ADDITIONAL MAIL NEWS.

New Zealand Mail, Issue 680, 13 March 1885, Page 24

ADDITIONAL MAIL NEWS.

(united press association.) A new political alliance, an organisation to be kcown as the National Independent Organisation, has been formed in London, and will receive the support of many influential and representative men. A despatch of the 7th February says its objects include upholding the privileges of the Throne, the Sovereign, however, to live in England, Ireland, and Scotland alternately ; promotion of national or home trading before formation of foreign alliances, and free trade in articles of food only ; increase of the British fleet in order to afford better protection to commerce, and an effort to promote an alliance with the United States, having for its sole object the defeat of any attempt by a foreign foe to invade any English-speaking country. The latter clause has attracted a great deal of attention, and the idea of such an alliance or confederation between the English-speaking peoples of the world evidently pleases the popular fancy in Great Britain.

Michael Davitfc is in Rome, seeking to present an address to the Pope, justifying the action of the Catholic Irish Nationalists. The Vatican is unwilling to receive him. Eminent persons are, however, trying to procure him an audience.

A despatch from Berlin, dated 14th February, says the Congo Conference after four hours’ debate on the wording of the concession, adjourned until Monday, 16th February. It is stated that a treaty between Portugal and the African International Association is awaiting signature. The Russian Press strongly advocates the hoisting of the Russian flag within a few miles of the Corean frontier. China has taken the alarm, and is establishing posts and concentrating troops there. The present attitude of Russia and China is one of menace.

The insistence of the French in searching all vessels for contraband of war has put a stop to sailing from Hamburg and other ports. All orders are now being transferred to London and Liverpool, where vessel owners are ready to take the risks. The intention of New Zealand to establish steam communication between Auckland, Samoa, and Tonga is strongly commented on in the North German Gazette, which regards it as an intended attempt to counteract German enterprise, which ha 3 hitherto bnen paramount in the Samoan and Tonga Islands, and to gain a commanding influence there, and adds, “The inhabitants of New Zealand at all events expect an extension of British rule iu the eastern portion of the South Pacific.”

A Chinese colony in Eureka, Humboldt County, numbering several hundred, wa3 evicted by a committee of citizens on 7th February, and sent to San Francisco, They had engaged in a desperate battle in the streets, during which a white citizen was accidentally shot and killed.

THE SHOOTING OF O’DONOVAN ROSS 4,

Fuethee Particulars,

Rossa was shot near Broadway on February 2nd. The streets were full of people, homeward bound, and the excitement over the shooting was intense, although the wounded man was recognised by very few. The first shots took effect in O’Donovan Rossa’e body, and he fell to the sidewalk. The woman continued to shoot till she emptied a five chambered revolver. O’Donovaa Rossa was then taken to the hospital and placed in a cot in the same ward as Captain Phelan, who was lately stabbed by Short in O’Donovan Rossa’s office. Captain Phelan smiled grimly when he found out who the patient was, but maintained silence. An examination of the wound showed that the ball had penetrated the back, but the doctors pronounced that there was no immediate danger. Rossa’s assailant is an English woman, named Dudley, aged twentyfive, a nurse, and unmarried. She is a good looking woman, dressed neatly, and wore an eyeglass. Her manner was entirely composed, and she answered some of the questions put to her promptly and without embarrasment to others. She simply shook her head and smiled, with a look which said, “I shall only answer questions I know you have a right to ask.” Further inquiry developed the fact that the woman had been almost crazed with excitement ever since the explosion in the Tower of London and Parliament Buildings, and this mental condition was intensified at the time she wounded O’Donovan Rossa, The latter will admit of no other explanation than that she is an agent of the British Government employed to assassinate him. Joyce, his trusted friend, shares with him this opinion, and he, in common with all dynamiters all over the United States, threaten terrible reprisals against Britain. With the exception of Joyce and his kind, the sentiment of nearly everyhody seems to be one of regret that Miss Dudley’s shot had not proved fatal. Mr Edwards, the English Consul in New York, regretted that O’Donovan Rossa had been shot by an Englishwoman, and thought she must have been demented. People in London became jubilant over the news of the shooting, and thousands of toasts were drunk to the health and happiness of Miss Dudley as aheroine. The Daily Telegraph said “it wouldbe idleto pretend there was the smallest sympathy for Rossa in England,” and describes his whole career as one of cowardly atrocity. The Daily News deplores the event, but only on the ground that it will lead to reprisals. In Canada there was great excitement, followed by intense disappointment that the wound was not even dangerous. During the first day he was in the hospital O’Donovan Rossa received telegrams from all parts of the country, and over IGO letters came through the mails. Many were hostile in tone. One from New Jersey read : “ Incarnate fiend, this hour do I consecrate myself to your destruction, if the bullet sent by the immortal Miss Dudley does not finish you.—An Outraged Englishman.” A man in Missouri wired :—“ Hanson’s Cross, Mia,,

February 3, 1885.—RoBsa, dynamiter, New York.—Hope to God you may die. No auch luck.—Z.Z.B.”