ADDITIONAL MAIL NEWS.

Oamaru Mail, Volume IV, Issue 953, 8 May 1879, Page 2

ADDITIONAL MAIL NEWS.

Professor Aforz, of St. Petersburg, stated, that antophy oil the bones of four soldiers led to the discovery of the existence of the plague. Signor Mancinci has undertaken to plead for the plaintitF in the Antonelli will case, which, consequently will not collapse by reason of her inability to pay counsel. The Premier, De Pretis, informed the Albanian delegates that Italy, while remaining faithful to Rome and Berlin, would, if possible, consider the national aspirations of the Albanians. A special envoy has been sent by the Khedive to Constantinople. He took with him a large sum of money for the Sultan. The Khedive's continuancy was prompted by the Italian consul-general, who bitterly opposes the Anglo-French control. It is said that the King of Burmah has dispatched secret emissaries to Calcutta, to assassinate a claimant to the throne, who resides there. The French Chamber of Deputies exonerates the Finance Minister, Leon Say, from blame for the fluctuation of the 5 per cent, rents, by a vote of 301 to 78. General Grant will go to Siam at the invitation of the King. Mr. Wanthier. the Belgian explorer, has died of dysentery in Central Africa. The Turks intend to establish a camp tin the border of Eastern Roumelia, and in the direction of Adrianople, in order to be in readiness to march into the country if called upon by the future Governor. A conference of representatives of the German shipping trade unanimously agreed that the shipping business has been more depressed in IS7S than for a generation. The deficiency is estimated at L 1,700,000. Colonel Basel wicli, of the Russian Imperial Guard, has been sentenced to three months' imprisonment for picking a lady's pocket. He lias appealed, and gone to St. Petersburg to "try the case before the Czar. Professor Anderson, the celebrated chess player, died at Breslan. Mario, the eminent tenor, is said to be insane. The question of re-establishing < capital punishment in Switzerland will be referred to the popular vote. At a banquet given at Cologne on the occasion of the inauguration of the Bismarck statue, 13,000 marks were collected for a statue to Count Von Moltke. Up to the third week in March, six Russian divisions passed homewards by way of Bourgas and Varna, four by Rustcliuk, besides a gro«\.t train of the Artillery Brigade and Sappers. Six shops at Hemassal, Cyprus, were closed and traffic suspended, in consequence of the imposition of the new monetary tariff". Governor Wolsley declined to modify the tariff. An appeal has been made to the Queen.

The approaching visit of the Austrian Crown Prince to Madrid is believed to pressage the marriage of King Alphonso to Archduchess Maria, daughter of the Arch Duke Charles. A Committee on tho Bulgarian Constitution has declared in favor of free schools, to which parents shall be obliged to send their children. The dismiss il and resignation of 52 more French Magistrates is announced. 21 others have been transferred. Minister Ferry's Higher Education Bill avowedly aims at the exolusion of the Jesuits from the rights of teaching in France. Ernest Kenan has been received as a member for the French Academy. Jeff Davis, President of the Confederate States, is to be the senator from Mississippi. After paying all expenses, the following division of the gate money was made at the late New York Champion Walking Race Rowell, 21,500 dols; Ennis, 10,30.0 dols ; Hairman, 8500 dols ; Olery, 1000 dols. Several banks in New Orleans have suspended payment. The United States Freehold Land and Emigration Company of New York have become financially embarrassed to such an extent that .their affairs are placed in the. hands of the Sheriff [Received in Auckland at 11 a.m. ; finished in Oamaru at 2.40.] The Chartered Mercantile Bank of India is unable to pay a dividend, the whole of the reserve fund, amounting to L 151,560, being absorbed by losses. Mr. M'lver, one of the owners of the Cunard line, writes that he knows of no nation with such gloomy trade prospects as those of Great Britain. The failures of Clarke, contractor and engineer, for L 760,000, and Beraw and Co., merchants, for LGOO,OOO, are announced. . , ... ~ - ■ Mr. George Eliotfc Barton, of NewZealand, was in San Francisco, but had gone east, and intended to return in a couple of months. He visits Texas.

Interest in the Sydney Exhibition is at zero, owing to the want of official organisation. George Schultze, mining magnate of San Francisco, is in prison for embezzling 250,000d015. belonging to the Justice Manning Company. An Irish colonisation convention met in Chicago for the purpose of securing the poor worthy Irish Catholics now in Ireland, homes upon the lands in America. Russia is negotiating for the purchase of the Cadrone Islands, in the North Pacific, from Spain. Russia has decided to surrender Ruldga to China, and to conclude a new convention with the Chinese Government. A box containing small fragments of human remains, each piece wrapped in coarse brown paper, was fished up from the Thames. The mutilated remains have been recognised as those of Mrs Thomas, who lived alone near Richmond. The supposed murderess is Catherine Webb," alias Rowon, who was Mrs. Thomas' servant. It is believed that she did away with the identifiable parts, and threw rest into the Thames, then sold the contents of the house at her leisure, and went home to Ireland, where she was arrested.

There is a terrible famine in Egypt. In some places the people are naked, like wild beasts, and dig for roots. In one town women and children fought over scraps of bread. The inland villagers are like dogs. The damage done to the submerged city in Szegedin amounts to L 1,500,000. A letter from the Cardinal Vicar is published, complaining bitterly of the existence in Rome of Protestant schools supported by foreign monej'. It announces that the Pope has appointed a vigilance committee to increase and improve the Catholic schools, and appeals to the nobility and clergy to subscribe towards their support. The corpse of a student was found recently near the * Kansas Cathedral, labelled " Sentenced as a traitor by the Socialist Revolutionary Committee." Bismarck insists on establishing taxes upon colonial produce coining from European bonded station warehouses, with a view of ridding Germany of apart of foreign competition. He hopes the large firms in Antwerp and Holland will re-establish themselves in Bremen and Hamburgh. Several persons in the Hanseatic towns have promised to support Bismark's project, and have started a railway direct from Bremen to Frankfort. A correspondent at Paris telegraphs that the Sultan has addressed a telegram to Lord Salisbury, formally condemning the proceedings of the Khedive as dangerous to the whole East, and expressing his willingness to cancel the firman regulating the Egyptian succession, depose the Khedive, and send Naiim Pasha to Alexandria in a Turkish man-of-war as the Khedive's successor. A dispatch from Tyetio says three steamers are in readiness there to carry troops beyond the frontiers should the King of Burmah suddenly declare war. It is generally believed that he intends to do so. A letter from the Khedive is published accusing foreign ministers of being desirous to establish laws repugnant to the Mahommedans and a large portion of the European population. The Journal des Debats says that England and France should be prepared to adopt joint regulations with regard to the Khedive, to cause their dignity to be respected. Mr. Bourke, the Under-Secretary for Foreign Affairs, has gone to Paris to confer with the French Government about the Egyptian crisis. The origin of the trouble between the Burmese and the British residents af Mandalay is, that the Lamer Probist refugees refuse to deliver up to slaughter two royal princes and their families who had taken refuge at and were residing in Burmah. A correspondent at Rangoon says : " The natives of Burmah here, I believe, are about to form an alliance with the Chinese. The reinforcements promised for British Biu-mah arc 5000 men : also, men-of-war. All non-official English residents have left Mandalay.

Intelligence of a remarkable character is reported from Colorado. Last September, argentiferous ore was struck on a ranch. On the site of the discovery there is now a city of 2000 people, mimed Headville. The output of silver is most extraordinary. There is a considerable mining revival in California, Enormous seams are waiting immediate development on the Coinstock |odo. The protective poliov of the Canadian Ministry was sustained in the House of Commons at Ottawa by an overwhelming majority. The Marquis of Lome gives great dissatisfaction by his interference with the policy of the majority. Montreal and Quebec papers speak openly at,out the matter, as also do members; of the Conservative party. They declare they will not be ruled,, by a Government whip and tool of Downing-street. The cause of the trouble is the refusal of the government to recall the Lieutenant.Governor of Quebec province, who was censured by a vote of the Canadian House of Commons for dismissing his Ministers, who commanded a majority of the Legislature. The Marquis of Ltorse. requested his Ministers to recall their deputy. A member from British Columbia introduced a motion a few days ago asking permission for the province to quietly secede from the Dominion, but it was not seconded. The British Columbia Legislature lias adjourned pending information from Ottawa with reference to railroad tariff matters. A fire doing a million dollars, c\amage has occurred at Philadelphia.