ADDITIONAL MAIL NEWS.

New Zealand Times, Volume XLX, Issue 8168, 20 August 1887, Page 5

ADDITIONAL MAIL NEWS.

(Per Mariposa, at Auckland.) (united press association.) Further reports of the recent revolution in Hawaii state that Gibson and his son-in-law, Hayselden, who were members of the Ministry recently deposed, the former being Premier, and who was placed under arrest -on a charge of squandering public money, have been discharged. On July 11th his ■Excellency Clarence A. Ashford, Attorney- ■ General of the Kingdom, in the presence of the Hon Paul Newman and Mr F. M. Hatch, counsel for Gibson and Hayselden, appeared ■before Police Justice Dayton. At the Police 'Court the Attorney-General asked that an ■unconditional nolle prosequi should bo entered of the embezzlement charges preferred the Hon Wm. Gibson and the Hon F. H. Hayselden. The request was granted by the Court, and so entered upon record, there being no foundation upon which to base the charges. Gibson and Hayselden ■were at once released from {custody, and returned to their homes. On the afternoon of July 12 Gibbons and Haul Neumann drove down to the Oceanic Company’s wharf and took their departure on the brigantine J. D. Spreckels, for California, for the purpose of recruiting their health. They will be absent two months. During the time Gibson was in custody he ■made attempts to get out, and it is said had be, succeeded the probabilities are that he would have been lynched. The tender for the Canadian-Pacific Bailway- for the English mail service on the Pacific is as follows :—lt has offered to contract for the Queen’s service at a speed of 15 instead of 11 knots, and build its boats under the Admiralty’s supervision, so that they may be readily converted into armed -cruisers, for a subsidy of £IO,OOO per annum. In addition to this it also offers to carry the Chinese and Japanese mails for 3500 miles across the Continent of America free of charge ; also to carry troops and Government .stores over the same distance of land. The other tender—that of Mong and Company■asks for a Pacific service alone, to be performed at a speed of 11 knots. This tender baa none of the advantages offered by the ■Canadian-Pacific. A letter written by General Boulanger to 'the Deputy Laur, and published, has caused a flutter inside and outside the Chamber. 'General Boulanger says he has but one aim to proclaim to Frenchmen, and that is that they can and must raise their heads and .assume the only attitude of a great people. •It is likely the General will he called to account for bis letter. The negotiations between Germany and the Vatican for the Germaniaation of Alsace -and Lorraine have collapsed. The Pope refuses to forbid the use of French in the ■seminaries of the provinces. A new ironclad, the Alexander 11., was -launched at Kiel on the 26th July, in the of the Czar and Czarina. The •vessel is 8440 tons, and will carry 14 cannon and 10 Hotchkiss guns.