak greatly affects the Scotch farmers, who largely import Canadian cattle* . i

, The body of the Bake bit Clarence wil remain permanently in the AlßSrt Memo rial Chapel. • , In a panic at a magic lantern entertain, menti at King's prose, London, a number of obildren were trampled on. Several will die.

A dispatoh from Coleraine County, Londonderry, February 17, says that Mrs* Robt. Montague; daughter-in-law, of Lord Bobt. Montague, was committed for trial that morning on a charge of causing the death of her little daughter, Mary Helen Montague; aged three years. It seems that tbe child had been badly used by her governess, in addition to being the objeot of hatred of her mother, in faot the harsh action of the governess seems to have led, up to the tragedy. The latter, for some | childish esoapade on the part of her charge, | looked tbe little girl up in adark room as a punishment, and then informed the | mother of the child's offence, and the | punishment she had meted out. The mother appears to have become so enraged at tbe little girl's conduot that she resolved to punish her still more severely. In. the dark room she tied her arms behind- her back, tbe strings cutting deeply' into tbe ohild'e tender flesh, and then forced ber up by a ring in the wall half way to the ceiling, and left ber so. Alter being in this position the child's cries grew fainter and fainter, and then ceased entirely- It was three hours afterwards before anybody thought of going to the dark room, in which too Uttip girl was confined, and then the'hapletl infant was found chocked to death. The fexeitement over tbis tragedy ran yelry high ip Ulster, county. The hußbrinoVtf Mrs. Montague is a grandson of the Duke of Manchester, and was formerly an officer in the navy. Mrs. Montague, is of Sootoh extraction, sod tbe daughter of a wealthy London merchant. Mr. Montague, when asked bow it was such severe punishment was administered to their three-year-old child, said, "My wife has strong opinions on tbe training and correction of children. Her theory, which I think to a great extent is right, is that the spirit of disobgdienoe must be conquered from the earliest years." Mr. Montague : admitted that it was too long to- leave the child alone, but his wife was out part of the time the child was imprisoned. The murdered child was buried in great privaoy. Mrs. Montague was on February 25th committed for manslaughter with £700 bail. She was also committed on a ! second count of cruelty to her children. Tbe woman appears to be a crank in the matter ot disciplining her . family. The The Governess, Miss Dozell, testified that after she had told Mrs. Montague what she had done with the child the latter went to the dark room and tied the little : one's arms behind ber with a stooking, and then sutpended her with a cord to a ring in tbe wall. At tbe expiration of four hours, when Mrs.; Montague went to release, the .child, it was fonnd that the stookidg in stime unaccountable way had slipped up around 'the child's neck arid strangled her. . s Th 6: •Tudeno& on the second oharges of cruelty top children dis» dosed a miserable state of affairs. Walter Montague bad been tied, to a tree all day ; Gilbert showed marks of a cord around, hist elbows and pieeeß of flesh ept front his toes ; Austin Jaad been dragged along tbe corridor by his feet, bis head trailing on the floor. One oqb oooassion Gilbert was stripped naked and beaten with a scourge until his body beoame lacerated, and in that state thrust into a dark closet, where be lay moaning all sight. Mrs/, Montague had told one of the servants fans was ber way of punishing • she did ii to save the children's -tonls— she did not mind their bodies. M. De Lessens, though in comparatively good health, is so enfeebled in mind that * be scarcely recognises his oldest friends, and is inoapable of sustaining conversation. ; '

A rise in the price of beef, caused by tne new tariff, has led to a large demand for horseflesh in Paris. According to tbe report of the police prefecture, the horses and mules slaughtered represent one* third of tbe quantity of meat consumed. A couple more servant girl murderers were unearthed in Berlin on 28rd February. They pursued the same plan as the Schneiders in Vienna, murdering for, the purpose of robbery, their unfortunate victims. The woman, whose name is Buntropk, broke down and made a full confession, • , TJejWnß of, tbe new German men*ofwar now luUdfog at Kiel, antf also At tbe sea positions, at and around that port, have bee.n betrayed' for a consideration to either .the; lineman or, the French Govern* mentfl, abd, that, tbb; by a confidential official of the German Emperor. s On 26th Jftb'ruary 1 , a band of masked men went to 3be house of a woman named Mary Leppers, in the village of Mfnin (Austria), forced their way into her bed* room, bound ber with cords, poured petroleum over her, applied a matoh, and then calmly watched the horrible scene. The woman's shrieks and groan? were blood-curdling. The motive assigned for the act ia that the woman was suspected of murdering her husband.

Trouble is brewing between Ecuador and Pern, on acoount of the latter granting mining concessions along the Santiago river; the disputed boundary between the two countries.

They are hunting negroes gmlfy of criminal assault with bloodhounds in Missouri. The outrages by colored men pn white women are becoming frequent in the South Western States. , It is proposed to hold a grand Eoman Catholic Conference in the United Stat«i contemporaneously with the Colambiaa Exposition, at Chicago. • /.«.-.</ Maize and wheat are being sentirom alj, parta^pf . the JJnited States tQ>«s*fving. people in Bussia. The New York World is the authority for Baying that preparations for. anodwr Cuban revolution ate in active 'pfogreif in New York and other American citiee. as well as upon tbetfsland itself. Tb^MiSrmonterriioryoriTtalr i#mbs ing with energy: to o&ajp^idniigsion into the Union. The people ask it as a matter of self-protection,