ADDITIONAL MAIL NEWS.

New Zealand Mail, Issue 744, 4 June 1886, Page 26

ADDITIONAL MAIL NEWS.

(UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION.) Milton Bowars, a physician of some standing in San Francisco, has been found guilty in the first degree of the murder of his wife by poison. The Geronimos, a band of hostile Apaches, are raiding Southern Arizona, killing and burning in every direction. On April 25th the Canadian authorities seized an American vessel off Cape Breton for violation of the fishery laws. This act is likely to hasten a settlement of the longstanding dispute between Great Britain and the States concerning the North American sea coast fisheries, Great excitement prevailed in Athens on the withdrawal of the Ambassadors. The soldiers of the garrison were summoned to barracks. The general commanding the Greek troops on the frontier telegraphs that the Turks are massing their force.*, and he has ordered a similar movement of his troops. The Powers have given orders to the fleet to blockade the Greek ports. Great enthusiasm prevails in Athens. Soldiers who parade the streets singing patriotic song 3 the favorites of the hour. The Peloponesian army has been ordered to Thessaly, as the movements of the Turkish army threaten to make that place the scene of first hostilities. It is now thought Russia will hold aloof from the other Powers in coercing Greece. The following are the principal parts of Mr Gladstone’s manifesto to the Midlothian electors :—“ I have never known an occasion when a Parliamentary event so raDg throughout the world as the introduction of this Bill under the auspices of the British Government. From public meetings and from the highest authorities in the colonies and America ; from capitals such as Washington, Boston aud Quebec, and from remote districts lying beyond tbe reach of all ordinary political exci emeut, I receive conclusive assurances that kindred people regard with warm and fraternal sympathy our present effort to settle on an adequate scale, and once for all, the loug vexed and troubled relations between Great Britain and Ireland, which exhibits to us the one and only conspicuous failure of political genius of our race to confront and master a difficulty, and to obtain iu a reasonable degree the main ends of civilised life.’’ He then gives a long history of the attempts to conciliate or coerce Ireland, and adds, “ Watching from day to day the movement of the currents of opinion during the present conflict, more and more I find it necessary to observe that the points at which the dividing lines are drawn on the side adverse to Government are found, as I sorrowfully admit, in profuse abundance. Station, title, wealth, social influence, and the professions, or a large majority of them —in a word, the power and spirit of class—these are the main body of the opposing host. Nor i 3 this all. As the knights of old had servants, so in the great army of class each enrolled soldier has a roll ot dependan'e. The adverse bo3t, then, consists of class and dependants of class, but this formidable army is in bulk of its constituent parts the same, though now enriched at our cost with a valuable contingent of recruits, that has fought in every one of the great political battles of the last sixty years, and has been defeated. We have a great aim before us now. It is to restore your Parliament to efficiency by dividing and by removing the obstacles to its work ; to treat the Irish question with due regard to its specialties, but with the same thoroughness of method by which we have solved the colonial problems that fifty years back were hardly, if at all, less formidable ; to give heed to the voice of the people speaking in tones of moderation by the mouth of the vast majority of those whom we ourselves have made its constitutional representatives ; and thu3 to strengthen and consolidate the Empire on the basis of mutual benefit and hearty loyalty. Such is the end. As for the means, we take the establishment in Dublin of a legislative body, empowered to make laws for Irish as contradistinguished from Imperial affairs. It is with this that we are now busied, and details and particulars in their time will come.” He thus concludes :—“ We are not 1 now debating the amount of Irish contribu-

tions to the Empire, or the composition of the legislative body, or tbe. maintenance of rsprefeotative connection with Westminster. But what- we are debating is the large and far larger question which includes and absorbs them all-the question whether you will or will not have regard to the prayer Of-Ireland for the management, by herself, of ""affairs specifically and exclusively her own. This, and no other, is the matter which the House of CoromonC has at once to decide. If on this matter it sptl'ks with clear and intelligible voice, I fee] the stronger] assurance that other matters, difficult as same of them are, will neve-theless, with ths aid of full discussion and a wise, conciliatory spirit, be found capable of national and tolerable settlement.”