MAIL ITEMS.

Inangahua Times, Volume IV, Issue 45, 23 July 1877, Page 2

MAIL ITEMS.

The Fisheries Commission met with closed doors. The claim of Great Britain was filed. The Americans have ' several days to put in an answer. The claim is 20,000,000d015. The New York World's special says the Princess of Wales will proceed as soon as possible to take up her permanent residence ab her father's court at Copenhagen. The alleged cause of this serious step is an unpleasant difficulty in which a lady of title is concerned, Widcombe suspension bridge, near Bath, feli into the Avon with nearly 200 people. It was a light wooden structure without a centre support, and it snapped in the centre. On May 3 Mr Gladstone received an ovation in Birmingham. Business was suspended. 30,000 people attended the night meeting, at which the Liberal leader made an eloquent attack on Turkey, and challenged the Gevernmenfc to dissolve and test the feeling of the country. The engineers, after making geological explorations and soundings for the Dover submarine tunnel, report that the tunnel is perfectly practicable, and that there is a continuous bed of chalk between the two shores. Since the prosecution of Mr Bradlaugh and Mrs Besant, the alleged offensive pamphlet has increased in circulation from 700 to 100,000, An alarming insurrection of Indians on the Comas Prairie in Idaho territorry has occurred. The news arrived at Portland, Oregon, on June 19, which shows that settlers have been killed in all directions. A body or troops and settlers, 270 strong, marched to chastise the Indians, but were outnumbered, surrounded, and half were killed, and the rest were still encircled and fighting against odds. The Indians engnged in the fight numbered two thousand effective warriors. There is a general uprising of the savages, and the whole country is wild with alarm. The Indians are massacreing men, women, and children in Comas prairie, and the settlers are fleeing in all directions for safety