MAIL NEWS IN BRIEF.

Oamaru Mail, Volume I, Issue 84, 28 July 1876, Page 2

MAIL NEWS IN BRIEF.

GENERAL NEWS. - The Earl of Dufferin, Governor-General j- of the Dominion of Canada, has been [ gazetted a Knight Grand Cross of St. Michael and St. George. Mr. Goulding, the Conservative candir date, has been returned for Cork, having f polled 1,297 votes, as compared with 1,168 t for Mr. Daly, and 841 for Mr. Lane, the two Home Rule candidates. The " Daily News " of May 27, says : ' " Advices from Constantinople repeat the r announcement already made, that tlie > Porte has decided to reject the proposals i of the three Powers. It is also stated that the Porte intends to call in all the " reserves, in order to make a supreme effort I to suppress the insurrection. The Sultan r has promised, it is said, to advance from y his privy purse the sums necessary to meet the requirements of the public departments. A Constantinople paper states : that in Bulgaria 118 villages, containing . 100,000 inhabitants, have been laid in f ruins. Our correspondent at Belgrade telegraphs that serious fighting 1 'was reported there from Bulgaria. "~ Near St. Thomas's Hospital, a boat on the Thames, containing eight people, was, • late on Saturday night (May 21), overset, and six of its occupants were drowned. The two who were saved clung to the chain of a row of barges which had been the cause of the disaster. . - " The Tunes" of.May 20pyrites :—"No ' one can fail to be gratified'' byr the reception yesterday of the Princess of Wales in the city of'iJorraSH-r The banquet and ball at the Guildhall have served, as nothing else could have done, to give ' public utterance to the deep and loyal re-gard-which is felt by all classes for the - Prince and. and to the conviction, which probably"'" is increasing, of the public service ."which the Prince has rendered to India. In neither rg. spect is*asy%hing apparent • tract from the thoroughness and hearti.ness of the public sentiment. Both forjjs relation to England and its relation to India, the occasion of yesterday ought always to be inemorable. If. we what ought to-be rather than of whasS,-' it is not because there can be the lea)i doubt of the greatness" and. the genuineness of yesterday's manifestation, but because its permanent value "depends upon! the degree in which its significance is att predated and is kept in mind for tht future. It should be regarded* not as 3 more display of regard to a particular per- " son, however populai", or of affection to a " Royal lady, however justly beloved, but " as an unmistakeable display of the general } confidence in our Royal family, and of the » loyalty felt towards the throne as the 3 greatest of oar institutions." [ The Duke of Cambridge, presiding at \ the annual meeting of the National Rifle Association on May IG, in London,.announced that a team of riflemen was coming over from Australia which would compete with the Canadians for the KholapoM prize. A great riot has taken place at» Shakers' meeting at Bournemouth. Mrs, Girling's leg was broken, and damage was done to the amount of £3O. The Shaken were forcibly ejected, and the police summoned to protect the building. The Empress of Germany left London . by train on May 16, on her return to Berlin. Her Imperial Majesty travelled bj special train on the London, Chatham, and Dover Railway. On May 16, at Nuneaton, while fourteen persons were drinking in the parlour 1 at the White Horse Inn, the floor of the room gave way, precipitating the whole of them, together with the tables, chairs, jugs, and glasses into the cellar, a distance ■ of Bft. No one was injured. A civil list pension of £IOO a year each has been conferred upon the widow of | Shirley Brooks, the novelist and editor of I " Punch ;" and upon the widow of Dr. § Tregelles, whose labors in connection | with the original text of the New Testa-1 ment are known to all Biblical scholars. | Mr. Henry Alers Hankey has embarked! on a new speculation in London, in the! shape of what are known as co-operativei mansions. The scheme consists in the! erection and management of buildings | combining the flat system of Scotch towns with the conveniences of a club. That is to say, the inhabitants will live apart in flats and parts of flats, but all their meals will be cooked in the common kitchen. The mansion now built is ten storeys high, but as hydralic lifts are in constant use, the upper flats arc in great favor. In fact, a banker applied for" a fourteenth flat, if you've got one." The rents vary from £OO to £l2O. and everything is to be clone in the best st3'le. The experiment is attracting much notice among the fashionable poor of London. An anonymous donor has presented the Borough of Salford with a site and buildings, outside the town, for a convalescent hospital. The value of the gift is about £20,000. According to a statement recently made in public by the Archdeacon of Bangor, the practice of Sir Wm. Gull, the eminent physician, brings him in an annual income of £28,000. . A meeting held by the New Forest Shakers in the Town Hall at Bourne- , mouth, on May 15, resulted in a riot, in the course of which Mrs. Girling, their leader, had a leg broken, and she and her followers were pitched out of the building by main force. Damage to the extent of £33 was also done to the platform, seats, &c. The town of Dudley is to be lighted with oil, instead of gas, by which means a saving of 14s. a lamp per annum is expected to be accomplished. The infant son of Prince and Princess Christian was buried on May 23, in the Royal vault under the Albert Memorial Chapel at Windsor.